The University at Albany got its start in 1844 as the New York Normal School of Teachers, the state's first public institution of higher learning. The Normal School thrived and expanded to become, in 1914, the New York State College for Teachers and then in 1962 the State University of New York at Albany. As the University added more academic programs and faculty, the School of Education became the home of those original teacher training programs and faculty. From 1845 until its closing in 1977, the Milne School was the School of Education's campus laboratory school, where prospective teachers did their practice teaching.

Since 1962, The School of Education has also grown in size and scope. To fulfill our current mission to foster enhanced learning and human development we offer a wide variety of academic programs taught by a large and diverse faculty.

Over the past 159 years, the School of Education has come to set the standard for many professions. To name just a few......

• Counselors
• Curriculum Designers
• Deans
• Educational Policy Designers
• Literacy Specialists
• Principals & Superintendents
• Program Evaluators
• Psychologists
• Reading Teachers
• Speech Pathologists
• Special Educators
• Student Personnel Specialists
• Teachers of Business, Foreign languages, & English
      as a Second Language
• Teachers of English, Mathematics & Science
• University & College Administrators