国际比较教育（ICE）集中是一项多学科，国际，跨文化的培训计划，它将教育问题纳入国际和比较框架。ICE的博士专业旨在将社会或行为科学的理论和方法的牢固基础与对教育在经济增长，政治发展以及社会和文化变革过程中的作用的分析联系起来。ICE博士生的培训旨在在社会科学学科与发展教育的政策问题相交的领域中实现实质性的研究能力。因此，期望博士生在斯坦福大学学习或获得与他们感兴趣的领域相关的社会科学学科的大量研究生培训，其水平应与相应大学系的硕士学位或博士学位相辅相成。
The program in International Comparative Education (ICE) is a multidisciplinary, international, cross-cultural program of training that places educational problems into an international and comparative framework. Core courses explore how education is related to economic, political, and social development in both developed and developing countries. The program provides a strong theoretical and empirical base for studying education in a rapidly changing global context and for understanding the how and why of successful policy-making to improve educational practice in different social settings. In both its training and research activities, ICE has developed a special concern for the study of education in less developed countries. At the same time, several faculty are engaged in research comparing educational policies and conditions in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The relationships among educational research, educational policy, and educational planning are important in the program's intellectual agenda. The doctoral specialization in ICE is designed to relate a firm grounding in the theories and methods of a basic social or behavioral science to the analysis of education's role in the processes of economic growth, political development, and social change.