Elementary Education at Northwestern College

If you are interested in studying elementary education, you may want to check out the program at Northwestern College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

NWC is located in Orange City, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,496. Of the 77 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern College in 2021, 27 of them were elementary education majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Elementary Education section at the bottom of this page.

NWC Elementary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

NWC Elementary Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks elementary teaching programs across the country. The following shows how NWC performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The elementary teaching major at NWC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Elementary Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Best Elementary Education Schools	4
Most Focused Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	65
Most Focused Elementary Education Schools	97
Best Value Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	156
Best Value Elementary Education Schools	227
	265
Most Popular Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	300
	303
Most Popular Elementary Education Schools	391

Elementary Teaching Student Demographics at NWC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the elementary teaching majors at Northwestern College.

NWC Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 27 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in elementary teaching from NWC in 2021, 33% were men and 67% were women. The typical elementary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 9% men. So male students are more repesented at NWC since its program graduates 25% more men than average.

About 85% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at NWC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northwestern College with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

NWC also has a doctoral program available in elementary teaching. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Secondary Education
• Early Childhood Education

Careers That Elementary Teaching Grads May Go Into

A degree in elementary teaching can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IA, the home state for Northwestern College.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Elementary School Teachers	19,040	$54,500

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lawrence Albert Johnston under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.