Elementary Education at Old Dominion University

What traits are you looking for in a elementary teaching school? To help you decide if Old Dominion University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's elementary teaching program.

Old Dominion is located in Norfolk, Virginia and approximately 24,286 students attend the school each year. Of the 220 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University in 2021, 21 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.

Old Dominion Elementary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching
• Master’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

Online Classes Are Available at Old Dominion

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Old Dominion offers distance education options for elementary teaching at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Old Dominion Elementary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the elementary teaching progam at Old Dominion compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The elementary teaching major at Old Dominion 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
Most Popular Elementary Education Master’s Degree Schools	18
Most Popular Online Elementary Education Schools	40
Best Elementary Education Master’s Degree Schools	146
Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	301
	480
Most Focused Elementary Education Schools	626
Best Value Elementary Education Schools	629
Most Focused Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	799

In 2021, 75 students received their master’s degree in elementary teaching from Old Dominion. This makes it the #18 most popular school for elementary teaching master’s degree candidates in the country.

Elementary Teaching Student Demographics at Old Dominion

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the elementary teaching majors at Old Dominion University.

Old Dominion Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 21 students earned a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching from Old Dominion. About 100% of these graduates were women and the other 0% were men.

About 62% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at Old Dominion are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities in its elementary teaching bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Old Dominion Elementary Education Master’s Program

Of the 75 students who earned a master's degree in Elementary Education from Old Dominion in 2020-2021, 8% were men and 92% were women.

Of the students who received a elementary teaching master's degree from Old Dominion, 67% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the elementary teaching master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 32% of degree recipients. That is 8% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Old Dominion University with a master's in elementary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	50
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

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

Related Majors

• Teacher Development & Methodology
• Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching
• Secondary 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 VA, the home state for Old Dominion University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Elementary School Teachers	36,450	$67,610

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 D’Ana Knowles under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.