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Elementary Education at Purdue University - Main Campus

Elementary Education at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you plan to study elementary education, take a look at what Purdue University - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year.

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.

Purdue Elementary Education Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

Purdue Elementary Education Rankings

The elementary teaching major at Purdue 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.

Elementary Teaching Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the elementary teaching majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

95% Women
8% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 5% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 95% went to women.

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About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at Purdue 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 Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 68
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation Jobs in IN Average Salary in IN
Elementary School Teachers 26,520 $52,360

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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