Elementary Education at Troy University

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

TROY is located in Troy, Alabama and approximately 16,497 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.

TROY Elementary Education Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at TROY

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? TROY offers distance education options for elementary teaching at the following degree levels:

TROY Elementary Education Rankings

The elementary teaching major at TROY 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 TROY

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

TROY Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 6% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 94% went to women.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at TROY 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 Troy University with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	71
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

TROY Elementary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 3% of elementary teaching master's degrees went to men and 97% went to women.

Of the students who received a elementary teaching master's degree from TROY, 63% 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 31% of degree recipients. That is 7% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	22
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

• Early Childhood Education
• Secondary Education
• Teacher Education
• Adult & Continuing 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 AL, the home state for Troy University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Elementary School Teachers	23,850	$49,850

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 Mactones under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.