Curriculum & Instruction at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

If you plan to study curriculum and instruction, take a look at what University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and approximately 52,679 students attend the school each year.

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

UIUC Curriculum & Instruction Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Curriculum
• Doctorate Degree in Curriculum

UIUC Curriculum & Instruction Rankings

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.

There were 10 students who received their doctoral degrees in curriculum, making the school the #44 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Curriculum Student Demographics at UIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the curriculum majors at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

UIUC Curriculum & Instruction Master’s Program

Of the 30 curriculum students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from UIUC, about 17% were men and 83% were women.

Of the students who received a curriculum master's degree from UIUC, 60% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the curriculum master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 30% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's in curriculum.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	18
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Curriculum & Instruction

If you plan to be a curriculum major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Curriculum & Instruction	41

Related Majors

• Educational Administration
• Education Philosophy
• Teaching English or French
• Educational Assessment
• Special Education

Careers That Curriculum Grads May Go Into

A degree in curriculum can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Instructional Coordinators	4,830	$67,540

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.