Elementary Education at University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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

UNLV is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and has a total student population of 31,142. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 83 students received a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching from UNLV.

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.

UNLV Elementary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

UNLV Elementary Education Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The elementary teaching major at UNLV 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 Graduate Certificate Schools	43
	56
Most Popular Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	84
Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	90
Most Popular Elementary Education Schools	117
Best Value Elementary Education Schools	237
Most Focused Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	604
Most Focused Elementary Education Schools	723

Elementary Teaching Student Demographics at UNLV

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

UNLV Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 83 elementary teaching students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UNLV, about 6% were men and 94% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 35% 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 University of Nevada - Las Vegas with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	34
White	34
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

UNLV 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 Education
• Early Childhood Education
• 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 NV, the home state for University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

Occupation	Jobs in NV	Average Salary in NV
Elementary School Teachers	10,360	$56,970

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 Stan Shebs under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.