Elementary Education at University of Rhode Island

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

URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and approximately 17,649 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 52 students received a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching from URI.

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.

URI Elementary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

URI Elementary Education Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The elementary teaching major at URI 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	172
Most Popular Elementary Education Schools	222
	340
	404
Best Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	513
Best Value Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	584
Best Elementary Education Schools	595
Most Focused Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	640
Best Value Elementary Education Schools	705
Most Focused Elementary Education Schools	781

Elementary Teaching Student Demographics at URI

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

URI Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 52 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in elementary teaching from URI in 2021, 8% were men and 92% were women.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at URI 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 University of Rhode Island with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	46
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• 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 RI, the home state for University of Rhode Island.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Elementary School Teachers	3,520	$71,990

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 Tnricci under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.