Elementary Education at University of South Dakota

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

USD is located in Vermillion, South Dakota and has a total student population of 9,459. In 2021, 61 elementary teaching majors received their bachelor's degree from USD.

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.

USD Elementary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

USD Elementary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the elementary teaching progam at USD 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 USD 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
Best Value Elementary Education Schools	48
Most Focused Elementary Education Graduate Certificate Schools	59
Most Popular Elementary Education Graduate Certificate Schools	59
Best Elementary Education Schools	133
	220
Most Popular Elementary Education Master’s Degree Schools	316
Most Focused Elementary Education Master’s Degree Schools	316
Most Focused Elementary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	334

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in elementary teaching from USD. This is the #316 most popular school for elementary teaching master’s degree candidates in the country.

Elementary Teaching Student Demographics at USD

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

USD Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 87% went to women. The typical elementary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 9% men. So male students are more repesented at USD since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 95% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at USD 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 South Dakota with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	58
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• 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 SD, the home state for University of South Dakota.

Occupation	Jobs in SD	Average Salary in SD
Elementary School Teachers	4,050	$43,140

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.