Elementary Education at University of the Cumberlands

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

Cumberlands is located in Williamsburg, Kentucky and approximately 19,110 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.

Cumberlands Elementary Education Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Cumberlands

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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Cumberlands Elementary Education Rankings

The elementary teaching major at Cumberlands 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 Cumberlands

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

Cumberlands Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 8% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 93% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	62

Cumberlands Elementary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 8% of elementary teaching master's degrees went to men and 92% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	181

Related Majors

• Early Childhood Education
• Secondary Education
• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching

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 KY, the home state for University of the Cumberlands.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Elementary School Teachers	19,150	$53,830

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 Ichabod under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.