Social Studies Education at University of Wyoming

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

UW is located in Laramie, Wyoming and approximately 11,829 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Social Studies Education section at the bottom of this page.

UW Social Studies Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Studies Teacher Education

UW Social Studies Education Rankings

The social studies teacher education major at UW is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Social Studies 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.

Social Studies Teacher Education Student Demographics at UW

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the social studies teacher education majors at University of Wyoming.

UW Social Studies Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 53% of social studies teacher education bachelor's degrees went to men and 47% went to women. The typical social studies teacher education bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% women. So female students are more repesented at UW since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in social studies teacher education at UW 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 Wyoming with a bachelor's in social studies teacher education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Technology Education
• Mathematics Education
• Biology Education
• Agricultural Teacher Education
• Art Education

Careers That Social Studies Teacher Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in social studies teacher education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for WY, the home state for University of Wyoming.

Occupation	Jobs in WY	Average Salary in WY
High School Teachers	1,850	$60,620
Middle School Teachers	1,120	$60,750
Education Professors	80	$71,700

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 ProgWork1 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.