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Elementary Education at Western Connecticut State University

Elementary Education at Western Connecticut State University

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

WestConn is located in Danbury, Connecticut and approximately 5,246 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.

WestConn Elementary Education Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

WestConn Elementary Education Rankings

The elementary teaching major at WestConn 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 WestConn

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

WestConn Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

88% Women
35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 12% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 88% went to women. The typical elementary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 8% men. So male students are more repesented at WestConn since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

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About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at WestConn are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Western Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 11
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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 CT, the home state for Western Connecticut State University.

Occupation Jobs in CT Average Salary in CT
Elementary School Teachers 16,320 $75,480

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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