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2023 Most Popular Online Teacher Education Subject Specific Basic Certificate Schools

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With 43,297 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, teacher education subject specific is the #3 most popular major in the United States.

There are so many teaching programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Most Popular Online Teacher Education Subject Specific Basic Certificate Schools ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 10 schools in the United States to see which online basic certificate programs were the most popular for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Teacher Education Subject Specific Basic Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Bowling Green State University - Main Campus the most popular online school in the United States for teacher education subject specific students working on their basic certificate. BGSU is a fairly large public school located in the town of Bowling Green.

Of the 81 students majoring in subject specific ed at BGSU, 2% are male and 98% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Iowa Tech Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Teacher Education Subject Specific Basic Certificate Schools list. Located in the small city of Sioux City, Western Iowa Tech Community College is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Of the 64 students majoring in subject specific ed at Western Iowa Tech Community College, 66% are male and 34% are female.

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#3

Valley City State University

Valley City, ND

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Valley City State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Teacher Education Subject Specific Basic Certificate Schools list. Located in the remote town of Valley City, Valley City State University is a public college with a small student population.

Of the 62 students majoring in subject specific ed at Valley City State University, 13% are male and 87% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Iowa Area Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Teacher Education Subject Specific Basic Certificate Schools list. Located in the town of Mason City, North Iowa Area Community College is a public college with a small student population.

About 48% of the students majoring in subject specific ed at the school are women while 52% are male.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alliant International University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Teacher Education Subject Specific Basic Certificate Schools list. Located in the large city of San Diego, Alliant is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

Women make up 48% of the subject specific ed majors at the school.

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Southwest Wisconsin Technical College landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular online basic certificate teacher education subject specific programs. Located in the rural area of Fennimore, Southwest Tech is a public college with a small student population.

Of the 16 students majoring in subject specific ed at Southwest Tech, 75% are male and 25% are female.

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Isothermal Community College landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular online basic certificate teacher education subject specific programs. Located in the distant town of Spindale, ICC is a public school with a small student population.

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Central Washington University landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular online basic certificate teacher education subject specific programs. CWU is a large public school located in the distant town of Ellensburg.

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Linfield University - Online and Continuing Education landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular online basic certificate teacher education subject specific programs. Linfield OCE is a small private not-for-profit school located in the distant town of McMinnville.

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With a ranking of #8, Murray State University did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for teacher education subject specific students working on their online basic certificate. Murray State is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Murray.

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Teacher Education Subject Specific is one of 14 different types of teaching programs to choose from.

Subject Specific Ed Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Physical Education Teaching & Coaching 8,121
Reading Teacher Education 6,490
Music Education 4,761
Mathematics Education 3,395
English & Language Arts Education 3,113
Other Teacher Education & Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas 2,335
Social Studies Education 1,968
Art Education 1,837
Health Education 1,801
Science Education 1,371
Agricultural Teacher Education 1,130
Biology Education 865
History Education 804
Trade & Industrial Teacher Education 715
Technology Education 575
Social Science Teacher Education 474
Technical Teacher Education 462
Spanish Education 457
School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist 370
Modern Language Education 338
Drama & Dance Education 293
Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education 286
Chemistry Education 238
Computer Teacher Education 217
Business and Innovation/Entrepreneurship Teacher Education 185
Earth Science Teacher Education 169
Physics Education 152
Environmental Education 96
Speech Teacher Education 68
French Language Teacher Education 55
Driver & Safety Teacher Education 55
Health Occupations Teacher Education 48
Communication Arts and Literature Teacher Education 22
Distributive Education 11
German Language Teacher Education 8
Psychology Teacher Education 5
Latin Teacher Education 4
Geography Teacher Education 3

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Special Education 36,792
General Education 29,810
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 10 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Aparajita Datta.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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