Elementary Education at Fordham University

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

Fordham U is located in Bronx, New York and approximately 16,364 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.

Fordham U Elementary Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

Fordham U Elementary Education Rankings

Elementary Teaching Student Demographics at Fordham U

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

Fordham U Elementary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 37% of elementary teaching master's degrees went to men and 63% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 8% men graduate in elementary teaching each year. Fordham U does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 28% more men than average.

Of the students who received a elementary teaching master's degree from Fordham U, 74% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the elementary teaching master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 26% of degree recipients. That is 1% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Early Childhood 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 NY, the home state for Fordham University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Elementary School Teachers	82,590	$83,010

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 Chriscobar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.