Elementary Education at Freed-Hardeman University

What traits are you looking for in a elementary teaching school? To help you decide if Freed-Hardeman University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's elementary teaching program.

FHU is located in Henderson, Tennessee and approximately 2,188 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.

FHU Elementary Education Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at FHU

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

• Master’s Degree

FHU Elementary Education Rankings

The elementary teaching major at FHU 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 FHU

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

FHU Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 7% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 93% went to women.

About 86% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at FHU 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 Freed-Hardeman University with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	12
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

FHU Elementary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 17% of elementary teaching master's degrees went to men and 83% went to women.

In the elementary teaching master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 25% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Early Childhood Education
• Secondary 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 TN, the home state for Freed-Hardeman University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Elementary School Teachers	28,880	$52,610

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 Skye Marthaler under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.