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Elementary Education at Northern Illinois University

Elementary Education at Northern Illinois University

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

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and has a total student population of 16,769.

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.

NIU Elementary Education Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

NIU Elementary Education Rankings

The elementary teaching major at NIU 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 NIU

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

NIU Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

94% Women
32% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 6% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 94% went to women.

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About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at NIU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 Northern Illinois University with a bachelor's in elementary teaching.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 25
White 63
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

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 IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Elementary School Teachers 65,630 $62,140

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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