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Elementary Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Elementary Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and approximately 11,366 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.

SIUC Elementary Education Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching

Online Classes Are Available at SIUC

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SIUC offers distance education options for elementary teaching at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

SIUC Elementary Education Rankings

The elementary teaching major at SIUC 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 SIUC

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

SIUC Elementary Education Bachelor’s Program

85% Women
9% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 15% of elementary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 85% 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 SIUC since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

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About 91% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in elementary teaching at SIUC 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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale 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 3
White 43
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 IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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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