General Education at University of Central Florida

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

UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and approximately 71,881 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Education section at the bottom of this page.

UCF General Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Education
• Doctorate Degree in Education

Online Classes Are Available at UCF

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? UCF offers distance education options for education at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UCF General Education Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

There were 34 students who received their doctoral degrees in education, making the school the #9 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Education Student Demographics at UCF

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the education majors at University of Central Florida.

UCF General Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of education master's degrees went to men and 82% went to women.

In the education master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 45% of degree recipients. That is 11% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Central Florida with a master's in education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Teaching English or French
• Curriculum & Instruction
• Instructional Media Design
• Student Counseling
• Special Education

Careers That Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for FL, the home state for University of Central Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Education Professors	1,770	$74,190

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 Breezy Baldwin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.