Teaching Assistants & Aides
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Add ComparisonIn 2023, the locations with the highest concentration of Teaching Assistants & Aides degree recipients are New York, NY, Kenosha, WI, and Indianapolis city (balance), IN. In 2023, the locations with a relatively high number of Teaching Assistants & Aides degree recipients are Kaser, NY, Kalifornsky, AK, and Burns Flat, OK. The most common degree awarded to students studying Teaching Assistants & Aides is a certificate of at least 1 but less than 2 academic years.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Teaching Assistants & Aides and the types of students that study this field. Gateway Technical College awards the most degrees in Teaching Assistants & Aides in the US, but Seminar L'moros Bais Yaakov and New York Seminary have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Teaching Assistants & Aides.
Tuition costs for Teaching Assistants & Aides majors are, on average, $5,418 for in-state public colleges, and $26,758 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Teaching Assistants & Aides programs are Public, 2-year institutions (151 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 2-year (1,869 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Teaching Assistants & Aides, is Public, 2-year (1,869 completions in 2023).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Teaching Assistants & Aides programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Gateway Technical College has the most Teaching Assistants & Aides degree recipients, with 187 degrees awarded in 2023.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Teaching Assistants & Aides.
Out of all institutions that offer Teaching Assistants & Aides programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Seminar L'moros Bais Yaakov has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Teaching Assistants & Aides, with 100%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Teaching Assistants & Aides by year.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Education graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Education majors is $66,881 and the most common occupations are Elementary & middle school teachers, Secondary school teachers, and Education administrators.
The industry that employs the most Education majors is Elementary & secondary schools, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Computer & peripheral equipment manufacturing.
The average salary for Education majors is $66,881 and the most common occupations are Elementary & middle school teachers, Secondary school teachers, and Education administrators.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Education majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Education majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Education majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations for Education majors, by number of employees, are Elementary & middle school teachers, Secondary school teachers, and Education administrators.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Education majors working as Elementary & middle school teachers, Special education teachers, and Secondary school teachers.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Education majors are Derrick, rotary drill, & service unit operators, & roustabouts, oil, gas, & mining, Tool & die makers, and Surgeons.
The number of Education graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 0.595%, from 5.12M in 2022 to 5.15M in 2023.
The largest single share of Education graduates go on to work as Elementary & middle school teachers (30.8%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Education by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Education majors, by number of employees, are Elementary & secondary schools, Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges, and uninformed.
The highest paying industries of Education majors, by average wage, are Computer & peripheral equipment manufacturing, Footwear manufacturing, and Petroleum refining.
The number of Education graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 0.595%, from 5.12M in 2022 to 5.15M in 2023.
The industry which employs the most Education graduates by share is Elementary & secondary schools, followed by Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Education.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Education majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Education majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Education. The most common ages of employees with this major are 40 and 49 years old, which represent 2.54% and 2.53% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Teaching Assistants & Aides are Certificate of at least 1 but less than 2 academic years, Associates Degree, and 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Education are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Teaching Assistants & Aides.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Teaching Assistants & Aides for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Certificate of at least 1 but less than 2 academic years recipients in Teaching Assistants & Aides.
N/A students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Europe that hold Education degrees (3.64 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (53,550 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Teaching Assistants & Aides field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Teaching Assistants & Aides majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Teaching Assistants & Aides majors need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Troubleshooting, and Learning Strategies.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Teaching Assistants & Aides majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Service Orientation is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, and Social Perceptiveness are the three most important skills for people in the field.
