2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Middle School Education and Teaching

MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATION AND TEACHING DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

College students majoring in middle school education and teaching are rather rare. Each discipline grants roughly 6,200 yearly four-year degrees; 2,184 people last May earned undergraduate degrees in middle school education and teaching, making it the nation's 144th most popular concentration for undergraduates. 100 of those degrees were conferred at one college, Illinois State University, and 462 of those undergraduates went to colleges in Ohio.

Undergraduate degrees in middle school education and teaching are offered at 291 institutions countrywide; ergo, choosing the best school often won't be easy. 51.6% more schools offer undergrad degrees in middle school education and teaching than the average subject, making it the 75th most broadly available degree.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last year, virtually 75% of degrees in middle school education and teaching were undergrad degrees; 24% were grad degrees. Middle school education and teaching is the 148th most popular advanced degree in the nation, with 688 degrees granted. For context, middle school education and teaching is 75% less popular among postgrad students than the average subject.

In Total, 2,872 students received a bachelor's or higher in middle school education and teaching last May.

ONLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATION AND TEACHING DEGREES

226 of those 2,872 alumni (7.9%) completed their schooling online - 33 college students and 193 master's & doctor's students. As you've probably noticed by now, college students majoring in middle school education and teaching online are rather uncommon. It is currently the 168th most in-demand remote degree with 93.1% less remote students than the average subject. For master's or doctor's students, it is ranked 97th, and is 68.7% south of the national average (616).

Central Methodist University-College of Graduate and Extended Studies​ conferred more online four-year degrees in middle school education and teaching than any other institution in the nation (16).

Additionally, Colleges from Missouri granted the most online bachelor's degrees in middle school education and teaching last spring (16). Missouri single-handedly accounts for 48% of the major's online students.

Just 1.5% of all four-year degrees in middle school education and teaching are completed exclusively online, (28.1% for grad degrees). 2.49% of Central Methodist University-College of Graduate and Extended Studies'​ last undergraduate class majored in middle school education and teaching completely remote, higher than any other college in the US. 16 students in their 655 student class completed an online bachelor's degree in middle school education and teaching. They offer 75% of their subjects online, and had 1,734 enrolled online undergrads last fall. That's 50% of the student body.

There are 13 colleges around the nation with a remote bachelor's degree in middle school education and teaching, making it the 75th most universally available online field in the nation. 4% of institutions handing out the degree even have a fully remote option, and approximately 38% of the schools granting the degree online are public. North Carolina has more totally remote programs than any state, with 4 schools located there.

If you wish to study middle school education and teaching entirely remotely, you may want to check out the University of North Carolina Wilmington, as it has the 28th best middle school education and teaching program in the country. It also has an additional 30 degrees remotely, so their systems are presumably strong. Further, there are 2,024 online undergraduate students enrolled, which is 14% of the student body.

PARTIALLY ONLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATION AND TEACHING DEGREES

• Middle school education and teaching is the 120th most popular partially online undergraduate degree in the nation
• Four-year degrees in middle school education and teaching are offered partially online at 271 colleges across the country
• 27.66% of all undergrad degree in middle school education and teaching are done partially online
• The University of Memphis​ awarded 31 partially online four-year degrees in middle school education and teaching, more than any other U.S. institution
• Colleges from Ohio granted the most partially online undergraduate degrees in middle school education and teaching last year (141)
• 18.17% of all advanced degrees in middle school education and teaching are done partially online

IN-PERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL EDUCATION AND TEACHING DEGREES

• 1,547 students last spring earned four-year degrees in middle school education and teaching fully in-person
• Middle school education and teaching is the 198th most broadly offered entirely in-person college degree around the nation
• 70.83% of all undergrad degree in middle school education and teaching are earned entirely in-person
• Illinois State University​ conferred more comprehensively in-person four-year degrees in middle school education and teaching than any other college in the country (73)
• On average, each discipline has about 4,293 annual four-year degrees completely in-person