Graduates earn a median $45,668 two years after finishing, more than 26% of master's majors. Measured across 800 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas A&M University-College Station cost & debt at this university → | $53,788 | $78,971 | $82,953 | 43 |
| 2 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | not published | $78,971 | not published | — |
| 3 | Touro University California | not published | $71,015 | not published | 1 |
| 4 | California State University-Northridge cost & debt at this university → | $68,695 | $70,536 | $76,807 | — |
| 5 | Relay Graduate School of Education | $65,046 | $70,445 | $76,806 | 1,009 |
| 6 | Kansas State University cost & debt at this university → | $43,832 | $68,219 | $82,805 | 130 |
| 7 | Pace University cost & debt at this university → | $68,104 | $67,507 | $70,760 | 94 |
| 8 | Fordham University cost & debt at this university → | $66,851 | $65,944 | $67,414 | 39 |
| 9 | St. John's University-New York | $67,003 | $65,131 | $70,740 | 19 |
| 10 | Rowan University | $59,571 | $63,005 | $64,818 | 20 |
| 11 | Kean University | $57,317 | $62,579 | $59,517 | 25 |
| 12 | Wagner College cost & debt at this university → | $64,160 | $62,508 | $65,911 | 14 |
It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median master's major in this dataset reports $54,713, so Teaching sits below the middle by $9,045.
Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".
There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.
Whatever the subject pays, the money you do not borrow is the money you keep.
We may earn a commission if you take a loan through a provider here. It never changes the earnings figures on this page — those come from the US Department of Education.
Classified by the Department of Education as Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (CIP 1312). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.