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title: "What can you do with an education degree?"
description: "15 careers education graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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last-updated: "2026-08-23T07:20:09.337Z"
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# What can you do with an education degree?

**What the degree involves:** Learning theory, curriculum design, assessment, and supervised classroom placements.

Education is another licensed exception: the degree ends in certification and most graduates go straight into a classroom. What varies is the age group and the subject, and later whether you move into coordination, administration or the support roles that sit around teaching.

15 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 4 of 15 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 7 of 15 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Elementary School Teacher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/elementary-school-teacher) | $63,970 | -2.0% | 91,000 | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [High School Teacher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/high-school-teacher) | $72,040 | -1.6% | 66,200 | Bachelor's |
| 3 | [Middle School Teacher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/middle-school-teacher) | $64,370 | -2.0% | 40,500 | Bachelor's |
| 4 | [Special Education Teacher, Secondary School](https://nuecareer.com/careers/special-education-teacher-secondary-school) | $74,260 | -1.6% | 11,100 | Bachelor's |
| 5 | Kindergarten Teacher | $62,680 | -1.6% | 12,800 | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Preschool Teacher, Except Special Education](https://nuecareer.com/careers/preschool-teacher) | $38,140 | +4.1% | 65,500 | Associate's |
| 7 | [Tutor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/tutor) | $43,350 | +0.6% | 37,100 | Some college |
| 8 | Career/Technical Education Teacher, Secondary School | $66,270 | -1.8% | 6,200 | Bachelor's |
| 9 | Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructor | $61,540 | -13.7% | 3,900 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | Self-Enrichment Teacher | $46,800 | +3.7% | 51,400 | High school |
| 11 | [Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselor and Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/educational-guidance-and-career-counselor-and-advisor) | $64,330 | +3.5% | 31,000 | Master's (graduate study) |
| 12 | [Instructional Coordinator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/instructional-coordinator) | $77,440 | +1.3% | 21,900 | Master's (graduate study) |
| 13 | [Training and Development Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/training-and-development-specialist) | $69,280 | +10.8% | 43,900 | Bachelor's |
| 14 | [Librarian](https://nuecareer.com/careers/librarian) | $68,270 | +1.7% | 13,500 | Master's (graduate study) |
| 15 | [Education Administrator, Kindergarten through Secondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-administrator-kindergarten-through-secondary) | $105,870 | -1.5% | 20,800 | Master's (graduate study) |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}. Other majors: https://nuecareer.com/careers/majors

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology