Career
Education teachers, postsecondary
Teach future teachers how to teach.
$75,350
Median pay
+2.5%
Job growth, 2025–35
5,300
Openings a year
Doctoral or professional degree
Typical education
7–8 years
Typical time after high school
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
- Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
- Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Supervise students' fieldwork, internship, and research work.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on people & care, then ideas & analysis?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Instructing.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
7–8 years of education after high school (doctoral or professional degree), for a median of $75,350 a year and 5,300 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
- Teaching (by Grade Level)See the degree →
- Teaching (by Subject)See the degree →
- Special EducationSee the degree →
- Education (General)See the degree →
- Education, GeneralCIP 13.0101
- Bilingual and Multilingual EducationCIP 13.0201
Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- Instructional Coordinators$77,440 · +1.6%
- Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors$61,540 · -13.9%
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary$42,910 · +2.7%
- Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary$84,290 · +2.2%
- Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary$77,570 · +2.6%
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.