Arkansas·Educational Instruction and Library Occupations·SOC 25-9099

Best Educational Instruction programs in Arkansas, ranked by enrollment

All educational instruction and library workers not listed.

1 schools in Arkansas run programs that feed this job, graduating 2 people a year. The job pays a median of $39,380 in Arkansas across about 260 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledTeacher AideCraft DemonstratorAptitude Test GraderEducation TechnicianEncyclopedia Research WorkerSatellite Instruction FacilitatorScholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) GraderIndividualized Education Plan (IEP) Aide
Graduates / yr
2
in Arkansas
Median pay · Arkansas
$39,380
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
260
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
54%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Arkansas that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Arkansas that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Arkansas (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Arkansas page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 13.0607In Arkansas
2
100.0%
1$33,086$26,000

Top 1 schools in Arkansas

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR Public · 1 feeder programs
2Learning Sciences54%89%

All 1 schools in Arkansas

Every school in Arkansas with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Arkansas that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
University of Central ArkansasConwayPublic21

What educational instruction and library workers, all other earn in Arkansas

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Arkansas
$39,380
Mean annual
$44,420
Jobs in state
260
What the range looks like
10th pct$22,880Median$39,38090th pct$78,860
Versus the national median
-22.6%

U.S. median $50,890. Arkansas pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
0.26×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Arkansas

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
$39,790median
90 jobs
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR
$39,380median
50 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+1.5%
Little or no change
Openings per year
12,500
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
2,000
132,000 → 134,000
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other page.

How to become a Educational Instruction

Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 2 majors mapped to Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 13.0607Learning Sciences
  • 13.1599Teaching Assistants/Aides, Other

Common questions

Answers for people weighing educational instruction and library workers, all other programs in Arkansas.

What degree do you need to become an Educational Instruction?+

Bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Learning Sciences, which awarded 2 degrees in Arkansas in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming an Educational Instruction?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Educational Assessment. Together they graduate about 2 people a year in Arkansas.

How much do educational instruction and library workers, all other earn in Arkansas?+

The median is $39,380 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 22.6% below the U.S. median of $50,890. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for educational instruction and library workers, all other growing?+

BLS projects a +1.5% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, little or no change, with roughly 12,500 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Arkansas?+

1 institutions in Arkansas reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

Do you need training or experience beyond a degree?+

BLS lists 'None' for related work experience and 'None' for on-the-job training typically needed to reach competency.

Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other in other statesUtahNew YorkMassachusettsFloridaArizonaCaliforniaMarylandOhio
Programs in ArkansasLearning Sciences

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

All Clema data sources and release dates →

Explore every U.S. college in one conversation

Clema turns plain-language questions into sourced answers across every U.S. institution — earnings, aid, acceptance, graduation, safety, and athletics from IPEDS, College Scorecard, and 10+ federal datasets, built in.

Free for teams up to 3 · No credit card