Kansas·Educational Instruction and Library Occupations·SOC 25-1199

Best Postsecondary Teacher, All Other programs in Kansas, ranked by enrollment

All postsecondary teachers not listed.

41 schools in Kansas run programs that feed this job, graduating 7,644 people a year. The job pays a median of $75,790 in Kansas across about 2,530 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledTeacherLecturerInstructorFaculty MemberFlight TeacherBraille TeacherCollege TeacherScience Teacher
Graduates / yr
7,644
in Kansas
Median pay · Kansas
$75,790
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
2,530
people employed
Schools
41
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
43%
across those schools
Median net price
$22,730
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Kansas that lead to this job

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

Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities
CIP 24.01
Liberal Arts and Sciences
7,459graduates / yr
34 schools · 3 specializations · 97.6% of pipeline
Grad earnings $28,961
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.18
Natural Sciences
70graduates / yr
4 schools · 1 specialization · 0.9% of pipeline
Grad earnings $29,587
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.70
Data Science
26graduates / yr
3 schools · 1 specialization · 0.3% of pipeline
Grad earnings
English Language And Literature/Letters
CIP 23.13
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
20graduates / yr
3 schools · 3 specializations · 0.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $28,725
Visual And Performing Arts
CIP 50.04
Design and Applied Arts
15graduates / yr
2 schools · 1 specialization · 0.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $31,611
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.14
Museology/Museum Studies
13graduates / yr
2 schools · 1 specialization · 0.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.33
Sustainability Studies
10graduates / yr
2 schools · 1 specialization · 0.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings $37,223
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.01
Biological and Physical Sciences
9graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings $28,446
Health Professions And Related Programs
CIP 51.27
Medical Illustration and Informatics
9graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings $47,775
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.15
Science
7graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings $44,736
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.71
Data Analytics
4graduates / yr
2 schools · 1 specialization · 0.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.06
Systems Science and Theory
2graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.0% of pipeline
Grad earnings $35,840

16 programs in Kansas that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Kansas (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 Kansas page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 24.0101In Kansas
7,014
91.8%
34$28,961$12,971
2
General Studiesmain feeder
CIP 24.0102In Kansas
436
5.7%
16$28,961$12,971
3
CIP 30.1801In Kansas
70
0.9%
4$29,587$21,610
4
CIP 30.7001In Kansas
26
0.3%
3
5
CIP 23.1302In Kansas
18
0.2%
3$28,725$25,250
6
CIP 50.0411In Kansas
15
0.2%
2$31,611$26,000
7
CIP 30.1401In Kansas
13
0.2%
2$21,295
8
CIP 30.3301In Kansas
10
0.1%
2$37,223$20,968
9
CIP 24.0103In Kansas
9
0.1%
1$28,961$12,971
10
CIP 30.0101In Kansas
9
0.1%
1$28,446$11,000
11
CIP 51.2706In Kansas
9
0.1%
1$47,775$25,000
12
CIP 30.1501In Kansas
7
0.1%
1$44,736$18,593
13
CIP 30.7101In Kansas
4
0.1%
2
14
CIP 30.0601In Kansas
2
0.0%
1$35,840$23,250
15
CIP 23.1301In Kansas
1
0.0%
1$28,725$25,250
16
CIP 23.1303In Kansas
1
0.0%
1$28,725$25,250

Top 25 schools in Kansas

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 24 of the 41 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Johnson County Community College
Overland Park, KS Public · 2 feeder programs
1,522Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$29,85531%
2Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
627Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$36,59757%89%
3Cowley County Community College
Arkansas City, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
547Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$25,96645%
4Hutchinson Community College
Hutchinson, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
487Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$26,15153%
5Butler Community College
El Dorado, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
376Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$29,76132%
6Wichita State University
Wichita, KS Public · 6 feeder programs
340Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$30,33151%94%
7Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas City, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
339Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$35,95542%
8Garden City Community College
Garden City, KS Public · 2 feeder programs
326Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$26,11050%
9Barton County Community College
Great Bend, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
324Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$25,86333%
10University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS Public · 7 feeder programs
243General Studies$42,52769%93%
11Colby Community College
Colby, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
230Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$23,24055%
12Allen County Community College
Iola, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
197Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$25,32337%
13Labette Community College
Parsons, KS Public · 2 feeder programs
178Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$22,09524%
14Fort Scott Community College
Fort Scott, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
165Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$27,30335%
15Cloud County Community College
Concordia, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
164Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$21,68655%
16Neosho County Community College
Chanute, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
164Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$27,43734%
17Coffeyville Community College
Coffeyville, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
159Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$28,35738%
18Highland Community College
Highland, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
157Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$22,90939%
19Washburn University
Topeka, KS Public · 3 feeder programs
150Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$39,46853%
20Dodge City Community College
Dodge City, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
140Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies35%
21Fort Hays State University
Hays, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
120Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies$42,79548%90%
22Pratt Community College
Pratt, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
119Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies45%
23Seward County Community College
Liberal, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
107Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies50%
24Haskell Indian Nations University
Lawrence, KS Public · 2 feeder programs
86General Studies18%90%
25Independence Community College
Independence, KS Public · 2 feeder programs
85General Studies$23,62026%

All 41 schools in Kansas

Every school in Kansas 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 Kansas that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Johnson County Community CollegeOverland ParkPublic1,5222
Pittsburg State UniversityPittsburgPublic6271
Cowley County Community CollegeArkansas CityPublic5471
Hutchinson Community CollegeHutchinsonPublic4871
Butler Community CollegeEl DoradoPublic3761
Wichita State UniversityWichitaPublic3406
Kansas City Kansas Community CollegeKansas CityPublic3391
Garden City Community CollegeGarden CityPublic3262
Barton County Community CollegeGreat BendPublic3241
University of KansasLawrencePublic2437
Colby Community CollegeColbyPublic2301
Allen County Community CollegeIolaPublic1971
Labette Community CollegeParsonsPublic1782
Fort Scott Community CollegeFort ScottPublic1651
Cloud County Community CollegeConcordiaPublic1641

What postsecondary teachers, all other earn in Kansas

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

Median annual in Kansas
$75,790
Mean annual
$88,720
Jobs in state
2,530
What the range looks like
10th pct$36,280Median$75,79090th pct$175,780
Versus the national median
-2.4%

U.S. median $77,640. Kansas pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.82×

Concentrated here: Kansas employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Kansas

Wichita, KS
$85,690median
630 jobs
Manhattan, KS
$60,050median
60 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+1.8%
Little or no change
Openings per year
13,500
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
3,400
183,400 → 186,800
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional 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 Postsecondary Teachers, All Other page.

How to become a Postsecondary Teacher, All Other

Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree

The same job in other states

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

Related careers in Kansas

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 25 majors mapped to Postsecondary Teachers, All Other24 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 12.0509Culinary Science/Culinology
  • 13.1211Online Educator/Online Teaching
  • 15.1503Packaging Science
  • 16.1602Linguistics of ASL and Other Sign Languages
  • 23.1301Writing, General
  • 23.1302Creative Writing
  • 23.1303Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing
  • 23.1304Rhetoric and Composition
  • 24.0101Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
  • 24.0102General Studies
  • 24.0103Humanities/Humanistic Studies
  • 30.0101Biological and Physical Sciences
  • 30.0501Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
  • 30.0601Systems Science and Theory
  • 30.1201Historic Preservation and Conservation, General
  • 30.1299Historic Preservation and Conservation, Other
  • 30.1401Museology/Museum Studies
  • 30.1501Science, Technology and Society
  • 30.1801Natural Sciences
  • 30.2501Cognitive Science, General
  • 30.2502Contemplative Studies/Inquiry
  • 30.2599Cognitive Science, Other(no graduates reported)
  • 30.2601Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis
  • 30.2901Maritime Studies
  • 30.3001Computational Science

Common questions

Answers for people weighing postsecondary teachers, all other programs in Kansas.

What degree do you need to become a Postsecondary Teacher, All Other?+

Doctoral or professional degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, which awarded 7,014 degrees in Kansas in 2024-25, 91.8% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Postsecondary Teacher, All Other?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 16 programs to this occupation. The largest are Liberal Arts and Sciences, Natural Sciences, Data Science, Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies, plus 8 more. Together they graduate about 7,644 people a year in Kansas.

How much do postsecondary teachers, all other earn in Kansas?+

The median is $75,790 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 2.4% below the U.S. median of $77,640. 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 postsecondary teachers, all other growing?+

BLS projects a +1.8% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, little or no change, with roughly 13,500 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

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

41 institutions in Kansas reported graduates from at least one of the 16 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.

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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

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