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| Academic year | Number who were enrolled in a teacher preparation program | Percentage distribution of enrollment by program type | Number who completed a teacher preparation program | Percentage distribution of completion by program type | ||||
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| Traditional1 | Alternative (IHE-based)2 | Alternative (not IHE-based)2,3 | Traditional1 | Alternative (IHE-based)2 | Alternative (not IHE-based)2,3 | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 2012-13 | 676,779 | 87.5 | 5.6 | 6.9 | 190,089 | 84.8 | 7.0 | 8.2 |
| 2013-14 | 619,564 | 85.5 | 6.2 | 8.3 | 178,702 | 82.5 | 7.2 | 10.3 |
| 2014-15 | 576,301 | 84.0 | 6.5 | 9.5 | 170,428 | 80.9 | 7.4 | 11.7 |
| 2015-16 | 587,445 | 79.0 | 6.5 | 14.5 | 157,899 | 80.0 | 7.9 | 12.1 |
| 2016-17 | 588,828 | 77.0 | 7.7 | 15.3 | 158,287 | 77.6 | 10.3 | 12.1 |
2017-18 | 595,753 | 74.8 | 8.2 | 17.0 | 151,079 | 77.6 | 9.8 | 12.5 |
| 2018-19 | 546,551 | 74.5 | 8.3 | 17.3 | 148,462 | 77.2 | 10.5 | 12.3 |
| 2019-20 | 589,693 | 69.9 | 8.2 | 21.9 | 151,138 | 76.8 | 11.4 | 11.8 |
| 2020-21 | 591,353 | 71.6 | 9.2 | 19.2 | 160,087 | 75.4 | 11.9 | 12.7 |
| 1Traditional teacher preparation programs typically offer undergraduate programs and often attract individuals who enter college with the goal of becoming a teacher. | ||||||||
| 2IHE refers to institutions of higher education. Alternative teacher preparation programs often serve candidates who are the teacher of record in a classroom while participating in the program, frequently attracting candidates who already hold a bachelor’s degree in a specific content area and may have prior work experience but are seeking to switch careers. Alternative routes to a teaching credential are defined as such by states and vary by state. | ||||||||
| 3Alternative, not IHE-based, programs are offered by a variety of organizations, including states, nonprofits, for-profit entities, districts, and various partnerships. | ||||||||
| NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. In Title II reporting, the definition of enrolled student changed beginning with the 2020 (academic year [AY] 2018-19) data collection. An enrolled student is defined as an individual who has been admitted, enrolled, and registered in a teacher preparation program and participated in the program during the academic year. Participation may include taking a course, participating in clinical experience, or participating in other program activities. For the 2019 (AY 2017-18) data collection and all years prior, an enrolled student was defined as an individual admitted into a teacher preparation program but who has not yet completed the program. For comparability, enrollment counts for all years in this table have been adjusted to include students who completed their program in the same academic year. Some data have been revised from previously published figures due to changes in data collection for teacher preparation program enrollment counts, which resulted in changes in enrollment counts as reported by states. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Title II, Higher Education Act, National Teacher Preparation Data, retrieved January 10, 2024, from https://title2.ed.gov/Public/DataTools/Tables.aspx. (This table was prepared January 2024.) | ||||||||
