King realized early on in her life that teaching was her true calling.
Going through school, she was conscientious of the other students around her and noticed they all had different learning styles. The “cookie-cutter classroom,” she said, didn’t give students who struggled a fighting chance.
“I knew that I wanted to be that teacher that would help all students find their strengths and focus on their abilities so that they could learn and grow from that,” King said. “There’s nothing more in the world that I want to do than just nurture students’ intellectual, social and emotional growth by giving them those hands-on experiences that a lot of times we didn’t get when we were young.”
SALARY AVERAGES BY MAJORS
The salary averages below are aggregated from responses to the First Destination Survey from the graduating classes of 2017, 2018, and 2019, based upon majors offered at the University at that time. Where program name changes occurred, such as Engineering Management changing to Construction Management, data was averaged together.
In order to provide a more accurate picture of starting salaries new graduates could expect when securing a professional position within their area of study, internship (with the exception of Architecture graduates pursuing a Master’s degree), non-professional, vastly inflated, and part-time wages were not used in determining the average starting salary.