Postsecondary teachers are all of those who teach students beyond high school. As a result this classification is so wide as to be almost meaningless. It includes the experienced mechanic who is teaching you about maintaining an engine at a vocational school and the top Professors in the Ivy League. A pretty wide band I think you’ll agree? So it’s important to note that not everyone here is teaching college degrees.

The training for these jobs is just as varied as the jobs themselves. To teach a college degree program you of course need a college degree youself. But even then there are gradations: you need a Doctorate to become a tenured professor at a four year college while to teach simple classes at a community college leading to a two year college degree then your own simple Bachelor’s will be sufficient (even though a Master’s would perhaps be better). To teach at the many vocational and trade schools, a college degree isn’t required at all. Rather, skill and experience in the subject being taught is.

As to our EQSQ personality tests, the wide range of possible teaching and research careers (for at the universities, this is more about research than teaching) means that all different personality types, from the highly systemizing to the empathic, will find their appropriate place. The systemizers might be teaching math, the empathizers nursing for example. In fact, we’d expect to see the spread of male and female brain attributes over the teachers to mimic that we find in the actual subjects they’re teaching.