2024 Best Secondary Education Schools in District of Columbia
3Colleges in District of Columbia
33Secondary Teaching Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in secondary education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #84 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Secondary Education Schools in District of Columbia ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 33 degrees in secondary education to qualified students.
Your choice of secondary education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for secondary education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Secondary Education Schools in District of Columbia list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Secondary Education in District of Columbia
The schools below may not offer all types of secondary teaching degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top District of Columbia Schools in Secondary Teaching
Any student pursuing a degree in secondary education needs to look into George Washington University. Located in the city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #49 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means GWU is a great university overall.
There were about 12 secondary education students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year.
American University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in secondary education. Located in the large city of Washington, The American University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 8 schools for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were approximately 14 secondary education students who graduated with this degree at The American University in the most recent year we have data available.
Howard University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in secondary education. Howard is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. This university ranks 6th out of 8 colleges for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were approximately 6 secondary education students who graduated with this degree at Howard in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of secondary education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for secondary education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
