2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Secondary Education is the 84th most popular major in the country with 10,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Virginia, there were 170 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in secondary education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in secondary education.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree secondary teaching students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Virginia

1

Shenandoah University
Winchester, Virginia

#9 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Shenandoah University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia list. Shenandoah is a private not-for-profit institution located in Winchester, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Secondary Education at Shenandoah

2

Virginia Union University
Richmond, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Union University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia list. VUU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Richmond, Virginia. It awarded 0 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Virginia Union University

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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