2023 Schools for a Master’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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 155 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in secondary education. That schools that top this list have a program in secondary education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Virginia

1

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lynchburg, Virginia, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 124 degrees to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.

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2

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

#14 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Old Dominion University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia. Norfolk, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s secondary teaching degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Secondary Education at Old Dominion University

3

University of Richmond
University of Richmond, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Richmond landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Richmond, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s secondary teaching degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Secondary Education at URichmond

4

Marymount University
Arlington, Virginia

#20 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marymount University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia list. Located in Arlington, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Secondary Education at Marymount University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Southeast Region
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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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