2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Maryland for a Bachelor’s” 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 Maryland, there were 219 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Maryland for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in secondary education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular secondary education programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Maryland for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Maryland for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Maryland

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University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#2 overall quality in Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Maryland for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maryland - College Park is located in College Park, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read full report on Secondary Education at University of Maryland - College Park

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Frostburg State University
Frostburg, Maryland

#23 overall quality in Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Maryland for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Frostburg State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Frostburg State University is a public institution located in Frostburg, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Frostburg State University

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education

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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