2023 Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s

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In 2020-2021, 10,547 people earned their degree in secondary education, making the major the 84th most popular in the United States.

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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in secondary education. To top this list, a school must have a successful secondary education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s”.

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

1

Shenandoah University
Winchester, Virginia

#9 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Shenandoah University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Winchester, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Shenandoah

2

Virginia Union University
Richmond, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Union University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s. VUU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Richmond, Virginia. It awarded 0 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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