2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Virginia

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Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,949 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Virginia, there were 52 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education. That schools that top this list have a program in teacher education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Virginia”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Virginia

1

Virginia Union University
Richmond, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Union University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Virginia list. VUU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Richmond, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Teacher Education at VUU

2

Averett University
Danville, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Averett University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Virginia. This small school is located in Danville, Virginia, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full AU Teacher Education Report

3

Emory and Henry College
Emory, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory and Henry College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in Virginia. Emory & Henry College is located in Emory, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s teacher education degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Emory and Henry College Teacher Education Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher 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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