Secondary Education at Auburn University

If you are interested in studying secondary education, you may want to check out the program at Auburn University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Auburn is located in Auburn, Alabama and approximately 30,737 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Secondary Education section at the bottom of this page.

Auburn Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Secondary Teaching
• Doctorate Degree in Secondary Teaching

Online Classes Are Available at Auburn

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Auburn does offer online courses in secondary teaching for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Auburn Secondary Education Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

There were 1 student who received their doctoral degrees in secondary teaching, making the school the #3 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Auburn

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the secondary teaching majors at Auburn University.

Auburn Secondary Education Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 16 secondary teaching majors earned their master's degree from Auburn. Of these graduates, 6% were men and 94% were women.

Of the students who received a secondary teaching master's degree from Auburn, 69% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the secondary teaching master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 31% of degree recipients. That is 5% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Auburn University with a master's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Early Childhood Education
• Elementary Education
• Teacher Education

Careers That Secondary Teaching Grads May Go Into

A degree in secondary teaching can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AL, the home state for Auburn University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
High School Teachers	16,270	$51,180

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Robert S. Donovan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.