Secondary Education at Aurora University

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

Aurora is located in Aurora, Illinois and approximately 6,265 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 27 secondary teaching majors received their bachelor's degree from Aurora.

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.

Aurora Secondary Education Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Aurora

Online courses are a good option for students who need a more flexible schedule that allows them to pursue an education when and where they want. Whether you're going to school part-time or full-time, you may find distance education the right choice for you.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Aurora offers distance education options for secondary teaching at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Aurora Secondary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the secondary teaching progam at Aurora compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The secondary teaching major at Aurora is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Secondary Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	31
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	33
	34
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	41
	43
Best Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	45
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	47
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	49
	68
Most Popular Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	78
Best Secondary Education Schools	80
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	87
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	109
Most Focused Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	111
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	113

In 2021, 18 students received their master’s degree in secondary teaching from Aurora. This makes it the #78 most popular school for secondary teaching master’s degree candidates in the country.

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Aurora

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

Aurora Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 48% of secondary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Aurora since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at Aurora are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its secondary teaching bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Aurora Secondary Education Master’s Program

Of the 18 secondary teaching students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Aurora, about 33% were men and 67% were women.

Of the students who received a secondary teaching master's degree from Aurora, 89% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Aurora also has a doctoral program available in secondary teaching. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Elementary 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 IL, the home state for Aurora University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
High School Teachers	43,720	$72,370

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.