Secondary Education at Dordt University

If you plan to study secondary education, take a look at what Dordt University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Dordt is located in Sioux Center, Iowa and approximately 1,662 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 15 secondary teaching majors received their bachelor's degree from Dordt.

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.

Dordt Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Dordt Secondary Education Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The secondary teaching major at Dordt 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
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	40
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	47
Best Secondary Education Schools	66
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	67
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	83
	144
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	172
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	259
	286

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Dordt

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

Dordt Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students earned a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from Dordt. About 53% of these graduates were women and the other 47% were men. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Dordt since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at Dordt are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	11
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Teacher Education
• 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 IA, the home state for Dordt University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
High School Teachers	13,010	$56,510

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.