Secondary Education at Drake University

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

Drake is located in Des Moines, Iowa and approximately 4,774 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.

Drake Secondary Education Degrees Available

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

Drake Secondary Education Rankings

The secondary teaching major at Drake 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.

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Drake

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

Drake Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of secondary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 39% men. So male students are more repesented at Drake since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at Drake 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 Drake University with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Drake Secondary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 21% of secondary teaching master's degrees went to men and 79% went to women.

Of the students who received a secondary teaching master's degree from Drake, 74% 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 Drake University with a master's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Adult & Continuing 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 Drake 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
• Image Credit: By Limitingflame1 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.