Secondary Education at Knox College

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

Knox is located in Galesburg, Illinois and approximately 1,154 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 10 secondary teaching majors received their bachelor's degree from Knox.

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.

Knox Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Knox Secondary Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks secondary teaching programs across the country. The following shows how Knox performed in these rankings.

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 Knox 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	17
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	51
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	102
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	111
	170
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	189
Best Secondary Education Schools	192
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	253
	339
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	400

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Knox

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

Knox Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

The secondary teaching program at Knox awarded 10 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 60% of these degrees went to men with the other 40% going to women. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Knox since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

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

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

Knox 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 Knox College.

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
• Image Credit: By Jjacobsmeyer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.