Secondary Education at Merrimack College

Every secondary education school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the secondary teaching program at Merrimack College stacks up to those at other schools.

Merrimack is located in North Andover, Massachusetts and approximately 5,418 students attend the school each year. Of the 63 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Merrimack College in 2021, 7 of them were secondary education majors.

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.

Merrimack Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Merrimack Secondary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the secondary teaching progam at Merrimack 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 Merrimack 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 Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	125
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	199
	199
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	414

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Merrimack

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

Merrimack Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

The secondary teaching program at Merrimack awarded 7 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 43% of these degrees went to men with the other 57% 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 Merrimack since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 86% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at Merrimack 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 Merrimack College with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Educational Methods
• Early Childhood 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 MA, the home state for Merrimack College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
High School Teachers	26,420	$80,020

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 Merrimack Colleges Church under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.