Secondary Education at Mount Mercy University

What traits are you looking for in a secondary teaching school? To help you decide if Mount Mercy University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's secondary teaching program.

Mount Mercy is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,705. Of the 46 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mount Mercy University in 2021, 15 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.

Mount Mercy Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Mount Mercy Secondary Education Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The secondary teaching major at Mount Mercy 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	29
	42
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	66
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	67
	67
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	77
Best Secondary Education Schools	113
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	123
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	172
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	317

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Mount Mercy

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

Mount Mercy Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 secondary teaching majors earned their bachelor's degree from Mount Mercy. Of these graduates, 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Mount Mercy since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

About 93% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at Mount Mercy 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 Mount Mercy University with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

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

Mount Mercy 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 IA, the home state for Mount Mercy 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.