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Secondary Education at Northern Kentucky University

Secondary Education at Northern Kentucky University

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

NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and has a total student population of 16,211.

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.

NKU Secondary Education Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

NKU Secondary Education Rankings

The secondary teaching major at NKU 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 NKU

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

NKU Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

83% Women
8% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 17% of secondary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 83% went to women.

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About 92% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at NKU 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 Northern Kentucky University with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

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

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 KY, the home state for Northern Kentucky University.

Occupation Jobs in KY Average Salary in KY
High School Teachers 12,250 $56,200

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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