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. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from NKU.

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

Each year, College Factual ranks secondary teaching programs across the country. The following shows how NKU 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 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	60
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	108
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	139
	147
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	203
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	216
Best Secondary Education Schools	262
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	268
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	432

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

Of the 9 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education from NKU in 2020-2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 89% 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.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching
• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• 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 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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Samvscat under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.