Secondary Education at Northwestern College

If you are interested in studying secondary education, you may want to check out the program at Northwestern College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

NWC is located in Orange City, Iowa and approximately 1,496 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 18 students received a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from NWC.

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.

NWC Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

NWC Secondary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the secondary teaching progam at NWC 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 NWC 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 Secondary Education Schools	2
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	28
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	31
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	58
	74
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	146
	147
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	149

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at NWC

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

NWC Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 18 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from NWC. About 39% were men and 61% were women. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at NWC since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 94% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at NWC 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 Northwestern 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	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

NWC 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
• Early Childhood 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 Northwestern College.

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
• Image Credit: By Lawrence Albert Johnston under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.