Secondary Education at Northwestern University

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

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and has a total student population of 22,603. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from Northwestern.

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.

Northwestern Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Northwestern Secondary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the secondary teaching progam at Northwestern 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 Northwestern 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	1
	7
	16
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	115
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	137
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	239
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	304
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	333
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	505

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Northwestern

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

Northwestern Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 secondary teaching students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Northwestern, about 83% were men and 17% were women. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Northwestern since its program graduates 46% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 40% more racial-ethnic minorities in its secondary teaching bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

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 IL, the home state for Northwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
High School Teachers	43,720	$72,370

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 Madcoverboy at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.