Secondary Education at Rider University

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

Rider is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and approximately 4,636 students attend the school each year. Of the 116 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Rider University in 2021, 22 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.

Rider Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Rider Secondary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the secondary teaching progam at Rider 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 Rider 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 Graduate Certificate Schools	1
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	5
Most Popular Secondary Education Basic Certificate Schools	8
Best Secondary Education Schools	10
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	44
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	49
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	100
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	150

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Rider

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

Rider Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 students earned a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from Rider. About 73% of these graduates were women and the other 27% were men.

About 91% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at Rider 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 Rider University with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	20
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Early Childhood Education
• Teacher Development & Methodology
• 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 NJ, the home state for Rider University.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
High School Teachers	29,140	$76,390

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 Magneticcarpet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.