Secondary Education at Tennessee Wesleyan University

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

TWU is located in Athens, Tennessee and approximately 1,116 students attend the school each year. Of the 27 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Wesleyan University in 2021, 8 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.

TWU Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

TWU Secondary Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks secondary teaching programs across the country. The following shows how TWU performed in these rankings.

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 TWU 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
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	39
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	88
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	119
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	288

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at TWU

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

TWU Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 8 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education from TWU in 2020-2021, 25% were men and 75% were women.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at TWU 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 Tennessee Wesleyan 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	0

TWU 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 Education
• 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 TN, the home state for Tennessee Wesleyan University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
High School Teachers	20,190	$53,620

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 Brian Stansberry under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.