Secondary Education at University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and approximately 22,563 students attend the school each year. Of the 207 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Alabama at Birmingham 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.

UAB Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching
• Master’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

UAB Secondary Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks secondary teaching programs across the country. The following shows how UAB 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 UAB 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 Popular Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	39
Most Focused Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	151
Best Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	170
	183
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	305

In 2021, 33 students received their master’s degree in secondary teaching from UAB. This makes it the #39 most popular school for secondary teaching master’s degree candidates in the country.

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 8 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in secondary teaching from UAB in 2021, 38% were men and 63% were women.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at UAB 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 University of Alabama at Birmingham with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UAB Secondary Education Master’s Program

Of the 33 students who earned a master's degree in Secondary Education from UAB in 2020-2021, 24% were men and 76% were women.

Of the students who received a secondary teaching master's degree from UAB, 76% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Alabama at Birmingham with a master's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	25
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UAB 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
• 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 AL, the home state for University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
High School Teachers	16,270	$51,180

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 Lee Adlaf under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.