Secondary Education at University of Maryland - College Park

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

UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and has a total student population of 40,709. In 2021, 20 secondary teaching majors received their bachelor's degree from UMCP.

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.

UMCP Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

UMCP Secondary Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the secondary teaching progam at UMCP compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The secondary teaching major at UMCP 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	6
	9
Most Focused Secondary Education Undergraduate Certificate Schools	16
Most Popular Secondary Education Graduate Certificate Schools	38
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	218
Most Focused Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools	273

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in secondary teaching from UMCP. This is the #273 most popular school for secondary teaching master’s degree candidates in the country.

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at UMCP

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

UMCP Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 45% of secondary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 55% went to women. The typical secondary teaching bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at UMCP since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% 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 University of Maryland - College Park with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching
• 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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - College Park.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
High School Teachers	19,330	$72,610

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 Bgervais under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.