Secondary Education at University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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

UNLV is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and has a total student population of 31,142. In 2021, 57 secondary teaching majors received their bachelor's degree from UNLV.

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.

UNLV Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

UNLV Secondary Education Rankings

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

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 UNLV 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
	11
Best Value Secondary Education Graduate Certificate Schools	18
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	29
Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	29
Most Focused Secondary Education Graduate Certificate Schools	30
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	35
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	111

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at UNLV

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

UNLV Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

The secondary teaching program at UNLV awarded 57 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 37% of these degrees went to men with the other 63% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 35% 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 Nevada - Las Vegas with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	23
White	22
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

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

Related Majors

• Teacher Education
• 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 NV, the home state for University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

Occupation	Jobs in NV	Average Salary in NV
High School Teachers	5,930	$57,910

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 Stan Shebs under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.