Secondary Education at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

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

UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has a total student population of 22,311.

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.

UNM Secondary Education Degrees Available

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

UNM Secondary Education Rankings

The secondary teaching major at UNM 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.

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at UNM

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the secondary teaching majors at University of New Mexico - Main Campus.

UNM 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 39% men. So male students are more repesented at UNM since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 44% 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 New Mexico - Main Campus with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UNM Secondary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 25% of secondary teaching master's degrees went to men and 75% went to women.

In the secondary teaching master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 63% of degree recipients. That is 36% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of New Mexico - Main Campus with a master's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• 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 NM, the home state for University of New Mexico - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in NM	Average Salary in NM
High School Teachers	7,010	$55,380

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 PerryPlanet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.