Secondary Education at University of the Southwest

33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

USW is located in Hobbs, New Mexico and has a total student population of 904.

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.

USW Secondary Education Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Online Classes Are Available at USW

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? USW offers distance education options for secondary teaching at the following degree levels:

Master’s Degree

USW Secondary Education Rankings

The secondary teaching major at USW 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 USW

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

USW Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

33% Women

33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of secondary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% 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 USW since its program graduates 28% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 the Southwest with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

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

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 the Southwest.

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
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