Secondary School Administration/Principalship at Western Michigan University

If you plan to study secondary school administration/principalship, take a look at what Western Michigan University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and has a total student population of 19,887.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Secondary School Administration/Principalship section at the bottom of this page.

WMU Secondary School Administration/Principalship Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Secondary School Administration/Principalship

Online Classes Are Available at WMU

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? WMU offers distance education options for secondary school administration/principalship at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

WMU Secondary School Administration/Principalship Rankings

Secondary School Administration/Principalship Student Demographics at WMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the secondary school administration/principalship majors at Western Michigan University.

WMU Secondary School Administration/Principalship Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of secondary school administration/principalship master's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 25% men graduate in secondary school administration/principalship each year. WMU does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 42% more men than average.

Of the students who received a secondary school administration/principalship master's degree from WMU, 67% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the secondary school administration/principalship master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 33% of degree recipients. That is 11% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Western Michigan University with a master's in secondary school administration/principalship.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Administration of Special Education
• Higher Education/Higher Education Administration
• Other Educational Administration & Supervision
• General Educational Leadership & Administration

Careers That Secondary School Administration/Principalship Grads May Go Into

A degree in secondary school administration/principalship can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Western Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Elementary and Secondary School Education Administrators	6,590	$92,990

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 TheKuLeR under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.