Secondary Education at Wilkes University

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

Wilkes is located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 4,781. In 2021, 5 secondary teaching majors received their bachelor's degree from Wilkes.

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.

Wilkes Secondary Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

Wilkes Secondary Education Rankings

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

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 Wilkes 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	80
	113
Best Secondary Education Schools	139
Most Popular Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	154
Best Value Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	157
Most Focused Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	187
Most Popular Secondary Education Schools	357
Best Value Secondary Education Schools	363
Most Focused Secondary Education Schools	385

Secondary Teaching Student Demographics at Wilkes

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

Wilkes Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of secondary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% 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 Wilkes since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at Wilkes are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Wilkes University with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

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

Wilkes 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
• Elementary Education
• Online Educator/Online Teaching

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 PA, the home state for Wilkes University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
High School Teachers	50,460	$64,830

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 Jrmski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.