Secondary Education at University of Maryland - College Park

47% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and has a total student population of 40,709.

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.

UMCP Secondary Education Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Teaching

UMCP Secondary Education Rankings

The secondary teaching major at UMCP 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 UMCP

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

UMCP Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

60% Women

47% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

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 39% men. So male students are more repesented at UMCP since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at UMCP are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 Maryland - College Park with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - College Park.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
High School Teachers	19,330	$72,610

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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