Secondary Education at University of South Dakota

If you are interested in studying secondary education, you may want to check out the program at University of South Dakota. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USD is located in Vermillion, South Dakota and has a total student population of 9,459.

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.

USD Secondary Education Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at USD

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.

USD does offer online education options in secondary teaching for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

USD Secondary Education Rankings

The secondary teaching major at USD 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 USD

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

USD Secondary Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of secondary teaching bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% 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 USD since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching at USD 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 University of South Dakota with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	22
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

USD Secondary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of secondary teaching master's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 39% men graduate in secondary teaching each year. USD does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 28% more men than average.

In the secondary teaching master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 67% of degree recipients. That is 40% better than the national average.*

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

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

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 SD, the home state for University of South Dakota.

Occupation	Jobs in SD	Average Salary in SD
High School Teachers	3,520	$42,960

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.