Secondary Education at Vanderbilt University

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

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 13,537 students attend the school each year.

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.

Vanderbilt Secondary Education Degrees Available

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

Vanderbilt Secondary Education Rankings

The secondary teaching major at Vanderbilt 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 Vanderbilt

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

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

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 Vanderbilt University with a bachelor's in secondary teaching.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Vanderbilt Secondary Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 39% of secondary teaching master's degrees went to men and 61% went to women.

Of the students who received a secondary teaching master's degree from Vanderbilt, 73% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	24
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Teacher Development & Methodology
• Teacher Education
• 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 TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
High School Teachers	20,190	$53,620

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 Dansan4444 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.