2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Arkansas

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Arkansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Secondary Education is the 84th most popular major in the country with 11,071 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Arkansas, there were 134 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,634 and $22,457 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Arkansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in secondary education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in secondary education.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Arkansas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Arkansas

1

Ouachita Baptist University
Arkadelphia, Arkansas

#6 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ouachita Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Arkansas list. Ouachita Baptist is a small school located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas that handed out 8 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Ouachita Baptist

2

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in Arkansas list. UARK is a large school located in Fayetteville, Arkansas that handed out 24 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read more about Secondary Education at University of Arkansas

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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