Admission requirements

Admission to Teacher Education Requires:

• An official application for admission to Teacher Education Program
• Junior classification (49 or more non-developmental semester credit hours) with a minimum 2.50 grade point average overall;
• Criminal History Check (will be conducted by the Office of Field Experience)
• $50 Application fee (paid to the Business Office when registering for EPSY 4322)
• Completion of the following general education courses with a minimum 2.50 grade point average:
  • 9 hours of English with a minimum grade of “C” in each freshman English course, speech with a minimum grade of “B”
  • 6 hours of history
  • 6 hours of government
  • 3 hours of college math (1314, 1324 or higher level math course with a minimum grade of “C”
  • 6 hours of modern language
  • 8 hours of laboratory science
  • 3 hours of art or music (EC-6 programs require MUSI 1304)
  • 3 hours of Social/Behavioral Science (History program requires PYSC 2301)
  • 1 hour of Kinesiology 
  • EDCI/EDUC 1301 Introduction to the Teaching Profession
  • EDCI/EDUC 2301 Introduction to Special Populations
  • A minimum score of 500 on the written of 173 on the computerized version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required for foreign students. (see catalog)
    

• ACT: Composite score of 19/ or SAT: Composite score of 910- Required Fall 2012 (Effective Fall 2013)
• Passing all parts of the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA)
• A student may elect to substitute a departmentally established reading score on the Asset Reading Test or other departmentally approved reading test in lieu of the required score on the THEA reading Test.

See Admission Checklist (fill out and print)