Bachelor of Arts/Master of Teaching (Secondary)

Inspire and positively influence the lives of the young people who enter your classroom with a challenging and rewarding career in secondary education. Become a teacher who is confident, adaptable, and able to design and implement engaging and flexible learning experiences to meet the needs of your students.

The Bachelor of Arts/Master of Teaching (Secondary) degree provides you with an innovative pathway into becoming a secondary school teacher with two specialist teaching areas.

By studying this double degree, you will deepen your disciplinary knowledge by completing a Bachelor of Arts alongside an initial teacher education qualification at the postgraduate level. You will have the option of completing your secondary teacher accreditation requirements for:

• two major teaching areas, or
• one major and up to two minor teaching areas, or
• one major and one minor teaching area, together with accreditation to teach religious education in Catholic schools.

Achieve your goals with a scholarship.

A generous Commonwealth Teaching Scholarship is available to support new undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolling in an initial teacher education (ITE) program to help meet the costs of their study. Learn more about eligibility and how to apply here.

Get paid to learn with a Victorian Government ITE scholarship. Victorian students enrolling in a secondary school initial teacher education (ITE) program in 2024 or 2025 can apply to help cover the cost of studying. Learn more about eligibility and how to apply here.

ACU strongly encourages students to be fully vaccinated. With our industry and community placement partners requiring vaccination, and with public health orders regularly changing - students can avoid interruption to their studies, placement and graduation requirements by becoming fully vaccinated.

Our graduates have pursued careers in:

• secondary school education
• community centre education
• private colleges
• advocacy
• policy development.