Career and Technical Education - Trade and Industry Education

Career and Technical Education (CTE) is an area of public education that focuses on providing students with opportunities in high skill, high demand and high wage areas. Appalachian State University prepares individuals to teach students about these areas at the middle and high school level, at the postsecondary level, in industry and through cooperative extension agencies. Appalachian is the only institution in the state that prepares CTE teachers, and is widely recognized as providing top-quality teachers for the public schools.

Just as young people need to be taught how to read, write or calculate, they also need education in business, marketing and financial literacy, family and consumer sciences literacy and technological literacy. Appalachian prepares future teachers in these areas through five certification tracks within the Career and Technical Education (BS) program:

• Business, Finance and Information Technology Education
• Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Education
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Technology, Engineering and Design Education
• Trade and Industrial Education

In the Career and Technical Education (BS) - Trade and Industrial Education degree, you will be able to focus your studies on a specific area of technical education such as drafting, cabinet-making, carpentry, electronics, printing graphics, metals manufacturing or even welding. You will also dive deeper into your studies through focused Second Academic Concentrations related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), graphic communications, sustainable design and technology or materials science.

Transfer students or students who have completed Community College courses related to a specific skill area should contact the program director to determine if these courses can count toward a program of study at Appalachian.

• High school teachers
• Community college instructors
• Adult educators in community agencies
• Private school teacher
• Educator in business or industry
• Career center instructors

• Complete an application (apply using the Common Application)
• Provide your official high school transcript(s)
• Provide your official or unofficial college transcript(s) for any completed college coursework*
• Submit $65 application fee (or approved fee waiver)
• Submit official or self-reported SAT (school code: 5010) or ACT (school code: 3062) scores (or apply with a test waiver)
• Complete your FAFSA (application opens Oct. 1; school code: 002906)