Program Overview
The Bachelor’s degree in Biology with Teacher Certification prepares students for careers as science teachers. Students become proficient in the biology field while learning how to educate others. Students may choose from the Biology with Teacher Certification degree which prepares students to become secondary teachers or the Interdisciplinary Studies degree which prepares students to become science teachers in grades 4 to 8. Students who successfully complete all requirements of either of these majors may be eligible to seek teacher certification.
UTRGV is approved by the Texas Education Agency to recommend students who complete all requirements of this degree for teaching certification.
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Possible Career Options
As a middle school or high school teacher, you will have the expose young minds to the field on biology by teaching different topics that include human, animal, and plant life.
What I like the most about UTRGV is the opportunity it gives the students to succeed. I have had professors who have done nothing but strived for us students to succeed in their course and that is something I really like because it helps first-generation students, like me, feel encouraged.
UTRGV is my home. The Student Union is where I’m currently employed, and it’s amazing. I couldn't ask for a better group of coworkers and staff. I’m at the university most of the day at least five days a week, but the sense that everyone works together to make the best environment possible for both employees and students makes that time breeze by. I’ve met countless friends and kept up with even more here at UTRGV. These connections are deeply embedded in my heart.