Admission Requirements
Want to pursue the physics education pathway? Follow the steps below to get started.
Your first steps
- Become a Bear: Apply to Missouri State.
- Before completing 60 credit hours, contact the physics education pathway advisor. You'll discuss key details, develop your plan of study and choose your certification area.
- Contact the Academic Advising and Transfer Center to declare or change your major to physics.
About the pathway
You will earn a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Physics degree and a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree. You will be qualified to teach physics for grades 6-12.
If you want to teach dual credit courses as well, you will need 18 graduate hours in a science discipline.
Consider the graduate certificate in science content to meet that requirement.