UB Teach Combined BA/EdM Program

Earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree in just 5 years—saving time and money—so you can become a teacher and start changing lives sooner. During your first three years of the program, you’ll study a particular content area in UB’s College of Arts and Sciences. Then, in your last two years, you’ll get the skills to teach what you’ve learned in our Graduate School of Education—an experience that culminates with a one-year teaching residency.

Why choose the UB Teach program?

Sydney Powers teaching in a Buffalo Public Schools classroom.

UB Teach graduates are eligible for New York State professional teaching certification in grades 5-12. You’ll graduate in just 5 years, saving time and money—and you won’t have to apply to grad school.

Teacher resident standing in front of classroom teaching with mentor teacher standing behind her.

Every student in the UB Teach program participates in a full-year teacher residency, in which you’ll co-teach next to a skilled mentor. You’ll benefit from experiencing the rhythms of a complete school year as you get to know each of your students.

UB is a member in good standing of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP), a national accrediting organization recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. View a full list of our programs accredited by AAQEP.

Content areas of focus

As a student in the UB Teach program, you’ll focus on one of these subjects and then learn how to teach it.

Getting out of his comfort zone

UB Teach student Russel Bassarath is as drawn by classroom teaching as he is research. At GSE, he doesn’t have to choose: After leaving New York State for the first time to spend a year teaching in a Cyprus school, he earned a Fulbright Scholar Award to carry out more work while abroad. For the naturally curious Bassarath, it’s an opportunity he plans to take full advantage of. “I want to immerse myself as much as possible in the local communities that I’ll be part of,” he says. “I’m not just going to be passive when I’m there for the nine months.”

Learn more about Russel's story

Building lasting skills and relationships

Many UB Teach alums say our immersive, one-year student teaching experience gave them the skills and confidence to thrive now in their own classrooms. “I have friends that have gone through the six- or eight-week student teaching programs, and they say you’re rushed,” says Jacquelyn Wackowski ‘22. “I wouldn’t have gotten those relationships if I had been only there for eight weeks.”