Teacher education programmes prepare people to be certified classroom teachers — the subject content, how children learn it, how to plan and assess, how to manage a room, and a supervised internship in a real school. Florida structures them around its own certification requirements, so the degree and the licence are designed together rather than sequentially.
The degrees this program covers
Taught at 35 Florida public institutions across the levels-and-methods codes, with 2,282 credentials in the 2023 federal award year, plus 877 in specific subject areas and 936 in special education. UCF is the largest producer in the state at 1,164 across all education codes, then UF 906, FSU 741, FIU 706, UWF 624. ⚠ Elementary education (1,188 credentials at 21 institutions) and early childhood (842 at 31) dominate the volume. ⚠⚠ The important structural point: a Florida teacher preparation programme is built to deliver the STATE CERTIFICATE, not just a degree, so it embeds the required reading, ESOL and exceptional-student-education content and the supervised internship. ⚠⚠⚠ That matters because Florida also permits an ALTERNATIVE route — any bachelor's degree plus a subject-area examination gets you a temporary certificate and a classroom — so the degree competes with a cheaper path. What the degree buys is the preparation, the internship and a professional certificate without the clock running.
Careers this program leads to
Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end,
and the sources behind it.
Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers.
⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree
keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.
37 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023,
at these levels: Associate, Bachelor's, Certificate (<12 weeks), Certificate (1-2 years), Certificate (12 weeks-1 year), Doctorate (professional practice), Doctorate (research/scholarship), Master's, Post-master's certificate, Postbaccalaureate certificate.
A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited
its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing
program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.
Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only —
the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is
strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023
will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.
Updated 21 September 2026.
⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always
read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.