Requirements for professors - university or community college?

Question

I have a Psy.S. degree and would like to pursue a profession in teaching. The degree is between a MA and Ph.D., which is about 20 credits short of a doctorate. Can I teach at a university and/or community college with this?

Answer 1

Yes, as long as you have your Master's Degree you can teach at most any postsecondary institution. In order to get a full professorship, a lot of schools require you to have a Ph.D...but that is not true for ALL schools.

Answer 2

In Florida, most Community Colleges require a Masters Degree. Some Universities will hire someone with an MA to teach as an adjunct, but the salaries are crap and there are no benefits. People usually do this only as a transition to something else b/c the burnout factor is pretty high. To teach at a University, you need to have a PhD, but these days that's still no guarantee that you'll get a job. I'm not sure what your degree is, but unless it's in a field where there are shortages, it's pretty tough getting any University job. In my field, if I'd done the PhD, for every 1 University position, I'd be competing with 100+ applicants for the job. Not very good odds.

Answer 3

At the community college a master's will do but the PhD will bring more pay. At the four year level usually the PhD depending on the terminal degree of the field one teaches. To teach english at the 4 year level yes PhD. But let's say you what to teach Xray tech course. Well the terminal degree for that is a bachelor's in radiology technology, so you could teach @ the 4 year level with just that but they will probably want you to obtain a master's in education or healthcare administration. I hoped I helped.

Answer 4

You'll probably be able to get a non-tenure track job or position as a teaching assistant but the market is too competitive for you to be able to get a tenure track position without a Ph.D. That means low pay and few benefits. You might consider teaching part time whilst you complete a Ph.D. You should also work on publishing in your field and applying for grants. Both are crucial to securing a good position.

The American Psychological Association is the place to research this stuff (also, check out their jobs and students pages): http://www.apa.org/

Answer 5

Depends on your degrees, but also on your accomplishments and your published works. Remember higher education for professors is all about publish or perish. With your qualifications, you should be able to teach at a community college, but you are really going to have to published a book or an article in a scholarly journal for you to teach at a four year college.

Answer 6

In most community colleges you can teach with a bachelors degree, as long as you are working on your masters. So I would assume that you can teach on the university level with a masters or higher.

Answer 7

It particularly relies upon on the college. i circulate to a small state college and maximum of my professors are very keen to assist. final semester my chemistry professor instructed us he woul dbe accessible for something like 6 hours if we mandatory extra effective help. i think of it particularly relies upon on the dimensions of the college and how nicely the administration treats their team. There are large community faculties that have extra distant professors. My college's standard type length is something like 25. in the event that they are taken care of nicely, it particularly is extra handy to maintain the best professors.

Answer 8

Yes, most colleges have at least instructors without PhDs. Most will not let you be a tenure track faculty member, though.

Answer 9

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