How do I become a chemistry teacher/professor?

ptontiger16
Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:52:36 +0000

You can’t “rise up in the ranks and become a professor” from being a teacher in a secondary school. It just doesn’t happen. Unless you happen to have a PhD and are teaching secondary school. In which case, you should probably be asking yourself why you are doing that. Like the above person said, you must have a PhD or at least an MS to be teaching at an accredited four year institution. But then, you wouldn’t be teaching much anyway - your TAs do that while you do research.