The University of Chicago Urban Teacher Education Program (UChicago UTEP) is a two-year master's degree program that awards a Master of Arts in Teaching as well as state certification. UTEP offers two endorsement pathways: elementary (Grades 1-6) and middle grades (Grades 5th-8th). The elementary pathway is for those candidates that would like to teach in grades 1-6 self-contained classrooms while the middle grades pathway leads to grades 5-8 subject-specific endorsements in mathematics, social science, general science, and language arts.
Undergraduate students can apply for this program during their third year in the College. Admitted students begin the joint degree program in their fourth year by taking a three-quarter Foundations of Education sequence. They then continue with a fifteen-month graduate program that includes substantial clinical work in local Chicago public schools, including the University of Chicago Charter School campuses.