BA/BS in Secondary Education is a bachelor's degree in Education & Teaching programme offered by Université Sainte-Anne in Digby, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 540 per credit (CAD 314 per credit for local students).
This Bachelor of Education program prepares graduates to teach at the secondary level and can be completed in two years or in an accelerated sixteen-month format, the latter not open to international students. The 60-credit program consists of seventeen courses combined with three practicum placements completed in Nova Scotia public schools under local school boards. Coursework is organized around five areas: the historical and current context of public education, human development, conditions for learning, teaching practice, and professional obligations, alongside subject-specific didactics in areas such as French, English, humanities, mathematics, sciences, or business education. Students do not take regular coursework while on practicum placement, and a failed placement may be repeated once before a second failure leads to dismissal from the program. Admission requires an undergraduate degree, a minimum 2.30 GPA, a specified level of French proficiency, and at least 30 credits in one approved secondary teaching subject plus 18 in a second. The credential is a Bachelor of Education, and the program is intended for university graduates seeking to become secondary school teachers within Nova Scotia's French-language or English-language education system, with subject specializations drawn from the approved curriculum areas listed by the university.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:2.30 / 4.33
Admission Requirements: Applicants must already hold an undergraduate diploma and maintain a weighted average of at least 2.30 (on Sainte-Anne's 4.30-point scale) in each of two components of their prior studies. On the university's French-placement test, applicants must place at minimum at the level of FRAN 1443 (Redaction universitaire I). A motivation letter in French explaining the applicant's interest in a teaching career is required before admission; after admission and before classes start, three character-reference attestations (in French or English), proof of no criminal record, and Nova Scotia's Form XIII Child Abuse Register check are required. Applicants need a minimum of 30 credits in the subject they intend to teach as their primary discipline and 18 credits in a second teachable subject, with up to 6 credits of related university coursework countable toward either total. The application deadline is 1 July.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Université Sainte-Anne publishes no fixed closing date for domestic (Canadian) applicants, who submit their application online for a $55 fee ($60 for the Baccalauréat en éducation and master's programmes) and are assessed as received, though the scholarship-application deadline is 28 February. International applicants use a separate portal with fixed cut-offs for the 2026-27 cycle: applications for the autumn/fall session must be submitted before 1 May of the same year, and for the winter session before 1 August of the preceding year, i.e. by 1 August 2026 for winter 2027 entry. The institution does not describe domestic admission as rolling, but gives it no fixed close. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
