Education at Waterloo

What to watch for

Waterloo has no Bachelor of Education you can apply to straight out of Grade 12, and "education" is not one of the OUAC entry points on the supplied list. Waterloo's own program page says you pursue a B.Ed. either through one of Waterloo's teaching specializations or by applying to a Faculty of Education once you graduate from Waterloo. Concretely, the only undergrad-level "teaching" routes are: (1) Mathematics/Teaching, which is a specialization inside Honours Mathematics (OUAC WM) that you apply to as a major in your 2A term - it gives you paid classroom co-op experience but you still must apply separately later to a Bachelor of Education program; (2) the French Teaching Specialization, which gives an Honours BA in French (Faculty of Arts, OUAC WA) plus a reserved path into Nipissing University's B.Ed.; and (3) the Fine Arts Teaching Preparation Specialization, also under Honours Arts (OUAC WA), with reserved Nipissing B.Ed. spaces. In every case, the actual Bachelor of Education is a second-entry, post-graduate credential (at Nipissing or elsewhere), not something you enter directly from high school - so if this student's goal is specifically "become a teacher," the realistic Grade 12 move is to apply to WM (if they want the math-teaching co-op route) or WA (for the French or Fine Arts teaching specializations), knowing the B.Ed itself comes later and elsewhere. Since none of the listed codes is itself an "Education" program, I'm returning no direct slug rather than guessing which base program this student meant.