Expressway to Tiger Town

Cost

You can finish your undergraduate degree in three years, decreasing tuition expenses and student loans. If you spend a fourth year in the teacher residency program, you can complete a master’s degree in the same timeframe that most students finish a bachelor’s degree – and start your teaching career with a higher starting salary and additional classroom experience.

Guidance

You benefit from professional guidance and advising at your high school, technical college and Clemson. These educators are committed to providing a smooth pathway for you to earn an education degree.

Excellence

From high school through technical college to Clemson, you learn from some of the best minds in the education profession. Along the way, you are part of vibrant and exciting educational communities.

Interested students should contact their high school guidance counselor to discuss the pathway. High schools identify and advise student candidates as they complete required dual credit courses and assist them with applications to their local technical college. Students can begin taking dual credit courses as early as 10th grade. Their local technical college plays an integral role in this pathway by ensuring students receive quality courses as dual enrollment students and during their first year out of high school.

If students earn a minimum 2.75 GPA in post-secondary coursework, they are eligible to transfer to Clemson and study alongside existing junior education majors. Summer coursework may be required. After finishing program coursework and serving as a student teacher in their home district, students will earn their degree from Clemson.

As students near the end of their bachelor’s degree, they can apply for Clemson’s Teacher Residency Program. The program replaces student teaching in the final undergraduate semester with graduate education classes and adds a year-long classroom residency with a master teacher. Expressway districts place Expressway students in their home districts for the residency.

Partnership between Clemson, Greenville Technical College and Greenville County Schools

Expressway to Tiger Town – Greenville provides a seamless, accelerated pathway from high school to a Clemson University education degree for students in Greenville County School District. The partnership between the Clemson University College of Education, Greenville Technical College, and the school districts aims to identify, inspire, support, and prepare students for a career in education. 

• Key points for counselors and administrators
• Key points for students and families

Available Degree Programs

• Elementary Education, B.A.
• Middle Level Education – English Language Arts and Social Studies, B.S.
• Middle Level Education – Mathematics and Science, B.S.
• Secondary Education and Teaching Mathematics, B.A.
• Secondary Education and Teaching Social Studies, B.A.
• Science Teaching (Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics), B.A.
• Special Education, B.A.

Expressway Resources

• GCS – GTC – CU Expressway Presentation
• GCS – GTC – CU Expressway Checklist
• GCS Expressway Intent to Participate Form
• GCS Expressway Withdrawal Form

Partnerships between Clemson, Tricounty Technical College and the School Districts of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens Counties

Expressway to Tiger Town – Anderson-Oconee-Pickens provides a seamless, accelerated pathway from high school to a Clemson University education degree for students in seven Upstate school districts – Anderson One, Anderson Two, Anderson Three, Anderson Four, Anderson Five, Oconee and Pickens. The partnership between the Clemson University College of Education, Tri-County Technical College, and the school districts aims to identify, inspire, support, and prepare students for a career in education.

• Key points for counselors and administrators
• Key points for students and families

Available Degree Programs

• Early Childhood Education, B.A.
• Elementary Education, B.A.
• Middle Level Education – English Language Arts and Social Studies, B.S.
• Middle Level Education – Mathematics and Science, B.S.
• Secondary Education and Teaching Mathematics, B.A.
• Secondary Education and Teaching Social Studies, B.A.
• Science Teaching (Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics), B.A.
• Special Education, B.A.

Expressway Resources

• AOP – TCTC – CU Expressway Presentation
• AOP – TCTC – CU Expressway Checklist
• AOP Expressway Intent to Participate Form
• AOP Expressway Withdrawal Form

For more information about this program, contact the College of Education Academic Advising Center at educationundergrad@clemson.edu.