Official Master's Degree in Teaching Compulsory Secondary Education
Qualified to work as a teacher of ESO, baccalaureate and vocational training.
What is the Master?
The aim of this CAP master's degree, as it was called before, is to complete the training of a degree or bachelor's degree in subjects related to the teaching profession. To this end, it will provide solid training in adolescent psychology, didactics, methodology, educational legislation, knowledge and use of technological resources, attention to diversity, tutoring and educational organisation, all framed in a culture of collaboration and work in teaching teams.
As part of the teacher training program, the internship for a period of at least 150 hours is a basic pillar in the training of future teachers. The aim is for the student to gain a reflective and critical experience of educational practice in the school environment through participation in the life of the centre, always accompanied and assisted by a tutor from their speciality.
This master's degree in teacher training offers the following specialisations: English, Geography and History, Spanish Language and Literature, Philosophy, Biology and Geology, Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics, Technology, Educational Guidance and Physical Education.
- CentersCiencias Humanas y Sociales (Comillas CIHS)
- LanguagesSpanish
- CertificationOfficial master's degrees
- ModalityFace to face
- Duration1 year (60 ECTS)
- Starts On13/10/2025
- Seats60
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What makes us different?
Internships
Assessment by the centre's internship tutor
Employability
Percentage of employment rate of Master's graduates
Teaching Staff
Teachers who combine teaching with professional practice
With this master's degree you can transform society through education.
Study Plan
Language and Literature, Geography and History, Philosophy, Biology and Geology, Physics and Chemistry, English, Technology, Mathematics and Physical Education
Professional projection
The Master's Degree in Teaching Compulsory Secondary and Pre-University Education qualifies students to teach in Secondary and Baccalaureate schools, Vocational Training centers, and Language Schools. This qualification is essential to teach in these two educational levels according to current regulations.
Secondary and baccalaureate teacher in public schools
Secondary and baccalaureate teacher in private schools
Secondary and baccalaureate teacher in state-subsidised schools
Teacher in language schools
Work Placements
We prepare you for your future and introduce you to the real world with comprehensive work experience training.
Teaching Staff
Alumni
Find out what students who have passed through our classrooms have to say and see what their experience has been like!
Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Comillas CIHS)
Mario Ramos
Thanks to this master's degree it is possible to acquire all the knowledge and skills necessary for teaching in an outstanding way, especially through the attention devoted to didactics and the teaching process of each specific subject. You will learn to transmit knowledge and to train students in an excellent way through humanism.
Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Comillas CIHS)
Román Trenado Rosa
For me, the University of Comillas provides the conditions for an outstanding education. The professors and other professionals, as well as the material resources and the environment, form the optimal ecosystem for research and development.
Everything you need to know
Information for students
Professional and academic opportunities
The Master's Degree in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Teacher gives access to the doctorate according to current regulations and qualifies students to work as teachers of Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Schools, being from the academic year 2009-2010 an essential requirement to be able to teach at these two educational levels.
ORDER ECI/3858/2007, of 27 December, which establishes the requirements for the verification of official university degrees that enable the exercise of the professions of Teacher of Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Schools.
Graduation profile:
Students who complete the master's degree in teacher training are professionals with a solid training that combines psycho-pedagogical, didactic, methodological and technological knowledge with a humanising attitude to teaching that enables both comprehensive attention to students in ESO, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Schools and work in teaching teams and individual and family tutoring, fulfilling the requirements to be a secondary school teacher. This profile has been analysed in the various monitoring committees of the master's degree itself.
Within this competence framework, their professional projection is oriented towards the following areas:
- Private, state-subsidised and public educational centres where Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate are taught.
- Private, state-subsidised and public educational centres where Vocational Training is taught.
- Language Schools
- Adult Education Centres (CEPA)
Comillas CIHS
Cantoblanco Campus
Since its foundation, the Faculties of Human and Social Sciences, Theology and Canon Law at Comillas Pontifical University have had the vocation to promote humanism and plurality.
It is defined by its desire to train people capable of taking thought and ideas to the highest levels, and to give them the necessary skills to be useful and improve life in the complex world in which we live.
Quality and regulations
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Preguntas frecuentes
Because Comillas studies are in high demand and places are limited, the best candidates have to be selected through admission tests.
Each class has its own tutor, whose function is to integrate the student into the group and to pay attention to their academic performance. Furthermore, at Comillas, the teaching system is distinguished, among other characteristics, by the personalised attention and the fluid and permanent relationship between teachers and students.
The teaching system at Comillas is especially oriented towards the relationship with the reality of companies, institutions, organisations and professional practice. The Internship and Employment Office is responsible for providing students with internships related to their studies in order to enrich their training. In the 2017-18 academic year, 6,296 student internships in companies were managed.
In addition to these internships managed by the Internship and Employment Office, all degree courses have a significant number of compulsory external internships as part of their curriculums.The Internship and Employment Office informs, guides and collaborates in the insertion in the labour market of recent graduates or in the projection of the professional careers of Comillas graduates, for which it has an online tool that directly connects candidates with 5,078 companies with which Comillas maintains a relationship. During the 2017-18 academic year, 1,838 job offers were managed. Of the total number of graduates from the 2018 graduating class, 93.22% are employed, either working or furthering their studies, within six months of completing their studies.
Contact
Prospective Students Office
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
C/ Universidad Comillas, 3 - 28049 Madrid
(Cantoblanco Campus)
Tel.: (+34) 91 542 28 00, ext. 2825
email: futurosalumnos@comillas.edu
Director of the Master's Degree:
Prof. José Manuel Vázquez Romero
Tel.: (+34) 734 39 50 , ext. 4284
vazquez@comillas.edu
Master's Coordinator:
Israel García Paredes
igparedes@comillas.edu
