The current legal regulations in Spain establish that to access to the regulated professions of professor in the different fields of secondary education, the students must have a graduate, or equivalent, qualification, and a pedagogical and educational training with the master's degree level. The Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teaching by the University of Valencia provides this professional authorisation required by the educational Administration to practice the previously mentioned professions in secondary education public and private centres. This master's degree is structured in different specialities corresponding to the current specialities of the secondary education.

The Master's Degree provides both a basic training to the teaching practice in the secondary levels of the educational system, and a specific training to one of the areas in which the previously mentioned professions are structured. The qualification also includes a work placement period in educational centres.