Biomedical Sciences

The Biomedical Science program is a rigorous undergraduate curriculum that will prepare you for employment as a professional medical laboratory scientist, or for further training in a variety of healthcare professions. Upon successful completion of the program you will be a competitive applicant for jobs as a healthcare professional in hospitals, and industrial and commercial medical laboratories.

This program also prepares you to meet the rigorous educational standards if you choose to further your education in medicine, veterinary medicine, physician assistant programs, or graduate school.

The U.S. Department of Labor projects that employment of medical laboratory technologists and technicians will grow 16 percent by 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations.

Medical laboratory technologists accounted for nearly 165,000 jobs in 2014. The industries that employed the most medical laboratory technologists that year were: hospitals - 58%, medical and diagnostic labs - 17%, physicians' offices - 8%, colleges, universities and professional schools - 5%.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition, Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians