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Bachelor of Science Degree Program
at Upstate
The Program accepts 20 students each year.
Graduates are eligible to sit for the national certifying examination given by the Board of Registry of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists
and other certifying agencies.
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Master of Science Degree Program
provides advanced training to experienced medical technologists. Master’s students specialize in one of five areas: chemistry, transfusion medicine (blood banking), hematology, immunology or microbiology. Master’s students also select a minor area of concentration in either management/ supervision, education or basic science.
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About this Career
Medical Technologists (also known as clinical laboratory scientists) develop, perform and supervise laboratory testing that is used to diagnose and treat disease and to provide vital data for research studies.
After graduation, many medical technologists work in hospital or physicians’ office laboratories conducting a wide range of laboratory measurements from simple blood tests to complex analyses for cancer, AIDS, viruses, bone marrow abnormalities, therapeutic drug monitoring, infectious disease and molecular diagnoses.
 Experienced medical technologists have a wide variety of career opportunities such as the scientific study of the immune system, biotechnology, research and biogenetics. In industry, medical technologists work in product development, marketing and sales.
A degree in medical technology provides excellent career opportunities after graduation as well as a foundation for advanced degrees in medicine or science, or for a career in other medically related fields such as physician’s assistant.
We encourage prospective students to visit a clinical laboratory near you, tour the lab at Upstate, or call the Clinical Laboratory Science Department to discuss career options.
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