Medical Laboratory Science
As a medical laboratory scientist, your behind-the-scenes expertise leads to better, more effective medical care. Doctors will rely on your work to make accurate diagnoses and create plans for patients' recovery.
In your first three years at LVC, you’ll take classes on campus. You’ll spend your senior year working in a hospital, gaining lab experience that will help you land a job and forge a career helping others.
Need-based departmental scholarships are available.
Learn More About the Program
Diagnosing an illness can be like unraveling a mystery. Medical laboratory scientists need deep toolkits to do their job. LVC’s program delivers a foundation in biology and chemistry and goes on to explore immunology, genetics, physiology, and more.
7%
projected job growth for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians, 2021-31 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
25,600
job openings projected each year through 2031
As a graduate of the medical laboratory science program, you’ll have the skills to start work immediately in a clinical medical laboratory and other industries.
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Medical Laboratories
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Manufacturing
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Forensics
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Outpatient Care Centers
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Infectious Disease Research
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Food, Cosmetic, and Consumer Product Testing
In Their Words
Working on research with my professors allowed me to become familiar with the scientific process and how to work with scientific literature, information, samples, and data. Now, when tasked with reading a scientific journal article or presented scientific data, I’m confident in my ability to understand it and make something of it.
Kyrsten Ford
’20,
Medical Laboratory Scientist, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
One of the reasons I chose LVC was because I believed the faculty and staff would support me in meeting my goals. The support from my professors and different programs on campus has surpassed my expectations helping to make my goals a reality.
Hope Leathers
’24,
medical laboratory science major
