In cooperation with the Kennebec Valley Medical Center, UMA offers the Associate of Science in Medical Laboratory Science Program. This program is accreditied by the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation of the American Medical Association.
Graduates are eligible to sit for any of the nationally-recognized certifying examinations.
The certified medical laboratory technician performs procedures in microbiology, chemistry, hematology, serology and microscopy. Graduates find employment in clinics, physicians' offices, public health agencies, hospitals, industrial and pharmaceutical laboratories. Admission is limited to those students who have earned a high school diploma or a General Equivalency Diploma, have successfully completed one unit each of high school college preparatory or college laboratory chemistry and laboratory biology, demonstrated proficiency in reading, writing and mathematics, and met with the Program Coordinator for an interview. Transfer students must have a 2.0 or 'C' grade point average. College-level science courses will only be transferred if taken within the previous five years.