Club president Mary Donahue says she already has a good job lined up close to her home in Calvert County. She s not alone. Radiography is standing out we get calls constantly from employers, and they always ask when we visit clinical sites. The last class all had jobs before they graduated. With the tremendous growth in healthcare during the last decade, Anderson says that location is not nearly as important as it used to be.
Work is plentiful in suburban areas as well as major metropolitan centers.
Anderson adds that in the six years she has been with the college, there has been a steady demand for radiographers. Anderson says the department can handle about 32 freshman and 32 sophomore students per year. Anderson says that in addition to a high graduation rate, about 97 percent of the school s radiography students pass the state licensing exams required by Maryland and Virginia. The District of Columbia and 17 states do not require that radiographers be licensed to practice in their jurisdictions. Prince George s Community College has offered a radiography program since the early 1970s.