Advance Your Career with Each Medical and Technological Breakthrough
If you are ready for an exciting career where your skills will be in hot demand, or if you are a lab assistant or a lab technician looking for more responsibility, a higher salary and a more exciting work environment, it's time to make your move. Today, over 3,000 laboratory tests are used for diagnostic evaluations. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, introduction of new medical technologies will cause this number to more than double. Because of these medical and technological advances, the clinical laboratory science career field is growing faster than all other occupations combined*. As a result, highly trained clinical laboratory scientists will be needed to perform these tests and interpret their results.
Clinical laboratory scientist degree holders are in hot demand in a number of diverse environments, including
- Biotechnology Firms
- Centers for Disease Control
- Clinics
- Diagnostic Testing Companies
- Food and Drug Administration
- Government Agencies
- Health Maintenance Organizations
- Hospitals
- Medical Equipment Companies
- National Institutes of Health
- Peace Corps/Vista
- Pharmaceutical Companies
- Physicians Offices
- Private & Non-Profit Organizations
- Research Foundations
- State and Municipal Departments of Health
- U.S. Armed Services
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of State
Put Your DeVry Degree to Work in a High-Level Clinical Laboratory Science Career
When you earn your clinical laboratory science degree from DeVry, you'll be prepared perform heroic roles in healthcare everyday. Working with a dynamic team of healthcare professionals, you'll perform tests in a lab setting to determine disease and evaluate treatment. In addition to playing this critical role by providing test results on which 70 percent of all diagnoses are made, clinical laboratory scientists also have opportunities to work for manufacturers of lab equipment, supplies or home and laboratory diagnostic kits. A bachelor's degree in this field also qualifies you for supervisory positions and for careers in product development, marketing or sales.
There are many exciting paths in this field, but a bachelor's degree paves the way to the greatest opportunities. Plus, in states like Arizona, clinical laboratory scientists who hold bachelor's degrees earn about 50 percent more than clinical laboratory technicians with associate degrees*.
Get the Clinical Laboratory Science Career You Want with a Degree from DeVry
With a bachelor's degree in Clinical Laboratory Science from DeVry, you'll not only be prepared for career-entry positions in the burgeoning field of clinical laboratory science, you'll build a solid foundation for advancement to supervisory and management positions.
Clinical laboratory science degree holders will be prepared for careers such as:
- Analytical Chemist
- Bacteriologist
- Biochemist
- Blood Bank Technologist
- Chemist
- Crime Lab Analyst
- Cytotechnologist
- Food and Drug Inspector
- Medical Librarian
- Medical Equipment Sales Rep
- Microbiologist
- Parasitologist
- Pharmaceutical Sales Rep
- Public Health Specialist
- Quality Control Specialist
- Research Assistant
- Toxicologist
DeVry is the university where you can gain the skills, credentials and respect you need to make it big in the world of clinical laboratory science. DeVry's success at preparing its students for careers is hard to beat! Check this out: System-wide, 92% of DeVry's, February '07, June '07and October '07 graduates in the active job market were employed in their fields within 6 months of graduation at an average salary of $44,000.
Earn your clinical laboratory science degree at DeVry today and start or advance your career tomorrow!
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*Source: Bureau Labor of Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook 2007
