

Many laboratories hire "registry-eligible" graduates with the understanding that the certification exam will be taken and passed within a specified period of time. Graduates of the CLS program are eligible to take a national certification examination, which is required for most hospital-based CLS positions. The junior year and part of the senior year constitutes the professional program and is taught by Clinical Laboratory Science faculty. The remainder of the senior year consists of the clinical rotation in an affiliated clinical laboratory.The freshman and sophomore years constitute the preprofessional program comprising the liberal arts and science courses taught by the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Science.A graduate from Wayne State University with this Bachelor of Science degree is eligible to take a national certification examination in Clinical Laboratory Science. The degree program consists of a preprofessional curriculum and a professional curriculum, as follows: The program leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical Laboratory Science fulfills the requirements for clinical laboratory science education.

Curriculum Bachelor of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science
