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Medical Laboratory Science

Laboratories and the work of their personnel are essential in health care. A degree in medical laboratory science prepares you to provide essential clinical information to health care providers and ensure reliable results that contribute to the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of physiological and pathological conditions. Laboratory tests are extremely valuable and are responsible for up to 70 percent of medical decisions made by practitioners. Graduates of our MLS programs often go on to pursue advanced degrees in medicine, physician assistant studies, pharmacy, and dentistry. Many may also specialize in areas like hematology, clinical chemistry, toxicology, virology, microbiology, immunohematology (blood banking) or molecular biology.

Program Outcome Data

Program Outcome Data

The United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education have indicated the importance of the public availability of program/student outcomes measured. To meet this expectation, the University of Kentucky Medical Laboratory Science program is providing the following:

Board Scores

  For students who graduated between 7/1/20 - 6/30/21 For students who graduated between 7/1/21 - 6/30/22 For students who graduated between 7/1/22 - 6/30/23
A) Total # who sat for the MLS exam(s) within first year of graduation 34 27 42
B) # of MLS graduates certified within the first year of graduation 27 24 34
Yearly MLS Certification Pass Rate Percentage: (B/A) x 100 79 89 81

Three Year Average MLS Certification Rate Percentage: 83

 

Placement Rates

  For students who graduated between 7/1/18 - 6/30/19 For students who graduated between 7/1/19 - 6/30/20 For students who graduated between 7/1/20 - 6/30/21
A) # who found employment (in the field or in a closely related field) and/or continued their education within one year of graduation 28 35 35
B) # who did neither of the above 0 0 1
C) # for which you do NOT have any information 0 0 0
Yearly Average Placement Rate Percentage: [A/(A+B)] x 100 100 100 97

Three Year Average Placement Rate Percentage: 99

 

Graduation/Attrition Rates

  For students slated to graduate between 7/1/19 - 6/30/20 For students slated to graduate between 7/1/20- 6/30/21 For students slated to graduate between 7/1/21- 6/30/22
A) # who began the "final half" of the program 32 23 32
B) # who began the "final half" of the program but subsequently left (voluntarily or involuntarily)   0 0
C) # who began the "final half" of the program but are still currently enrolled 0 0 0
D) # who began the "final half" of the program during the given time period and have since graduated 32 23 26
Yearly Attrition Rate Percentage: (B/A) x100 0 0 0
Yearly Graduation Rate Percentage 100 100 100

The Traditional Track in-person MLS Program is 16 month long beginning in the fall semester of August in year 1 and ending in December of year 2 (end of fall semester). Therefore, the half-way point is during the spring semester of year 1. The MLS faculty have agreed that the start of summer session 1 (begins the first week in May) is the start of the final half of the program. The half-way point for the MLT to MLS cohort occurs after accruing 20 credit hours.