Information for Transfer Students
How to become a Certified Medical Technologist:
- Transfer* to SWAU into the Medical Technology Major. See Bulletin Description for Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Technology.
- Transcript Evaluation by the SWAU Records Office and determination of number of credit hours transferrable to SWAU. 128 semester hours are required for graduation. This includes the Senior clinical year experience. The student's GPA must be maintainted at 3.0 or above to be competitive for placement in the senior year clinical program. If Microbiology was taken elsewhere, the student must take an additional course in Immunology.
- Completion of Residency Requirement. 32 of the last 36 semester hours preceding the clinical year must be taken in residence at SWAU. 16 of the 32 hours must be in science. ESL courses do not apply toward residency.
- Senior year (12-13 mo.)(42-48 sem. hrs.) of Clinical Training in one of three accredited hospital-based programs affiliated with SWAU. Applications for clinical programs are available from Dan Petr, Med. Tech. Advisor, and must be submitted to affiliated hospitals during the Junior Year about 6 months prior to starting the clinical program. See Application Deadlines and Program Start Dates.
- Certification Examination (Administered at the end of the Clinical Year). Student becomes a Certified Medical Technologist.
- Graduation from SWAU. Upon successful completion of clinical program, student graduates from SWAU with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Technology.
* Transfer students from countries whose language is not English who have 24 semester hours of transferrable credit from an accredited institution where instruction is in English will be allowed to enroll in regular classes. Transfer students who do not have such transferrable credit must submit a score from the Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a minimum proficiency level of 190 on the computer-based test, or 520 on the paper-based test. The TOEFL test is taken in the student's country of origin. If unable to take the TOEFL before arriving on campus, the student must take the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP) through the English as a Second Language (ESL) department at SWAU and must pass with an average score of 80 over each section. Acceptable SAT or ACT scores may be submitted in place of a TOEFL or Michigan Test score.