2 years Full time or 4 years Part time
Gain the education and training necessary for a career as a medical technician or technical officer in the private and public pathology laboratory sectors with UniSQ’s Associate Degree of Medical Laboratory Science. This degree also provides you with training for a career as a biomedical scientist with a research capability and/or a biomedical science support role. You gain practical experience through structured placements in a pathology laboratory and/or by attendance at residential schools. Study online or on-campus, full-time or part-time – this degree allows you the flexibility to fit study in with your life and career goals. For more information, visit Associate Degree of Medical Laboratory Science at UniSQ.
University of Southern Queensland
30 days of professional clinical placement is required for the program. External students also have mandatory residential schools as part of the program.
Students must satisfy the requirements of the University of Southern Queensland and Queensland Health for clinical placement. These include evidence of immunity to notifiable and contagious diseases, Queensland Health student checklist and placement, privacy and consent deeds, and a UniSQ Student Clinical Placement Policy Declaration.
For additional information about the admissions criteria for the University of Southern Queensland and for this course, refer to UniSQ’s website.
Completion of Year 12 or attained age 18 years
English (Units 3 and 4, C); General Mathematics (Units 3 and 4, C)
For more information about the ATAR/Selection Rank profile, please visit ATAR/Selection Rank profile explained.
ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors
<5*
ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors
<5*
ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors
<5*
ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors
<5*
ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors
<5*
ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors
<5*
* “<5" – indicates less than 5 ATAR/Selection Rank based offers were made
Excluding: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made, excluding adjustment factors.
Including: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made including any adjustment factors that may have been applied.
For more information about the Student profile, please visit Student profile explained.
As this is a new course, Semester 1, 2025 information is not available.
As a graduate, you have the opportunity for employment as a medical technician or technical officer in the medical pathology industry, a medical or clinical research technician in the university, health or biotechnology sectors, or health, medical and scientific product marketers.