Associate Degree of Medical Laboratory Science in Toowoomba Australia | The University of Southern Queensland

The University of Southern Queensland | Toowoomba Australia
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Qualification
Associate Degree
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
AUD 34,800
(c. USD24,812.82)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
24 months

Discover how to analyze blood specimens to help detect conditions like anemia and leukemia, along with mastering blood typing techniques for transfusion patients. You'll acquire expertise in handling tissue samples to support the identification of illnesses including cancer. Training includes utilizing cutting-edge techniques to diagnose infectious diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, as well as blood and wound infections.

Receive the essential education and practical skills for roles as a medical lab technician or technical officer in private and public pathology labs, a research technician in academic, healthcare, or biotech settings, or in medical product marketing. This program also prepares you for careers as biomedical scientists with research potential or support positions. Lab technicians and technical officers play a crucial healthcare role, assisting medical scientists, pathologists, physicians, nurses, and other professionals by conducting patient sample analyses that are fundamental for disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring.


Destination of Study

Subjects of Study

Language Requirements

English
IELTS 6.0

Qualification Requirements

To study this degree we assume you have sound knowledge in:

English (Units 3 & 4, C), and
General Mathematics (Units 3 & 4, C)
We assume that your knowledge is equivalent to a grade C or higher in Units 3 and 4 at high school level (typically studied in Year 12). Find out more about assumed knowledge.

It is also recommended that you have studied either Biology, Chemistry, or Science, or equivalent.
This program requires a minimum of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent. TOEFL (paper based) - 550 (or better) (with a minimum Test of Written English Score of TWE 4.5). TOEFL (internet based) - 80 (or better) (with 19 minimum in all bands).

Tuition AUD 34,800

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