School of Clinical Sciences
Whether you’re looking for one or two years of specialized training and quick entry into the job market, a comprehensive bachelor’s degree, or a graduate degree, Northern’s School of Clinical Sciences offers you many choices. Our 15 programs present a variety of health career options and offer built-in flexibility to explore or advance into additional programs or certifications.
School of Clinical Sciences
Whether you’re looking for one or two years of specialized training and quick entry into the job market, a comprehensive bachelor’s degree, or a graduate degree, Northern’s School of Clinical Sciences offers you many choices. Our 15 programs present a variety of health career options and offer built-in flexibility to explore or advance into additional programs or certifications.
School of Clinical Sciences
Whether you’re looking for one or two years of specialized training and quick entry into the job market, a comprehensive bachelor’s degree, or a graduate degree, Northern’s School of Clinical Sciences offers you many choices. Our 15 programs present a variety of health career options and offer built-in flexibility to explore or advance into additional programs or certifications.
School of Clinical Sciences
Whether you’re looking for one or two years of specialized training and quick entry into the job market, a comprehensive bachelor’s degree, or a graduate degree, Northern’s School of Clinical Sciences offers you many choices. Our 15 programs present a variety of health career options and offer built-in flexibility to explore or advance into additional programs or certifications.
Academic programs
Northern Michigan University’s School of Clinical Sciences offers a wide range of degree and concentration options that prepare students to work in health care fields or prepares them for advanced degrees in medical fields or biomedical research. The School of Clinical Sciences offers eight degree concentrations in Clinical Laboratory Science, as well as degrees in Radiography, Surgical Technology, and Speech Language Hearing Sciences. The School offers six nationally accredited academic programs. Graduates of the School's programs work in a variety of clinical settings to include medical laboratories, medical imaging, operating rooms, speech pathology and hearing clinics, as well as biomedical research and other healthcare settings.
We offer the following types of degree programs:
- Certificates
- Associates of Applied Science
- Bachelors of Science
- Master of Science
- Minors
Experiential learning
At Northern, we strongly believe in learning by doing. Our faculty are all experienced professionals in their respective fields with years of clinical experience prior to coming to NMU. As a Clinical Sciences student, you will develop your skills using real-world tools and techniques. Clinical Laboratory Science degree students will work in different clinical settings in their sophomore and senior years, in our partner hospitals or labs. Speech Hearing Language Science students get live therapy training in our campus based Speech Pathology clinic. Radiography and Surgical Technology students learn while working in hospital Radiology suites and Operating Rooms. We have more than 40 partner hospitals, including Mayo Clinic, Marshfield Clinic and the Michigan Department of Community Health. While on campus, you will take classes in our science complex that include laboratories or a clinic setting equipped with modern clinical instruments.
Located in the Seaborg Science Complex, all of the School of Clinical Sciences laboratories are state-of-the-art for teaching and practicum purposes and are considered among some of the finest university facilities in the Midwest.
Students majoring in diagnostic genetics may also have the opportunity to work in the cytogenetic and molecular pathology laboratory in West Science that is shared by Marquette General and NMU. This is Marquette General's working lab for all cytogenic and molecular testing for the Upper Peninsula.
NMU students can interact with clients in a relaxed and fun atmosphere, using the Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic Laboratory's many toys to help clients feel comfortable.
When students are working in our hands-on laboratories and classrooms, you can find them gathering in one of the many on-campus study or lounge spaces.
From certificate degrees to master's, Northern's School of Clinical Sciences offers a wide array of academic offerings to choose from. Explore programs such as radiography, anatomic pathology, molecular genetics and more.
What you’ll do at NMU
As an NMU student, your opportunities to get involved on campus and in the community are boundless. In our clinical sciences programs, for example, students can examine patient chromosomes for genetic disorders; work side by side with a trained radiographer to assess lung images in a newborn with suspected pneumonia; observe and participate in a delicate surgical procedure in a local operating room; or test community clients in our Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic. You’ll also have the personal attention and support of talented, caring teachers every step of the way.
Career excellence
Clinical professionals are in great demand. Graduates from NMU’s programs have a job placement rate of nearly 100 percent and more than a 95 percent passing rate on national certification exams. Many also pursue advanced degrees.
Fantastic faculty
The School of Clinical Sciences is home to over a dozen incredible faculty members, many of whom have terminal degrees in their field and/or real-world experience working in the industry.
Contact us
School of Clinical Sciences
CLS@nmu.edu
906-227-2885
If you have college credit and want to find out what will transfer to NMU, please visit www.nmu.edu/transfercredit.