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Introduction

 

Why You Choose This Program

  • After receiving your Associate’s Degree in Radiologic Technology, this is the next step in your career.
  • You can become certified in more than one modality and receive college credit for each area.
  • We offer several locations and delivery options:
    • Campus Program includes clinical placement in Utah
    • Regional Program includes clinical placement outside of Utah

What You’ll Learn

Each of our Bachelor of Science degree emphases teaches:

  • Patient care and assessment
  • Psychosocial aspects of patient care
  • Radiation biology
  • Patient management
  • Patient education
  • Anatomy/image evaluation
  • Pathophysiology

Programs

 

Advanced Radiologic Sciences

Advanced Radiologic Sciences offers skills for medical imaging careers, along with technical, management, and educational positions.

Emphases include:

  • Advanced Radiologic Sciences (no clinical education required)
  • Interventional Radiology (IR)
  • Computed Tomography (CT)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • CT/MRI Combined
  • Women’s Imaging (mammography)

Requires ARRT certification to apply.

Program Description

Diagnostic Medical Sonography

Diagnostic Medical Sonography prepares you for a career as a sonographer, using ultrasound to produce images of organs, tissue and blood flow inside the body. Sonographers help detect heart disease and vascular disease and help perform fine-needle tissue guided biopsy procedures.

Emphases include:

  • Cardiac
  • Medical

Prerequisites fulfilled with either:

  • AAS or AS degree (recommended in a medical profession such as Nursing or Respiratory Therapy) and patient care experience 
  • AAS or AS degree and ARRT certification (such as Radiography) 
  • A Bachelor's degree (best if in a medically-related major)

Program Description

Nuclear Medicine

Our Nuclear Medicine program trains you to become a nuclear medicine technologist, using sophisticated detectors interfaced with computerized imaging systems to create images of the patient’s body. 

Requires ARRT certification to apply.

Program Description

Radiation Therapy

As a student in Radiation Therapy, you'll learn to administer targeted doses of radiation to a patient’s body to treat cancer or other diseases. As the radiation strikes tissue, it produces highly energized ions that gradually shrink and destroy the nucleus of malignant tumor cells.

Requires ARRT certification to apply.

Program Description

Resources

 

Employment Opportunities

As a graduate, you have the opportunity to work in your specialized field in health care facilities, while also expanding into areas such as:

  • Research
  • Health services administration
  • Education
  • Commercial applications
  • Marketing and sales
  • Consulting for insurance companies and legal firms

Visit the American Society for Radiologic Technologies (ASRT) website for salary and career information.

Bachelor Completion Through Independent Study

If you have already obtained certification and are seeking a bachelor’s degree, we may award you credit hours upon review of your credentials and will work with you to review general education and credit hour requirements needed to earn your BS.

Credit hours awarded for certification are approved on an individual basis and determined by the documentation you provide.  If you are certified in more than one modality, you may receive credit for each area.  

Contact our Independent Study Manager at RadIND@weber.edu or 801-626-6619 for more information.

Advising

 

If you have questions about General Education Requirements, contact advisors in the Dr. Ezekiel R. Dumke College of Health Professions Admissions Advisement Office at 801-626-6136 or healthprofessions@weber.edu.

 

Campus (Utah Residents)

Students in our Campus program reside in Utah and are assigned clinical sites in Utah.

Requires travel to Ogden, Utah for classes once a month. 

Ant Archuleta, Bachelor Program Coordinator
Marriott Health Sciences Building, Room 363
RadBS@weber.edu
801-626-6057

 

Regional (Outside of Utah)

Students in our Regional program reside outside of Utah and secure their own clinical site.

Requires travel to Ogden, Utah for classes once a month. 

Ant Archuleta, Bachelor Program Coordinator
Marriott Health Sciences Building, Room 363
RadBS@weber.edu 
801-626-6057

Independent Study

This option is only available to technologists who are already ARRT certified and working full-time in their modality and wish to complete a bachelor's degree online.

Pam Berg, Independent Study Manager
Marriott Health Sciences Building, Room 363
RadIND@weber.edu
801-626-6619