Admission Requirements
Step two: Choose your major
Before completing 75 credit hours:
Stop by the Academic Advising and Transfer Center to declare or change your major to radiography.
Step three: Start here, finish there
Complete your first three years at Missouri State. Then, complete the radiography program at an accredited school of radiologic technology, such as Cox College or Mercy.
Your clinical courses transfer back to Missouri State and carry a pass (P) grade only.
The School of Health Sciences (SHS) will assist you in this process.
Radiography (Comprehensive) (BS)
Bachelor of Science
The School of Health Sciences, in cooperation with Cox College and Mercy College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Southwest Baptist University and other JRCERT accredited programs, offers a baccalaureate degree in Radiography. This program contains professional training that must be from a clinical school that is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radio logic Technology sponsored by the American Medical Association (foreign credentials are not accepted). The curriculum includes both university course work that can be completed in 6 semesters and a 22-24 month clinical school of radiography. Each student must have at least a 2.00 GPA in both the coursework at Missouri State and in a school of radio logic technology. To be a registered radiologic technologist, the student, after having completed the clinical coursework, must pass a Registry Examination and obtain a letter of good standing from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.
A student may pursue this program by completing prerequisite courses at Missouri State and by seeking admission to any JRCERT school of radiologic technology. Application deadlines vary by school of radiologic technology. Courses completed at the clinical school are treated as transfer credit, are assigned a P (Pass) grade only, and are evaluated as a block of 21 credit hours of lower-division Radiography electives and a block of 21credit hours of upper-division Radiography electives, not as individual courses.
The Radiography courses are credited only on the Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Radiography.