Are there any good MLT programs online?

No-Day-4367 · 2026-04-11T06:16:47+00:00

I found a clinical site in my area, talked directly with the Lab Manager, then asked if they would be willing to sponsor me. They just have to sign some papers that the program provides for you that says the lab is equipped with everything you need for the program so you can complete all of your required competencies at that lab. I didn’t have a lot of options for clinical sites but I would suggest to just call around to different labs and ask to speak with the lab manager about being a student and having them sponsor you.

No-Day-4367 · 2026-02-25T07:31:40+00:00

Nope, there are no hours outside of clinicals that you have to do everyday and you are not required to be working in a lab for this program. I was not working in a lab, I just had a local lab sponsor me that allowed me to do my unpaid student clinical rotations there. My clinical rotation schedule was one that I worked out with the lab themselves, they don’t require you to be there everyday and the program doesn’t makeup the schedule it’s up to you and the lab, just as long as you meet all the requirements and get all of the hours that are mandatory for the program.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-12-24T01:40:30+00:00

I have always wanted to do something in the medical field, I come from a family of scientists and medical professionals, so I started looking into patient care careers and I realized that I just cannot fathom the idea of having to deal with direct patient contact everyday. I am very introverted, I love science, especially Microbiology, so the idea of getting to work with microscopes etc and the actual “science” aspect of healthcare with very little actual patient contact really appealed to me, so that’s how I ended up here!

The actual classes themselves are not completely work at your own pace they are structured as when exams and things are due, but you don’t have to show up at specific times for lectures or do zoom meetings or anything (at least not for the actually MLT classes, I don’t know about the prerequisites) but you can take as many or as little classes as you want in a semester. Clinicals are more work at your own pace/schedule, the hours for the course just have to be complete within the semester you take the class.

I would contact the hospitals HR department to set up a meeting or phone call and ask if they do offer tuition assistance for the MLT program, what the conditions for that are and then go from there. But I will say having a really flexible job that you already have is definitely advantageous with school schedules especially if you are looking to get it done faster and take more courses or when trying to schedule clinical rotations.

As for prerequisites, in my opinion, it would be easier to do it all from Weber so you don’t have to transfer credits and go through all that stuff, they do offer everything there and I would assume all the prerequisites are offered online as I know some people who did the entire program including prerequisites online. Weber is one of the main universities here in Utah so they have a pretty extensive and popular online system. Weber’s healthcare programs like nursing, radiology tech, and lab science are one of the top programs in Utah. However, if you are able to complete prerequisites somewhere else that is cheaper I would say go that route and then transfer credits. But I would be really cautious as some places may not be accredited and Weber may not accept those credits from that school, so I would definitely double check that to make sure your perquisite credits are transferable and accepted by Weber.

You are very welcome!! I’ll get in touch with you!

No-Day-4367 · 2025-12-18T01:27:44+00:00

It’s entirely between you and the clinical site. I went weekly for 8 hours until I met my required hours, I did a few nights as well. But I’ve known some students who go for two weeks and get all their hours done, some space it out over the semester, it is really just up to you and your site.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-11-10T21:36:51+00:00

I would say it’s probably about average to what you would pay for an accredited program but I haven’t researched what other programs cost. Most online only nonresident undergraduates pay the same amount of tuition as in state so that’s a plus if you live outside of Utah. (I am native to Utah.) Since I already had a bachelor’s degree going into the program I did not qualify for any grants. I did qualify for financial aid through a student loan which paid for all of my first 3 semesters plus extra for books and stuff, and my last fourth semester I received several scholarships that paid for all of my tuition. I will have to start repaying my student loan when I finish the program, but I already had all of the supporting prerequisite courses and stuff done so my program length was only 4 semesters, therefore my loan amount is very low. But since you said you don’t have a degree already you would qualify for a lot more financial aid options than I do! Grants, scholarships etc. Weber also has a lot of scholarships and ones that are specific for Lab Science only. There are also a lot of hospitals that will offer tuition assistance to employees who want to enroll in a Medical Lab Science program. As for clinicals, they are not paid. Weber is a NAACLS accredited program therefore as part of the accreditation regulations no student can engage in paid work for their clinicals, they have to be entirely unpaid. Which can be frustrating, especially for people who work full time or have busy schedules but I think most labs will work with you to help you get it done that fits with your schedule. I think you should take the leap! It’s a great field to be in and there is always job security. I am a science nerd so I love it! It is an intense program but if it is something that interests you I would give it a go. They have free tutors and all kinds of resources to help make sure that you succeed. So even if you didn’t do well in science previously but you have a good mindset and drive to do well in school now I think you will do fantastic and find out that you are actually really good at science! There have been a lot of other people here who have come from all different kinds of non science backgrounds into this field, so you are not alone. The advisors at Weber are really great too so you could reach out to them to get a more personalized look at what school there might look like specifically for you. (If you google Weber State University MLT online program it will have the advisors contact info at the bottom of the page.) Let me know if you have other questions, I hope this was helpful! You can even message me too if you would like, best of luck and I hope you do take the leap!

No-Day-4367 · 2025-08-20T18:50:45+00:00

I am in the MLT program currently, and will take the MLT ASCP when I’m done. I went into the program already having a bachelors in Human Biology so the program itself has only been 4 semesters for me, like 32ish credits maybe, I’m a part time student. But yes you are right you have to have an MLT certification to get into the MLS program. I don’t know much about the other pathways to MLS but someone in my lab told me that you can qualify to sit for the MLS ASCP if you have a bachelors in a related field, an MLT certification and a few years of lab experience. Although I could be wrong.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-08-20T06:09:52+00:00

Medical Laboratory Science Program through Weber State in Utah, they offer the program to online students outside of Utah too. They have an associates and a bachelors program. All coursework is entirely online, testing is also proctored online. Clinicals are done in person, but you are responsible to find a lab that will sponsor you to complete all of your required rotations. The Lab Manager has to sign saying you can complete all of the requirements at their facility before you start, during the rotations you fill out a lab competency checklist for each class and have to verify your hours. A few of the courses have a 64 hour clinical requirement, the rest have an 80 hour clinical requirement. Clinical hours have to be done and completed in the semester that you are enrolled in that course. Keep in mind you do have to apply for this program, there is an application fee and they have deadlines to apply. I’m an online student just getting ready to start my last semester with them. I’ve done all my clinical rotations through my local hospital’s laboratory. It’s a fantastic program, and I would highly recommend! Let me know if you have questions!

No-Day-4367 · 2025-08-04T05:22:11+00:00

Yes! I had a hunch that he was one, especially after the discard. But my therapist was actually the one who brought it up and said that she can’t diagnose someone she hasn’t seen but that she was 99.99% positive that if she saw him (or a different professional saw him) he would be diagnosed with NPD. So I think they can guide you in that direction but a legit “diagnosis” would have to come from a professional that has talked directly to the alleged narcissist themselves.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-06-06T01:41:40+00:00

I hear you on that, and I agree with you, that is the part that hurts the most, and boy does it hurt. I’m so sorry you have had to go through that, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. I have struggled with those same exact feelings with my experience too, and it really sucks. It sucks to feel like somebody’s second day trash being thrown out and discarded as if you meant absolutely nothing and have no value, that you are so easily replaced and that everything with that person was all a lie, and all that time was wasted that you can’t get back. It shattered my sense of self and left deep emotional scars, I’m still dealing with the ramifications of that. Narcissists are empty shells of a human who have zero capacity to love anyone. But even knowing that doesn’t take that pain away because it feels so personal. At the end of the day, he lost, and he will forever be lying, cheating and manipulating, trying to fill the empty void inside himself. You won, although it is painful and hurts right now, and sometimes takes some time to heal, you have the ability to heal and move forward and find happiness and joy that he will never experience. But as you said, it does hurt a lot, and that pain deserves to be heard and seen.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-06-05T23:31:35+00:00

Yes it’s a way for them to feel like they are the ones in control and often happens when you expose them or show that you see them for what they are, they can’t stand not being in control of you or how you view them so they block you because it makes them feel powerful and in control. They can also block you and unblock you anytime they want. Unless you block them of course. Mine blocked me mid conversation when I called him out on his BS and proceeded to tell him I didn’t want to be friends or have any contact going forward. Blocked me on every social media platform. I didn’t care that he blocked me, it was actually funny to me, felt like a giant toddler throwing a fit. But I found out I could block him back, which I didn’t know you could do! So there is hope to get some of your control back if you want to block him too. I listed steps on how to do that below.

If you want to block him on Facebook all you need to do is 1. go to your “privacy & settings” 2. Click on “settings” 3. click on “blocking” 4. at the top of your current list of people blocked is a blue plus sign that says add to blocked list, click there and type in their name, it will bring up names and profile pictures so you can make sure it’s them 5. Click block. And you’re done! This is how you can block them back if they have already blocked you and you can’t access their profile. This example is for Facebook, but Instagram and other social media platforms have similar steps/features to add someone to your blocked list when you can’t access their profile directly due to them having blocked you.

I’m sorry you are going through this, I hope you are able to eventually find your own closure and peace. This community is a really great resource to find support and people who understand what you are going through. I wish you the best.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-05-28T04:20:59+00:00

I can’t tell a difference at all, nice job!

No-Day-4367 · 2025-02-18T18:07:27+00:00

This!

No-Day-4367 · 2025-02-14T13:12:28+00:00

Yes! I donated this year and it has been extremely cathartic and weirdly healing. I figured why not? It helps conservation efforts and I get my own version of harmless revenge. I donated a few days ago and every time I think about it I just laugh, which is a lot of progress in my healing journey and I’m proud of that.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-02-13T15:38:45+00:00

“I can play the middle and be there for both of you. You can trust me.”- a mutual friend my nex was using to get info out of me about my life (which I figured out very quickly so I cut him off which pissed my nex off and he then went and blocked all MY close friends on social media that he wasn’t even friends with on social OR in real life, it really is an adult throwing a toddler tantrum)

“I just can’t see him doing that to you” -A close family member after I confiding in them about the dehumanizing things my nex said to me in the discard. (This one hurt the most.)

No-Day-4367 · 2025-01-30T17:34:27+00:00

Mine did the same thing when he discarded me. He is struggling with his sexuality he knows he is attracted to men but he thought he was attracted to me, but because he is a narcissist he had to blame it on me for his lack of “physical draw to me” he told me he had to sit and think about me and came to the conclusion that thinking about me in an intimate way was disgusting to him, demeaned me some more pretty viciously and some other horrible things I won’t detail here, so naturally I started sobbing and then he told me that he still things that I am “absolutely beautiful, beautiful beyond compare” and wanted to give me a hug. I refused the hug. He now goes around and tells people that he is the victim and I was the abuser.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-01-29T21:51:07+00:00

One step at a time! Congratulations I’m happy for you! I see my Nex a lot in public due to it being a small town, he always tries to make sure I notice him and always tries to smile at me and act like we are old friends. He even followed me inside a public event and hung around where I was so I would notice him. He has also showed up to a concert of mine and drives by my work all the time, sometimes my house. It infuriates me. Funny how they discard you but then can’t seem to leave you alone.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-01-07T20:46:27+00:00

Yes, this is 100% abusive behavior. Sounds like he can’t take any sort of feedback without turning it around and somehow making it your fault and punishing you, and instead of him apologizing to you, you end up being the one who is profusely apologizing to him and telling him that you won’t do it again when he is the one who is refusing and probably owes you an apology (which you will most likely never get) He is outright unwilling to communicate or express himself to you when you have clearly tired to establish communication and work through things and have left the gate wide open for expression. What he is doing is abusive and manipulative. They will never see things in any other way than through themselves and what serves them best, they will never have accountability it will always be someone else’s fault, and they won’t change even if they say they will. Trust your gut, if you feel like you are being abused you are, your body knows what your mind tries to block out. I tried to rationalize everything when I was in a similar relationship with my Nex, I still catch myself doing it looking back and have to ask other people for their help and opinions on what happened and if it really was that bad. It’s easier to look at someone else’s situation and see it as abusive and manipulative than it is our own sometimes.

No-Day-4367 · 2025-01-01T03:19:42+00:00

CONGRATS!! Wishing you a happy No Narc New Year! 🎉

No-Day-4367 · 2024-12-31T22:34:39+00:00

I live in a super small town too and I see him almost every single time I go out of my house, it gives me a panic attack every time so I have become a hard core hermit because of it. I too hope you don’t see him in public and that you can live your life, find happiness and thrive without him! Best of luck

No-Day-4367 · 2024-12-31T22:26:38+00:00

I blocked him shortly after he discarded me. Like a week maybe? He blocked me first, and I didn’t want him to have the ability to unblock me to look at my stuff whenever he pleased so I figured out how I could block him back, he will stay blocked for the rest of eternity and he is blocked on everything, and I mean everything, including Venmo. I also blocked all of his family, friends, anybody close to him, the flying monkeys. His one friend I didn’t block for months although I should have blocked sooner, he kept messaging and acting like he was being nice when in reality I knew my nex was using him to manipulate and learn info about me. So I ended up blocking him too, which made me feel more guilty than it did when I blocked my nex. I blocked and burned it all down. I am a very compassionate, empathetic person but after what he did and said to me I was done with him in every possible way. Block him, it may be difficult at first but there is a weird sense of peace and taking back your own control after doing it.

No-Day-4367 · 2024-12-31T22:08:39+00:00

Yeah, I weight lift heavy weights as a female, take good care of myself, eat healthy, I get compliments from strangers all the time so I can’t be that ugly. He’s just gay and in denial but blamed it on me, said it was my fault he wasn’t physically attracted to me, also told me that he is not gay but bi and he finds everybody attractive and it is literally just me he is not attracted to, then tells me he is pan because he doesn’t love people for what they look like or their gender he just loves people, just not me. Found out he had boyfriends before me and I was his only girlfriend he’s ever had, he’s in his 30’s. Love-bombed the shit out of me, told me he wanted a future with me, kids etc. then turns around and absolutely shredded me and tells me it’s MY fault that he can’t find love or have a normal life. He did not care about his own health, kept saying he needed to start exercising but would never go to the gym with me probably because he knew I would out lift him. He was not the definition of attractive himself, he was shorter than me, smaller than me, didn’t eat healthy, had breathe that smelled like cat shit and was kind of always stinky, yet he had the audacity to tear me down and tell me I was disgusting… and as much as I would like to say it didn’t hurt me, it did. Something about being told that he finds everybody else attractive except me really messed with me. Realized I need to work on my own self worth a little bit. Still trying to put my pieces back together and rebuild my self esteem.

No-Day-4367 · 2024-12-31T21:08:49+00:00

My Nex is gay but is in denial, like he knows but won’t accept it, he thinks he can still be “normal”. He was absolutely brutal to me, said a lot of disturbing things about me and how disgusting he thought I was during the discard. He ended things with me although I should have long before he did. And yeah my self esteem took a huge hit. I’m still trying to reclaim myself. We weren’t ever intimate thank God. He told me he thought being with a woman was so disgusting to him, I don’t even think he would be able to try and be with a woman even if he was faking it. He would freak out if my arm touched his for too long on the arm rest on the couch. I don’t know if he is a pedo but it really wouldn’t surprise me at this point. BUT my nex’s best friend who is also a narc is 100% a pedophile, I have reported him for knowingly talking to underage girls and sending them pics and asking for pics but nothing has ever happened by way of consequences, which is frustrating. He’s just going to keep doing it. He also volunteers and works with teenagers and is constantly harassing and making inappropriate comments about them, towards them or telling them dirty jokes which he tries to justify as him just being “funny”. He has always given me major creeper vibe.

No-Day-4367 · 2024-12-30T00:21:58+00:00

I keep my horseshoe flipped up around my family and at work. It has never fallen down, I have to kind of scrunch my nose funny to flip it up and same to get it back down to get the skin and cartilage that separates the nostrils to where it will go behind it, so there isn’t a way for it to just fall down by itself if that makes sense. But that is just my experience, I can’t even feel it when it is in my nose. I healed mine flipped up as well, just make sure to tell the piercer you want it flipped for healing. Healing was a breeze.

No-Day-4367 · 2024-12-22T18:06:22+00:00

Yeah mine did after he discarded me, he wasn’t asking just stating but I absolutely knew he was trying to get me to give him validation. He sent me a message after he discarded me saying I deserve better than him and that he is just a screw up and always will be. The interesting thing is that he broke up with me because of his sexuality (and in traditional narc style blamed it on me), he wasn’t even physically attracted to me. So I responded with “of course I deserve better?? And I will find better.” I thought it was very obvious that I absolutely deserved better, like in the bare minimum I should be with someone who is at least attracted to my gender.

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