CREATING A NEW PROGRAM
The College of Allied Health Sciences (CAHS) works with its branch campuses to grant college degrees to active duty personnel currently enrolled in their technical medical programs.
In 2016, the college was chartered to support the education and training requirements necessary to meet the needs of the Military Health System and the Department of Defense while providing graduates with credentials that translate directly to the civilian sector.
All of our undergraduate offerings render students eligible for at least one civilian practice credential (e.g. CMA) in specialties including Nuclear Medicine, Neurodiagnostics, Radiology, Respiratory Therapy, Medical Laboratory, and many more, with additional programs coming online regularly.
Credentials are awarded via the usual mechanisms of institutional accreditation, programmatic/specialized accreditation, and credentialing success (typically a program must maintain at least a first time credential exam pass rate of 70%). All of these quality assurance mechanisms are external to CAHS and USU according to standard administrative practices of the civilian sector via relevant State and/or Federal regulatory bodies (e.g. State Board of Healing Arts).
CAmpus Locations
Various programs of study at the below listed categories were approved by USU Board of Regents to award college credit.
BRANCH CAMPUS
other INSTRUCTIONAL Sites
U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH
Naval Medical Forces Support Command (Yorktown, San Diego and Groton sites)
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONs
U. S. Army Medical Center of Excellence, JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center, Fort Liberty
Building a New Program
AWARDING THE FIRST DEGREE
“Knowing just how prestigious a university USU is -- and the fact that I wanted to attend USU years ago -- I am honored to be able to earn my first, but not last, degree from USU. I am even more excited for all the service members who will be following me in this program to be able to earn their degrees from USU,” said Army Staff Sergeant Robert Eccles.
CREATING A PROGRAM FOR ENLISTED SERVICE MEMBERS
Established to meet the needs of corpsmen, medics, technicians and the services, the degree program can make students more competitive for promotion and more marketable in the civilian sector once they leave active duty.
FIRST BRANCH CAMPUS
The Tri-Service Campus hosts 49 medical programs, and 16,500 graduates a year. In the future, CAHS plans to offer more collegiate credit for enlisted medical personnel by partnering with additional programs offered by METC.