Founded in 1848 by the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, Geneva College is home to around 1,600 undergraduate students at its campus in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania around 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The school's cardiology technology program is a joint degree plan that allows students to graduate in five years with a bachelor's and master's degree. The program begins with three years of study includes general education requirements and classes that lead to a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. Students then spend two years at the INOVA Heart and Vascular Institute in Falls Church, Virginia, completing clinical rotations and graduate-level seminars to complete the Master of Science in cardiovascular science requirements.
Geneva College
3200 College Ave.
Beaver Falls, PA 15010
724-847-6500
geneva.edu
The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center provides allied health, nursing and medical programs. The school's Department of Cardiopulmonary Science grants a Bachelor of Science degree in Cardiopulmonary Science with a specialty in cardiovascular technology. Before completing the professional career requirements for the major, students take prerequisite classes in English, humanities, chemistry, biology, mathematics, physics, anatomy, microbiology and computer science.
In the professional phase of the program, students learn the techniques for procedures like echocardiography, stress tests and Holter monitoring and receive practice working in laboratory classes and with actual patients in the Health Sciences Center's clinics.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
1900 Gravier St.
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-568-4229
lsuhsc.edu
Located in Costa Mesa, California, Orange Coast College is 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The public, two-year college is home to approximately 25,000 credit and non-credit students. The school offers a two-semester certificate program in electrocardiography, which prepares students for work as EKG technicians. At the conclusion of the program, students have the option to study for one additional year in order to earn an Associate of Applied Science degree in echocardiogarphy and vascular ultrasound. At the completion of the associate program, students have completed three clinical rotations and two laboratory courses.
Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa , CA 92628
714-432-5549
orangecoastcollege.edu
A Minnesota community-based, two-year institution, St. Cloud Technical College is home to approximately 5,400 students. Before enrolling in the college's Associate of Applied Science degree program in cardiovascular technology, students must successfully complete two anatomy courses, algebra and physics. The program itself requires two years to complete, including a semester-long internship at areas hospitals and medical clinics. Students learn techniques of invasive cardiovascular technology necessary to assist physicians with procedures like heart catheterizations.
St. Cloud Technical College
1540 Northway Drive
St. Cloud, MN 56303
320-308-6010
sctc.edu