(a) Clinical Laboratory Technologist Trainee. Applicants shall have graduated from a college or university maintaining standards equivalent, as determined by the department, to those institutions accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges or an essentially equivalent agency with a baccalaureate and a major in clinical laboratory science, or a baccalaureate and courses pertinent to the clinical laboratory field as may be determined by the department. An individual who is not a graduate but possesses at least 90 semester hours or equivalent quarter hours of university or college work may be licensed as a clinical laboratory technologist trainee, provided he will be granted a baccalaureate at the conclusion of 12 months of training, and have completed at least 90 semester hours or equivalent quarter hours, must have included in the college work the following courses or essential equivalent as may be determined by the department: general inorganic chemistry--8; quantitative analysis--3; basic biological sciences--8; bacteriology--4; provided, however, that university or college work completed after July 1, 1973, must include at least:

(b) Limited Technologist Trainee. Applicants shall have graduated from a college or university maintaining standards equivalent, as determined by the department, to those institutions accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges or an essentially equivalent accrediting agency with a baccalaureate and a major in the specialty for which licensure is sought. If the major is not designated by the college or university as one of those required under this chapter for limited technologist licenses in clinical chemistry, clinical microbiology, immunohematology, or toxicology, the department may determine the essentially equivalent major.