To apply to the DMI Program, begin at the Admissions page. The Admissions page explains all of the prerequisites and other requirements of the DMI Program.

Unfortunately, our faculty is not available to review applications. A student should meet with a CCSF Academic Counselor to determine if appropriate courses have been taken.

The best method to reach the DMI Program is using the official DMI email at DMI@ccsf.edu. 

Check the list of "Prerequisite Courses to Complete Before Application." These courses must be completed before applying to the DMI Program. All courses must be completed with a grade of "C" or higher and taken within seven years of the application date, with the exception of English. English does not have an expiration date. 

The courses listed under "Highly Recommended Courses to Complete Before Application" are not required to be completed before applying to the DMI Program; however, these courses serve as prerequisites or corequisites to DMI courses as early as the first semester of the DMI Program. These courses do not have to be completed within seven years of the application date.

Download the "Course Equivalency/Comparability" form. Fill it out and submit it, with supporting documentation, to the appropriate CCSF Department Chair.

For example, if you want to determine if a chemistry class you took at another college/university is equivalent to a chemistry class at CCSF, you will submit the "Course Equivalency/Comparability" form to the CCSF Department Chair of Chemistry.

The answer may seem obvious, but in most cases, it is a conditional yes.

The reason for the condition is that some courses, such as higher-level Chemistry or Physics (for example) are specialized, and may not sufficiently address the content of the course to the extent the prerequisite course does. Thus, the guideline should be that an equivalent or higher-level course must address the content within the "Prerequisite Courses to Complete Before Application" and "Highly Recommended Courses to Complete Before Application." If you are not sure about the content of a particular course, you should check with the respective Department Chair at CCSF.

The courses listed under "Prerequisite Courses to Complete Before Application" must be completed within seven years of the application date (with the exception of English). If you completed a course listed under "Prerequisite Courses to Complete Before Application" more than seven years ago, you must take it again (with the exception of English).

The courses listed under "Highly Recommended Courses to Complete Before Application" do not have to be completed within seven years of the application date. If you completed a course listed under "Highly Recommended Courses to Complete Before Application" more than seven years ago, you do not need to take it again.

Volunteering hours must be completed with seven years of the application date. 

Once per year, up to 30 students per application cycle are admitted. The 30 students who are admitted are divided into two cohorts; up to 15 students begin in the Spring semester and up to 15 students begin in the Fall semester.

Students do not select which semester they begin. Semester selection is based on lottery results.

Students are selected by random drawing (lottery). All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity at being selected. No qualified applicant, under any circumstance, may have their name entered more than once per lottery cycle. 

Selection is not made on a first-come, first-served basis. We do not use a point system.

If a waitlist is needed, the waitlist candidates will be selected from the application pool via a lottery system.

No. No qualified applicant, under any circumstance, may have their name entered more than once per lottery cycle. 

No. No qualified applicant, under any circumstance, may have their name entered more than once per lottery cycle. 

No. The DMI Program does not offer advanced placement under any circumstances. All students, regardless of previous academic accomplishments, progress through the program at the same pace.

The DMI Program at City College of San Francisco affiliates with the following hospitals:

• California Pacific Medical Center
• UCSF Medical Center
• Veterans’ Administration Medical Center
• Zuckerberg San Francisco General

No. The student should be aware that an intern is not “working” but continuing the learning process. They are attending a class, although the classroom has shifted to the hospital environment. This "classroom" is an extension of the college classrooms where the student continues to learn the concepts studied and applies them to real-life situations.

After graduation and completion of all DMI major courses, the graduate is eligible to take the national board examination administered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). The DMI Program faculty will help you with the registration process for this examination and applying for the California State licensure and the Fluoroscopy Permit exam. Once these are completed and passed, the graduate is eligible to work in California.

While it is our goal to ensure that each graduate from our Program is prepared to pass the examination, we cannot guarantee that each person passes. In order to pass, one must take the initiative to complete all components of the Program, and then continue to study and prepare for the examination. Our success rate can be found on our website (www.ccsf.edu/dmi) under "Program Effectiveness Data."

Our goal is to ensure that after you graduate, you will be prepared to become an entry-level technologist, and will possess all of the skills thereof. It is your responsibility to seek out positions available in a location that you desire. We do not guarantee that positions will be available when you complete the Program, however, our graduate job placement rate for the first 6 months after graduation is very high.

The DMI Program courses are transferable to the CSU system.

No. MRI is an advanced area of imaging. Go to the ARRT's Find An Educational Program site and under "Select a Discipline" select "Magnetic Resonance Imaging."

No. Ultrasound (sonography) is an advanced area of imaging. Go to the ARRT's Find An Educational Program site and under "Select a Discipline" select "Sonography."

No. Radiation Therapy is an advanced area of imaging. Go to the ARRT's Find An Educational Program site and under "Select a Discipline" select "Radiation Therapy."