Emotional aptitude can be defined as the ability to recognize and manage one's own emotions and interpret rhe emotions of others. It has been speculated rhat Clinical Laboratory Sciences students may lack the emotional skills to most effectively interact wirh patients and orher health care professionals, rherefore a logical hypothesis would be that rhey would evaluate their own emotional intelligence lower than students from other healthcare majors. While this has been a topic of discussion in health care, a lack of research has been conducted to validate rhis assumption. This study assesses the perceived emotional aptitude of Clinical Laboratory Sciences students compared to students of other healrhcare majors in rhe Dumke College of Health Professions at Weber State University. The perceived emotional aptitude of the healthcare students was determined by completion of a self-evaluation questionnaire that included questions about one's emotions, their understanding of orhers' emotions, and how rhey manage conflict. A total of 40 1 questionnaires were completed, compiled, and analyzed. Alrhough minor differences were seen in rhe responses, statistical analysis found these differences ro be insignificant. The perceived emotional aptitude of Clinical Laboratory Sciences students was inSignificantly different than that of students of other health care majors at the Dumke College of Healrh Professions.