Vet Tech Programs in Kansas

Colby Community College is the only school AVMA lists twice.

Its Veterinary Nursing Program-Campus and its Veterinary Nursing Distance Education Program are separate entries, both in Colby, and each awards an Associate of Applied Science.

Wichita State University Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology in Wichita is the third entry, also awarding an Associate of Applied Science.

AVMA shows no Kansas program awarding a bachelor's.

The campus entry has the longest history on the list, with initial accreditation dated November 1974; the distance entry dates to September 12, 2014 and the Wichita program to February 23, 2018.

Every entry's status line reads full accreditation, with next evaluations in 2025, 2028 and 2031.

The list gives each entry's degree, dates and status line.

It says nothing about schedules or outcomes, so ask each school, and ask to see the program's published first-time VTNE pass rate, which accredited programs are required to post.

AVMA's separate distance-education list names 13 programs nationwide, each under the state where it is based, and Colby Community College's Veterinary Nursing Distance Education Program is the one based in Kansas.

It is the same school AVMA lists for Colby's campus program, and both of AVMA's lists carry the same status line for it, with initial accreditation dated September 12, 2014 and the next evaluation shown as 2025.

For any of the other programs on that list, the practical questions for a Kansas resident are whether a program admits students living in Kansas, and how it arranges the supervised clinical hours every accredited program requires.

The Kansas Board of Veterinary Examiners registers veterinary technicians, and its education step is written into the Act's definition: a registered veterinary technician must first be a graduate veterinary technician, someone who has graduated from an American Veterinary Medical Association accredited school approved by the board (K.S.A. 47-816).

No experience-based alternative appears in the sources behind the requirements page, so floor hours do not substitute for the program.

After graduation, an applicant passes the VTNE through AAVSB and Kansas's open-book jurisprudence exam, on which 90% of questions must be answered correctly.

On the sources read, no section of the Kansas Veterinary Practice Act makes registration mandatory to practice or to use the RVT title — the board issues and disciplines registrations, but employers set their own expectations.

The board's application packet asks for the name of, and proof of graduation from, an AVMA Accredited Veterinary Technician Program; every program on the list above holds that accreditation, and whether the board's approval clause adds more is a question to put to the board.