Vet Tech Programs in Mississippi

AVMA's Mississippi section runs to just 2 entries, in 2 cities.

Hinds Community College lists a Veterinary Technology Program in Raymond that awards an Associate of Applied Science; AVMA shows its initial accreditation as April 1990 and its next evaluation as 2028.

Mississippi State University lists a Bachelor of Science in Starkville, initially accredited January 27, 2012, with its next evaluation also in 2028.

Both entries carry plain full accreditation, so this page has no status glossary to read.

The list's limits matter too: anything beyond the degrees, cities, dates and status lines printed here — schedules, admissions requirements, outcome figures — is a question for the school, not something AVMA's list answers.

Mississippi State University is the one Mississippi program on AVMA's list that awards a Bachelor of Science, and it is listed in Starkville.

Its entry shows initial accreditation of January 27, 2012, a next evaluation of 2028 and no status note beyond full accreditation.

Hinds Community College's entry awards an Associate of Applied Science, so an applicant comparing the state's 2 programs is in practice comparing degree levels, with nothing on the list to separate the schools beyond the dates printed.

The list records the degree AVMA accredits, not the curriculum behind it, so read each school's own materials for what the coursework and clinical arrangements cover before you apply.

AVMA's distance-education list names no program based in Mississippi.

It names 13 distance programs in all, each filed under the state where it is based, and the full list appears lower on this page.

A Mississippi resident considering one of them has two questions to put to the school first: whether it admits students living in Mississippi, and how it arranges the supervised clinical hours every accredited program requires at a practice near the student.

AVMA's list answers neither question, so ask each school's admissions office directly before planning around a program.

The Mississippi Board of Veterinary Medicine certifies veterinary technicians as Certified veterinary technicians (CVTs).

The Act's eligibility sentence requires graduation from a veterinary technology or technician program accredited under the standards of AVMA's Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities, plus a filed application, and the sources read for the requirements page found no experience-based alternative — years working in a Mississippi practice do not replace the program.

Applicants then pass the Veterinary Technician National Examination, with scores as set by the board, and renewal requires ten continuing-education credits under the board's rules.

The same sources do not establish certification as a legal requirement to work — the Act's technician sections contain no sentence reserving the practice to certificate holders — but the certification route itself runs through a CVTEA-accredited program, wherever it is based.