Vet Tech Programs in Missouri

All 5 Missouri programs award an associate degree.

Four of them — Crowder College in Neosho, Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Maple Woods Community College and Moberly Area Community College in Mexico — list an Associate of Applied Science, and Midwest Institute in Earth City, the one remaining program, lists an Associate of Occupational Science.

AVMA prints no bachelor's degree and no former school name anywhere on the Missouri list.

The initial-accreditation dates run from Maple Woods Community College's April, 1975 to Moberly Area Community College's February 9, 2023, and AVMA prints a next-evaluation year for every program, the latest 2030 for Midwest Institute.

Anything else, from schedules to clinical placements, is a question for the school.

AVMA lists Moberly Area Community College in Mexico on initial accreditation, with initial accreditation dated February 9, 2023 and AVMA's next evaluation for the program set for 2028.

AVMA's own definition, printed on this page, says initial accreditation (formerly called provisional) is not punitive, is simply the terminology given to newly accredited programs, and means the program is officially accredited — it does not mean the program sits at higher risk of losing accreditation.

Graduates of an initially accredited program are considered graduates of an AVMA CVTEA-accredited program and would be eligible in nearly all states to sit the Veterinary Technician National Examination.

The other 4 programs — Crowder College, Jefferson College, Maple Woods Community College and Midwest Institute — carry plain full accreditation.

AVMA names no deficiency alongside the status; the question to put to Moberly Area Community College is the one worth putting to any program on the list — for its published first-time VTNE outcomes figure, which CVTEA's outcomes-assessment standard asks every accredited program to post.

AVMA's separate distance-education list names no program based in Missouri, so the 2026 list offers no online route from a Missouri school.

AVMA names 13 distance programs in all, each listed under the state where it is based, and they are printed lower on this page.

For any of them, a Missouri resident needs two answers from the school: whether it admits students living in Missouri, and how it arranges the supervised clinical hours every accredited program requires at a practice near the student.

The Missouri Veterinary Medical Board registers veterinary technicians — a registration, not a license — and RSMo Chapter 340 and the board's rules (20 CSR 2270) set what a program must be.

Two education routes qualify: a college-level course of study in veterinary technology at a school whose curriculum the board has approved, or a post-high school college-level course in the care and treatment of animals accredited by the AVMA.

A curriculum that is not AVMA-accredited can still qualify if the board judges it substantially equal, in its sole discretion, so ask the board before relying on a school outside the list above.

No on-the-job route appears in the sources read.

After graduating, an applicant passes both the VTNE, at a scaled 425, and the Missouri State Board Examination, at 70 percent.

The credential leans mandatory once certified: once a certificate is declared noncurrent, its holder may not practice as a veterinary technician until reinstatement.