Vet Tech Programs in Montana

Great Falls College/Montana State University is the entire list.

AVMA's entry names a Veterinary Technician Program in Great Falls and shows a single degree, printed exactly as AVMA prints it: Associate of/in Applied Science.

The entry's dates are an initial accreditation of January 29, 2026 and a next evaluation in 2031, and the status line reads INITIAL ACCREDITATION, which the next section unpacks.

Past the institution, program name, city, degree, dates and status, the list stops: what the program charges, how it is scheduled and where clinical placements happen are questions for the school.

INITIAL ACCREDITATION is the status on the state's only program, and it is the line a Montana applicant should read closely because it is not a plain FULL ACCREDITATION line.

AVMA's own definition, printed in the status glossary on this page, says initial accreditation is not punitive — it is simply the terminology for newly accredited programs, and it does not mean a program is less accredited.

Graduates of an initially accredited program count as graduates of an AVMA CVTEA accredited program and are eligible in nearly all states to take the VTNE.

The initial-accreditation date of January 29, 2026 tells you the accreditation is new, so ask the program the questions an established entry would answer from its history: how it publishes its VTNE pass rate, for example, is a question the program's office answers directly.

Great Falls College/Montana State University does double duty: it is the state's only accredited program and the only Montana-based entry on AVMA's separate distance-education list, which names 13 programs in all, each under the state where it is based and reproduced lower on this page.

AVMA's by-state list and its distance list agree on this program — the distance list carries the same INITIAL ACCREDITATION line and the same 2031 next evaluation — so there is no discrepancy between the entries to sort out.

What distance study does not remove is the clinical component: ask the school whether it admits students living in Montana, and how it arranges the supervised clinical hours every accredited program requires at a practice near the student.

The Montana Board of Veterinary Medicine licenses veterinary technicians, and the statute (MCA §37-18-701) writes the requirement as a practice mandate: an individual seeking to practice as a veterinary technician in Montana must be licensed by the board.

Montana's education requirement has two routes.

The default is graduation from a program accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, which describes the program on this page's list; the alternative is 4,500 hours of on-the-job training under a veterinarian licensed and residing in Montana.

That second route is why the list is not the only way into the license.

Both routes converge on the same exams: the VTNE plus the board's Montana jurisprudence exam, which must be passed at 90 percent or better — an applicant who fails it three times may submit a written request to the board for a fourth attempt.

The credential card below carries the details.