Vet Tech Programs in Nevada
AVMA lists 3 CVTEA-accredited veterinary technology programs in Nevada.
All 3 award an Associate of Applied Science, 2 sit in Las Vegas and 1 in Reno, and every status line reads full accreditation.
None of the 3 appears on AVMA's separate distance-education list.
Nevada's license asks for an AVMA-accredited program or the Board's alternate route, so how you read this list depends on which of those two paths you take.
Accredited programs
3
Offer an associate degree
3
Offer a bachelor's
0
Status to check
0
Source: AVMA Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities (CVTEA), “Veterinary technology programs accredited by the AVMA CVTEA” and “Distance education programs in veterinary technology accredited by the AVMA CVTEA”, retrieved 2026-09-23. “Status to check” counts programs whose AVMA status line reads anything other than plain full accreditation.
Check the list and the board before you enroll
AVMA-accredited programs in Nevada
AVMA lists 3 accredited veterinary technology programs in Nevada, alphabetically below, with each degree, date and status line exactly as AVMA prints it. A struck-through degree is one AVMA marks as discontinued.
Veterinary Nursing Program · Las Vegas, NV
- Associate of Applied Science
Initial accreditation: March 8, 2006 · Next evaluation (as AVMA lists it): 2029
FULL ACCREDITATION
Veterinary Technician Program · Las Vegas, NV
- Associate of Applied Science
Initial accreditation: March 10, 2006 · Next evaluation (as AVMA lists it): 2028
FULL ACCREDITATION
Veterinary Nursing Program · Reno, NV
- Associate of Applied Science
Initial accreditation: September 16, 2005 · Next evaluation (as AVMA lists it): 2027
FULL ACCREDITATION
From AVMA’s CVTEA program list, retrieved 2026-09-23.
Nevada's 3 programs, all awarding an associate degree
College of Southern Nevada - Charleston Campus in Las Vegas, Pima Medical Institute in Las Vegas and Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno are the 3 entries on AVMA's Nevada list, and each awards an Associate of Applied Science.
AVMA also prints a program name for each: Veterinary Nursing Program at College of Southern Nevada - Charleston Campus and Truckee Meadows Community College, Veterinary Technician Program at Pima Medical Institute.
The initial-accreditation dates cluster close together: Truckee Meadows Community College on September 16, 2005, College of Southern Nevada - Charleston Campus on March 8, 2006, and Pima Medical Institute on March 10, 2006.
AVMA's next-evaluation years for the 3 run from 2027 through 2029.
What the list does not carry — schedules, clinical placements, anything about how a program runs day to day — is a question for the school.
No Nevada-based program on AVMA's distance-education list
None of Nevada's 3 programs is on AVMA's distance-education list, so a Nevada resident who wants to study through a distance program would enroll in one of the 13 AVMA lists nationally, each under the state where it is based.
That full list of 13 appears lower on this page.
Before enrolling in any of them, a Nevada applicant needs 2 answers from the school: whether it admits students living in Nevada, and how it arranges the supervised clinical hours every accredited program requires at a practice near the student.
What Nevada's LVT license asks of a program
The Nevada State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners licenses veterinary technicians, and the license is mandatory: practicing as a veterinary technician without one is a gross misdemeanor under Nevada's veterinary practice act, NRS Chapter 638.
The Board's application takes 2 education routes.
The first is graduation from an AVMA-accredited veterinary technician program — every program on the list above satisfies that route, whatever its status line says.
The second accepts a Bachelor of Science in an animal-science-related field plus a supervisor-signed skills list and 4,000 hours of supervised clinical experience, demonstrated in a Nevada facility after registering as a Veterinary Technician in Training.
Both routes then require the Veterinary Technician National Examination and the Board's own state jurisprudence examination, which the application says needs a 90% score.
The Board's materials call the credential an LVT, a Licensed Veterinary Technician.
Nevada State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners
A license as a veterinary technician from the Nevada State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners — the statute writes the title in full and never abbreviates it; the Board's application materials call the same credential an LVT, a Licensed Veterinary Technician.
Two routes on the Board's own application: graduation from an AVMA-accredited veterinary technician program, or a Bachelor of Science in an animal-science-related field plus a supervisor-signed skills list and 4,000 hours of supervised clinical experience — with a VTIT (Veterinary Technician in Training) registration required before the skills can be demonstrated in a Nevada facility.
Two exams: the Veterinary Technician National Examination plus the state examination administered by the Board (NRS 638.123); the application calls the state test the Nevada State Jurisprudence Examination and requires a passing score of 90%.
AVMA’s distance-education list
AVMA names 13 programs on a separate distance-education list. Each is listed under the state where it is based. Whether a program admits students living in Nevada, and how it arranges clinical placements there, is a question for the program.
From AVMA’s distance-education program list, retrieved 2026-09-23.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many accredited vet tech programs are in Nevada?
AVMA's CVTEA list, retrieved September 23, 2026, names 3 accredited veterinary technology programs in Nevada: College of Southern Nevada - Charleston Campus and Pima Medical Institute, both in Las Vegas, and Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno.
Each awards an Associate of Applied Science, and each status line reads full accreditation.
Accreditation status changes, so check AVMA's own list for the current entry before you apply to any of them.
Is there a bachelor's degree vet tech program in Nevada?
No program on AVMA's Nevada list awards a bachelor's.
All 3 entries list an Associate of Applied Science as their degree.
Nevada's license still has a route for degree holders, though: the Board's application accepts a Bachelor of Science in an animal-science-related field, plus a supervisor-signed skills list and 4,000 hours of supervised clinical experience under a Veterinary Technician in Training registration, as a route to the same credential.
Can I become a Nevada vet tech without finishing an accredited program?
Not on the Board's application, which names only 2 education routes: graduation from an AVMA-accredited veterinary technician program, or a Bachelor of Science in an animal-science-related field with a supervisor-signed skills list and 4,000 hours of supervised clinical experience under a Veterinary Technician in Training registration.
The statute itself sets a wider floor — a diploma conferring the degree of veterinary technician or its equivalent from a Board-approved school — so a route outside those 2 is a question for the Board.
Both routes then require the Veterinary Technician National Examination and the Board's jurisprudence exam.
Are there online, distance-education vet tech programs for Nevada residents?
None based in Nevada: AVMA's distance-education list names 13 accredited programs, and none of them is one of Nevada's 3.
That list appears lower on this page, with each program under the state where it is based.
Before relying on one, a Nevada resident should ask 2 questions: whether the program admits students living in Nevada, and how it arranges the supervised clinical hours at a practice near the student.
Is Pima Medical Institute's vet tech program accredited?
Yes.
AVMA lists Pima Medical Institute in Las Vegas under full accreditation, with initial accreditation dated March 10, 2006, and its next evaluation set for 2028.
The entry on Nevada's list awards an Associate of Applied Science.
AVMA's list is the record of each program's standing, so re-check the entry on AVMA's own site when you apply.
More Nevada Veterinary Technician Resources
Sources
- AVMA CVTEA — Veterinary technology programs accredited by the AVMA CVTEA (Nevada section and status definitions) (retrieved 2026-09-23)
- AVMA CVTEA — Distance education programs in veterinary technology accredited by the AVMA CVTEA (retrieved 2026-09-23)
- Nevada State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, as summarised on the Nevada requirements page (retrieved 2026-09-16)
Program list: AVMA CVTEA, retrieved 2026-09-23. Page last updated 2026-09-23.