Vet Tech Programs in New York

Nine of the 11 award an associate degree: Alfred State College in Alfred, Genesee Community College in Batavia, La Guardia Community College in Long Island City, State University of New York-Canton in Canton, State University of New York-Delhi in Delhi, State University of New York-Ulster (Ulster County Community College) in Stone Ridge, Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, Trocaire College in Williamsville and Westchester Community College in Valhalla.

Four award a bachelor's: Long Island University in Brookville, Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, and Canton and Delhi, which each list both degrees.

Three name their program Veterinary Science Technology Program — Canton, Delhi and Suffolk County Community College — while the rest are Veterinary Technology Programs, the wording AVMA prints.

State University of New York-Ulster (Ulster County Community College) is the one entry AVMA prints without an initial-accreditation date or a next-evaluation year; the other 10 carry both.

Anything the list does not show, from schedules to clinical placements, is a question for the school.

Two entries carry a designation other than full accreditation, and both read INITIAL ACCREDITATION.

Long Island University in Brookville, whose listed degree is a Bachelor of Science in Veterinary Technology, shows initial accreditation dated September 23, 2021, with AVMA's next evaluation printed as 2026.

Trocaire College in Williamsville shows initial accreditation dated January 2, 2026 — the latest initial-accreditation date on the list — with a next evaluation of 2031.

AVMA's own definition says initial accreditation is not punitive, is the terminology given to newly accredited programs for their first five years, and that graduates of an initially accredited program are considered graduates of an AVMA CVTEA accredited program.

The concrete move for an applicant is to ask each school where its review stands, and to read the current entry on AVMA's list before applying.

Long Island University awards a Bachelor of Science in Veterinary Technology, the only degree line on the list spelled that way.

Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry awards a Bachelor of Science, with initial accreditation printed as April, 1987.

State University of New York-Canton and State University of New York-Delhi each list an Associate of Applied Science and a Bachelor of Science, so both levels sit at one institution: Canton's initial accreditation is printed as November, 1979, with a next evaluation of 2028, and Delhi's is printed as 1975, the earliest initial-accreditation date on the list, with a next evaluation of 2030.

Long Island University is the entry to read together with the initial-accreditation section above, since its bachelor's is the degree AVMA lists under that designation.

AVMA's separate distance-education list names 13 programs, and the distance badge appears on none of the 11 entries above — no program on AVMA's distance list names a New York city as its base.

The full 13 are listed under their home states lower on this page.

A prospective student in New York considering one of them has two questions for the school before enrolling: whether it admits students living in New York, and how it arranges the supervised clinical hours an accredited program requires at a practice near the student.

AVMA's list answers neither; the school does.

The New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions licenses veterinary technicians under Education Law Article 135, and §6709 makes the license mandatory both to practice veterinary technology and to use the title.

Section 6711 asks for a college-level veterinary science technology course of not less than eighteen months from a program NYSED registers as maintaining a satisfactory standard, or a department-determined equivalent; the Office of the Professions' license-requirements page adds AVMA CVTEA accreditation as the alternative to registration, and reads the eighteen months as two academic years.

The statute's employment-based route applied only to applications filed before January 1, 1983, and no on-the-job path appears in the sources read.

The examination is the VTNE, and the license renews on a three-year registration cycle carrying 24 hours of continuing education.

Every program on the list above satisfies the AVMA arm the Office of the Professions names, but a NYSED-registered program is a separate route, so AVMA's list is not the only one — worth knowing before you choose.