VTS Academies
NAVTA’s list of approved academies names 16 Veterinary Technician Specialist academies: 11 with full recognition and 5 with provisional recognition (NAVTA, retrieved 2026-09-23).
Each page below sets out one academy’s credential and its requirements, summarised from the academy’s own pages with the academy’s wording one click away.
Full NAVTA recognition
Academy of Equine Veterinary Nursing TechniciansVTS-EVNAcademy of Internal Medicine Veterinary TechniciansVTS in Internal MedicineAcademy of Veterinary Behavior TechniciansVTS (Behavior)Academy of Veterinary Clinical Pathology TechniciansVTS (Clinical Pathology)Academy of Veterinary Dental TechniciansVTS (Dentistry)Academy of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care TechniciansVTS (ECC)Academy of Veterinary Nutrition TechniciansVTS-NutritionAcademy of Veterinary Surgical TechniciansVTS (Surgery)Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Anesthesia and AnalgesiaVTS (Anesthesia & Analgesia)Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Clinical PracticeVTS (Clinical Practice)Academy of Veterinary Zoological Medicine TechniciansVTS (Zoo)
Provisional NAVTA recognition
Academy of Veterinary Ophthalmic TechniciansVTS (Ophthalmology)Academy of Dermatology Veterinary TechniciansVTS (Dermatology)Academy of Laboratory Animal Veterinary Technicians and NursesVeterinary Technician/Nurse Specialist-LAMAcademy of Physical Rehabilitation Veterinary TechniciansVTS (Physical Rehabilitation)Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Diagnostic ImagingVTS-DI
An academy missing from this page has not been written up yet; it is not a statement about that academy.
For how the academies compare, see VTS specialties compared and how to become a VTS; for what the credential does and does not do to pay, see does a VTS raise your pay?
Open roles are on the vet tech job board.