Start a Career as a Vet Tech Through Dallas College

If you have a desire to care for and treat animals, the Veterinary Technology program at Dallas College offers courses both on site and via distance education so you can study in the way that’s most convenient for you.

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Veterinary Technology

The Vet Tech program operates a 32,000-square-foot teaching facility on the Cedar Valley campus that features a 170-acre stock farm with breeding herds for horses, cattle and goats.

Veterinary Technician National Examination (VTNE) Pass Rates: July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2020

Number of first-time candidates that have taken the VTNE	303
Three-year VTNE pass percentage	68%

Veterinary Technology Program

At Cedar Valley

Program Overview

Accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) since 1978, our program has also partnered with the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) since 1998 to offer the distance-education component of our Vet Tech program.

HB 1508 Notice

This program may lead to an occupational license for which a prior criminal history may make a student ineligible.

For more information, please visit dcccd.edu/hb1508.