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Most Popular Schools for Surgical Technology/Technologist Degree Program & Major

A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and surgical nurses, to maintain, monitor, and enforce the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by preoperative, surgical team, and postoperative personnel. Includes instruction in instrument and equipment sterilization and handling, surgical supplies management, wound exposure and closure, surgical computer and robot operation and monitoring, maintenance of hemostasis, and patient and team scrubbing.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Meridian Institute of Surgical Assisting 346 100% N/A
2 Madisonville Community College 121 9% $5,248
3 Ivy Tech Community College 117 0% $5,788
4 Baker College 102 3% $21,000
5 San Jacinto Community College 97 1% $3,114
6 Gwinnett Technical College 70 2% $4,722
7 Wayne County Community College District 69 4% $4,346
8 Glendale Career College 66 32% $15,049
9 EDIC College 66 9% $7,325
10 Antilles School of Technical Careers 55 26% $8,944
11 Berkeley College-Woodland Park 53 4% $25,900
12 Macomb Community College 51 2% $5,015
13 American Career College-Los Angeles 51 7% N/A
14 Concorde Career College-Memphis 49 6% N/A
15 Swedish Institute a College of Health Sciences 47 17% $23,525
16 American Career College-Ontario 47 6% N/A
17 Mandl School-The College of Allied Health 46 20% $15,270
18 Tyler Junior College 45 2% $16,764
19 College of DuPage 45 1% $5,464
20 Southern Crescent Technical College 43 2% $5,842
21 Savannah Technical College 43 2% $4,044
22 Southern Technical College 43 11% $12,924
23 Northeast Wisconsin Technical College 42 1% $6,439
24 Brookline College-Tempe 42 25% N/A
25 Amarillo College 41 2% $3,826
26 CBD College 41 13% N/A
27 Community Care College 40 11% N/A
28 Pittsburgh Technical College 37 5% $33,683
29 Tulsa Technology Center 37 2% N/A
30 John C Calhoun State Community College 37 2% $6,320
31 American College of Healthcare and Technology 37 20% N/A
32 New England Institute of Technology 37 3% $47,792
33 Midwestern Career College 36 21% N/A
34 Collin County Community College District 36 1% $3,004
35 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Cupey Campus 36 1% $7,520
36 Nashville State Community College 36 3% $5,703
37 Ogeechee Technical College 35 2% $3,600
38 South Plains College 35 2% $11,935
39 Bunker Hill Community College 35 2% $6,564
40 Kirkwood Community College 34 1% $7,332
41 Premiere Career College 34 16% N/A
42 Columbus State Community College 33 1% $5,813
43 Baptist Health College Little Rock 32 8% $13,689
44 Southeastern College-West Palm Beach 32 10% $21,819
45 Concorde Career College-San Diego 32 8% N/A
46 Carrington College-San Jose 32 7% N/A
47 Concorde Career College-North Hollywood 32 9% N/A
48 Central New Mexico Community College 31 0% $3,066
49 Gulf Coast State College 31 3% $3,405
50 Concorde Career College-Grand Prairie 31 6% N/A
51 Salt Lake Community College 31 1% $4,743
52 Eastwick College-Ramsey 31 11% $17,150
53 Austin Community College District 30 1% $3,750
54 Ozarks Technical Community College 30 1% $4,192
55 Parkland College 30 2% $6,120
56 Concorde Career College-San Antonio 30 6% N/A
57 Central Ohio Technical College 30 5% $5,856
58 American Career College-Anaheim 30 5% N/A
59 College of Western Idaho 29 2% $3,960
60 East Valley Institute of Technology 29 20% N/A
61 Carrington College-Citrus Heights 29 12% N/A
62 Contra Costa Medical Career College 29 6% N/A
63 Anoka Technical College 29 4% $6,784
64 Pittsburgh Career Institute 28 22% $27,800
65 Concorde Career College-Dallas 28 6% N/A
66 Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Knoxville 28 3% N/A
67 Davis Technical College 28 2% N/A
68 Skyline College 28 2% $3,378
69 Rasmussen College-Minnesota 28 2% $11,115
70 Augusta Technical College 28 1% $4,794
71 Houston Community College 28 0% $3,882
72 Georgia Northwestern Technical College 28 1% $4,298
73 Delta College 27 2% $5,778
74 San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia 27 1% $16,606
75 Renton Technical College 27 3% $6,336
76 Florida State College at Jacksonville 27 0% $14,589
77 Herzing University-Kenner 27 20% $14,000
78 The College of Health Care Professions-San Antonio 26 10% N/A
79 Arkansas State University-Newport 25 2% $3,290
80 Guilford Technical Community College 25 1% $3,709
81 Trocaire College 25 5% $18,650
82 Nassau Community College 25 1% $7,680
83 Erwin Technical College 25 3% $3,804
84 Gadsden State Community College 24 2% $11,265
85 Hutchinson Community College 24 2% $14,604
86 Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale 23 0% $22,208
87 City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College 23 1% $5,404
88 Niagara County Community College 23 2% $6,423
89 University of Cincinnati-Clermont College 23 5% $6,516
90 Rochester Community and Technical College 22 2% $7,239
91 Columbus Technical College 22 2% $4,551
92 Holmes Community College 22 1% $11,260
93 Coastal Pines Technical College 22 2% $3,298
94 EHOVE Career Center 22 8% N/A
95 Wichita State University-Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology 22 1% $7,104
96 Lansing Community College 22 1% $4,330
97 Concorde Career College-Portland 22 5% N/A
98 Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City 22 1% $4,720
99 Fayetteville Technical Community College 22 1% $3,964
100 Northwest Mississippi Community College 21 1% $9,420

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Surgical Technology/Technologist program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.