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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 Technical College 43 11% $12,924
21 Southern Crescent Technical College 43 2% $5,842
22 Savannah Technical College 43 2% $4,044
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 New England Institute of Technology 37 3% $47,792
30 John C Calhoun State Community College 37 2% $6,320
31 American College of Healthcare and Technology 37 20% N/A
32 Tulsa Technology Center 37 2% N/A
33 Collin County Community College District 36 1% $3,004
34 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Cupey Campus 36 1% $7,520
35 Nashville State Community College 36 3% $5,703
36 Midwestern Career College 36 21% N/A
37 South Plains College 35 2% $11,935
38 Bunker Hill Community College 35 2% $6,564
39 Ogeechee Technical College 35 2% $3,600
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 Concorde Career College-San Diego 32 8% N/A
44 Carrington College-San Jose 32 7% N/A
45 Baptist Health College Little Rock 32 8% $13,689
46 Southeastern College-West Palm Beach 32 10% $21,819
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 Salt Lake Community College 31 1% $4,743
51 Eastwick College-Ramsey 31 11% $17,150
52 Concorde Career College-Grand Prairie 31 6% N/A
53 Austin Community College District 30 1% $3,750
54 Parkland College 30 2% $6,120
55 Ozarks Technical Community College 30 1% $4,192
56 Central Ohio Technical College 30 5% $5,856
57 American Career College-Anaheim 30 5% N/A
58 Concorde Career College-San Antonio 30 6% N/A
59 Anoka Technical College 29 4% $6,784
60 East Valley Institute of Technology 29 20% N/A
61 Carrington College-Citrus Heights 29 12% N/A
62 College of Western Idaho 29 2% $3,960
63 Contra Costa Medical Career College 29 6% N/A
64 Houston Community College 28 0% $3,882
65 Pittsburgh Career Institute 28 22% $27,800
66 Skyline College 28 2% $3,378
67 Rasmussen College-Minnesota 28 2% $11,115
68 Augusta Technical College 28 1% $4,794
69 Georgia Northwestern Technical College 28 1% $4,298
70 Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Knoxville 28 3% N/A
71 Davis Technical College 28 2% N/A
72 Concorde Career College-Dallas 28 6% N/A
73 Florida State College at Jacksonville 27 0% $14,589
74 Renton Technical College 27 3% $6,336
75 Delta College 27 2% $5,778
76 San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia 27 1% $16,606
77 Herzing University-Kenner 27 20% $14,000
78 The College of Health Care Professions-San Antonio 26 10% N/A
79 Guilford Technical Community College 25 1% $3,709
80 Trocaire College 25 5% $18,650
81 Nassau Community College 25 1% $7,680
82 Arkansas State University-Newport 25 2% $3,290
83 Erwin Technical College 25 3% $3,804
84 Hutchinson Community College 24 2% $14,604
85 Gadsden State Community College 24 2% $11,265
86 Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale 23 0% $22,208
87 University of Cincinnati-Clermont College 23 5% $6,516
88 City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College 23 1% $5,404
89 Niagara County Community College 23 2% $6,423
90 Columbus Technical College 22 2% $4,551
91 Rochester Community and Technical College 22 2% $7,239
92 Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City 22 1% $4,720
93 Lansing Community College 22 1% $4,330
94 Fayetteville Technical Community College 22 1% $3,964
95 Holmes Community College 22 1% $11,260
96 Wichita State University-Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology 22 1% $7,104
97 EHOVE Career Center 22 8% N/A
98 Concorde Career College-Portland 22 5% N/A
99 Coastal Pines Technical College 22 2% $3,298
100 Northwest Technical Institute 21 14% $3,826

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.