Animal nursing, anaesthesia, laboratory, imaging and dental work under a veterinarian's supervision. ⚠⚠ Florida files two different credentials under one code: the associate degree that leads to veterinary technician, and short clock-hour veterinary assisting certificates, which are the majority of awards.
The degrees this program covers
⚠⚠⚠ CHECK WHICH ONE YOU ARE ENROLLING IN. About 293 Florida public credentials a year sit under CIP 01.8301. Roughly 178 are certificates of under a year, mostly veterinary assisting at technical colleges (Aparicio-Levy 90, Orange Technical 27, Lake Technical 19, Lorenzo Walker 16, Cape Coral 15), on the ATE0006/ATE0072 clock-hour ladder. These lead to veterinary assistant work. About 98 are associate degrees, the credential BLS gives for veterinary technicians: St. Petersburg 50, Hillsborough 16, Miami Dade 12, Pensacola State 12, Eastern Florida State 8. St. Petersburg also awards 17 bachelor's. ⚠⚠ The national technician exam (VTNE) and Florida's voluntary Certified Veterinary Technician credential both require graduation from a programme accredited by the AVMA's CVTEA, so check the AVMA's current list. ⚠ Florida does not license veterinary technicians (ch. 474, F.S.); bills to do so died in 2025 and 2026. ⚠ This is not a pre-veterinary route: the DVM is a separate professional degree with its own science prerequisites.
Careers this program leads to
Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end,
and the sources behind it.
Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers.
⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree
keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.
10 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023,
at these levels: Associate, Bachelor's, Certificate (12 weeks-1 year).
A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited
its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing
program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.
Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only —
the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is
strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023
will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.
Updated 23 September 2026.
⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always
read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.