2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Surgical Technology/Technologist Major in Nebraska

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Surgical Technology is the 169th most popular major in the country with 7,583 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Nebraska, there were 58 surgical technology/technologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 51 surgical technology/technologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,713 and $18,510 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Surgical Technology/Technologist Major in Nebraska” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in surgical technology/technologist. That schools that top this list have a program in surgical technology/technologist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Surgical Technology/Technologist Major in Nebraska

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska associate degree surgical technology/technologist students.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Surgical Technology in Nebraska

1

Southeast Community College Area
Lincoln, Nebraska

#13 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Community College Area. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Surgical Technology/Technologist Major in Nebraska list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this medium-sized public school awarded 43 diplomas to qualified associates’s surgical technology/technologist students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Surgical Technology at Southeast Community College

2

Western Nebraska Community College
Scottsbluff, Nebraska

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Surgical Technology/Technologist Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Nebraska Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Western Nebraska Community College is located in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 associates’s surgical technology/technologist degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Surgical Technology at Western Nebraska Community College

3

Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health
Omaha, Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Surgical Technology/Technologist Major in Nebraska list. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s surgical technology/technologist degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health Surgical Technology Report

4

Northeast Community College
Norfolk, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Surgical Technology/Technologist Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeast Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Norfolk, Nebraska, and it awarded 1 associates’s surgical technology/technologist degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Surgical Technology at Northeast Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Surgical Technology in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Surgical Technology

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.