2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in Missouri

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in Missouri” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 17,223 people earned their degree in dental assisting/assistant, making the major the 330th most popular in the United States.

Across Missouri, there were 282 dental assisting/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 31 dental assisting/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,899 and $23,654 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in Missouri” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dental assisting/assistant. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dental assisting/assistant.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in Missouri”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in Missouri

1

Ozarks Technical Community College
Springfield, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ozarks Technical Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in Missouri list. Located in Springfield, Missouri, this fairly large public school awarded 29 diplomas to qualified associates’s dental assisting students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Dental Assisting/Assistant at OTC

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Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

#19 overall quality in Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dental Assisting Major in Missouri. Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City is a fairly large public school situated in Kansas City, Missouri. It awarded 2 associates’s dental assisting degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dental Assisting/Assistant

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.