2024 Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Schools in Pennsylvania
4Colleges in Pennsylvania
292Dental Assisting Degrees Awarded
A degree in dental assisting/assistant is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #330 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of dental assisting/assistant. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 292 degrees in dental assisting/assistant during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Dental Assisting/Assistant School
Your choice of dental assisting/assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for dental assisting/assistant schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The dental assisting school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Schools in Pennsylvania.
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Best Schools for Dental Assisting/Assistant in Pennsylvania
The schools below may not offer all types of dental assisting degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Harcum College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in dental assisting/assistant. Harcum College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Bryn Mawr.
There were approximately 2 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Harcum College in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in dental assisting/assistant has to check out Manor College. Located in the suburb of Jenkintown, Manor College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
There were about 12 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Manor College in the most recent data year.
Fortis Institute - Scranton is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in dental assisting/assistant. Fortis Institute - Scranton is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Scranton.
There were about 19 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Fortis Institute - Scranton in the most recent data year.
Berks Technical Institute is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in dental assisting/assistant. Berks Technical Institute is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Wyomissing.
There were approximately 24 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Berks Technical Institute in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).