2024 Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Schools in Alabama
3Colleges in Alabama
187Dental 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 3 schools in Alabama 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 187 degrees in dental assisting/assistant during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Dental Assisting/Assistant School
The dental assisting program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Dental Assisting/Assistant rankings. 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.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Dental Assisting/Assistant Rankings by Degree Level
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 Alabama.
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Best Schools for Dental Assisting/Assistant in Alabama
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.
Any student pursuing a degree in dental assisting/assistant needs to check out Wallace State Community College, Hanceville. Located in the distant town of Hanceville, Wallace State, Hanceville is a public college with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1121 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Wallace State, Hanceville is a great college overall.
There were about 22 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Wallace State, Hanceville in the most recent data year.
John C Calhoun State Community College is a good choice for students interested in a degree in dental assisting/assistant. Located in the rural area of Tanner, Calhoun Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 14th out of 40 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were about 11 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Calhoun Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Coastal Alabama Community College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in dental assisting/assistant. Coastal Alabama Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the distant town of Bay Minette. This college ranks 22nd out of 40 colleges for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were about 12 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Coastal Alabama Community College in the most recent data year.
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).