Certificate
Veterinary Assistant Certificate
Front Range Community College · Veterinary Technology program · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
- Official award
- Veterinary Assistant Certificate
- Pathway
- Veterinary assistantStated for United States
- Format
- HybridOne semester
- Tuition
- Not published
Hybrid program
About this program
A one-semester hybrid certificate in veterinary assisting; admission is by declaring the certificate major after applying to FRCC.
Role the program prepares for: Veterinary assistant supporting the veterinary team.
- Subject
- Veterinary assistant training
- Department
- Veterinary Technology program
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Qualification and professional pathway
Pathway is classified only from a statement on an official page. An award title such as DVM, BVSc, BSc or MSc does not decide it, and no degree, accreditation or listing by itself grants permission to practise anywhere.
- Degree level
- CertificateA non-degree award. It is kept separate from academic degree counts and degree-only results.
- Pathway
- Veterinary assistant trainingFormal veterinary assistant training. It is a different, entry-level role and is never a substitute for a veterinary nursing, technology or veterinarian qualification.
- Why we classify it this way
- The page describes a one-semester certificate educating students to assist the veterinary team.“Our veterinary assistant program provides education in veterinary health and handling”Source
- Prior degree required
- No
Accreditation, evaluation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Program accreditation, evaluation status, professional-body recognition, eligibility toward registration, institutional recognition, directory listings and memberships are different things; none of them is automatic permission to practise, and recognition in one country does not guarantee registration in another.
Stated by the schoolNational Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA)Program accreditationUS
Scope: School statement about the veterinary assistant certificate; not checked against a NAVTA register.
Study structure
- Delivery
- HybridPart online and part in person (campus attendance, laboratory work, attendance-based exams or clinical placements). A hybrid program is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Blended with required campus elements
- Mandatory campus attendance
- Not published
- Placement arrangement
- Placement arrangement not published
- Must already work in a veterinary setting
- Not published
- Placement site approval
- Not published
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- One semester
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Fort Collins (Larimer) location listed by AVMA4616 S. Shields, Fort Collins, CO 80526
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Animal or veterinary experience
- Not published
- Interview
- Not published
- Previous qualification
- Apply to FRCC and declare the Veterinary Assistant Certificate major.
- Official instructions
- Application instructions
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether clinical or laboratory charges, equipment and protective clothing, travel, placement expenses and insurance are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, full-time or part-time options, intakes, animal or veterinary experience requirement, clinical placement details.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 19 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 19 October 2026)