A degree in surgical technology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #169 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for surgical technology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 117 degrees in surgical technology to qualified students.
Your choice of surgical technology 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 surgical technology 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Surgical Technology Schools in Missouri ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the surgical technology/technologist degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Missouri Schools in Surgical Technology/Technologist
Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in surgical technology. Located in the large city of Kansas City, MCC is a public college with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #690 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means MCC is a great college overall.
There were approximately 24 surgical technology students who graduated with this degree at MCC in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in surgical technology has to look into Saint Louis Community College. Saint Louis Community College is a large public college located in the suburb of Bridgeton. This college ranks 22nd out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 16 surgical technology students who graduated with this degree at Saint Louis Community College in the most recent data year.
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It's difficult to beat Ozarks Technical Community College if you want to pursue a degree in surgical technology. OTC is a large public college located in the city of Springfield. This college ranks 32nd out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 21 surgical technology students who graduated with this degree at OTC in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Concorde Career Colleges if you want to pursue a degree in surgical technology. Concorde Career Colleges is a small private for-profit college located in the large city of Kansas City.
There were about 9 surgical technology students who graduated with this degree at Concorde Career Colleges 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).
Your choice of surgical technology 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 surgical technology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
