2025 Best Laboratory Technician Associate Degree Schools
97Colleges in the United States
2,384Associate Degrees
Ranked #45 in popularity, laboratory technician is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 97 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of laboratory technician. Combined, these schools handed out 2,384 associate degrees in laboratory technician to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Laboratory Technician School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of laboratory technician for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to laboratory technician students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other laboratory technician students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized laboratory technician related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for laboratory technician students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Laboratory Technician Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Laboratory Technician Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Laboratory Technician in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in laboratory technician. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
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Rest of the Top Best Laboratory Technician Associate Degree Schools
Additional Noteworthy Schools
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Laboratory Technician Associate Degree Schools award.
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).