2025 Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Schools in the Far Western US Region
9Colleges in the Far Western US Region
4,696Dental Assisting Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in dental assisting/assistant, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #330 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 9 schools in the Far Western US Region 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 4,696 degrees in dental assisting/assistant annually.
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. We derive our Best Overall Dental Assisting/Assistant School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
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Best Schools for Dental Assisting/Assistant in the Far Western US Region
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 dental assisting degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Dental Assisting
It is difficult to beat Carrington College, Sacramento if you want to pursue a degree in dental assisting/assistant. Carrington College, Sacramento is a small private for-profit college located in the large suburb of Sacramento.
There were about 135 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Carrington College, Sacramento in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in dental assisting/assistant has to take a look at Sacramento City College. Located in the large city of Sacramento, Sacramento City is a public college with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #766 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Sacramento City is a great college overall.
There were approximately 9 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Sacramento City in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Cerritos College if you want to pursue a degree in dental assisting/assistant. Located in the large suburb of Norwalk, Cerritos College is a public college with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #540 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cerritos College is a great college overall.
There were roughly 26 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Cerritos College in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in dental assisting/assistant needs to check out Allan Hancock College. Allan Hancock College is a large public college located in the city of Santa Maria. A Best Colleges rank of #307 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Allan Hancock College is a great college overall.
There were about 27 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Allan Hancock College in the most recent data year.
Moreno Valley College is a large public college located in the large suburb of Moreno Valley. This college ranks 146th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 35 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Moreno Valley College in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Reno, Truckee Meadows Community College is a public college with a large student population. This college ranks 6th out of 8 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nevada.
There were roughly 34 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Truckee Meadows Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the midsize city of Renton, Renton Technical College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 1094th out of 2,152 schools for overall quality nationwide.
There were about 21 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Renton Technical College in the most recent data year.
Located in the small city of Olympia, South Puget Sound Community College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 44th out of 50 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were about 16 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at South Puget Sound Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Western Career College-San Jose is a small private for-profit college located in the city of San Jose.
There were about 93 dental assisting/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Western Career College-San Jose 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 dental assisting/assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Dental Assisting/Assistant School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.