2025 Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

If you pursue a associate degree in dental assisting/assistant, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #81 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for dental assisting/assistant students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 associate degrees in dental assisting/assistant during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Dental Assisting/Assistant School for Your Associate Degree

The dental assisting associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality dental assisting program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 much a school focuses on dental assisting/assistant students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of dental assisting/assistant students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• 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 dental assisting/assistant related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for dental assisting/assistant students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Dental Assisting/Assistant Schools

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 Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Dental Assisting/Assistant in Pennsylvania

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in dental assisting/assistant.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for an Associate in Dental Assisting

1

Harcum College
Bryn Mawr, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

3 Annual Graduates

Harcum College is a great decision for students pursuing an associate degree in dental assisting/assistant. Located in the suburb of Bryn Mawr, Harcum College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.More information about a associate in dental assisting/assistant from Harcum College

2

Westmoreland County Community College
Youngwood, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

3 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in an associate degree in dental assisting/assistant has to check out Westmoreland County Community College. Located in the suburb of Youngwood, Westmoreland College is a public college with a small student population.More information about a associate in dental assisting/assistant from Westmoreland County Community College

3

Manor College
Jenkintown, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in dental assisting/assistant has to check out Manor College. Manor College is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Jenkintown.More information about a associate in dental assisting/assistant from Manor College

4

Berks Technical Institute
Wyomissing, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Berks Technical Institute if you want to pursue an associate degree in dental assisting/assistant. Located in the suburb of Wyomissing, Berks Technical Institute is a private for-profit school with a small student population.More information about a associate in dental assisting/assistant from Berks Technical Institute

Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	429	18
New Jersey	249	21
Maryland	221	0

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Dental Assisting/Assistant Related Rankings by Major

Dental Assisting/Assistant is one of 3 different types of Dental Support Services programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Dental Assisting

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Dental Hygiene/Hygienist	258
Dental Laboratory Technology/Technician	1

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.