Welding schools in Florida
50 welding training programs in Florida, sourced from IPEDS, College Scorecard, and the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing.
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Welding schools in Florida by city
50 programs across 43 cities, listed by how many programs each city has. Tuition is the lowest figure any program in that city reports; compare states on every state ranked by tuition.
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Florida trains and tests welders at the same campus, often on the same visit
15 of Florida's 50 welding programs host a co-located AWS Accredited Test Facility, so a student can finish a course and sit for AWS Certified Welder testing without a separate trip. That's a large share, and it's the state's most notable trait next to program count itself.
47 of the 50 programs are public, run through Florida's technical college system. Median tuition among the 50 programs reporting a figure is $4,115, close to the $4,728 national median across 916 programs.
Program cost swings hard between public and private
Traviss Technical College in Lakeland lists tuition at $760, a public technical college rate. Universal Technical Institute-South Florida Miramar in Miramar runs $43,400 at a private institute. Both appear in the full table above.
Jacksonville and Orlando each carry 2 programs and 2 respectively, but Florida's programs are spread across the whole peninsula rather than concentrated in one region.
Once you're certified, Jacksonville, FL, Miami, FL, Orlando, FL and the rest of Florida's metro pages below carry own-site-verified shop directories, useful for finding work in the same area where you trained.