Welding schools in Michigan
31 welding training programs in Michigan, sourced from IPEDS, College Scorecard, and the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing.
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Michigan pairs a large program count with a real wage number
Michigan lists 31 welding programs, 29 public and the rest split between one for-profit and one nonprofit school. Median tuition across the 31 programs with a reported figure is $5,190, above the $4,728 national median.
Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor is the low end at $2,736. MIAT College of Technology in Canton runs $17,943, a private-school price that sits well above the community-college norm most of the state's programs charge.
No single city runs the program count here
Michigan's programs sit inside a wide network of community colleges rather than a couple of big-city schools. Ann Arbor shows the most on file, 1, matched by University Center at 1. 3 campuses host a co-located AWS Accredited Test Facility, so testing for AWS Certified Welder can happen where the student already trained.
For shop work, Michigan's metro pages cover Ann Arbor, MI, Detroit, MI, Grand Rapids, MI, Sterling Heights, MI, Warren, MI, each split between own-site-verified listings and candidates pulled from public sources.
What Michigan welders earn
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (SOC 51-4121), retrieved via api.bls.gov 2026-08-05 puts Michigan's median welder wage at $49,990 a year, against a $53,750 national median. How welder pay compares by state lines Michigan up against its neighbors.