Welding schools in Mississippi
15 welding training programs in Mississippi, sourced from IPEDS, College Scorecard, and the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing.
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Welding schools in Mississippi by city
15 programs across 15 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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| City | Programs | Lowest listed tuition |
|---|---|---|
| Clarksdale | Coahoma Community College | $3,490 |
| Decatur | East Central Community College | $4,160 |
| Ellisville | Jones County Junior College | $4,806 |
| Fulton | Itawamba Community College | $3,420 |
| Goodman | Holmes Community College | $3,710 |
| Horn Lake | Delta Technical College-Mississippi | $11,152 |
| Meridian | Meridian Community College | $4,078 |
| Moorhead | Mississippi Delta Community College | $3,540 |
| Perkinston | Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | $4,250 |
| Poplarville | Pearl River Community College | $3,700 |
| Raymond | Hinds Community College | $4,250 |
| Scooba | East Mississippi Community College | $4,095 |
| Senatobia | Northwest Mississippi Community College | $3,740 |
| Summit | Southwest Mississippi Community College | $4,080 |
| Wesson | Copiah-Lincoln Community College | $4,000 |
Mississippi's community colleges do almost all the welding training here
14 of Mississippi's 15 welding programs are public community colleges; only one private option shows up in the data. Median tuition, from the 15 programs reporting a figure, is $4,078, under the $4,728 national median across 916 programs.
Itawamba Community College in Fulton charges $3,420, the cheapest program on the list above. The state's single private program, Delta Technical College-Mississippi in Horn Lake, charges $11,152, more than 3x the public rate.
Choosing a program in Mississippi
No city in Mississippi carries more than a program or two; Raymond and a handful of others each have one on file. There's no real cluster to point to here, so proximity to home matters more than program density. No Mississippi program on file co-locates an AWS Accredited Test Facility, so testing for AWS Certified Welder means a separate trip to an outside facility regardless of which program a student picks.
Gulfport, MS, Jackson, MS, Southaven, MS each have their own shop directory below, useful once training is done and the search shifts to finding work.