Program entity
Great Bay Community College
Portsmouth, New Hampshire · Public institution
- Address 320 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth, NH 03801-2879
- Phone (603) 427-7600
- Website https://www.greatbay.edu/
- Tuition (in-state) $7,200
- Tuition (out-of-state) $15,450
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 22 (latest reported year)
- AWS ATF co-located No (No AWS ATF facility found in this city+state in the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing PDF (6.25.2025, 200 domestic facilities) -- not a gap, a computed negative match.)
Program details
What this program covers
Great Bay Community College's Welding Technologies certificate is an 18-credit, three-semester evening program covering MIG, TIG, stick, oxy-fuel, and plasma cutting, plus auxiliary processes including flux-core, aluminum-TIG, and spool guns. Instruction includes blueprint reading, electricity, and fabrication theory in a welding shop, and graduates are prepared for AWS Certification Testing.
- Processes taught MIG, TIG, stick/SMAW, FCAW, oxy-fuel cutting, plasma cutting
- Credential types certificate
- Program length 18 credits, three consecutive semesters
- Schedule evening
- Certifications prepped AWS Certification Testing
- Facilities welding shop
- Financial aid WIOA (up to $6,500 tuition plus $1,500 support services), Bring Back the Trades Scholarships, Granite Edvance scholarships, American Welding Society Welder Training Scholarship, CCSNH Promise Program
Sources & provenance
- Identity IPEDS Directory (HD component) via Urban Institute Education Data API (2023) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Completions IPEDS Completions (C2023_A, NCES bulk file) (2023 (2022-23 academic year)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Tuition College Scorecard institution-level bulk CSV (Most Recent Cohorts) (most-recent-cohort (exact AY not labeled in bulk file; file release timestamp 2026-06-10)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Atf AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing PDF (aws-p-001-delivery.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/AWS-ATF-Domestic-Site-Listing), dated 6.25.2025, GET-fetched and parsed with pdftotext; 200 facility records extracted (city+state); co-location = program's city+state matches an ATF facility's city+state (2025 (6.25.2025 listing)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
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