Elite Welding Academy
Cincinnati, Ohio · Private for-profit institution
- Address 4670 Dues Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45246
- Phone (513) 874-1410
- Website https://www.eliteweldingacademy.com/
- Tuition (in-state) Not available
- Tuition (out-of-state) Not available
- Tuition note institution not present in College Scorecard institution-level file (non-Title-IV, closed, or foreign-adjacent record dropped from Scorecard universe)
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 30 (latest reported year)
- AWS ATF co-located No (STALE -- original value "true" was computed against the incorrect Houston, TX identity (matched an AWS ATF Houston facility by city+state coincidence). Not re-matched against the corrected Cincinnati/South Point, OH addresses in this pass (out of scope for the master-data fix); needs a fresh ATF co-location check before this field is trusted. Set to false pending recheck.)
What this program covers
The recorded site (eliteweldingacademy.com) advertises a Structural & Pipe Welding Training Program (1,000 clock hours; SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, and FCAW on both carbon and stainless steel pipe and structural work; day class about 26 weeks or night class about 44 weeks) and a Structural Welding Training Program (600 clock hours over 25 weeks, evening-only; SMAW, GMAW, FCAW), both awarding a Certificate of Completion with an 18:1 student-to-instructor ratio. However, the Structural Welding program page and the site's locations page state the school operates only Cincinnati and South Point, Ohio campuses -- no Houston, TX location is referenced anywhere on this site, despite that being this institution's recorded city in the input data. This appears to be a data-source mismatch rather than confirmation of a Houston, TX welding program.
- Processes taught Structural & Pipe program: SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW (stick, TIG, MIG, flux-core), carbon and stainless steel pipe. Structural program: SMAW, GMAW, FCAW
- Credential types Certificate of Completion
- Program length Structural & Pipe: 1,000 clock hours (day ~26 weeks or night ~44 weeks); Structural only: 600 clock hours over 25 weeks (evening only)
- Schedule Day and night/evening class options (Structural & Pipe); evening-only (Structural)
- Facilities 18:1 student-to-instructor ratio
Sources & provenance
- Identity IPEDS Directory (HD component) via Urban Institute Education Data API [CORRECTED 2026-08-05, T-0312 recovery pass: IPEDS record listed Houston, TX, but the institution's own site (eliteweldingacademy.com, WebFetch-verified 2026-08-05) shows no Houston location -- it operates two Ohio campuses: Cincinnati (4670 Dues Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45246, used here as primary) and South Point (1910 County Road 1, South Point, OH 45680, not separately recorded -- schema is one row per unitid). Address/city/state/zip/phone updated to the Cincinnati campus per the school's own site; original IPEDS Houston, TX record preserved in git history.] (2023) , retrieved 2026-08-05
- Completions IPEDS Completions (C2023_A, NCES bulk file) (2023 (2022-23 academic year)) , 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