Great Oaks Career Campuses
Cincinnati, Ohio · Public institution
- Address 303 Scarlet Oaks Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241
- Phone (513) 771-8881
- Website www.greatoaks.com/
- Tuition (in-state) Not available
- Tuition (out-of-state) Not available
- Program total cost $6,834
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 16 (latest reported year)
- AWS ATF co-located Yes (Matched AWS ATF facility city+state (Cincinnati, OH) against the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing PDF (6.25.2025).)
What this program covers
Great Oaks Career Campuses offers a Welding Technician program totaling 800 hours, running August through June, Monday through Thursday from 4:30pm to 10:00pm. Instruction covers oxyacetylene welding, SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW, pipe welding, and thermal cutting processes, plus blueprint reading, shop math, welding safety, joint design, and destructive/nondestructive testing on carbon steels, stainless steels, and nonferrous metals. The program prepares students for American Welding Society (AWS) certification, CPR/First Aid, and OSHA 10. Total cost is listed as $12,723 ($9,313 tuition plus $3,410 books/tools/supplies), and financial aid options are noted as available through the program's Financial Aid Office. A separate Welding Fundamentals program is also offered.
- Processes taught Oxyacetylene welding (OAW), SMAW (stick), GTAW (TIG), GMAW (MIG), FCAW (flux-core), pipe welding, thermal cutting
- Credential types AWS certification-prep program (Welding Technician); separate Welding Fundamentals program also offered
- Program length 800 hours, August through June
- Schedule Monday-Thursday, 4:30pm-10:00pm
- Certifications prepped American Welding Society (AWS) certification, CPR/First Aid, OSHA 10
- Financial aid Financial aid options available through program Financial Aid Office; total cost $12,723 (tuition $9,313 + books/tools/supplies $3,410)
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