Program entity
Portage Lakes Career Center
Uniontown, Ohio · Public institution
- Address 4401 Shriver Rd, Uniontown, OH 44685
- Phone (330) 896-8200
- Website www.plcc.edu/
- Tuition (in-state) Not available
- Tuition (out-of-state) Not available
- Program total cost $18,495
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 16 (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
Portage Lakes Career Center's welding program totals 600 hours over less than 10 months, meeting Monday through Thursday from 5pm to 9pm, with class size limited to 20 students. Instruction covers MIG (GMAW), TIG (GTAW), and Stick/Arc (SMAW) welding, using hand and power tools including welding masks, torches, and grinders. The program prepares students for AWS D1.1 Structural Welding Code Steel Qualifications and OSHA 10 certification, plus performance-based welder qualification sheets. Tuition is $9,495 (all-inclusive), with financial aid options including Federal Pell Grants, Federal Direct Loans, WIOA, and BVR. A high school diploma or equivalent is required for admission.
- Processes taught MIG (GMAW), TIG (GTAW), Stick/Arc (SMAW)
- Program length 600 hours, less than 10 months
- Schedule Monday-Thursday, 5pm-9pm
- Certifications prepped AWS D1.1 Structural Welding Code Steel Qualifications, OSHA 10 Certification
- Facilities Class size limited to 20 students
- Financial aid Federal Pell Grants, Federal Direct Loans, WIOA, BVR; tuition $9,495 all-inclusive
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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