Program entity
Penn Commercial Business/Technical School
Washington, Pennsylvania · Private for-profit institution
- Address 242 Oak Spring Road, Washington, PA 15301-6822
- Phone (724) 222-5330
- Website www.penncommercial.edu/
- Tuition (in-state) $13,654
- Tuition (out-of-state) $13,654
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 5 (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
Penn Commercial Business/Technical School's Welding Technology program is a 12-month diploma program with in-person classes (no online option) and evening classes available. Curriculum covers welding safety/tools, blueprint reading, pipe welding, layout and fabrication, GMAW, GTAW, and SMAW. Students test in three areas: pipe welding (ASME IX), stick plate welding (AWS D1.1), and flux-core welding (AWS D1.1 plate/flux core).
- Processes taught GMAW, GTAW, SMAW, pipe welding, flux-core
- Credential types Diploma
- Program length 12 months
- Schedule In-person; evening classes available
- Certifications prepped ASME IX (pipe); AWS D1.1 (stick plate); AWS D1.1 (flux core)
- Facilities On-site welding facility
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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