Welding schools in South Carolina
16 welding training programs in South Carolina, sourced from IPEDS, College Scorecard, and the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing.
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Welding schools in South Carolina by city
16 programs across 16 cities, listed by how many programs each city has. Tuition is the lowest figure any program in that city reports; compare states on every state ranked by tuition.
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| City | Programs | Lowest listed tuition |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston | Trident Technical College | $4,546 |
| Cheraw | Northeastern Technical College | $5,664 |
| Conway | Horry-Georgetown Technical College | $4,468 |
| Denmark | Denmark Technical College | $6,315 |
| Florence | Florence-Darlington Technical College | $4,636 |
| Graniteville | Aiken Technical College | $5,174 |
| Greenville | Greenville Technical College | $5,495 |
| Greenwood | Piedmont Technical College | $4,775 |
| Kingstree | Williamsburg Technical College | $4,488 |
| Orangeburg | Orangeburg Calhoun Technical College | $5,210 |
| Pendleton | Tri-County Technical College | $4,448 |
| Piedmont | Arclabs | $20,300 |
| Rock Hill | York Technical College | $8,036 |
| Spartanburg | Spartanburg Community College | $5,071 |
| Sumter | Central Carolina Technical College | $5,715 |
| West Columbia | Midlands Technical College | $5,100 |
South Carolina leans hard on Accredited Test Facilities
5 of South Carolina's 16 welding programs host a co-located AWS Accredited Test Facility, a high ratio next to most states. A graduate here is more likely than most to test for AWS Certified Welder on the same campus where they trained. 15 of those programs are public, 1 private.
Median tuition among the 16 South Carolina programs reporting a figure is $5,137, against a $4,728 national median. Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton anchors the low end; Arclabs in Piedmont sits well above it, a private-school gap worth checking before enrolling.
No single city dominates
Piedmont has the most programs in the state at 1, with Pendleton at 1, but South Carolina's programs are spread across small and mid-size cities rather than concentrated in one metro.
The shop-side directory follows the same pattern: Charleston, SC, Columbia, SC, Mount Pleasant, SC each carry own-site-verified listings, with the rest of South Carolina's metros linked further down this page.