Program entity

Tarrant County College District

Fort Worth, Texas · Public institution

Address 300 Trinity Campus Circle, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Phone (817) 515-8223
Website www.tccd.edu/
Tuition (in-state) $1,863
Tuition (out-of-state) $8,370
Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 59 (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

Tarrant County College offers a 60-semester-credit-hour Welding Technology AAS degree, plus a 22-credit-hour Welding-Basic certificate and a 20-credit-hour Welding-Advanced certificate. The curriculum names shielded metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, gas metal arc welding, flux cored arc welding, pipe welding, plasma and oxyfuel cutting, and blueprint reading for welders. The program runs at the Northwest and South campuses; 2026-2027 listed costs are $4,440 for the AAS and $1,480-$1,628 for the certificates.

Processes taught SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW, pipe welding, plasma & oxyfuel cutting
Credential types AAS (60 SCH); Welding-Basic certificate (22 SCH); Welding-Advanced certificate (20 SCH)

Source: https://www.tccd.edu/academics/courses-and-programs/programs-a-z/credit/welding-technology/, retrieved 2026-08-05

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