Wharton County Junior College
Wharton, Texas · Public institution
- Address 911 Boling Hwy, Wharton, TX 77488
- Phone (979) 532-4560
- Website https://www.wcjc.edu/
- Tuition (in-state) $3,192
- Tuition (out-of-state) $5,904
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 19 (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.)
What this program covers
Wharton County Junior College's Welding Technology Level I Certificate program covers shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux core arc welding (FCAW), and gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), with specialized pipe welding instruction also available. Courses can be taken individually rather than as a semester block. Graduates receive a Combination Welding Course Completion Certificate and the page states the program includes AWS D1.1 and ASME Section IX credentials along with more than a dozen AWS certificates in areas such as safety, fundamentals, symbols, metallurgy, and fabrication math. Training is held at the Wharton campus only, in the Reynolds Building; listed tuition is $6,720 in-district and $9,160 out-of-district, with the page citing an 84% post-graduation employment rate.
- Processes taught SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, pipe welding
- Credential types Welding Technology Level I Certificate; Combination Welding Course Completion Certificate
- Program length Courses may be taken individually rather than as a semester block
- Certifications prepped AWS D1.1; ASME Section IX; 12+ AWS certificates (safety, fundamentals, symbols, metallurgy, fabrication math)
- Facilities Training held at the Wharton campus only, in the Reynolds Building
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