Dixie Technical College
Saint George, Utah · Public institution
- Address 610 S. Tech Ridge Drive, Saint George, UT 84770
- Phone (435) 674-8400
- Website www.dixietech.edu/
- Tuition (in-state) Not available
- Tuition (out-of-state) Not available
- Program total cost $564
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 33 (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
Dixie Technical College's Welding Technology program (12 months, 30 credit hours) awards an accredited Dixie Technical College Certificate and an AWS SENSE Level One Certificate, with additional AWS process and position certifications available. Instruction covers MIG (GMAW), TIG (GTAW), Stick (SMAW), Flux-Cored (FCAW), oxyfuel and plasma cutting, blueprint reading, metallurgy, and AWS standards; 83% of program time is spent in hands-on lab work. Classes run Monday-Thursday with sections at 11:30am-4:30pm, 4:30pm-9:30pm, and (from January 2027) 6:30am-11:30am. Total cost is $6,824 (tuition plus course fees) plus a $700 welding toolkit; high school students have tuition waived. The program reports an 80% completion rate and 87% placement rate, with median graduate income of $49,000.
- Processes taught MIG/GMAW, TIG/GTAW, stick/SMAW, FCAW, oxyfuel cutting, plasma cutting
- Credential types Dixie Technical College Certificate; AWS SENSE Level One Certificate
- Program length 12 months; 30 credit hours
- Schedule Monday-Thursday sections: 11:30am-4:30pm, 4:30pm-9:30pm, and (from Jan 2027) 6:30am-11:30am
- Certifications prepped AWS SENSE Level One Certificate; additional AWS process/position certifications available
- Facilities 83% of program time in hands-on lab work
- Financial aid Tuition waived for high school students; scholarships, grants, and financial aid available
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