Program entity

Blackhawk Technical College

Janesville, Wisconsin · Public institution

Address 6004 South County Road G, Janesville, WI 53547-5009
Phone (608) 758-6900
Website www.blackhawk.edu/
Tuition (in-state) $4,267
Tuition (out-of-state) $6,061
Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 93 (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

Blackhawk Technical College's Welding Technical Diploma is 29 credits and is described as a step on a pathway that can ladder into the college's Welding Fabrication & Robotics Associate Degree (67 credits). Named processes are GMAW, SMAW, FCAW, GTAW, along with oxygen-fuel cutting (OFC) and plasma arc cutting (PAC). The program is offered at the Beloit-Janesville Campus and lists multiple delivery formats: Face-to-Face, Live Online (synchronous), Online Anytime (asynchronous), Hybrid, and FlexLab. Estimated tuition is $7,029 with a cited median completion wage of $55,000.

Processes taught GMAW/MIG; SMAW/Stick; FCAW/Flux-core; TIG/GTAW
Credential types Technical Diploma; pathway to Associate Degree (Welding Fabrication & Robotics)
Program length 29 credits
Schedule Face-to-Face; Live Online (synchronous); Online Anytime (asynchronous); Hybrid; FlexLab
Facilities Beloit-Janesville Campus, 6004 S. County Road G, Janesville, WI

Source: https://www.blackhawk.edu/Programs-Courses/Welding, 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