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Is ATI Career Training Center a good school?

I don't want to go to college. I just want to learn welding and get out within a year or two. There are no trade schools in texas, I know, I Googled it. The only thing in texas I could find was community colleges, but like I said before I don't want to go to a college, but I will if I have to.

Public Comments

1. For-Profit Trade Schools are always more expensive than Community Colleges. Don't waste your money.
2. Yes ATI is a good school
3. There are 26 public colleges in Texas that offer training in one of these majors: Metal Fabricator , Welding Engineering Technology/Technician , Welding Technology. They are called "colleges" because they are post-secondary [after high school]. The above majors are vocational programs and you will not be forced to sit through many academic subjects at all. Here is a sample program from Lamar Tech in Beaumont, just as an example. They offer both a certificate program which is just training in welding and an associates of arts program which will have some business classes: http://www.lit.edu/depts/technology/default.aspx Tuition at Lamar Tech is $4,250/year. Compare that to ATI and you can see why you keep getting advised to go to the public community college and not to the for-profit private tech schools. If you want, send me an email and tell me what city you are in and I'll help you locate the closest welding program that will not cost an arm and a leg.