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  • Get personalized, hands-on instruction. Gateway’s small class sizes ensure you get your own welding booth at our Racine or Elkhorn campus.
  • Earn while you learn with a flexible schedule of day and night classes offered, as well as intro classes available on weekends, to accommodate work hours. 
  • Gain confidence in the basics. Practice every type of welding in class projects designed by expert faculty who are award-winning journeyman pipefitters with decades of real-world experience.
  • Continue your education after completing your Welding/Maintenance & Fabrication diploma with Gateway’s Welding technical diploma to advance your career to the next level.
Program Credits
16
LOCATION
Elkhorn Campus, Racine Campus
Financial Aid Eligible
No
ESTIMATED PROGRAM COST
Tuition & Fees: $3,894
Books and Supplies: $3,355
Start Dates
Fall, Spring, Summer
Salary Outlook
$46,800
Career Opportunities:
Production Welder, Maintenance Welder, Brazer

Welding/Maintenance & Fabrication Career Pathway

Career Pathways are designed to help you reach your educational goals and explore college and career options. Pathways are made up of related certificates, diplomas and degrees that build on common skills and knowledge. You can begin at any point on the Career Pathway and customize your pathway to fit your goals. View the pathway for your area of interest.

There are many opportunities, both in high school and through previous college, work, and/or military experience, to earn credit for prior learning at Gateway.

Technical diplomas help students learn hands-on occupational skills in as little as one or two years for full-time students. Technical diploma opportunities in this pathway include:

Welding/Maintenance & Fabrication, Welding

Prepare to enter your exciting new career, or choose to continue your education with another Gateway program or by transferring your credits to a four-year college or university.