Columbus State Community College has a campus in Columbus, Ohio. The school's skilled trades technology program offers a carpentry certificate for students interested in a short program teaching carpentry skills. The carpentry-certificate classes are often applied to the "Facilities Maintenance" degree program. The 21 credit-hour program covers structural framing, steel framing and interior and exterior finishes.
The Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical School is located in the greater Columbus area, near Groveport, Ohio. The carpentry program at Eastland-Fairfield prepares students for jobs in construction and carpentry. Students learn roofing, rough framing and siding techniques, as well as how to read blueprints. The school-to-apprenticeship program allows students to go directly from classes to an apprenticeship during their junior year. Students who enter the program complete two years of apprenticeship before graduation.
Hocking College is located about 60 miles from Columbus, in Nelsonville, Ohio. Hocking offers a degree in construction management with an emphasis in carpentry. This program is usually completed in about a year and a half, and requires 94 credit-hours. Classes cover carpentry tools and materials, construction safety, cabinetmaking and advanced wall and stair systems.
Cincinnati, Ohio is home to the Diamond Oaks campus of the Great Oaks Career Campuses. Great Oaks -- located about 100 miles from Columbus -- offers a Construction Framing and Finishing Technologies program with an emphasis in carpentry. The program takes two years to complete, and covers basic and finishing carpentry skills. It teaches students how to identify and select woods and veneers. Graduates of this course earn certifications as a skid steer operator and the 10-hour card from OSHA.