Gateway Technical College is the primary technical school in Kenosha and the surrounding area. The school offers a wide range of vocational and technical training through its three major campuses and several satellite centers, and also administers an online program. Certificates and associate degrees are available in over 65 programs including accounting, civil engineering, culinary arts, electrical engineering, hospitality and many computer-related fields. There are campuses in both Kenosha and Racine.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside was created in 1968 by merging the separate University of Wisconsin branch campuses in Kenosha and Racine. The result gave local students a single four-year campus rather than a pair of two-year campuses. UWP's College of Business and Technology offers certificate programs in entrepreneurship and project management through its business school, and in cyber security, Unix administration and web publishing through its computer science school
Herzing University administers a chain of 11 campuses across the South and Midwest, as well as an online school. The Kenosha campus is primarily focused on health care and business, with programs such as dental assisting, medical office management, surgical technology, accounting and legal assisting. The remaining programs are divided between the schools of technology, design, public safety and aeronautics.
The College of Lake County is located in Grayslake, Illinois, 30 miles south of Kenosha. The College offers both academic and career (vocational) programs. Vocational programs are oriented around associate degrees in science, with certificates available in a number of shorter courses. Programs are offered in what the school terms "career clusters" of related programs. These clusters include business, communications, health, IT, engineering, industrial technology and social sciences.