The Tulsa Welding School is the largest accredited welding school in the United States. The school has been around for almost 60 years and has campuses in both Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Jacksonville, Florida. The school offers a hands-on curriculum that incorporates real-world training, letting students master welding in just seven months. The Tulsa Welding School provides students with financial aid assistance, temporary job assistance, housing support and job placement after graduation.
The Illinois Welding School offers four programs: production welding, structural welding, pipe welding and pipe welding and structural. The program consists of 80 percent hands-on training in the weld shop and 20 percent classroom instruction. Its student-instructor ratio is a maximum 20 to one. The school offers classes in the day and evening, making it easier for students to fit it into their schedules.
Located in Troy, Ohio, the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology has trained more than 85,000 people since opening in 1930. Some of the courses offered include welding technology and blueprint reading, fundamentals of visual inspection and arc welding inspection and quality control.
The John Lopez Welding School in Bakersfield, California, offers 10 weeks of welding and fabrication training. The school has a small student population---20 students or less per session. Courses offered include job safety, test procedures, cutting and beveling manually and by machine, blueprint reading, plate welding in all positions, and stainless and basic pipe fitting.