Gem City College (gemcitycollege.com), located in Quincy, Illinois, is a vocational school offering training in watch repair. Its horology program is designed where each lesson teaches certain watchmaking and repair skills and students complete projects to demonstrate mastery of the skills. Gem City College accepts FAFSA and Pell grants as well as funding from other private student loans. In addition, this schools assists students from outside the area in finding housing, and all of its graduates are aided with job placement upon completion.
The Jewelry and Watch Repair School of New England (jwrschool.com) is a distance education program which offers training in watch repair. Video courses are provided to students on VHS or DVD. Students learn skills from the video and complete projects based on these skills. The Jewelry and Watch Repair School offers its students 24-hour learning support if they have any difficulty grasping a concept taught through the video course. Instead of paying tuition, students pay a fee per course that includes the necessary videos as well as a tool kit for project completion.
Saint Paul College (saintpaul.edu) is a community and technical college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In addition to several other degree programs, St. Paul College offers its students the opportunity to learn watchmaking and repair in its watchmaking and micro mechanical technology program. This program of study not only teaches students to make and repair watches, but also the skills needed to work in the medical device manufacturing and aerospace fields. Students also have the option of continuing their educations in St Paul's watchmaking certificate program.
The Nicholas G. Hayek Watchmaking School (nghayekwatchmakingschool.org) offers its students the ability to earn the Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Education Program certificate. This school has five campuses, with one located in the U.S., Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur, and two located in Germany. This certificate is earned after completion of the school's two year program. To complete this program, students must log 3,000 hours of both theoretical as well as hands-on instruction and successfully complete all of the school's exams. The single U.S. campus, located in Miami, Florida, only accepts a certain number of students per year into its highly-regarded program.