Arclabs
Precision Metal Working
Piedmont, South Carolina · Private for-profit · SOC 51-4121
- Net price, per year
- $26,608
- Median debt at completion
- $9,500
- Completion rate
- 76%
- Credential
- Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma
Average paid after grant aid, across all first-time students at this institution.
Federal loans, institution-wide, among students who completed.
Finished within 150% of normal time. Institution-wide, all programmes.
Four years from now
This is a one-year program. Over four years you would pay $26,608 in net price, and students who complete leave with a median of $9,500 in federal loans.
We do not show what you would earn afterwards, because nobody publishes year-one earnings for a specific program. Guessing it would be the kind of number this site exists to avoid. The South Carolina median below is what the job pays across the whole state, for workers at every stage of a career.
What welders earn in South Carolina
$49,980median, per year
Half earn more, half less, across all experience levels. National median $53,750.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · SOC 51-4121 · survey 2025-05 · retrieved 2026-08-26