Welding Fabrication Certificate
Chemeketa Community College
Public · Community college
A shorter welding route with advanced techniques.
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Preparation, time and schedule
What this route covers
The published 10-month certificate provides a shorter welding route. Compare its techniques and practical assessments with those in the longer degree.
Before you apply
Review the Welding Fabrication Certificate course map and have an advisor evaluate prior credits and placement before registering.
Your complete timeline
10 months. Prior credits, prerequisite placement and course availability can change your personal completion date.
Plan around the schedule
Hands-on campus labs. Ask for the actual days, start times and required travel from Salem area · confirm course sites. Online coursework does not necessarily make laboratories or placements remote.
Application and selection
Use the official Welding Fabrication Certificate page to review the current entry checklist. Ask whether a separate department application, selection process or cohort start applies before committing to enrollment.
Details checked September 15, 2026. Confirm current requirements with the provider.
Questions to take to an advisor
Which skills and job requirements differ from the longer degree pathway?
- Which required courses or placements are offered only once per year?
- Can you give me a written estimate covering every required term and practical expense?
- Which employment, transfer or licensing requirements remain after this award?
Published program length is not a personal completion estimate. Transfer credits, prerequisites, selection and course availability can change the timeline.
After the program
Welding programs differ in processes, practice hours and fabrication content. Employer skill tests and certifications can be separate from a college award. Ask which processes are used by local employers.
Cost and outcomes
Published program estimate; confirm current charges
Add program-specific fees, books, tools or supplies, exams, prerequisite study, travel and living expenses to the published base below. Your final cost depends on your course plan and financial aid.
Published tuition or budget base
The program page estimates $9,483 tuition and fees, $656 books and $1,140 tools for the full welding certificate. Optional AWS certification tests are listed separately at $1,020. The page does not identify an academic year for this estimate; confirm current charges and add travel and living expenses.
Welding certificate program-cost estimate ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026
A tuition rate or annual allowance is not a complete program price. Confirm your residency, course load, program fees and financial aid before comparing costs.
Open the cost planner →Exact-program earnings are not separately identified.
The full welding certificate is an academic-year award despite its advertised ten-month calendar. The precision-metal-working field also includes other metalworking programs; short welding certificates have a different duration category. No exact-program earnings are separately verified here.
Related-field graduate earnings
Precision Metal Working · Certificate, one to less than two academic years
Chemeketa Community College. Graduating cohorts: 2011–2015. This published field group (CIP 48.05) can combine several programs and campuses. We selected it as related context; it is not a verified result for this exact program.
- $41,019 median annual earnings 1 year after graduation
- $55,464 median annual earnings 5 years after graduation
Amounts are in 2023 dollars. Census PSEO covers graduates meeting its earnings and employment-attachment rules; it excludes noncompleters and many self-employed or low-attachment workers. These are historical outcomes, not starting-pay estimates or a forecast.
Census PSEO Oregon data, 2026 Q2 (CSV download) ↗
Population, methods and limitations ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026