Electrician Apprenticeship Technologies
Portland Community College
Public · Community college
College coursework for registered electrical apprentices.
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Choose the actual apprenticeship ↗
Read the manufacturing-plant example and check whether employer sponsorship fits your situation.
Check sponsorship and requirements ↗
Confirm employment eligibility before assembling college and apprenticeship documents.
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Use Oregon's official information to find other sponsors and check current openings.
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Preparation, time and schedule
Before you apply
This PCC award is linked to registered apprenticeship, not ordinary open enrollment in electrician training. For the Manufacturing Plant Electrician example below, you need employment and sponsorship with an approved employer. PCC says it cannot place applicants into that employment. Requirements depend on the exact trade and committee.
Your complete timeline
The AAS requires at least 90 credits, with the exact requirement depending on the apprenticeship. Its two-year label is not the full training term. One linked example, MA #1018 Manufacturing Plant Electrician, requires 8,000 on-the-job hours and four years of core classes.
Plan around the schedule
That example combines employment with fall, winter, spring and summer classes. Confirm your worksite and course timetable separately. An employer on the registered list is not necessarily hiring or selecting apprentices.
Application and selection
Identify the specific apprenticeship first. For Manufacturing Plant Electrician, confirm employer sponsorship, then follow PCC's checklist for college admission, placement evidence, ID and transcripts. Other trades use different entry routes; this employer-sponsored process does not describe every Oregon apprenticeship.
Details checked September 15, 2026. Confirm current requirements with the provider.
Questions to take to an advisor
How do I apply to the apprenticeship committee? College admission alone does not secure an apprenticeship.
- Which trade and committee match the work I want?
- Does my employer sponsor this route, and is selection available?
- Who covers each cost, and when do wage increases apply?
Published program length is not a personal completion estimate. Transfer credits, prerequisites, selection and course availability can change the timeline.
After the program
PCC describes Manufacturing Plant Electrician completion as leading toward eligibility to test for a Plant Journey license. Its scope differs from other electrical licenses. College credit, registered apprenticeship completion and permission to do particular electrical work are distinct.
Cost and outcomes
Apprentice and employer shares need confirmation
A complete apprentice-paid total is not verified. Ask who covers tuition, books, tools, safety training, travel and exam/license costs. Get actual wage progression and reimbursement conditions from the employer and committee. Paid training does not mean every expense is covered.
Published tuition or budget base
For separately billed PCC credit coursework, the published resident base is $143 tuition, $4.25 student activity and $7.35 technology fees per credit, plus a $15 per-term college service fee. Course and other charges may apply. Confirm which credits you must pay for and which charges your employer or apprenticeship committee covers; this is not a full apprenticeship price.
PCC credit-course tuition and fees ↗ · 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.
These are outcomes for related electrical-installation associate-degree graduates, not everyone who starts or completes a registered apprenticeship. The published combined-cohort figure does not isolate a particular employer or committee. No exact-program earnings are separately verified here.
Related-field graduate earnings
Electrical and Power Transmission Installers · Associate degree
Portland Community College. Graduating cohorts: Combined graduating cohorts. This published field group (CIP 46.03) can combine several programs and campuses. We selected it as related context; it is not a verified result for this exact program.
Census publishes this aggregate across available graduating cohorts. Each follow-up can cover a different set of graduates; these values are not a measure of the same group’s earnings growth.
- $110,004 median annual earnings 1 year 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