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Northwest Technical Institute

709 S Old Missouri Rd, Springdale, AR 72764 · Public less-than-2-year · School website

Average net price

$15,992

per year after grants, College Scorecard

Career completions

121

2023-24, IPEDS

Finish on time

73.7%

within 150% of normal time, Scorecard

Students with Pell

78.8%

share of undergraduates, Scorecard

Takes federal student aid (IPEDS) Accreditor on file: Council on Occupational Education Credit for military training (IPEDS) Open admission (IPEDS) On Arkansas's WIOA eligible training provider list (DOL file dated June 30, 2025)

Career programs at Northwest Technical Institute

Northwest Technical Institute reported 121 certificate and associate completions in 6 of the program types we track for 2023-24, most of them in welding (32). College Scorecard counts 206 undergraduates.

Program	Award	Length	Program cost	Completions	Earnings, 1 yr	Funding and results
Welding	Certificate	Not reported	Not reported	32	Not published	WIOA list
LPN/LVN	Certificate	Not reported	Not reported	27	$47,715	WIOA list
Automotive	Certificate	Not reported	Not reported	24	Not published	WIOA list
Surgical tech	Certificate	Not reported	Not reported	16	Not published	WIOA list
Diesel	Certificate	Not reported	Not reported	15	Not published	WIOA list
HVAC	Certificate	Not reported	Not reported	7	Not published	WIOA list

Program cost is the whole-program tuition and fees a clock-hour school reports to IPEDS for its largest programs (2024-25). Earnings are College Scorecard medians for graduates of this school in that field, one year after completing; small cohorts are not published. WIOA list means the program appears on the state's eligible training provider list in the U.S. Department of Labor file (programs listed as of June 30, 2025).

Cost and aid at Northwest Technical Institute

What a year costs, 2024-25

Tuition and fees, in districtIPEDS, academic-year schools: $6,277
Tuition and fees, in stateIPEDS: $6,277
Books and suppliesIPEDS: $1,400
Average net price after grantsCollege Scorecard, students with federal aid: $15,992
Median earnings 10 years after entryCollege Scorecard, all students: $41,513

Clock-hour schools charge by program, not by year: see each program's own page for its whole-program cost.

Northwest Technical Institute net price calculator (link from IPEDS)
Financial aid office page (link from IPEDS)
Veterans and military page (link from IPEDS)

How training gets paid for: Pell Grants, Workforce Pell, WIOA, GI Bill.

More Northwest Technical Institute programs on the WIOA list

People who meet WIOA's rules for training services can have their local workforce board pay for a program on the state's eligible training provider list. Limits vary by area. How WIOA training funds work.

Listed program	Tuition and fees	Length	Completed	Employed, 2nd quarter	Median earnings, 2nd quarter	Students who exited
Commercial Truck Driving/Commercial Vehicle OperatorCertificate of Completion; Class A license · Hybrid (in person and online) · CIP 49.0205	$4,000	Competency-based or withheld	100%	93.1%	$12,505	479
Certified Nursing AssistantCertified Nursing Assistant · In person · CIP 51.3902	Not reported	Competency-based or withheld	100%	95.2%	$7,310	21

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, TrainingProviderResults.gov program file (ETA-9171): programs on state lists as of June 30, 2025; outcomes for all students who exited between July 2021 and June 2025, not only WIOA-funded ones. Median earnings are one quarter's pay in the second quarter after exit. Suppressed means DOL withheld the figure (a small group, nothing reported, or a data quality hold); for length it can also mean a competency-based program. IPEDS does not list these program types at this campus. Matched to Northwest Technical Institute by provider name and place, by DOL's provider ID, or as another site of the school (its exact name or website, the only match in the state; "Listed at" names that site's town).