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Southern Industrial Careers Center: welding training in La Feria, TX

901 East Expressway 83, La Feria, TX 78542 · Private Non-Profit

On Texas's WIOA eligible training provider list (DOL file dated June 30, 2025) In person Leads to: Certified Welder

Combination Welder Pipe

Tuition and feesas listed, Texas list, DOL file dated June 30, 2025
$3,255
Books and suppliesas listed
$1,750
Listed cost
$5,005
Lengthfull-time weeks and weekly hours, as listed
Competency-based or withheld
Students who completedof all students who exited, July 2021 to June 2025
96.2%
Employed in the 2nd quarter after exitall students who exited, state wage records
37.5%
Median earnings, 2nd quarter after exitone quarter's pay, students employed then
$9,042
Students who exitedJuly 2021 to June 2025
53
On the list sincedate added, ETA-9171
September 4, 2019
Typical pay for welders, cutters, solderers and brazersBLS OEWS May 2025, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
$39,710

Every line comes from the file named under it. Suppressed means DOL withheld the figure (a small group, nothing reported, or a data quality hold); a blank is never estimated.

About this listing

Southern Industrial Careers Center has 6 welding programs on Texas's list, filed under precision metal working (CIP 48.0508); the table below shows all of them. Its listed tuition of $3,255 compares with typical yearly pay of $39,710 for welders, cutters, solderers and brazers in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX. Of the 53 students who left the program between July 2021 and June 2025, 96.2% completed it.

This provider does not appear in IPEDS, the FMCSA training registry or a state list we load, so the Department of Labor's file is the record shown here. Ask the provider and your American Job Center whether the program is still on the list before you enroll: the file lists programs as of June 30, 2025.

Southern Industrial Careers Center's welding programs on the 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 programTuition and feesLengthCompletedEmployed, 2nd quarterMedian earnings, 2nd quarterStudents who exited
Combination Welder PipeCertified Welder · In person · CIP 48.0508$3,255+ $1,750 booksCompetency-based or withheld96.2%37.5%$9,04253
Structural Maintenance WelderAmerican Welding Association · In person · CIP 48.0508$3,255+ $495 booksCompetency-based or withheld96.2%57.9%$7,360210
Structural/Maintenance WelderCertified Welder · In person · CIP 48.0508$3,255+ $1,400 booksCompetency-based or withheld95.9%62.6%$8,439246
Combination Welder- PipeAmerican Welding Association · In person · CIP 48.0508$3,255+ $770 booksCompetency-based or withheld100%SuppressedSuppressed14
Welding FundamentalsAmerican Welding Association · In person · CIP 48.0508$1,572+ $495 booksCompetency-based or withheldSuppressedSuppressedSuppressedSuppressed
Welding FundamentalsCertified Welder · In person · CIP 48.0508$1,572+ $750 booksCompetency-based or withheldSuppressedSuppressedSuppressedSuppressed

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. Not matched to any other record: listed here as the state reported it.

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