South Piedmont Community College offers a 43-credit Welding Technology diploma, focused plate-and-pipe certificates, high-school welding pathways, and noncredit skills-development courses. The current official program page documents Stick, MIG, TIG, Flux-Core, and laser welding across the program, plus cutting, fabrication, metallurgy, inspection, and certification-oriented practice. It states that welding is offered in Monroe at the Tyson Family Center for Technology and in Polkton at L.L. Polk Campus, although another statement on the same page refers to welding bays at Old Charlotte Highway and L.L. Polk; that location conflict requires review.