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Southwest Virginia Community College

School type: Community College

Southwest Virginia Community College offers a stackable group of welding pathways at its Cedar Bluff campus, ranging from short Career Studies Certificates to a two-year diploma and a seven-week FastForward option. Instruction combines classroom study with extensive laboratory practice and includes entry-level, semi-automated, advanced fabrication, multiple-metal, and manufacturing-focused options. The college also operates an AWS Accredited Testing Facility that provides separate process training and certification testing.

School-wide Programs

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Descriptions, credentials, costs, and schedules are school-level program listings. Confirm current campus schedules, costs, and included fees with the school. Duration is shown in its listed units; credits and training hours are not calendar completion times.

Welding

  • Credential: Diploma
  • Program cost: Not listed
  • Processes: MIG, TIG, Stick, Flux-Core, Pipe
  • GI Bill: Eligible
  • Program Length: 67 credit hours
  • AWS Prep: Not listed

Schedule: Day/Evening

The Welding Diploma is the college's longest welding pathway and combines classroom instruction with extensive… Read full description for Welding

The Welding Diploma is the college's longest welding pathway and combines classroom instruction with extensive laboratory practice. Across the welding curriculum, students learn equipment setup, drawing interpretation, practical weld production, and workforce-oriented shop procedures. Existing process data identify MIG, TIG, Stick, Flux-Core, and pipe welding for this program; current public inventory confirms the diploma but does not expose its complete embedded course plan in accessible page content.

Semi-Automated Welding

  • Credential: Career Studies Certificate
  • Program cost: Not listed
  • Processes: Not listed
  • AWS Prep: Not listed
This Career Studies Certificate is one of Southwest Virginia Community College's current stackable welding pathways. The college describes its welding options as combining classroom learning… Read full description for Semi-Automated Welding

This Career Studies Certificate is one of Southwest Virginia Community College's current stackable welding pathways. The college describes its welding options as combining classroom learning with extensive lab practice in equipment setup, drawings, precision, and quality weld production. Publicly accessible current content does not expose this certificate's individual course sequence, duration, or specific processes, so those fields remain unknown rather than inferred.

Welding Career Studies Certificate

  • Credential: Career Studies Certificate
  • Program cost: Not listed
  • Processes: Not listed
  • Program Length: 28 credit hours
  • AWS Prep: Not listed

Schedule: Two semesters

This 28-credit Career Studies Certificate provides entry-level welder training through classroom instruction and extensive laboratory practice.… Read full description for Welding Career Studies Certificate

This 28-credit Career Studies Certificate provides entry-level welder training through classroom instruction and extensive laboratory practice. Students build practical equipment, drawing-interpretation, and weld-production skills in a shorter credential than the Welding Diploma. Publicly accessible current pages do not expose an authoritative program-specific process list, so processes are left unknown rather than inferred from the wider department's testing capabilities.

Welding Fundamentals

  • Credential: Career Studies Certificate
  • Program cost: Not listed
  • Processes: Not listed
  • AWS Prep: Not listed
This Career Studies Certificate is Southwest Virginia Community College's foundational welding pathway. The college describes its welding credentials as hands-on programs combining classroom… Read full description for Welding Fundamentals

This Career Studies Certificate is Southwest Virginia Community College's foundational welding pathway. The college describes its welding credentials as hands-on programs combining classroom learning with extensive laboratory practice. Current public inventory confirms the distinct credential, but accessible content does not publish its exact duration, course sequence, or program-specific process list.

Advanced Welding and Fabrication

  • Credential: Career Studies Certificate
  • Program cost: Not listed
  • Processes: Fabrication
  • Program Length: 28 credit hours
  • AWS Prep: Not listed

Schedule: Two semesters; approximately one year

This two-semester, 28-credit Career Studies Certificate moves beyond entry-level welding into advanced industrial fabrication and leadership-oriented… Read full description for Advanced Welding and Fabrication

This two-semester, 28-credit Career Studies Certificate moves beyond entry-level welding into advanced industrial fabrication and leadership-oriented work. Students train with aluminum, carbon steel, and stainless steel and study metallurgy, welding tests and codes, robotic welding, and layout and fabrication. The program is designed to bridge hands-on welder, fitter, and fabricator roles with quality-control and shop-lead responsibilities.

Manufacturing Fabrication

  • Credential: Career Studies Certificate
  • Program cost: Not listed
  • Processes: Fabrication
  • Program Length: 25 credit hours
  • AWS Prep: Not listed

Schedule: One to two years

This 25-credit Career Studies Certificate develops practical fabrication skills for modern manufacturing. Official college sources describe hands-on… Read full description for Manufacturing Fabrication

This 25-credit Career Studies Certificate develops practical fabrication skills for modern manufacturing. Official college sources describe hands-on machining and welding training and identify it as a one- to two-year option with multiple opportunities for welding skill development. Publicly accessible content does not publish a program-specific welding-process list, so no arc process is inferred.

FastForward Welding

  • Credential: Workforce Credential
  • Program cost: Not listed
  • Processes: Not listed
  • Program Length: 7 weeks
  • AWS Prep: Available

Schedule: Seven-week workforce format

This seven-week workforce training option focuses on one welding process selected for the offering and is designed around the goal of earning an… Read full description for FastForward Welding

This seven-week workforce training option focuses on one welding process selected for the offering and is designed around the goal of earning an American Welding Society Certified Welder credential. The specific process can vary, so no process is populated without offering-specific evidence.

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