Welding classes in Gulfport
12 welding programs with costs, results and funding that can make them free
8 schools offer these welding programs with classes in the Gulfport-Biloxi area, and every one is approved for workforce funding. Each shows its price if you pay yourself and how past students did.
Welders join and cut metal parts with hand-held or remotely controlled equipment. Most have a high school diploma plus technical training, and some employers ask for a certification for particular jobs.1 In Gulfport, every program asks for a diploma or other schooling first.
See the 12 programsAll 88 welding programs in Mississippi, including online programs
How much do welding classes cost in Gulfport?
$750 to $7,975
is what most programs cost if you pay yourself
All 10 programs with a price: $500 to $7,975
- Finished the program
- 100%
- Working 6 months later
- 83%
- Earned a year, estimated
- about $34,200
- Length
- 40 to 145 weeks
Source: US Department of Labor, program year 2024 (July 2024 to June 2025). How these figures are made
All 12 welding programs in Gulfport approved for funding
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12 programs
Short Term Welding Training
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - District Wide, Perkinston
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimated$34,200Price if you pay yourself$750More details about Short Term Welding Training at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - District Wide
- Finished
- 100%
- Working at 6 months
- 83%
- Earned in a quarter
- $8,544
- Length
- 15 weeks, 20 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- 126
- a year, estimated
- $34,200
- price
- $750
Welding - TIG - 6-G Certification
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - District Wide, Perkinston
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimated$34,200Price if you pay yourself$750More details about Welding - TIG - 6-G Certification at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - District Wide
- Finished
- 100%
- Working at 6 months
- 83%
- Earned in a quarter
- $8,544
- Length
- 15 weeks, 20 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- 126
- a year, estimated
- $34,200
- price
- $750
Welding & Cutting
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Perkinston (Main) Campus, Perkinston
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimated$34,200Price if you pay yourself$7,975More details about Welding & Cutting at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Perkinston (Main) Campus
- Finished
- 100%
- Working at 6 months
- 83%
- Earned in a quarter
- $8,544
- Length
- 63 weeks, 25 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- 126
- a year, estimated
- $34,200
- price
- $7,975
Welding & Cutting
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Jackson County Campus, Gautier
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimated$40,400Price if you pay yourself$7,975More details about Welding & Cutting at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Jackson County Campus
- Finished
- 97%
- Working at 6 months
- 80%
- Earned in a quarter
- $10,097
- Length
- 63 weeks, 25 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- 99
- a year, estimated
- $40,400
- price
- $7,975
Welding & Cutting Evening
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Jackson County Campus, Gautier
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimated$40,000Price if you pay yourself$7,975More details about Welding & Cutting Evening at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Jackson County Campus
- Finished
- 100%
- Working at 6 months
- 79%
- Earned in a quarter
- $10,005
- Length
- 63 weeks, 25 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- 98
- a year, estimated
- $40,000
- price
- $7,975
Welding & Cutting
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - West Harrison Center, Long Beach
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimated$25,700Price if you pay yourself$7,975More details about Welding & Cutting at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - West Harrison Center
- Finished
- 95%
- Working at 6 months
- 85%
- Earned in a quarter
- $6,417
- Length
- 63 weeks, 25 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- 91
- a year, estimated
- $25,700
- price
- $7,975
Welding - Career Certificate
Pearl River Community College - Hancock Center, Waveland
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimatedNot reportedPrice if you pay yourself$500More details about Welding - Career Certificate at Pearl River Community College - Hancock Center
- Finished
- 80%
- Working at 6 months
- Not reported
- Earned in a quarter
- Not reported
- Length
- 12 weeks, 20 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- 39
- a year, estimated
- Not reported
- price
- $500
Welding & Cutting
Pearl River Community College - Hancock Center, Waveland
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimatedNot reportedPrice if you pay yourself$6,315More details about Welding & Cutting at Pearl River Community College - Hancock Center
- Finished
- Not reported
- Working at 6 months
- Not reported
- Earned in a quarter
- Not reported
- Length
- 48 weeks, 28 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- $400
- Students counted
- 34
- a year, estimated
- Not reported
- price
- $6,315
Welding Nccer Apprenticeship Levels 1 - 4
Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimatedNot reportedPrice if you pay yourself$675More details about Welding Nccer Apprenticeship Levels 1 - 4 at Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Finished
- Not reported
- Working at 6 months
- Not reported
- Earned in a quarter
- Not reported
- Length
- 148 weeks, 8 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- None listed
- Students counted
- Not reported
- a year, estimated
- Not reported
- price
- $675
Welding Nccer Apprenticeship Levels 1 - 4
Gulfship LLC, Gulfport
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimatedNot reportedPrice if you pay yourself$3,000More details about Welding Nccer Apprenticeship Levels 1 - 4 at Gulfship LLC
- Finished
- Not reported
- Working at 6 months
- Not reported
- Earned in a quarter
- Not reported
- Length
- 156 weeks, 2 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- $1,000
- Students counted
- Not reported
- a year, estimated
- Not reported
- price
- $3,000
Welding - Flex Core/Metal Arc - Gas
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College RA - Halter Marine, Pascagoula
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimatedNot reportedPrice if you pay yourselfNot reportedMore details about Welding - Flex Core/Metal Arc - Gas at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College RA - Halter Marine
- Finished
- Not reported
- Working at 6 months
- Not reported
- Earned in a quarter
- Not reported
- Length
- 156 weeks, 4 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- Not reported
- Students counted
- Not reported
- a year, estimated
- Not reported
- price
- Not reported
Welding Nccer Apprenticeship Levels 1 - 4
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College RA - Halter Marine, Pascagoula
High school diploma or equivalent
Earned a year, estimatedNot reportedPrice if you pay yourselfNot reportedMore details about Welding Nccer Apprenticeship Levels 1 - 4 at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College RA - Halter Marine
- Finished
- Not reported
- Working at 6 months
- Not reported
- Earned in a quarter
- Not reported
- Length
- 144 weeks, 4 hours a week
- Cost of supplies
- Not reported
- Students counted
- Not reported
- a year, estimated
- Not reported
- price
- Not reported
No programs match these filters.
How to pay for welding classes in Gulfport
Workforce funding can pay for welding classes in Gulfport
Every program on this page is approved for public workforce funding, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. It can pay for training for eligible adults, people who lost their job and young people.2People on public assistance, with a low income or lacking basic skills come first, and veterans have priority.3
Ask at an American Job Center
Eligibility rules apply, and services vary from state to state. Your local American Job Center can tell you whether you qualify. The Department of Labor's page links to the center finder, or call 1-877-US-2JOBS (1-877-872-5627).4
Financial aid and grants for welding classes
Most students can get federal student aid for college, career school or trade school. A Federal Pell Grant, unlike a loan, usually doesn't have to be repaid. Ask the school whether its program qualifies.56
GI Bill for welding classes
Veterans, service members and qualified dependents can use GI Bill benefits for non-college training programs.7
The program list does not show which programs accept these. Ask the school.
Where the Gulfport welding program numbers come from
Which Gulfport welding programs are on this list?
These are the welding programs with classes in the Gulfport-Biloxi area that are approved for public workforce funding (the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act), as reported to the US Department of Labor for program year 2024 (July 2024 to June 2025). The list covers programs approved as of June 30, 2025. Online programs are left out here; they are on the Mississippi page. Schools that never applied for approval are missing, so this is a part of what the area offers.
How Gulfport welding program prices are reported
The price is tuition and required fees for someone paying without workforce funding, as the school reported it. Prices under $100 are treated as not reported, because the file holds many blanks entered as $0. Check the current price with the school.
What the graduate results of these programs measure
The figures at the top of this page are the middle program among those that report results: half did better, half did worse. Results describe students who left each program in recent years: the share who finished, the share working in the second quarter after leaving, and the middle earnings of those working in that quarter. States report earnings for that one quarter because they take them from the wage reports employers file every three months. The yearly figure here is that quarter times four, rounded to the nearest $100: an estimate, and an early one, since it is measured about half a year after training. The quarter as reported is under "More details" on each program. Results are withheld for small programs, and they describe past students, so they are no guarantee.
Why do some welding programs say "Not reported"?
Where a school or the state left a field empty, or the Department of Labor withheld it, the page says "Not reported". Nothing here is estimated to fill a gap.
Why the kind of school is left off each program
The file also records whether a school is public, private or nonprofit, but those entries are wrong too often to print next to a school's name, so this page leaves them out.
Sources for the facts about welding classes in Gulfport
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- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- US Department of Labor, TrainingProviderResults.gov: About This Site
- US Department of Labor: WIOA Adult Program
- US Department of Labor: American Job Centers
- US Department of Education, Federal Student Aid: Eligibility for Federal Student Aid
- US Department of Education, Federal Student Aid: Don't Miss Out on Federal Pell Grants
- US Department of Veterans Affairs: GI Bill benefits for non-college degree programs