Trade schools in South Carolina

Electrician programs in South Carolina

8 programs at 8 schools. Listed by graduates' pay one year after finishing, then by size; click any column heading to sort by it, and click again to reverse.

Nationally, the typical pay one year after finishing was $44,469 for certificate programs.

South Carolina electrician license: hours, exam and costs

HVAC programs in South Carolina

18 programs at 14 schools. Listed by graduates' pay one year after finishing, then by size; click any column heading to sort by it, and click again to reverse.

Nationally, the typical pay one year after finishing was $42,278 for certificate programs; $48,589 for associate degree programs.

South Carolina HVAC license: hours, exam and costs

Plumbing programs in South Carolina

1 program at 1 school. Listed by graduates' pay one year after finishing, then by size; click any column heading to sort by it, and click again to reverse.

Nationally, the typical pay one year after finishing was $41,980 for certificate programs.

South Carolina plumbing license: hours, exam and costs

Construction programs in South Carolina

17 programs at 11 schools. Listed by graduates' pay one year after finishing, then by size; click any column heading to sort by it, and click again to reverse.

Nationally, the typical pay one year after finishing was $51,213 for certificate programs in construction engineering technology/technician; $60,261 for associate degree programs in construction engineering technology/technician; $77,872 for bachelor's degree programs in construction engineering technology/technician; $35,931 for certificate programs in carpenters; $35,572 for certificate programs in building/construction finishing, management, and inspection; $52,746 for associate degree programs in building/construction finishing, management, and inspection.

South Carolina contractor license: hours, exam and costs

How to read these numbers

• Where they come from: the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard. Schools report their programs and graduates; the pay figures come from federal tax records.
• Graduates: the number of certificates or degrees the school reported awarding in that field in the 2023–24 school year. Programs with no graduates in the two latest reported years (2022–23 and 2023–24) are left out.
• Typical pay: the median yearly earnings (wages plus self-employment income) of graduates who were working and not back in school. The 1-year figure is for people who finished in 2020–21 or 2021–22; the 4-year figure is for people who finished in 2017–18 or 2018–19. Both are in 2024 dollars.
• Who's counted: only graduates who got federal student aid (federal grants or student loans). Graduates who didn't get federal aid aren't in the figures, so the numbers may not describe every graduate.
• A dash (—) means the Department didn't publish a figure. For pay, that's usually because too few graduates were measured, so the figure is withheld to protect their privacy. Most small programs have no pay figure.
• Yearly cost after grants: the school's average net price: a year's tuition, fees, books and living costs, minus the average grant and scholarship aid, for full-time students starting college for the first time who got federal aid (at public schools, only students paying in-state tuition). At most colleges it's an average across all programs, not the one listed; at schools that enroll students year-round instead of by semester, it's for the school's largest program, and for a program shorter than a year it's the cost of the whole program. A school's own net price calculator, if it has one, gives a closer estimate.
• Program names follow the federal list of fields of study. "Electrical" includes power line worker programs; "construction" includes general construction trades, carpentry, building finishing and inspection, construction technology and construction management.