Southern Union Community College (Alabama): 17 training programs — cost, completion, employment and earnings from the federal record

Southern Union Community College (Public), 301 Lake Condy Road, Opelika has 17 programs on Alabama’s Training Provider Results list leading to: Associate Degree or Long Certificate/ AWS SENSE; Associate Degree, prepare studnets for ASE Certifications; Associate Degree, prepare studnets for electical liscense exam; Associate's in Physical Therapist Assistant; Certified Nursing Assistant; Commercial Drivers License and 10 more. The table prints what the provider reported for each: the published cost, how many students exited, the share who completed, the share employed in the second quarter after exit, and their median earnings in that quarter — as reported, with the federal definition of every column below. Nothing is ranked, imputed or estimated. Snapshot taken 2026-09-02.

Read this first. Your local job center decides eligibility — this shows what is on the list and what it cost and produced, not whether you will be approved. No promise is made here about money, seats, jobs or pay; the figures are what the providers reported, printed with their dates.

Programs on the list17

With a published cost17 of 17

With an employment figure11 of 17

Published costs$1,240 – $19,502lowest to highest, as reported

Southern Union Community College — every program on the Alabama list, snapshot 2026-09-02
#	Program (provider’s page) · credential · code	Published cost basis	Length	Exited	Completed	Employed Q2 after exit	Median earnings, Q2 (one quarter)	Avg WIOA ITA $
1	Advanced Manufacturing concentration MechatronicsMSSC CPT · 17-3026	$13,533tuition + fees + supplies	70 wk · 15 hrs	118	82%	12%	$13,451	$7,988
2	Advanced Manufacturing concentration WeldingAssociate Degree or Long Certificate/ AWS SENSE · 51-4121; 51-4122	$14,072tuition + fees + supplies	74 wk · 5 hrs	44	55%	—	—	—
3	Air Conditioning and RefrigerationEPA 608 Universal Certification · 49-9021	$13,564tuition + fees + supplies	70 wk · 7 hrs	82	61%	8%	$9,357	$5,816
4	Associate Degree NursingRegistered Nurse · 29-1141	$17,257tuition + fees + supplies	70 wk · 18 hrs	401	79%	25%	$14,203	$5,365
5	Automotive Service TechnologyAssociate Degree, prepare studnets for ASE Certifications · 49-3023	$13,467tuition + fees + supplies	—	56	77%	—	—	—
6	CNC MachiningNIMS · 51-4041; 51-9161	$13,814tuition + fees + supplies	—	24	63%	12%	$7,819	—
7	Emergency Medical Technician ProgramEMT, AEMT, Paramedic · 29-2042; 29-2043	$19,502tuition + fees + supplies	—	151	86%	—	—	—
8	Industrial ElectricityAssociate Degree, prepare studnets for electical liscense exam · 49-2094	$13,559tuition + fees + supplies	70 wk · 20 hrs	29	90%	—	—	—
9	Licensed Practical NurseLicense Practical Nurse · 29-2061	$12,377tuition + fees + supplies	—	205	76%	11%	$9,834	$3,494
10	Medical Assistant TechnologyMedical Assistant Technology · 29-2031; 29-2072; 31-9092	$12,850tuition + fees + supplies	65 wk · 20 hrs	46	61%	14%	$4,099	$7,732
11	Medication AideMedication Assistant Certified · 31-1131	$1,472tuition + fees + supplies	10 wk · 10 hrs	28	100%	36%	$10,674	$1,040
12	MSSC Certified Production TechnicianMSSC CPT · 17-3026; 49-9041	$1,240tuition + fees + supplies	—	25	100%	12%	$7,828	—
13	Nurse Assistant/AideCertified Nursing Assistant · 31-1131	$1,408tuition + fees + supplies	—	111	93%	16%	$3,986	$854
14	Physical Therapist Assistant ProgramAssociate's in Physical Therapist Assistant · 31-2021	$14,058tuition + fees + supplies	80 wk · 40 hrs	87	89%	—	—	—
15	Radiologic TechnologyRadiologic Technology · 29-2034	$18,240tuition + fees + supplies	70 wk · 26 hrs	95	85%	15%	$10,213	$4,919
16	Surgical TechnologySurgical Technology · 29-2055	$13,704tuition + fees + supplies	45 wk · 24 hrs	54	72%	—	—	—
17	Tractor Trailer Truck Driver TrainingCommercial Drivers License · 53-3032	$4,800tuition + fees + supplies	—	172	94%	35%	$8,157	$2,500

Source and date: U.S. Department of Labor, Training Provider Results — the open program index behind trainingproviderresults.gov (state Eligible Training Provider performance reports, form ETA-9171), snapshot taken 2026-09-02; the site states the data cover programs approved as of June 30, 2025 and outcomes for July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2025. Cost is tuition and fees for a non-WIOA participant where the provider reported it (books and supplies added only when reported separately), otherwise the average WIOA training-account dollars per participant — the basis is printed under each figure. The provider’s own program page is linked where it reported one; RetrainMap has not verified those links.

How to read the columns — the federal data dictionary

Definitions from the TrainingProviderResults.gov Data Dictionary v4.0 (2024-05-15), as shipped in the dataset’s data_dictionary.csv. Median earnings are one calendar quarter, not a year. Percentages of small cohorts are noisy — read the exited count first. A dash means the federal file prints −1 (suppressed: small cohort, not reported, or flagged) — blank here, never zero.

all_completed_pct (federal field field_c_completed_percent): Percent of All Students who completed the program (DE122/DE121) Percent, 0-100 (the federal file stores a 0-1 fraction; converted here).
all_employed_q2_pct (federal field field_c_q2_employment_percent): Percent of All Students Exiters who were employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE123/DE129) Percent, 0-100 (the federal file stores a 0-1 fraction; converted here).
all_median_earnings_q2_usd (federal field field_c_median_earnings): Median Earnings in the 2nd Quarter after Exit of All Students that are Employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE125)
avg_ita_cost_per_wioa_participant_usd (federal field field_c_cost_per_wioa): Average number of dollars the training program received from each WIOA participant Individual Training Account (ITA) during the time period (DE138/DE135)
non_wioa_tuition_fees_usd (federal field field_non_wioa_tuition_cost): Out-of-Pocket Cost for a Non-WIOA Participant: Tuition and Requested Fees (DE111)
non_wioa_books_supplies_usd (federal field field_non_wioa_supplies_cost): Out-of-Pocket Cost for a Non-WIOA Participant: Books and Supplies (DE112)
length_weeks (federal field field_program_length_weeks): Length of the training program in weeks, as completed by a full-time student (DE114); a suppressed value (-1) indicates it was reported as a competency-based program
length_hours (federal field field_program_length_hours): Length of the training program in clock/contact hours (DE113); a suppressed value (-1) indicates it was reported as a competency-based program
all_students_exited (federal field field_c_total_exited): Total number of individuals exited from the training program (DE121)

More of Alabama’s record, free: training costs in Alabama by program type · laid off in Alabama: the first four days.

The provider’s rows are free. The whole record, and the ranking, are paid.

The same 70,088-program index, cleaned, with the federal data dictionary and provenance, is one CSV: the Training Provider Outcomes dataset — $49, instant download. The Retraining ROI report — $39 takes one target occupation and one state, ranks every listed program by the employment its completers reported, and prints a payback estimate per program with its basis. Built from the same federal record; free sample on that page. Sold by Steelyard Ventures LLC; 14-day no-questions refund.

The $49 dataset The $39 ROI report Free funding finder

Sources and dates

U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration — Training Provider Results program index, https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov/ · snapshot 2026-09-02 · normalised in the RetrainMap Training Provider Outcomes dataset (suppressed −1 cells blank; percentages 0–100; nothing imputed)
TrainingProviderResults.gov Data Dictionary v4.0, 2024-05-15 — https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov/assets/ETP_Data_Dictionary.pdf

Other providers in Alabama: the Alabama provider index.