GREATER ALTOONA CAREER & (Pennsylvania): 13 training programs — cost, completion, employment and earnings from the federal record

GREATER ALTOONA CAREER & (Higher Ed: Certificate of Completion), 1500 4th Ave, Altoona has 13 programs on Pennsylvania’s Training Provider Results list leading to: Automotive Technology Diploma; Carpentry/Construction Diploma; Collision Repair & Finishing Technology Diploma; Diploma- Precision Machining; Diploma-Automotive/Diesel Technology; Expanded Function Dental Assistant Certificate and 7 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 list13

With a published cost13 of 13

With an employment figure4 of 13

Published costs$2,095 – $23,634lowest to highest, as reported

GREATER ALTOONA CAREER & — every program on the Pennsylvania 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	Automotive TechnologyAutomotive Technology Diploma · 49-3023	$10,243tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 25 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
2	Automotive/Diesel TechnologyDiploma-Automotive/Diesel Technology · 49-3042; 49-3023; 49-3031	$10,218tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 25 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
3	Carpentry/ConstructionCarpentry/Construction Diploma · 47-1011; 47-2031	$10,044tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 25 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
4	Collision Repair & Refinishing TechnologyCollision Repair & Finishing Technology Diploma · 49-3021; 51-9124	$10,318tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 25 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
5	Dental AssistantGreater Altoona Career & Technology Center Dental Assistant Program · 31-9091	$12,034tuition + fees + supplies	25 wk · 30 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
6	Electrical TradesGreater Altoona Career & Technology Center Electrical Trades Program · 47-2111; 49-1011	$15,369tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 25 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
7	Expanded Function Dental Assistant CertificateExpanded Function Dental Assistant Certificate · 31-9091	$6,050tuition + fees + supplies	24 wk · 9 hrs	38	97%	95%	$10,950	—
8	HVAC with Related Plumbing & ElectricalHVAC with Related Plumbing & Electrical Diploma · 49-9021	$14,444tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 25 hrs	49	98%	84%	$9,120	$919
9	Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Associate Certification TrMicrosoft Office Specialist (MOS) Associate Certification Training · 43-9022	$2,095tuition + fees + supplies	24 wk · 11 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
10	Powersports & Equipment TechnologyPowersports & Equipment Technology · 49-1011; 49-3021; 49-3023	$10,218tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 23 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
11	Practical Nursing - Part-TimeGreater Altoona Career & Technology Center Practicing Nursing Program · 29-2061	$23,634tuition + fees + supplies	48 wk · 19 hrs	64	8%	73%	$6,447	$488
12	Precision MachiningDiploma- Precision Machining · 51-4121; 51-9161	$9,879tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 25 hrs	—	—	—	—	—
13	Welding with Print ReadingWelding with Print Reading Diploma · 51-4121	$13,846tuition + fees + supplies	36 wk · 23 hrs	50	72%	86%	$9,972	—

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)

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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 Pennsylvania: the Pennsylvania provider index.