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Howard College (Texas): 34 training programs — cost, completion, employment and earnings from the federal record
Howard College (Higher Ed: Associate's Degree), 1001 Birdwell Lane, Big Spring has 34 programs on Texas’s Training Provider Results list leading to: AC Contractors License; Associates of Arts in Teaching Education; CAMT; Certificate; Certified Medication Aide; Certified Nurse Aide 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.
| # | 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 | AAT Education | $8,734 | — | 103 | 74% | 82% | $5,839 | — |
| 2 | Business Administration AAS | $10,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Business Certificate Level I | $4,310 | — | 11 | — | 62% | $5,457 | — |
| 4 | Business Certificate Level I | $9,975 | — | 14 | 79% | 59% | $8,078 | — |
| 5 | Business Specialization in Management AAS | $9,187 | — | 18 | 44% | 48% | $9,535 | — |
| 6 | Business Specialization in Management Certificate Level II | $13,200 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Business Specialization in Management Certificate Level II | $7,900 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Certified Maintenance Technician | $5,709 | — | 22 | 100% | 68% | $5,113 | — |
| 9 | Computer and Information Sciences Certificate Level I | $3,940 | — | 8 | 88% | 44% | $6,351 | — |
| 10 | Computer and Information Sciences General Information Management Certificate Level II | $5,560 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Craftsman Certificate Level I | $4,500 | — | 28 | 100% | 50% | $7,557 | — |
| 12 | GMAW (MIG) Welding | $866 | 6 wk · 7 hrs | 22 | 100% | 77% | $6,024 | — |
| 13 | Green Construction Certificate 1 | $1,343 | — | 11 | 100% | 64% | $5,372 | — |
| 14 | HVAC R Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering Technology Technician | $2,880 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | HVAC/R (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration) | $6,676 | — | 44 | 89% | 81% | $8,410 | — |
| 16 | Medical Assistant | $7,793 | — | 63 | 70% | 68% | $7,114 | — |
| 17 | Medication Aide | $988 | — | 29 | 100% | 93% | $8,638 | — |
| 18 | Microsoft Office Specialist- Excel | $369 | 6 wk · 24 hrs | 45 | 36% | 69% | $8,750 | — |
| 19 | Microsoft Office Specialist- Word | $11,430 | 6 wk · 24 hrs | 41 | 46% | 66% | $8,797 | — |
| 20 | Nurse Aide | $790 | — | 157 | 87% | 71% | $6,050 | — |
| 21 | Nursing Accelerated ADN (RN) | $6,300 | — | 44 | 100% | 64% | $17,240 | — |
| 22 | Nursing Accelerated ADN (RN) | $12,770 | — | 66 | 94% | 91% | $17,423 | — |
| 23 | Nursing Associate Degree Nursing (RN) | $14,500 | — | 115 | 90% | 70% | $14,132 | $64,052 |
| 24 | Nursing Associate Degree Nursing (RN) | $9,601 | — | 68 | 88% | 68% | $17,625 | — |
| 25 | Nursing Licensed Vocational Nursing | $5,666 | — | 47 | 77% | 76% | $9,301 | — |
| 26 | Nursing Licensed Vocational Nursing | $15,200 | — | 146 | 88% | 86% | $10,452 | — |
| 27 | Pharmacy Tech | $5,434 | — | 15 | 93% | 93% | $8,346 | — |
| 28 | Phlebotomy | $1,572 | — | 48 | 100% | 86% | $7,497 | — |
| 29 | Phlebotomy | $915 | — | 56 | 98% | 80% | $7,446 | — |
| 30 | Professional Truck Driver Training | $6,995 | — | 307 | 92% | 81% | $14,223 | — |
| 31 | Radiologic Technology AAS | $13,943 | — | 33 | 88% | 93% | $13,024 | — |
| 32 | SMAW (Stick) Welding | $4,927 | 6 wk · 33 hrs | 50 | 98% | 72% | $7,531 | — |
| 33 | TIG Welding | $866 | 6 wk · 33 hrs | 30 | 100% | 80% | $9,008 | — |
| 34 | Welding Certificate 1 | $3,300 | — | 32 | 94% | 75% | $8,105 | — |
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 Texas: the Texas provider index.