Arclabs Welding School

Kevin Miller

Arclabs is the absolute best 👍

Bobby Livingston

When I was first interested in this field and went to talk to them up at ArcLabs, they painted a pretty good picture in my head. They promised immediate high paying positions right out of school, and that these positions could only be gained with their “welding certification”. So I worked really hard while I was there, I was a natural at it, and completed all processes, on all the supplied materials, in all positions. They really don’t teach you here, I had to guide myself, it’s more of like a practice/ prep school. Upon completion of the course and gained “certificate of completion”, then the trouble started. Finding a job, making anything I was close to making prior to taking this course, deemed impossible. All the places literally laughed when they heard my only experience was my certificate of completion. They all could careless, they wanted experience. So after awhile, if no luck finding a job. I fibbed my resume, knowing I would go pass any weld test and it wouldn’t be questioned. This school did nothing but put me in debt for the first time! I would never recommend going here, hell I wish I could get it taken on my credit since I did it all by myself since the “teachers” weren’t teaching.

Dereis Richardson

Please DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME with this school if you are a veteran. They are terrible at paperwork and accountability. I graduated almost two years ago and I'm still going through a nightmare with the VA because Arclabs won't submit my attendance record showing I graduated. I've contacted them multiple times to get the issue resolved and all they do is ignore the problem. I can't even get a return call when I leave messages. I WOULD GIVE THEM 0 STARS IF I COULD. THEY DONT DESERVE EVEN ONE

April Brewer

I attended ArcLabs in 2018 in Columbia, SC and still have mixed feelings about the school and my experience there. I feel like they had a lot going right (they had access to a lot of good equipment and processes and the teachers I had certainly knew how to weld and cut and pass tests); they also had a lot they were doing wrong. The instructors I had were mostly just young and arrogant, so they weren’t always the best at teaching the art of welding to people who DIDN’T already know how to do everything. There was also a lot of miscommunication, so I missed out on some very good benefits that could have really moved my career in a different direction (like trying for an AWS cert). I did speak to their corporate staff about it and they had me out to their location at a later date to try and make up for some of the letdowns, but at that point it felt like too little, too late. People who are learning to weld for the first time are already struggling with lack of confidence and frustration when things aren’t going right with the weld, so they don’t need some hotshot waltzing into their booth just to say or even show how well they can do it with no explanation. It’s very defeating. But I persevered and landed some pretty great jobs anyway, so I finally learned all I needed to learn. And Arclabs certainly allowed me a place to practice my welding and tell me when I was doing it wrong, so I eventually did learn something. Just a frustrating experience at the time. One thing I did take away from it was to know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of poor instruction, so I have a lot of patience and empathy for people I now instruct and guide through weld tests. It makes me a better teacher.