Irwin Technical College

How Can You Afford Irwin Technical College?

The tuition for a two year course at Irwin Technical College costs $12,000.00 a year. We will pay the minimum wage, $9.04 per hour, for the work (he/she, here after he) is doing as an apprentice, even though at first he will mostly be learning by observing and not earning that much for the company. If the student was actually earning the wage he is being paid, the college would count that wage as a credit to his tuition. The college will actually be loaning the student money when he first starts working as an apprentice to pay for his education.

The college wants the student to receive a part of his wage (as much as $500 bi-weekly) for living expenses and the rest would be applied to tuition. If the student excels rapidly during his training, his wages will increase and he will be able to graduate from the courses sooner, especially if he doesn’t use all the $500 for expenses. The college wants the student to pay for his education as rapidly as possible.

Each student will be trained by a professional and will be graded bi-weekly on a scale from 1 to 10 that indicates the progress the student is making. 1 on the scale indicates he is just starting the course and a 5 on the scale indicates that his work as an apprentice is paying for his training and the work environment provided for him. A grade of 1 would mean 20%, of the $9.04 minimum wage or $1.80 an hour, would be applied as a credit toward the yearly $12,000.00 tuition. A grade of 2 would mean 40% or $3.62 and so on until the students reaches a grade of 5 when all of the minimum wage of $9.04 an hour is applied to tuition less the deduction for living expenses.

A grade of 6 to 10 would mean that the wage paid the student for his apprentice work would be the same as any other employee in the company his wage would depend on his work ethic and the skill of the student as determined by his professional trainer.

For each apprentice position, there will be classroom work that the student will not be paid for, unless that work is actually earning a profit for the company. For example, the student studying machining could spend class time learning to program the code to run the computer controlled machine tools. When he becomes proficient, the student would be graded on a 1 to 10 scale to also receive a wage for his work in programming machine tools. When a student starts a new course such as CAD (computer aid designing), his grade would start again at 1 because it will take some time before he becomes proficient enough to make a profit for the company and help pay off his tuition.