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                  Student Stats

Percent from out-of-state: 5%
Reside on campus: 14%
Age 25 or older: 8%
Transferred in: 5%
International students: 3%
African Americans: 3%
Asian Americans: 15%
Hispanic Americans: 13%
Native Americans: 0.5%
Graduate in 6 years or less: 66%
Graduated in 5 years: 28%
Graduated in 4 years: 30%
  Costs (2000 - 01)

Tuition: state resident $2400 full-time, $80 per semester hour part-time; nonresident $8850 full-time, $295 per semester hour part-time. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and program. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and program
Required fees: $1175 full-time, $31 per semester hour, $147 per term part-time
Room and board: $5113; room only: $2648. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility
Payment plan: installment
Waivers: senior citizens
  Financial Aid

Average financial aid package: $7075
Average indebtedness upon graduation: $16,800
Endowment: $1.6 billion

  Freshmen

Admission 21,507 applied, 13,251 admitted, 7,686 enrolled
Test scores SAT verbal scores over 500 88%, SAT math scores over 500 93%, ACT scores over 18 98%, SAT verbal scores over 600 48%, SAT math scores over 600 61%, ACT scores over 24 69%, SAT verbal scores over 700 12%, SAT math scores over 700 19%, ACT scores over 30 12%

WESTERN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
To apply, you may complete an application form online or call for a priority appointment to visit the school and receive your tour of the campus. To become enrolled, you are also required to complete a personal interview with an Admissions Representative. A personal interview enables us to determine your qualifications for enrollment and helps you begin your new career training.
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Students of Western Technical Institute, like all accreditted institutions, are eligible to apply for a range of Federal Student Aid Programs. Determination of student aid awards is based on financial aid need analysis formulas prescribed by the Federal government. Living expense costs, as defined each year by the National Standardized Budget, are considered in this formula, and these specific figures are available in the Financial Aid offices.

In these special classes, students receive valuable training in successful interviewing techniques, completing applications, writing effective resumes and answering questions most frequently asked by employers. Because of WTI's innovative class scheduling, graduations occur every month. This system affords our graduates more individual attention and gives them an advantage over graduates from schools that have only one or two large graduating classes per year.

Western Technical Institute has maintained an excellent graduate placement record, which we are determined to continue. We welcome you to visit with one of our Admissions Representatives and let them show you our Graduate Placement Summary, which shows the percentage of graduates we have placed. In addition, our graduates are placed in some of the best and most prestigious companies in El Paso. Visit our school to see a list of employers. You will be impressed and confident that our Career Placement Department can help you achieve your goals!
AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS
We offer an ASE Master Certified program in Automotive Technology. The objective of this program is to train the student to be an automotive mechanic capable of performing basic repairs on most types of automobiles. Those who successfully complete the program will be prepared for entry-level positions in automotive dealerships, independent garages, service stations and many large companies that maintain their own fleet of vehicles. Western Technical remains one of the few private career schools in the nation to be ASE Master Certified in Automotive.
WELDING
This program is designed to train the student to become a qualified welder. The qualified welder is capable of interpreting welding blueprints, cutting and welding with oxygen-acetylene, as well as being qualified in plate welding with Shielded Metal Arch Welding (SMAW), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Innershield (IS), and Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW).

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