New Programs and Lower Costs Make Snow College the Center for Technical Education By Lisa Jane Laird Snow College offers the best of both worlds when it comes to training for technology careers in rural Utah and offering reduced tuition costs. Snow gained a unique standing when the Utah System of Higher Education’s degree-granting institutions combined with Utah’s technology college system last year. In addition to the degree-granting role Snow College has always played, it is now the technical college for Central Utah. As a technical college, Snow College offers technology certifications that also count as transferable college credit with no
added charges. Students in technical education programs pay much less for their training than their peers in other Snow College divisions. The goal of technology education programs is direct employment in a field related to the training area. To qualify for the lower tuition rate, Snow College must demonstrate a need for employees in the industry and provide data and reporting on students who get placed in jobs. Not all courses at the College fit those criteria. While every course at Snow College is beneficial in some way, technical education courses are skills oriented and aligned with high-demand industry fields.
Automotive students Mark Galrud, Brian Taylor, and Trevor Palmer gain hands-on maintenance experience.
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