Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC · Public · Two-year
🛠️ Building Maintenance & Inspection 🚗 Automotive & Collision Repair 🔥 Welding & Metal Fabrication ⚡ Electrical +4 more
Trade schools · 119 schools
🛠️ Building Maintenance & Inspection Schools
Building and property maintenance programmes teach a bit of everything — basic electrical, plumbing, HVAC, carpentry, and the systems that keep a property running — plus inspection work. It is the natural training for facility and property maintenance roles, and a genuinely good foundation for a handyman business.
How people actually get in
Maintenance roles hire on breadth rather than depth, so a single programme can make you employable quickly. Home inspection is separately licensed in most states and usually requires its own course and exam, which some of these programmes include.
Ask before you enrol
- If inspection is your goal, confirm the programme meets your state licensing requirement specifically.
- Ask how much of the course is hands-on across trades versus classroom theory.
- Check whether it covers building systems at commercial scale if facilities work is the target.
Already working in this trade? See software for handyman businesses in our directory.
Largest programs
Where the most people graduate
By credentials awarded in the reporting year. That is a size signal, not a quality ranking — big programs are easier to get into and easier to get lost in.
Lake Land College
Mattoon, IL · Public · Two-year
🛠️ Building Maintenance & Inspection 🏗️ Construction Technology & Management 🚗 Automotive & Collision Repair 🔥 Welding & Metal Fabrication +3 more
Wake Technical Community College
Raleigh, NC · Public · Two-year
🛠️ Building Maintenance & Inspection 🚗 Automotive & Collision Repair ⚡ Electrical 🔥 Welding & Metal Fabrication +3 more
Tidewater Tech-Trades
Norfolk, VA · Private for-profit · Less-than-two-year
🛠️ Building Maintenance & Inspection 🔥 Welding & Metal Fabrication ❄️ HVAC & Refrigeration 🚗 Automotive & Collision Repair
Motoring Technical Training Institute
Seekonk, MA · Private for-profit · Less-than-two-year
🛠️ Building Maintenance & Inspection ❄️ HVAC & Refrigeration 🚗 Automotive & Collision Repair 📟 Appliance, Security & Electronics Repair
Northshore Technical Community College
Lacombe, LA · Public · Two-year
🛠️ Building Maintenance & Inspection 🔥 Welding & Metal Fabrication ⚡ Electrical 🚗 Automotive & Collision Repair +4 more
Every school, by state
All 119 building maintenance & inspection schools
Arizona 3
- Mesa Community College Mesa · Public
- Pima Community College Tucson · Public
- Arizona Western College Yuma · Public
Arkansas 1
- North Arkansas College Harrison · Public
California 20
- Fullerton College Fullerton · Public
- Norco College Norco · Public
- Santiago Canyon College Orange · Public
- Coastline Community College Fountain Valley · Public
- Ventura College Ventura · Public
- Cabrillo College Aptos · Public
- College of San Mateo San Mateo · Public
- Pasadena City College Pasadena · Public
- Southwestern College Chula Vista · Public
- College of the Sequoias Visalia · Public
- San Diego Mesa College San Diego · Public
- College of the Canyons Santa Clarita · Public
- Baldwin Park Adult & Community Education Baldwin Park · Public
- College of the Desert Palm Desert · Public
- Saddleback College Mission Viejo · Public
- Cosumnes River College Sacramento · Public
- San Bernardino Valley College San Bernardino · Public
- Diablo Valley College Pleasant Hill · Public
- Laney College Oakland · Public
- Victor Valley College Victorville · Public
Colorado 1
- Pickens Technical College Aurora · Public
Florida 1
- Santa Fe College Gainesville · Public
Georgia 1
- Gwinnett Technical College Lawrenceville · Public
Illinois 7
- Lake Land College Mattoon · Public
- William Rainey Harper College Palatine · Public
- Oakton College Des Plaines · Public
- Heartland Community College Normal · Public
- Parkland College Champaign · Public
- McHenry County College Crystal Lake · Public
- Triton College River Grove · Public
Kansas 2
- Flint Hills Technical College Emporia · Public
- Kansas City Kansas Community College Kansas City · Public
Kentucky 2
- Employment Solutions-College for Technical Education Lexington · Private nonprofit
- Owensboro Community and Technical College Owensboro · Public
Louisiana 2
- Northshore Technical Community College Lacombe · Public
- Remington College-Lafayette Campus Lafayette · Private nonprofit
Maine 1
- Central Maine Community College Auburn · Public
Massachusetts 2
- Motoring Technical Training Institute Seekonk · Private for-profit
- North Bennet Street School Boston · Private nonprofit
Michigan 4
- Wayne County Community College District Detroit · Public
- Washtenaw Community College Ann Arbor · Public
- Michigan Career and Technical Institute Plainwell · Public
- Northern Michigan University Marquette · Public
Minnesota 4
- Rochester Community and Technical College Rochester · Public
- Century College White Bear Lake · Public
- North Hennepin Community College Brooklyn Park · Public
- Hennepin Technical College Brooklyn Park · Public
Mississippi 3
- Jones County Junior College Ellisville · Public
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Perkinston · Public
- Pearl River Community College Poplarville · Public
Missouri 2
- Ranken Technical College Saint Louis · Private nonprofit
- Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City Kansas City · Public
Nebraska 1
- Metropolitan Community College Area Omaha · Public
New Jersey 1
- Hohokus School of Trade and Technical Sciences Paterson · Private for-profit
New Mexico 1
- Santa Fe Community College Santa Fe · Public
New York 1
- Erie Community College Buffalo · Public
North Carolina 12
- Central Piedmont Community College Charlotte · Public
- Wake Technical Community College Raleigh · Public
- Cape Fear Community College Wilmington · Public
- Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Asheville · Public
- Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Salisbury · Public
- Sampson Community College Clinton · Public
- Guilford Technical Community College Jamestown · Public
- Montgomery Community College Troy · Public
- Surry Community College Dobson · Public
- Cleveland Community College Shelby · Public
- Southeastern Community College Whiteville · Public
- Sandhills Community College Pinehurst · Public
Ohio 6
- Remington College-Cleveland Campus Cleveland · Private nonprofit
- Polaris Career Center Middleburg Heights · Public
- Columbus State Community College Columbus · Public
- Cuyahoga Community College District Cleveland · Public
- ETI Technical College of Niles Niles · Private for-profit
- Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools Groveport · Public
Oklahoma 9
- Indian Capital Technology Center-Muskogee Muskogee · Public
- Canadian Valley Technology Center El Reno · Public
- Wes Watkins Technology Center Wetumka · Public
- Western Technology Center Burns Flat · Public
- Francis Tuttle Technology Center Oklahoma City · Public
- Central Technology Center Drumright · Public
- Mid-America Technology Center Wayne · Public
- Moore Norman Technology Center Norman · Public
- Pioneer Technology Center Ponca City · Public
Oregon 2
- Chemeketa Community College Salem · Public
- Portland Community College Portland · Public
Pennsylvania 4
- Orleans Technical College Philadelphia · Private nonprofit
- Commonwealth Technical Institute Johnstown · Private nonprofit
- Community College of Allegheny County Pittsburgh · Public
- Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center Springville · Public
South Carolina 1
- York Technical College Rock Hill · Public
Tennessee 5
- Remington College-Memphis Campus Memphis · Private nonprofit
- Remington College-Nashville Campus Nashville · Private nonprofit
- William R Moore College of Technology Memphis · Private nonprofit
- Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Henry/Carroll Paris · Public
- Southern Adventist University Collegedale · Private nonprofit
Texas 7
- Central Texas College Killeen · Public
- Del Mar College Corpus Christi · Public
- Remington College-Fort Worth Campus North Richland Hills · Private nonprofit
- Remington College-Dallas Campus Dallas · Private nonprofit
- Remington College-North Houston Campus Houston · Private nonprofit
- Texas Southmost College Brownsville · Public
- Cisco College Cisco · Public
Utah 1
- Utah Valley University Orem · Public
Virginia 2
- Tidewater Tech-Trades Norfolk · Private for-profit
- CET-Alexandria Alexandria · Private nonprofit
Washington 5
- Renton Technical College Renton · Public
- Centralia College Centralia · Public
- Edmonds College Lynnwood · Public
- Bellingham Technical College Bellingham · Public
- Bates Technical College Tacoma · Public
West Virginia 1
- BridgeValley Community & Technical College South Charleston · Public
Wisconsin 4
- Moraine Park Technical College Fond du Lac · Public
- Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Fennimore · Public
- Gateway Technical College Kenosha · Public
- Milwaukee Area Technical College Milwaukee · Public
Other trades
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CIP codes folded into this page: 46.0401, 46.0403. Source: IPEDS, US Department of Education.
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