About Career Training Path
A directory built for one decision: which hands-on training program is worth your time and money.
Career Training Path lists every accredited trade, vocational and career-training campus in the United States, 3,741 of them, and puts the federal numbers next to each one: how many students finish, what graduates owe, and what they earn one, two and ten years out, by program. Those figures come from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard and IPEDS surveys and the federal accreditation database (DAPIP). We do not estimate, adjust or rank by opinion; where the government suppresses a figure for privacy, we say "not reported".
Who it is for
People choosing a trade for the first time, and adults changing careers into one. The second group is growing fast as office work is automated, and it is the audience most existing school-finder sites serve worst. So Career Training Path leads with outcomes and time-to-earn, not with the school's brochure.
How we make money
Today, we don't. The site is free and carries no sponsored listings. When we do introduce sponsorship or school inquiry forms, sponsored placements will be labeled, and no school's outcome data will change because it pays us. We also publish a free weekly newsletter, The Path.
Who writes it
Vince Czaplyski, founder and editor.
Vince Czaplyski is the founder of Own the Answer Inc. and the editor of Career Training Path. His professional background includes a longtime career as a captain for a major international airline and later as a captain for various private aviation clients. He has published over 200 aviation articles for such major publications as AOPA Pilot, Airways and Air & Space/Smithsonian.
He created Career Training Path because the impact of artificial intelligence across society has radically shifted career expectations for many individuals. The official outcome data on trade and technical schools is available from numerous sources, but is nearly impossible for a prospective student to easily access and interpret.
Career Training Path presents this information in a user-friendly way that will, we hope, help guide career decisions for many.
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Reach the editor at contact@careertrainingpath.com. How every number is sourced and what we compute ourselves is set out on the Methodology page; every data load is logged on Data updates.
Who publishes it
Career Training Path is published by Own the Answer Inc., an independent publisher of data-driven reference sites, based in Sarasota, Florida. We are not affiliated with the Department of Education, any accreditor, or any school. See Contact to report an error, request a data cut, or ask about a listing.
More from the publisher
Own the Answer Inc. publishes other free, data-first reference directories built the same way — public records, plain language, no pay-to-rank: Care Considered (Medicare-certified nursing homes, hospices, home health and rehab, with CMS ratings) and GetFundedUSA (small-business grants, SBA lenders, and free business counseling by state).
Data refresh
College Scorecard and IPEDS release annually; DAPIP monthly. Every page states the vintage of the data it shows: currently Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 2022-23 Completions survey; College Scorecard June 2026; Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs (DAPIP), September 2026.