Career & Technical Education Center

About the Center

Housing Yavapai College’s trade and technical programs, the Career and Technical Education Center is a state-of-the-art facility accommodating programs and equipment that require a large square footage footprint to house specific equipment.

Located near the Prescott Airport (formerly the Ruger Building), the 108,000 sq. ft. building sits on an 8-acre site and houses automotive, gunsmithing, welding and mining technology programs.

CTEC provides students a hands-on training facility that will give them a chance at better employment and the ability to stay in Prescott to go to school instead leaving the area to attend technical schools.

Classes and Programs Offered

Facilities and Features

• 108,000 square feet of space
• Access to airport flight line
• Large open shop space
• 480 three phase circuits
• 3 ton gantry cranes
• Automotive alignment machines, scanners, lifts, tools and paint booth
• 24 new Gunsmithing work benches, three new milling machines and lathes
• Diesel blocks
• Welding booths and numerically controlled plasma cutters