Automotive Service Technician Program

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Curriculum Details

South Texas Vocational Technical Institute’s Automotive Service Technician program helps prepare you to pursue a career in automotive service. This program provides instruction on the skills to be a member of the team. Our Automotive Service Technician program emphasizes hands-on learning and workplace safety. Our curriculum focuses on helping prepare students for common tasks and situations in the automotive industry.

*STVT does not guarantee third-party certifications. Certification requirements for taking and passing certification examinations are not controlled by STVT but by outside agencies and are subject to change by the agencies without notice to STVT. Therefore, STVT cannot guarantee that graduates will be eligible to take certification examinations, regardless of their eligibility status upon enrollment.

What’s Covered

Along with classroom education, students at STVT will get the opportunity to participate in hands-on training to strengthen their skills.

  • Repair and correction of battery and charging systems
  • Electrical circuit repair
  • Power steering maintenance
  • Ignition and exhaust system analysis and repair using computerized diagnosis tools
  • Diagnosis of engine components
  • Use of scan tools to diagnose electronic circuits
  • Drum and disk brake diagnosis
  • Basic diagnosis of manual drive trains
  • Technical mathematics

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Automotive Service Technician Outlook

The Automotive Service Technician program opens students to a variety of opportunities across Texas. STVT prepares you to understand how automotive workplaces operate while giving you the opportunity to learn a variety of skills.

*STVT cannot guarantee employment. These are national statistics, and the figures in your area may be different.
**The lowest 10 percent earned less than $24,400, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $68,880.
**https://www.bls.gov/ooh/installation-maintenance-and-repair/automotive-service-technicians-and-mechanics.htm#tab-1

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Job Outlook

Varied*

Median Income

$42,090**

What our Graduates are saying

Richard-Mendez

I was helped in so many ways. You know, I couldn’t be more grateful and blessed, you know, to have the staff here at STVT – the students that I was with and my instructors.  It couldn’t have been any better.

Richard Victor Mendez, Jr.

STVT San Antonio, Combination Welding Graduate
Richard Victor Mendez, Jr

I would like to say to the staff at STVT, thank you so much for all your help.  I appreciate it so much. You have no idea what an inspiration and motivation y’all have made on my life and my daughter’s life as well.

Fantasia Benavides

STVT Corpus Christi, Dental Assisting Graduate
Richard Victor Mendez, Jr.

I heard about STVT with commercials when I was just sitting down one night. I heard a commercial about it – saw that they offered the dental assisting program – saw that it was just a few months instead of, you know, years and that’s something that really did interest me.

Kimberlee Guerrero

STVT Corpus Christi, Dental Assisting Graduate

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