Penn Foster Career School is one of the oldest and largest distance learning institutions in the world. The school provides programs and services that are designed to meet the life-long learning needs of the adult learner. Programs of study lead to career-specific diplomas.

Penn Foster Career School is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Penn Foster Career School is also accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools for its high school and vocational-technical programs. All Penn Foster Career School programs are affiliated with DANTES, which qualifies U.S. military personal for tuition reimbursement.

• Flexible Study Method. You can study online, in print, or a combination of each. You decide which method best suites your learning style.
• Study At Home Programs. You choose the best time and place to complete your coursework.
• Network of Instructor Support. While you work independently, you are not alone. Expert instructors and support staff are just a phone call or e-mail away.
• All Inclusive Tuition and Fees. Your tuition and fees includes all materials you need including textbooks, supplemental materials, study guides, online library access, exams, and learning aids.
• Affordable Tuition. Our tuition is among the lowest of all career colleges. With our large student body we are able to cost-effectively deliver course materials and efficiently provide first-rate student services. These savings are passed along to our students through our low tuition.
• Interest-Free, Monthly Tuition Payment Plans. We offer customized monthly payment plans at 0% interest to best meet your individual circumstance.

High School Diploma

High School Diploma Earn your High School Diploma at home! With Penn Foster High School, you can get the pride and satisfaction that comes with earning your Diploma, plus start learning practical job skills you can use after you graduate. Books, lessons, learning aids, and special supplements included at no additional cost. Call Now for Toll-free instructional support 1-888-427-2500.

Automotive School

Auto Mechanic Technician
Career Diploma
Begin with automotive basics and move on to a more advanced knowledge of electrical systems, transmissions, and engine overhaul. Start simple jobs in just a few weeks.

Diesel Mechanics Heavy Trucks Maintenance
Career Diploma
This program gives you the skills you need to get started fixing diesel engines. Learn everything from tuning an engine to a complete overhaul. Plus, you get "hands-on" practice with the special diesel tools we include.

Motorcycle Repair Technician
Career Diploma
Learn types of engine design, carburetion, electrical systems... as well as how to adjust and repair the frame, wheels, shocks, transmission, valves – everything from routine maintenance to major overhauls.

Small Engine Repair
Career Diploma
Step-by-step instructions make it easy to fix everything from outboard motors to weed trimmers! Start your own successful full or part-time home business.

School of Business

Bookkeeping
Career Diploma
Enjoy a satisfying career in bookkeeping and accounting. Learn everything you need to know – banking, payroll, inventory, taxes, how to keep a journal, make a ledger, and prepare a balance sheet.

Hotel and Restaurant Management Program
Career Diploma
Learn the skills you need to succeed as a Hotel/Restaurant Manager - from the facts about the front office to managing staff and menu planning. All you need to get started is ambition and the desire to succeed, so you can start preparing for your new career right now.

Secretary
Career Diploma
Get the knowledge and skills needed in today’s workplace. Your courses include Office Technology, Administrative Procedures, Office Finances and Management, PC Basics, Keyboarding, and more.

Small Business Owner
Career Diploma
Enjoy a satisfying career in bookkeeping and accounting. Learn everything you need to know – banking, payroll, inventory, taxes, how to keep a journal, make a ledger, and prepare a balance sheet.

Creative Design

Artist
Career Diploma
Discover your artistic talent! Learn to capture the beauty you see or turn your imaginings into paintings and drawings. Paint with oils, watercolors, pastels, pen and ink, or whatever medium you prefer. Create art for your own satisfaction or sell your artwork!

Bridal Consultant
Career Diploma
Start your own business as a Professional Bridal Consultant. You can make it happen with Penn Foster at-home training! You'll be a part of making a couple's special day a cherished memory. And you'll have the opportunity to earn money doing work you really enjoy.

Caterer
Career Diploma
Develop your natural talent for cuisine. Learn about the gourmet kitchen and the culinary professional, how to prepare poultry, meat, fish, game, and shellfish, the secrets of baking and pastry, and even how to operate your own business.

Desktop Publishing and Design
Career Diploma
This exciting program prepares you for a profession in one of the fastest-growing computer career fields!

Dressmaking and Design
Career Diploma
Learn about fibers and fabrics, how to select the right materials, how to mark, cut, and tack fabric for a proper fit, how to alter patterns, and more.

Floral Design
Career Diploma
Turn your love of flowers into a rewarding new career! Learn the skills you need to be a Floral Designer - work for an established florist's shop or start your own business. With Penn Foster at-home training, you'll learn both the business and the art of floral design, and be ready to launch a great career.

Freelance Writer
Career Diploma
Start training now for a rewarding career as a Freelance Writer. In as little as nine months, you could be writing articles and stories for magazines, newspapers, and more — and making money doing it.

Interior Decorator
Career Diploma
Put your sense of style to work for you - start a career as an Interior Decorator! Skilled professionals are needed to decorate homes, offices, restaurants, and stores, so there's plenty of opportunity to make money with your new skills.

School of Education

Teacher Aide
Career Diploma
Gain the valuable skills used by a Teacher Aide at any grade level. You get in-depth training in all the areas you need – plus valuable learning aids and supplement– to graduate in as little as six months.

School of Engineering

Drafting
Career Diploma
Learn to use equipment to lay out drafting problems and create geometric designs. Your program includes orthographic projection (sketching), geometric construction and tolerancing, three-dimensional drawing, and electrical schematic drafting.

Drafting with AutoCad®
Career Diploma
Learn AutoCAD® and master the skills of computer-aided layout, architectural drawing, blueprint creation, and much more.

School of Health

Dental Assistant
Career Diploma
Start training at home for a new career as a Dental Assistant. With demand on the rise, you'll find plenty of opportunity where you live or where you want to live. Do a job that's vital and earn the respect of the dental professionals you work for.

Fitness and Nutrition
Career Diploma
You can make great money helping people get in shape! Even before you have earned your Career Diploma, you can start designing workout routines and nutrition programs. And your program includes your choice of any one of three American Council on Exercise certification exam preparation manuals.

Medical Billing and Coding
Career Diploma
As a Medical Coding and Billing Professional, you’ll need to know how to manage records and file claims, prepare insurance forms, and handle billing. The Penn Foster Career School Medical Coding and Billing Program can help you develop these skills and many more.

Medical Office Assistant
Career Diploma
Train at home in your spare time to be a Medical Office Assistant. Make money while you're performing a vital service in your community. Hands-on training with professional-quality software from Microsoft®, so you can learn by doing. Access to student services by phone, mail, and on the web site, including online examinations and account review. Even if you have no previous experience, Penn Foster can give you the skills you need to work in medical offices

Medical Transcriptionist
Career Diploma
Court Reporters around the nation are earning great money working for state and local government, private court reporting services, or in businesses of their own. And you can join them, with the training you'll get from the Penn Foster Court Reporter Program.

Occupational Therapy Aide
Career Diploma
Start a satisfying career as an Occupational Therapy Aide. Learn the Occupational Therapy Aide skills you need quickly and conveniently. You’ll learn all about: Medical terminology, including anatomical positioning and therapeutic terms. Activities of Daily Living (ADL) therapy, adaptive equipment and workplace health and safety and much more.

Pharmacy Technician
Career Diploma
Start a rewarding career as a Pharmacy Technician with at-home training from Education Direct. You need no previous experience - just ambition, the desire to be a part of the exciting health care industry, and this great training program. This preparation will allow you to interpret product information and communicate clearly with other medical professionals and your clients. Topics include: medical terminology, human anatomy and physiology, and pharmacology.

Physical Therapy Aide
Career Diploma
Train at home in your spare time for a career as a Physical Therapy Aide. Help patients recover their mobility and keep injuries from turning into permanent disabilities. Even if you have no previous experience, Penn Foster can give you the skills you need to succeed in this rewarding profession.

Veterinary Assistant
Career Diploma
Learn animal nursing, emergency care, veterinary terminology, proper breeding techniques, and more - everything you need to know.

School of Legal Studies

Court Reporter
Career Diploma
Start a rewarding career as a Legal Secretary. You could make good money working in a career with a secure future! Penn Foster at-home training makes it easy for you, with lessons, texts, and software delivered right to your door.

Legal Secretary
Career Diploma
Start a rewarding career as a Legal Secretary. You could make good money working in a career with a secure future! Education Direct at-home training makes it easy for you, with lessons, texts, and software delivered right to your door.

Paralegal
Career Diploma
Your program includes legal terminology and the U.S. Court System, how to conduct legal investigations and interviews, legal writing and research, ethics and professional responsibility, and more.

Private Investigator
Career Diploma
Train at home for an exciting career as a Private Investigator. Conduct investigations involving missing persons, corporate intelligence, or other fascinating areas. Enjoy the special satisfaction that comes with working as a Private Investigator on an important case. Learn the tricks of the trade from experts! Work for an established agency or open one of your own.

School of Technology

Basic Electrician
Career Diploma
Your courses include introduction to electronics, conductors, insulators, batteries, magnetism and electromagnetism, fiber optics and more.

Electronics Technician
Career Diploma
Prepare for exciting opportunities in fast-growing industries like computers, cable TV, satellites and communications, broadcasting, and many more.

JAVA ^TMProgrammer
Career Diploma
Get a cutting-edge animation and interactive program for web pages. Program includes Sun Java software.

PC Maintenance and Repair
Career Diploma
This program gives you the skills you need in today's high-tech world — from the basics of PC Maintenance and Repair to the latest in microcomputer technology. You don't need a PC of your own to begin, so you can start preparing for a better career right now.

Telecommunications Technician
Career Diploma
Whether you want an entry-level job, or hope to move on to a job as a Systems Analyst or Applications Expert, Visual C#® .NET Programming is an important step toward your goals.

Visual Basic® .NET Programmer
Career Diploma
Whether you want an entry-level job, or hope to move on to a job as a Systems Analyst or Applications Expert, Visual C#® .NET Programming is an important step toward your goals.

Visual C#® .NET Programmer
Career Diploma
Whether you want an entry-level job, or hope to move on to a job as a Systems Analyst or Applications Expert, Visual C#® .NET Programming is an important step toward your goals.

School of Trades

Appliance Repair
Career Diploma
There are certain skills you need to begin a career in Appliance Repair. You’ll get hands-on Appliance Repair training in: Using electrical appliance tools and testers. Working with electric heating appliances and fans. Working with electric ranges, water heaters, and washing machines. Working with motor-driven small appliances, clothes dryers, dishwashers, compactors, and disposals.

Carpenter
Career Diploma
There are certain skills you need to begin a career as a Carpenter. The Penn Foster Career School distance learning Carpenter Program helps you learn about:Construction drawings. Building codes and building layout, lumber, building materials, and fasteners, floor, wall, stair and roof framing, finishing floors and ceilings.

Dog Obedience Trainer/ Instructor
Career Diploma
Develop your skills in understanding dog behavior, communication, and use of the senses. You’ll also learn how to influence dog behavior using conditioning and reinforcement, plus house training, crate training, hunting training, and basic veterinary issues.

Electrician
Career Diploma
Learn to repair, maintain, and install electrical equipment. Work in construction or maintenance, or become an independent contractor. Learn how to estimate and price jobs; how to wire homes, offices, factories; how to read schematics, blueprints, and wiring diagrams.

Furniture and Cabinet Maker
Career Diploma
Learn woodworking techniques and create beautiful pieces of furniture in just a few months! Your program includes fine woodworking, wood processing, setting up your workplace, tools and materials, design, refinishing, and more.

Gunsmith
Career Diploma
Learn how to accurize, repair, and customize. How to fit and finish stocks and mount telescopic sights. How to restore antique firearms. How to design and install metallic rifle sights, and more.

Home Inspector
Career Diploma
You’ll learn about:Construction methods Inspection standards and building codes and regulations. Interior and exterior inspections. Inspecting electric, heating, air conditioning, and plumbing systems. Starting your own home inspection business.

Home Remodeling and Repair
Career Diploma
Save money or start a new career. Learn how to evaluate interiors and exteriors, inspect building materials, prepare sites, insulate foundations, frame floors, walls, and stairs, and much more.

HVAC Technician
Career Diploma
The HVAC Technician program was designed with your needs in mind. Like all our programs, it allows you to train for a new career from the comfort of your own home, without attending classes or quitting your job.

Jewelry Repair Technician
Career Diploma
Your program includes common repairs done by jewelers, colored gemstones, diamonds, and jewelry design, and how to start your own home-based business.

Landscaper
Career Diploma
Your program includes common repairs done by jewelers, colored gemstones, diamonds, and jewelry design, and how to start your own home-based business.

Locksmith
Career Diploma
Your program includes key identification and lock mechanisms, residential and business security, panic hardware and electric locks, electronic security, and even how to start your own small business.

Pet Groomer
Career Diploma
Your courses include maintenance and care of kennels and crates, pet personalities, handling practices, health care, equipment, and grooming techniques for cats and dogs.

Plumber
Career Diploma
Interpret construction drawings and specifications; assemble, install, test, and maintain plumbing systems, repair and maintain water heating systems; install and troubleshoot the plumbing for dishwashers, and more.

Small Engine Repair
Career Diploma
Your program includes common repairs done by jewelers, colored gemstones, diamonds, and jewelry design, and how to start your own home-based business.

Small Engine Repair
Career Diploma
Your program includes common repairs done by jewelers, colored gemstones, diamonds, and jewelry design, and how to start your own home-based business.

Travel/Tourism Specialist
Career Diploma
This program can be your passport to an exciting future. Learn computerized reservation systems, key tourist destinations, tour and vacation packages, even how to start your own travel agency.

Wildlife/Forestry Conservation
Career Diploma
Turn your love of the outdoors into a rewarding career. You'll learn wildlife law enforcement and population management, forest ecology and protection, park and recreational facility operation, field equipment, and more.