At CLI, our goal is to provide you with the skills and certification you need for a successful new career in one of the fastest growing industries nationwide as a Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technician.
Hands-On Experience - Why We Are Different
Most 1 year and 2 year technical schools will hand you a textbook, give you very little hands on training, charge you $20,000 and call you a technician. You will get a pretty certificate and have NO idea what you are doing!
Hands On! We were founded by a former U.S. Marine and a Master HVAC/R tech with over 30 years of hands on experience. We believe that the best way to teach someone is to let them do it with their hands. Period! So, if you want a fancy school, with pretty computers and pretty textbooks and be able to hang a fancy degree on your wall, then we are probably not the school for you.
We train 9 hours a day, 6 days a week in an actual HVAC/R lab setting. We bust knuckles, turn wrenches, take equipment apart and put it back together. Over and Over and Over again. That is what we do and that is how you learn.
Our Approach
At CLI, accountability is key. We believe that if you aren't offering a viable, affordable, and needed service to the community, then you shouldn't be doing it.
That's why our graduates get equal shares of hands-on lab time and classroom theory.
That's why we operate from an NCCER-based curriculum.
That's why our students frequently have the opportunity to hone their new skills on real worksites under the supervision of their instructors.
And that's why we offer our unique Lifetime Job Placement Assistance program.
At CLI, our number-one goal is to produce competant, capable, confident technicians and introduce them to a fulfilling career with true potential for growth.
