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Before any home, office building, store or even a sidewalk is built, the land needs to be surveyed.

A career in surveying combines mapping skills with a passion for the outdoors.  With a Westwood degree in surveying, you'll l earn the essential skills of surveying.  Through hands-on classes and computer-aided design albs, you'll be ready to lay the groundwork for a variety of projects by providing correct and complete maps, charts and surveys.

PROGRAM FEATURES INCLUDE

  • hands-on lab training in field surveying, construction layouts, data collection and advanced survey projects
  • production of technical drawings through the use of theoretical surveying techniques essential to the fields

Program names, course topics and outcomes may vary by location. Please see the catalog for the campus location of your choice to review full program details.

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  • Our fast-track approach can help you earn your associate degree in as little as 17 months.
 
 

Surveying Course Information

A surveying degree opens up a world of possibilities. Course topics include:

  • Boundary Law
  • Construction Surveying
  • Electronic Surveying
  • Field Surveying Basics
  • State Plane Coordinates
  • Survey CAD Projects
  • Survey Trigonometry

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Locations offering the associate degree in
Surveying*

Colorado
Denver North - Denver, CO

Program names, course topics and outcomes may vary by location. Please see the
catalog for the campus location of your choice to review full program details.

*Not all programs are offered every term.  Check with the campus of interest for current program offerings.

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  • Our fast-track approach can help you earn your associate degree in as little as 17 months.
 
 

Where could your Surveying degree take you?

Our surveying program provides the educational background and hands-on experience necessary to successfully begin a career in surveying. Our faculty of professionals who work in their fields will provide you with the knowledge, training and insight that you’ll use in your career. Take a look at a few of the career paths our graduates have taken with an associate degree in surveying from Westwood College:*

     Instrument Man

     Rod Man

     Survey Technician 

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  • Our fast-track approach can help you earn your associate degree in as little as 17 months.
     
*Graduates without experience in the field will likely start in entry-level positions. Position titles and responsibilities may vary by hiring company.
 
 

Westwood has prepared our surveying graduates for careers with employers such as:

COLORADO REGION*

DI Graphics, Inc.
Jehn Engineering
Merrick and Company
QC Data
Tim Shenk Land


*Westwood College must track the initial employers of its graduates for accreditation purposes. This list contains employers of Westwood College graduates from  January 2009 to December 2010 and is not intended to represent an endorsement of Westwood College by the listed employers.

 
 

Surveying Occupation Disclosures

The Department of Education lists the following occupations as potential careers for graduates of this program:*

17-1021 Cartographers and Programmetrists
17-1022 Surveyors
17-1022.01 Geodetic Surveyors
17-3031.01 Surveying Technicians
17-3031.02 Mapping Technicians

Additional information is available by visiting www.onetonline.org and entering the six-digit Standard Occupational Code (SOC) in the Occupation Search Area.

*This list is based on Department of Education standards. Actual entry-level jobs for graduates in this program may vary from this list. The job code data was pulled from IPEDS CIP-SOC crosswalk as of 4/22/2011. Although the Department of Education requires all job titles to be listed, Westwood College has not found the program to prepare graduates for all the jobs listed.

 

General Program Disclosures

To learn more about the available programs, related graduation and placement rates, median loan debt and tuition and fees, select the document for your location of choice below.

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