Are you fascinated by rapidly changing technology?
If you like learning about electronics, you’ll enjoy a career in Electronic Communications! MTTI’s short-term hands-on training will prepare you for entry-level positions in telephony, broadband, satellite TV, data communications, and security systems.
Do You Prefer Working Independently or in a Team?
Careers in telecommunications offer both! You can have independence as a field technician, traveling each day to a new worksite—or working with other techs as part of a team. Technicians work both inside and outdoors, on commercial buildings and private homes.
In Seven Months You Can Start a New Career!
When you attend MTTI’s intensive program five days a week, you can earn a Diploma in only 27 weeks. You’ll learn by doing—hands-on in the lab or outdoors, using electrical and electronic test devices, running cable, building alarm systems, working with fiber optics, and installing satellite TV. In class you’ll use a laptop to complete assignments that will prepare you to work in an increasingly paperless industry.
During the final week of the program, you’ll complete an internship to reinforce your skills. When hired in a training-related position, successful graduates will be eligible for a new laptop, and a tool bonus.
What Are Typical Career Opportunities?
Telecom and security technicians work all over the country—especially near cities with their industrial and business organizations. Some graduates are hired at major telecommunications companies as entry-level field technicians or home installers. Others choose to work with telecom subcontractors, or security and surveillance companies. Many of our graduates have advanced into management and supervisory positions.
Licensing
Students planning to work in Rhode Island are encouraged to obtain licenses from the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, Division of Professional Regulation. MTTI students and graduates qualify to take the Telecommunications System Technician (TST) License exams (in the categories of Data, Video, Telephony and Sound) by submitting a letter documenting their training in MTTI’s Electronic Communications Technician program.
Get more details about our Electronic Communications Technician program and MTTI’s tool bonus.
For information on graduation rates, median debt of graduates completing this program and other important information, please visit the Program Consumer Information page.