This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in offering job or career vocational or technical courses (except cosmetology and barber training, aviation and flight training, and apprenticeship training). The curriculums offered by these schools are highly structured and specialized and lead to job-specific certification.

• Bartending schools
• Modeling schools
• Broadcasting schools
• Real estate schools
• Computer repair training
• Truck driving schools
• Graphic arts schools

• Air traffic control schools
• Art schools, commercial or graphic
• Banking schools (training in banking)
• Bartending schools
• Broadcasting schools
• Bus driver training
• Chauffeur training
• Computer repair training
• Cooking schools
• Culinary arts schools
• Dental hygienist schools
• Dental technician schools
• Electronic equipment repair training
• Fire fighter training schools
• Flight attendant schools
• Graphic arts schools
• Heavy equipment operation schools
• Heavy equipment repair training
• Home health aid schools
• Hospital management schools (except academic)
• Hospitality management schools (except academic)
• Marine navigational schools
• Massage therapist instruction
• Mechanic's schools (except apprenticeship)
• Medical technician schools
• Modeling schools
• Nurse's aides schools
• Nursing schools (except academic)
• Photography schools, commercial
• Police training schools
• Real estate schools
• Restaurant management schools (except academic)
• Security guard training
• Truck driving schools