Drafting programmes teach you to turn a design into the drawings and models a building or a part is actually built from — AutoCAD, Revit, SolidWorks and Inventor, plus the dimensioning conventions, building codes and drawing standards that let a contractor or a machinist read what you drew without asking you.
The degrees this program covers
⚠ In Florida this is a certificate field, not a degree field. Of the 459 credentials awarded across 25 public institutions in 2023, 323 were certificates of under a year, 97 were one-to-two-year certificates and only 39 were associate degrees — and no Florida public institution awards a bachelor's anywhere in the series. ⚠⚠ Read that against the occupation before you plan on it: 42% of O*NET's respondents for architectural and civil drafters said a bachelor's degree is what the job asks for. The certificate gets you drawing and gets you hired; it does not by itself answer what four employers in ten say they want. The usual answers are to add the associate degree, or to carry the drafting skill into an engineering technology, construction management or architecture degree — which is why the neighbouring programmes below matter more here than on most pages.
Careers this program leads to
Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end,
and the sources behind it.
Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers.
⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree
keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.
25 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023,
at these levels: Associate, Certificate (<12 weeks), Certificate (1-2 years), Certificate (12 weeks-1 year).
A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited
its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing
program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.
Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only —
the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is
strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023
will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.
Updated 21 September 2026.
⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always
read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.