At Kaplan College, El Paso campus, we aim to
make your learning environment comfortable and easy to access. The
school occupies a 20,000-square-foot building built specifically for use
by Kaplan College. In addition to spacious classrooms and
administrative offices, it offers a student lounge, faculty lounge,
reception area, and a learning resource center with numerous
periodicals, texts, reference materials, and videos.
Some of our classes are taught at our nearby facility located at 1231
Lee Trevino Boulevard. This facility offers 10,000 square feet of
classrooms, training labs, offices, a reception area, and a student
lounge.
Computer Training
Our computer labs are equipped with computer hardware and software
relevant to our career-focused
training programs, including some of today's most common word
processing, spreadsheet, database management, presentation, and desktop
publishing programs.
Electrical Technician Training
Our electrical technician training program utilizes a stick house
with metal- and wood-framed walls and a wood-framed ceiling. Three
variations of electrical boards consisting of various types of cable,
conduit, wire, lamp holds, receptacles, circuit breakers, nuts, staples,
straps, and screws are used to simulate job sites. Various types of
boxes, connectors, plugs, float switches, fuses and fuse holders,
mounting channels, terminal jumpers and wires, porcelain light fixtures,
single switches, 3- and 4-way switches, duplex receptacles, and
incandescent lamps are also available so you can practice and master the
skills required for a career as an electrical technician.
Health Care Training
The following training labs allow you to gain hands-on experience
with equipment and supplies commonly used in today's health care
environments:
- Our dental lab is equipped with a dark room, an x-ray area,
autoclaves, lab sinks, worktables, dental instruments, radiology
equipment, and other equipment found in a dental office.
- Our medical labs are designed to simulate real-world health care
settings, with examination tables, minor surgical instruments,
autoclaves, lab testing machines and equipment, lab sinks, phlebotomy
equipment, EKG machines, exam areas, and CPR training equipment.
- Our pharmacy technician lab provides a mock retail pharmacy in which
you can practice the skills you will need on the job. The lab is
equipped with balances and weights, graduated cylinders, counting trays,
a laminar flow hood, mortars and pestles, computers, and other items
used in a pharmacy.
- Our surgical technologist training lab is equipped with an operating
room table, a gurney, a back table, ring stands, Mayo stands, a Bovie
machine, a prep table, scrub sinks, surgical instruments, and other
items found in an operating room and central supply setting associated
with various types of surgical procedures.