ABOUT SYMBOL
Symbol Training Institute exists to help individuals achieve professional and career success through targeted, quality education. Our classes are created with one goal in mind - to prepare students for the workforce by giving them the skills they need to find and retain employment. Our exceptional teaching staff, specifically designed programs and hands-on training all combine to make us the leader among post-secondary education institutions.
Why are we here?
Symbol Training Institute exists because our founder, Alex Kogan, along with his team, saw early on the need for specialized training. After years of seeking out such programs and finding that none existed, he set out to create his own. Utilizing his more than 40 years of experience in the manufacturing industry, he created a unique curriculum that was concise, yet targeted specifically to allow an individual to complete training and gain immediate employment. Symbol has since expanded to provide a variety of courses with the same guiding principal of preparing individuals for gainful employment.
Our history
Symbol Training Institute evolved out of Symbol Tool, a tool and die shop that was established nearly three decades ago. Back in 2006, Symbol's management saw the need to start an advanced manufacturing school due to the lack of skilled labor and formalized vocational school training in the US manufacturing industry. Due to this fact, Symbol has very close ties to the manufacturing community by training and upgrading the employer’s existing workforce, while continually receiving feedback from the industry. Symbol trains individuals who are looking to start careers within the manufacturing industry and assists them with quality job placement services while filling the ever growing job openings at local manufacturing companies. Symbol’s philosophy of collaboration, which incorporates the linkage between industry and education has produced exceptional placement results whereby over 90% of Symbol’s graduates obtain and retain employment. Symbol prides itself that it was created for the manufacturing industry, by the manufacturing industry while helping to keep manufacturing strong. Symbol Training Institute is approved by the Division of Private Business and Vocational Schools of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Symbol is also nationally accredited by NCA CASI, and also accredited by the National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS).