Union County
Vocational-Technical Schools
High School
The Union County Vocational-Technical School District is dedicated to advancing the learning and wellness of all students. The district ensures high standards and challenging opportunities through the integration of academic and technical training. Through their experiences, students develop confidence, character, and leadership skills. Educational opportunities also exist on full- and part-time schedules for post-secondary and adult learners.
District Information
High School Programs
- Allied Health
- Automotive Technology
- Baking
- Business
- Business Administration
- Child Development
- Clinical Care
- Commercial Art
- Construction Trades
- Cosmetology
- Criminal Justice
- Culinary Arts & Hospitality
- Dance
- Design
- Digital Multimedia Design
- Electrical Technology
- Engineering
- Exercise Physiology and Related Sciences
- Graphic Design
- Information Technology
- Interactive Media and Game Design
- Law and Justice
- Masonry
- Restaurant & Food Service Cluster (Baking, Culinary Arts, and Supermarket Technology)
- Specialized Programs – Alternative High School programs
- Supermarket Technology
- Sustainable Sciences
- Teacher Education
- Theatre
- Technical Theatre
- Welding
For Adults
The Union County Vocational-Technical Adult School provides educational opportunities for adults to acquire technical skills for a new career, enhance existing skills, or enrich their personal lives. Full-time post-secondary career programs are focused to help students train in a condensed time frame of 10 months. Part-time schedules also are offered for a range of courses.
District Information
Adult Programs
- Apprenticeship Programs
- Automotive Technology
- Cosmetology
- Electrical Trades
- HVAC/R
- Plumbing
School Location
UCVTS
1776 Raritan Road
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
News From Union County Vocational-Technical Schools
Career Classroom: Partnerships, state bond funding support opening of new Union County logistics academy (ROI-NJ)
How do you interest the next generation in global logistics? Tell them the future is theirs. That’s a prediction Jasmin Lee shared when recruiting the inaugural class of Union County Vocational-Technical Schools’ Academy for Global Logistics. Lee is principal of the new four-year, full-time academy, which has launched this school year with 48 freshmen.
Career Classroom: Corporate contributions total $90K in scholarships to keep career-minded students in the Garden State (ROI-NJ)
Funding from Amazon, AT&T, NJM Insurance Group, PKA Technologies, PSEG, SHI International Corporation, South Jersey Industries (SJI) and VMWARE totaled $90,250 to the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) Foundation this year to distribute as scholarships to county vocational-technical school graduates.
U.S. News & World Report Best Public High Schools Ranked
New rankings from U.S. News & World Report put 13 county vocational-technical high schools in the top 25 New Jersey high schools and two of those schools place in the top 50 high schools nationally.