Dixie Technical College (Dixie Tech) is a

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. It is part of the statewide

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. Dixie Tech was established in 2001 by the

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and offers certificate programs accredited by the

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. The college is also an American Heart Association Training Center.

History

Dixie Tech was established on September 1, 2001, by the

. It relocated to its current campus on St. George's Tech Ridge in 2018. Before that year, it was called Dixie Applied Technology College or DXATC, but that was changed when all institutions of the now defunct Utah System of Technical Colleges took on "Technical College" in their names. In 2020, the Utah System of Technical Colleges was subsumed into the Utah System of Higher Education.

External links

Official website

References

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