Verified Trade Schools is free for students — no accounts, no fees, and your information is never sold.
Listing is also free for schools, permanently. Verified Trade Schools is operated by Edact Solutions, a Fort Worth company that offers optional paid services to schools: enrollment process audits, CRM and follow-up systems, and admissions operations support. Some schools listed here are Edact clients; most are not.
Client status never affects how a school appears on this site — not its placement, its data, or (once launched) its reviews. If a client school ranks well, it's because the data says so. That separation is the whole point of this site, and it's audited against the published methodology.