Comment Comments (10) |  |
| 1. Written by wake up and smellthe freakin c, on 06-10-2009 23:53 WoW for real it's really sad that those of you who have attend ITT and graduated hate it............seriously your one dumb $$$ if knew from the start that instructors werent doing their job then why didnt you say something to the dean.......... dont come up on this website and down talk ITT yet your walking around with an ITT degree....... you all need to grow up if you didnt suceed at ITT is because you all are failed ..............the work at ITT is is like community college there anit no diffence ITT is just more conservative................. and responsible YES! they do call you if you dont attend class only to be on your *** and making sure you get the homework and dont remain behind............this is my 8th qaurter here at ITT and i love it I already got a job............. half way through school (ITT SUITS ME) when i do graduate i cant wait to come back on here and laugh in all your faces because i did it.................. |
| 2. Written by ITT Tech was good for me, stil, on 08-08-2009 09:14 I graduated 10 years ago from ITT in San Antonio with the A.A.S in EET. You get what you put into it. The education was great, the teachers were great, and so on. ITT does warn you that you must do the work, study and be in class. We started with 30 people in the class, when I graduated there was only 13 people left. The reason people dropped out was because they didn't fallow the three simple steps. 1. you need to Study 2. be in class 3. Do your work. ITT found me a great job months befor I graduated. My starting pay was awesome.. I have been laid off many times but never went back to ITT to have them help me find a job. Did that on my own. Still to this day I have been able to find a job in my field eventhough the industry is still struggling. I do however aggree on one thing the price did change since I went to school. My two year degree was 25000 back in 1997, now its close to 90000 that includes the bachlors degree. I am now enrolled in the CEET batchlors programm and its only going to cost me a little over 35000. Thants little money compared to what ITT has helped me uptain in my annual income over the years. ITT Worked For ME. |
| 3. Written by Kirk Allen - ITT Kansas City, , on 03-08-2009 12:50 As a former employee of ITT Technical Institute (as an enrollment representative and then as a Career Services Specialist), I encourage you to think twice about attending ITT Tech. Please understand that I am not a disgruntled employee. In fact, as an employee they treated me okay. But the bottom line is, my integrity was challenged on a daily basis as I saw students come through who should have never been enrolled in school. The admission requirements are sub-par to say the least...in essence, anyone can be admitted into most programs. And boy, do students pay. At over $425 per quarter credit hour, ITT is praying on the less fortunate (in many cases) and encouraging them to take loans they will never be able to pay. From what I witnessed of the education, it is well below average (aside from a few good instructors). I attended and graduated from two state schools (both of which were much less expensive) and received a much higher quality education. And finally, the most important part that most people do not realize: ITT is a for-profit, proprietary institution (State schools and community colleges are not-for-profit and not publicly traded). It is publicly traded. What this means: Students are paying to keep shareholders happy and to pad the pockets of the executive staff located in Carmel, IN. When I was an admissions representative, I was reviewed by the number of students I enrolled. It didn't matter whether I thought they could cut it or not, they wanted numbers and that was the bottom line. When I was in career services, I was judged by the numbers of 'placed' students. It didn't matter if they had a felony or no competency-they still had to be placed or I didn't keep a job. A natural question you may have: Why did you work there for 2.5 years if you had so many issues with the school? if I had it to do over, I wouldn't have. But now I'm going to try to keep some people from making a decision they will regret. The Bottom Line: Attend a community college or a public, state school. It will save you a great deal of money and the education will be much better. [Complaint comments] Comments [Complaint country] United States [Complaint category] Education Share with others: Digg it! Del.ici.ous Furl Yahoo My Web Was the above complaint useful to you? More ITT Technical Institute complaints ITT Technical Institute - Avoid! ITT Technical Institute - Payment Comments Sort by: Date | Rating 407 days ago by William [send email] 0 Votes As an instructor for ITT, I can confirm the money-grabbing and numbers-driven culture . If you don't meet your quota for attendance and grades, it must be your fault. This results in a rating that keeps you from teaching certain classes. Instructors are reminded and exhorted to call every absent student for every class and remind the budding scholars that they are enrolled in a program. On top of that, we are expected to document every contact in a computer system. We are placed in a position of treating adults like children and nagging them to improve their own lot in life. Students are mailed reminders that a new term is about to start and that they should plan on attending classes. On top of that, instructors are expected to collect the reminders from students for an ipod raffle! Students that show up literally 3 hours late for class still counts as a valid attendance. Students who sign-in and immediately leave is considered a valid attendance. Pizza parties for classes that have 100% attendance during a crucial week. Free video games and popcorn in the student lounge. Free donuts and juice to entice students to arrive for finals week. All this and much more leads to grade inflation and social promotion of students who have neither the ambition nor the smarts to copy the answers from the back of the book to homework problems. A large portion of the student body are undisciplined, lazy, and unfocused dullards with a huge sense of entitlement. If you are serious about bettering yourself - steer clear of ITT. 389 days ago by Bill Ritenour [send email] 0 Votes I regretfully admit I am a a graduate of ITT, with a worthless AAS degree in Multimedia. I received a little bit of this and a little bit of that in training in various aspects of multi media, but not enough of any one area to really have a grasp and understanding of the subject. Also, I did not have any portfolio of any substance worthy of showing to prospective employers. Employers usually want five years of work experience plus a Bachelor's degree, and a good portfolio of work. I graduated in 2006, and I am still working in a job that has nothing to do with my so called training. I considered continuing my education to get a Bachelor's degree, but I TT's credits are not transferable anywhere except to another ITT campus. I feel like I have been robbed of my money and time. 384 days ago by Amanda Both [send email] 0 Votes I also am I graduate of ITT also with the worthless Associates degree in multimedia. I graduated with all the phony honors, though I was actually going to go somewhere with my life. I got a job working as a web design specialist for 2.5 mnths then was laid off. ITT promised me that they would help me get a job for the rest of my life.. huh.. with a very poor education from that school I shouldn't have expected any less then no help at all... Now I can't get a job anywhere in the computer field and I'm working for a self-storage facility. I have stopped making my loan payments because I can't afford it and feel like yes, I have been robbed. 358 days ago by Lil [send email] 0 Votes I've been interested in furthering my education for some time. I'd always seen the commercials on tv, like a lot of people, for ITT Tech and thought it sounded like a great school. I figured it would be better to get a specialized degree in my area of interest rather than go to a community college, since I thought that a specialized school would be... well, specialized! And they would be better suited to teaching me what I'd need to know. Just a bit of background about me, I did graduate from high school as an average, rather unexceptional student. Though my parents had promised they would set money aside for me for school, by the time I graduated high school, there just wasn't any money saved for me, so I decided I'd just work instead and if I ever decided to go to school, I could look into it when I felt I was ready. I sent off for some information and got in touch with a guy named Vince, who was a recruiter for the Seattle ITT Tech and we had a nice chat. I explained that although I would have loved to attend the actual, physical school, I would be unable to as I lived too far away and didn't have access to regular, reliable transportation. So I told him that I would be interested in attending online classes instead. He told me that would be no problem and at the end of our chat, he told me that someone from financial aid would be getting in touch with me the next day. I explained to him that it wasn't the best time and could we do it on Friday, instead, and he said fine - and yet, sure enough, on Thursday, I get a call from someone from financial aid, all eager to fill out my forms! I was a little miffed by this, but I was done with my work for the day, so I thought I might as well go ahead and get it taken care of, while I had the guy on the phone. He went through a questionnaire with me about my finances and so on and mentioned student loans and when I said that I didn't have any credit and probably wouldn't be able to *GET* a student loan, he said 'oh, don't worry, we can get you one!' and so we continued with the process of filing the FAFSA info and filling out my enrollment form at the site for the September quarter. We concluded the call and that was about the time I got a sinking feeling. Right around the point where I received a couple of emails from him with attachments that I would need to fill out and send. I did a search and found the postings here and was very dismayed, to say the least. The very next day, I got in contact with Chase loans and had them cancel my student loan application. Just today, I emailed the financial aid guy: 'I have been doing a great deal of research about ITT since I spoke with you last and I have not been pleased by what I found. In point of fact, I was left feeling very troubled. I have contacted Chase and had them cancel my application for a student loan and I would like for you to cancel my enrollment for online courses at ITT. I will not be talked into reapplying for the loan, so don't bother calling - you will not be speaking to me again on the phone. The next email that I expect from you is one notifying me of my enrollment being cancelled. |
| 4. Written by Carlos V, on 30-07-2009 16:36 A few years ago a friend of mine joined ITT as I joined a Community College. He smirked he would be working a lot sooner than me, which I knew ITT had very short courses so Yes he would be. Right after Graduating ITT he set out to find a job in his field...Well nothing happening. I'm almost done with my BS in the same field and he is still trying to find a job in his field. It's now been 3 and half years since he graduated and knows maybe 1/3 of what I learned. People please go to a Community College then a University. It will be the best thing you do. By the way my BS is in Information Technology (IT). |
| 5. Written by Leeds, on 27-07-2009 18:32 What a bunch of whining baby's. Do you really think ANY school can guarantee your idiotic *** a job. None of you can spell or use grammer and one fool even thinks it is a right to eat and drink in class. Welcome to the real world children, if you had taken better advantage of the free education your state offers maybe you would have known you need to read all contracts and heres a kicker... STUDY the materials supplied. Imagine that my children, you are responsible for getting educated, not ANYONE else. Do not think your local University wants more than your money from you. Everybody is looking for a paycheck, these people at ITT included. |
6. Written by MnM's, on 20-07-2009 15:49  WOW! Am i glad i came to this site!! I am currently seeking a college to attend in the fall quarter/semester. I visited ITT-Tech in San Bernardino, CA over two months ago and ever since then, they will NOT stop calling me to return to finish my financial aid (which, by the way, i never started). Glad i found out what kind of trap i was going to get into! I figured there was something fishy when they started calling me every single day!!! |
| 7. Written by Doug Mad, on 13-05-2009 21:09 As a previous student and employee, these statements are very true. Empty promises. Don't be sold on false promises |
| 8. Written by April, on 11-12-2008 11:28 I, unfortunatley, am a student at ITT, I have been attending since 2005. I am close to graduating and I will tell you I cant wait to leave. It took me to my 5th quarter at ITT to realize that something was not right about the way things were run. I was more concerned with getting my degree than to really pay attention to the way the school performed. All comments that have been made so far are completely correct. Instructor turn over rate is outrageous. Once you have a great instructor who really has something to give the students they end up leaving to go to a real university. If you miss a class they call you, which I personally feel is ridiculous. I am a grown woman, if I miss class that's on me. This is college, not grade school. School supplies are a joke, you'd be lucky to actually have your text book on the first day of class. Computers are constantly broken, or just incredibly slow. Oh and yes, there are in fact advanced level student who can barely read and write a decent sentence. You can not believe some of the papers turned in by students, one instructor actually read a students paper outloud and told us they would not stand for this type of work, that instructor left the next quarter. I stayed becuase all the credits I earned could not be transfered to another accredited college. I do not have the luxury of time and believed if I just hung in there I would get that 80,000 dollar piece of paper and leave. In my 4 years at ITT I have experience so much, it would be exhausting to really discribe it all. So out of my experience I would have this to say, it is not worth it, ITT is a terrible school run by inept personnel. I can't say you will not have problems else where, but I can say I know ITT is not worth it. |
| 9. Written by Michael, on 10-12-2008 01:10 Charles, I cannot add or subtract what you said. ITT Technical Institute does not take care of good instructors. It is easy to get rid off those that finally come to this sad conclusion and bring in new blood. No wonder that everyone pretty much passes any classes. As you know, if the instructor does not pass a student, it is a whole lot of paperwork to be generated. Not only for the fact that ITT Technical Instite NONE of their 110 campuses are 'REGIONALLY ACCREDITED" You are absolutely right when to suggest students to attend another school. If ITT Technical Institute does not or will not take care of their own, what makes you feel that ITT will take care of the students? Some registered students should not be considered students. I really dont understand the logic of allowing just anyone to enroll just to meet the numbers and look good. now if you are reading this and are attending the first or second quarter, you can drop from the school while you are not too involved! remember: They are " Inspiring, Fullfilling the shareholder's pockets and draining your pocket with the student loans". Do you really believe the Director cares? *** no! He is there to get his salary, plus profits from the campus. The more people they enroll, the bigger will be his cut. If people start dropping, then, you will see the director around! The Dean is the Director's puppy. Without him, the Director is dead meat. STAY AWAY FROM ANY ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE CAMPUS! |
| 10. Written by Charles, on 14-10-2008 17:25 I was an adjunct instructor at an ITT tech in Ohio till Spring of 2008. It does not surprise me that students (and prospective employers) are not satisfied with the level of education at ITT campuses. Many ITT instructors are not motivated. Usually courses at ITT techs involve 4 contact hours per week for which the adjunct instructor is paid $125 per week. There are no other benefits. Those 4 contact hours are class meeting times and do not include the following: 1) Prepping for class (at least 2 hours). 2) Grading (another 2 hours). 3) Contacting every student who did not make it to class after every class meeting (a requirement at ITTs). 4) Documenting those contacts in their online database (another requirement). By comparison a community college instructor is paid much more than that, with nowhere near that workload, and sometimes has a grader and a lab supervisor to help him. Qualified instructors look at ITT as a place where go when you are in between jobs. You cant be a student at an ITT and not notice the high instructor turnover rate. Many ITT students do not have the basics for successful education at that level and are just being pushed along. Without any exaggeration there are students who are taking advanced courses in electronics and IT who can barely read or write. This means that an instructor has to give easy exams to pass them on. As an instructor you are graded on the performance of your students on exams that you set! DUH? The instructors grade determines whether he/she is given a bonus and can also be grounds for termination. Not surprisingly ITT grades never follow a bell curve, rather they are heavily inflated at the upper end. This is really a disservice to the students who are bright and hardworking enough to truly obtain good grades. The curriculum (especially for IT courses) are outdated and the textbooks are crappy; The labs usually don't work. The instructor is not allowed to change much in the course because the school wants it such that when an instructor leaves, someone off the street should be able to walk into their shoes. My advice to prospective students is: if you can make it into a community college you will get a better and more respected education at less than a fifth of the cost. |
 |
| Comments on ITT Technical Institute very poor education | |
Consumer Forum is another great place to discuss consumer concerns NOT RELATED to this article. |