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I attend ITT in So Cal. So far I am in my fourth quarter and starting to get the feel of the doubt that 30k to get an associates degree. So far I am 4.0 student with 2 days missing in record. Trust me a day missed is a weeks missed. I have learned almost Nothing. I found out what DHCP means though!? I am thinking about leaving the school, and end up oweing 9 to 11k I think. Could of gotten a new car with that of a down payment.
I work at ITT-Tech and at a state university. While I first was skeptical about the business-oriented nature of ITT, do not kid yourself that state universities do not follow the business model and are run much the same way.
ITT has a specific focus and offers something different than a liberal arts degree that you'd get from a community college and then a traditional college or university. I feel confident about the course that I teach in that the curriculum and instruction are as good as the colleges mentioned above.
I'm not certain, but one way or another, I'd stay far away from any school whose primary goal is to make money, and not to educate.
This is a non-sequitur. Providing an education and making a profit are not antithetical concepts. A non-profit school needs to make money too, lest you think Harvard has amassed a 30 billion dollar endowment for the fun of it. Every school has its hand out looking for money from some place or another, as anyone who ended up on an alumni phone list can attest. Why is this non-stop money-grubbing not similarly regarded as distracting from the institution's educational mission?
One's primary concern should be whether the institution provides a quality education, or at the very least, will provide a return on your investment. In the case of ITT Tech, the answer generally appears to be "no" whether it's for-profit or not.
I would stay away from a college that offers tech only degrees. In many fields, the tech work is being outsourced into foreign countries so you are competing with cheap overseas labor.
Get a regular 4 year degree from a regular college. the tech degrees are looked down on in a lot of fields. Yes, the graduates of those programs perform as well or better than those with regular BS degrees, but the employers are snobs and do not want those with the tech degrees. Ridiculous but true.
Don't do it.
Check the accreditation before attending or signing on! Call you community college and ask for a advisory to tell you how the credits transfer in. If the classes don't transfer ........then that tells you a heck of a lot there!
From a former ITT-Tech instructor (4.5 years in Houston) - the school is a scam that preys on stupid, uneducated (and uneducable) people for the $40,000 federal student loans that they obtain. The books are a joke, the cirriculum is written for morons (because only a moron would attend there) and the credits don't transfer.
How can a person who picks his/her nose in class; who doesn't bathe regularly; who can't read OR write expect to get a professional job earning sufficient income to pay off a $40,000 student loan?
To summarize: the school is a scam for suckers, the credits will NEVER transfer to a REAL university or college (DeVry doesn't count, stupid!), and only morons enroll.
i just graduwated from itt-tech and u people r full of crap i had a grate experience at itt its a grate instation and i have had so manu job offers i am amazed.the instuctors are grate and vary help fule i did not think i culd learn cus i have vary bad learning disabilitys but with the help of the staff i did it i love itt yes it is expensive but i got my moneys worth out of it and i am vary hapy that i went and graduwted from itt-tech what a grate expereince i had.
i just graduwated from itt-tech and u people r full of crap i had a grate experience at itt its a grate instation and i have had so manu job offers i am amazed.the instuctors are grate and vary help fule i did not think i culd learn cus i have vary bad learning disabilitys but with the help of the staff i did it i love itt yes it is expensive but i got my moneys worth out of it and i am vary hapy that i went and graduwted from itt-tech what a grate expereince i had.
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I am thinking about leaving the school, and end up oweing 9 to 11k I think. Could of gotten a new car with that of a down payment.
