Moving to Denver to attend Ecotech Institute. Anyboby know much about the place?

[myusernameisjoe]

Originally Posted by SkyDog77

The one thng I can tell you about EcoTech is that they have contracted with a good company to effectively notify them when their name is posted anywhere on the Internet so they can swoop in and reply. That is all I know.

YEAH, THAT'S WHERE ALL YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY GOES. It doesn't seem to go to supporting their infrastructure (computers/technology) which is very badly needed. General rule: stay away from for-profits, especially Ecotech.

[myusernameisjoe]

Ecotech is a joke. They'll let anyone in because they've lowered their entrance standards. The reason they've done this is simply because the corporate office is leaning on them to increase their enrollment numbers and to do anything at all in order to keep current students in school.

Yeah, they have a career placement office. Yeah, their placement rate in 2012 was 90%. But you have to ask placement in WHAT kinds of jobs? They did get one graduate a job hawking solar installation services to travelers at the airport. Its a job though, right? All this guy does all day long is try to stop busy travelers who are passing by, so that he can give them a brochure from the company he works for. Do you want to pay over $35K for a degree that gives you THAT kind of future? Avoid Ecotech Institute. Go to Redstone College (in Broomfield, CO) for a better renewable energy education. Or go to a public university -- at least you won't end up 35K in debt, hawking brochures to strangers in the airport.

[FormerEcotechStudent]

I graduated from Ecotech in 2012. I am now selling cars. The "education" was useless. I still know people there, and its gotten a lot worse, too. They're so desperate to get people to sign up, that when people call from out of state but have no visible means of support, nowhere to live in the Denver area, and no friends/acquaintances there, the Ecotech admissions people will tell them not to worry -- Ecotech will help them with all of that. So these people come to the school without a clue as to how they're going to support themselves or where they're going to live. Because admissions has promised them help, they expect the Ecotech staff to find them places to live (for, like, $200/month), and a job (that pays, of course, about $15.00/hour). As a result, there are homeless people now signed up to go to school at Ecotech - nothing against homeless people, but they've been lied to, and are now victims of the Ecotech admissions system. Most of these people will end up dropping out and going home when they realize no one will help them (duh). Don't believe anything Ecotech admissions tells you.