Wow so many bad things to say about my experience at CTU. I realized after six months of attending CTU on-line that is a scam. These people should be ashamed of themselves for wasting tax payer money. I have found a newspaper article that anyone planning on attending any of these ridiculous on-line schools like CTU, ITT Tech, Westwood College or university of Phoenix, ECT... should read. It is titled In Hard Times Lured into Trade School and Debt. By: Peter S. Goodman. The New York Times, March 15, 2010. This article explains exactly what these types of phony schools are up to. http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/109081/in-hard-times-lured-into-trade-school-and-debt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V122ICNS8_0
I found CTU On-Line to be a miserable experience. The on-line class environment is a joke. All the instructors do is read you a book over the internet. Listening to the instructors just read you a book over the Internet was intolerable and boring. The instructors would never answer any questions, saying that they had to finish reading the required material in these live chats ("class sessions"). The assignments that some of the instructors posted were stolen from other schools internet sites word for word. I found this out by googling the key words of assignments and found the exact same words for assignments on other schools web sites. The instructors say you can e-mail them for help "since you can’t ask questions during the live chats”, but good luck getting a timely response. Most live on-line chat sessions I attended at this "school" had very few participants; maybe three out of forty people participated on average. The chats are recorded but that's even more intolerable and boring than listening to the live sessions.

The instructors would have you grade and comment on other student’s papers. This was a joke because most of the papers sucked and I didn’t want to be the one to tell these people they had no clue what they were writing about. Most of the student responses would only be a few sentences like, nice work on your paper I found it interesting. This really was not helpful at all and a complete waste of time.

The instructor’s comments for grades were basically the same, consisting of only a few sentences that really didn’t help me learn anything at all or correct my mistakes or clear up any confusing material. Most of the time the instructors would use the cop out that you can find everything you need on the internet, what a joke.
They (CTU) have this thing called group assignments were you team up with others from all over the country to do assignments together. This never worked because of different schedules and time zones. I was the only one most of the time that would even try to get the group to work together. It never did go very well though.

The APA style writing they push on you was a joke too. Every instructor had different interpretations of what APA was and nobody I talked to or even myself ever had much luck writing "correct" APA format.

I was getting A's and helping other students out with programming concepts and Java code writing. If you attend this school you had better love sitting in front of the computer forever. The college algebra class came and myself and allot of other students were struggling and trying to find help, but there was none. I was spending 30 hours a week doing all these things and feeling like I was wasting my time and money.

I learned more about computers from my own studies than the classes provided. Most students in my classes were so lost that I spent most of my time trying to help them make sense of the garbage the school was presenting.
I really think that you should choose a school carefully and ones that advertise on the TV or radio usually aren't very good. I got out after $9000.00 in total charges after like six months and six worthless classes. I would have been better off investing that money in any other way rather than trying CTU.

The admissions people are quite the sales talkers. They called me constantly for two weeks straight to get me to pay the $50 application fee and start my FASFA papers so they could get paid as soon as possible. What a joke that school will pass anyone through the courses so they can collect the easy money their stealing from government loans.

I think people should attend a class room based school with hands on training. That's really the only realistic way to go. Who wants a bunch of Internet trained cops, engineers or doctors working with them, I know I wouldn’t. I would advise you to ask the HR department of a place you would like to work were they have their employees trained and go to those classes. I have taken company sponsored classes that got me certificates that increased my pay and value to the companies I was working for. Hope this helps and good luck in your search for a school

I believe this school will accept anyone for their programs just to collect the easy money from the government loans they are stealing from. The fifty dollar application fee is just feel good tactic. Anyone who applies to this school will be accepted. Seriously DONT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL, YOU WILL JUST END UP IN BIG TIME DEBT WITH NO SKILLS TO PAY THE BILLS. Now I’m so mad because I was a MORON for believing this "school" was going to improve my education and job options.
DONT GET SUCKERED IN LIKE I DID, I KNOW I WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF INVESTING THAT MONEY IN ANY OTHER WAY. My E-mail is [email protected] and if you want more explanation of what I experienced I would be happy to save you from the worst (AND MOST COSTLY) decision of your life, attending Colorado Technical University On-line.


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5-12-10, Wife is online looking up education. She fills out the CTU survey, and provides our home phone number. She did not read the privacy disclosure. The Disclosure informs the reader of the web site that a cookie will be added to the computer, so CTU and other third party companies will know what websites your computer visits. The disclosure also states that your personal information (Your phone number, Address, Etc.) will be provided to "Responsible" 3rd party companies. This might explain why four education search companies have called non stop to talk to my wife.

5-13-10, CTU calls, doing a follow-up to see how they can help. Wife informs the scam company to cease and desist from making calls to our home.

5-14-10, CTU calls, asking for wife, and I the husband inform CTU to cease and desist. The lady from CTU insists she must talk to my wife. Phone call disconnected from our end.

5-17-10, 9:00am, CTU calls, asking for wife, and I the husband inform CTU that I have already requested a cease and desist from their calling center, and if calls persist, the police will be notified. Agent from CTU informs me that she will make a note in the computer. This would indicate to me their is a call log. (Crossing Fingers)

5-17-10, 1:00pm, CTU calls, asking for wife. I asked who would like to speak to her. The lady gives me her first name (acting as a friend), I asked the agent what company she was calling from. The agent repeats "Is your wife available?", I again asked her the name of the company. The agent states she is calling from Colorado Technical University. I the husband, re-inform CTU that I have already requested a cease and desist from their call center, and that I will press *57 on my phone, have the call annoyance agency track their phone number, and when paperwork arrives from phone company, I will obtain a case number from our police department, and will file a formal complaint. The lady from CTU terminated the call from her end.

5-17-10, 1:30pm, Knowing that the police process will take days, even weeks to complete, I make an attempt to contact a CTU call manger, or supervisor that might listen to reason, and take our phone number out of their system. Here are the steps taken.

1.) Went to CTU website. No phone number is provided to contact their university. There is a Red Flag.
2.) Research their name in connection with harassment on the net, and found this site, where I found a phone number left by a member.
3.) Called CTU, and reached a "incoming" call center. Took a lot of patience, and several conversation angles before the phone representative would put me on hold to talk to his supervisor.
4.) The supervisor informed me that they do not have logs for outgoing calls, and I would need to call the main campus to stop out going calls.. She then gave me the number (1-847-783-8910) and transfered me to the main campus.
5.) Upon reaching the main campus number, a phone map gives several options, but none of them mention harassing calls. However, if you dont hit any number, you are transfered to a live agent.
6.) I explained to the live agent that I want to know how I deal with harassing calls to my home. I give the lady a brief run down of the events, and she responds with this reply " So your saying that you were accidentally called by one of our agents?" I informed her that I was not accidentally called, and she told me to hold one minute. She then transfers me to a voice mail of an individual without warning, and without providing the number of the voice mail I was put in contact with. The voice mail announcement give a name, no title. So she could have sent me to anyone's voice mail.
7.) I left a message regarding the issue on the voice mail, and waited for the voice mail program to prompt me to return to the operator for assistance if needed. Of course this company made sure their voice mail does not allow you to reconnect with a live operator.

To date, no call back.

In Summary:

a.) The outgoing agents that call your home to sign you up and collect your money act mor elike rogue bill collectors that admissions representatives.

b.) The incoming agents that you call to complain about the outgoing agents seemed prepared to deal with call complaints from angry citizens, and do their best to deflect information that will assist you to solve the harassment.

c.) If your lucky enough to obtain the "Main Campus" number, you will NOT find a number for Safety department, student union, information technologies. Another Red Flag.

d.) If your lucky enough to reach a "live agent" at the "Main Campus" you will be told that all those calls to your home was actually only one call, and it was a simple mistake by their call center. and then be transfered to voice mail of an unknown person, with an unknown title.

e.) Be prepared to press *57 on your phone as soon as CTU hangs up with you, and call your police department.

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I was planning on attending CTU online until they called my house to follow up on me requesting information. I was appalled at how downright nasty and rude they were. They hung up on me when I tried to tell them not to call anymore. One lady even called me a bitch when I told her she couldn't speak to my boyfriend, who also requested information. Needless to say I will never attend their school and anyone who tells me they are going to is going to hear what I have to say about them. I will complain on every website and I even called their admissions line and told the lady I wanted a call from the president of the school or else I would file a complaint with the cops because they were harassing me. He called ten minutes later and I gave him a piece of what was on my mind.

I spent 2 years and borrowed over $30, 000 in student loans to achieve my associates degree. After waiting for many months for my degree to arrive in the mail I finally called to find out when they were going to send it to me. To my surprise I was told I still owed the school $1500. I enrolled in the bachelor's program, I was then sent an email stating that I had enough in student loans to cover the bachelor's program and the left over amount from the associates program, however the degree will not be sent to me until March of 2009.

If they have all the money I owe them for both programs, shouldn't I be entitled to my hard earned associates degree diploma? I finished the associates program in April of 2008.