My fiance has been out of work for several years so we decided that with three kids, car payments and a house to run that he should go to school to further his education. He loves computers and all electronics so we thought this would be the best choice...we could not have been more wrong. At the intake they tell us that he can get the schedule that is needed to work around my full time job so thr first quarter was flawless then it all changed. The next quarter he is now going to class Monday day, Friday day and Saturday day. When he spoke with a rep at the schpool they told him that classes are based on the availability of the teachers..WHAT...then the head of the electronics department stated that he and other will have to learn to manager their schedules better and for thoes few that have no say, like my fiance, he does not know what to tell him. I am floored by all this and so disgusted to see how it is being run and how they are praying on people. If they had told us at the intake that the schedule would change we would have thought twice, now he is in the second quarter and if he drops a class he is no longer thought of as full time and looses all the funding! So I work with my boss to work around his school so we can all be happy and then he shows up today for his morning class and they tell him it is not until 1pm today...REALLY!! I switched to saturday nights starting at 3pm...mind you I am a manager and really need to be there during the day. This change happened last night some time because we looked at it on Friday and it still said 8am. The teachers are not even part of ITT they are from other schools and this is why students are at the whim od the school. The staff is not properly trained and after all that I have now read about the school I am going to seek legal assistance about the loans, having their private status pulled and possible having them shut down. Talk about dangleing the golden carrot in front of a person ad then telling them when its to late that they will never get it. Stay away from ITT Tech, go to a regular college not only will it be cheaper you will get a much better education.

ITT Tech is nothing but a big scam and greedy for money.

I signed up for classes in mid December right after the start of their winter semester which started December 6th. I had my meeting on December 16th because I figuered ITT tech would be good for me, a smaller school with a smaller, more hands on learning environment and I had a 3 hour meeting with my counselor about setting everything up for the upcoming semester. After talking with my counselor I was still able to sign up for the Winter 2010-2011 semester

During my first meeting with my counselor I had been advised to go ahead and sit in on a 9a-12pm Saturday class to see how the class functions and it would work and I was told that I would even be given books so that I could use them to go sit in on my class. During our meeting I VERY WELL remember that there was no topic regarding any sort of payment for sitting in on that "trial class" even though I was already registered.

I signed the enrollment agreement and I saw the break down cost for the SEMESTER(which equated to $4, 768) and was then given my books by my counselor and on my way. A few days later I went and sat in on that Saturday class and I thought it was nothing new and after talking it over I decided that I could not follow through with ITT Tech.

I told my counselor that I had to withdraw from the program due to other circumstances, she didnt care much because Im sure she already got her comission. This all happened within the last two weeks of December .

She then told me that I had to return the books and that was that. I never contacted her again, nor returned the books. Fast forward to a month later(Yesterday Feb 4th).

I recieved a call from a collections agency stating that I owed ITT Tech $1, 136. I called ITT yesterday and of course no one was there so I called the collection agency and asked what the charge was for(I thought it was for the textbooks I havent returned yet). The guy looked it up on the computer and told me that it was for "tuition" because if it were for books it would of said something along the lines of accounts recievables.

This morning I called ITT Tech back and spoke to a woman in the financial department about this and told her that I didnt understand why I was being billed $1, 136 for a "trial class" that I was advised to sit in.

It turns out my counselor never mentioned anything about that $1, 136 when we went over the enrollment agreement, she just told me that I could go sit in on the class and then go from there. There was never once any mention about any sort of payment for that class

The woman on the phone wasn't very helpful either because I told her that I was never given any warning about this at all, but I told her I did sign the enrollment agreement and was aware of the cost broken down for the SEMESTER, not for that one class that they are charging me for

She gave me the run around about the campus director not being there untill Monday and that she'd let her know and if she knew anything shed call me back. She also told me that for me to be able to sit in that Saturday class I had to sign the enrollment agreement and another sheet of paper, which I did, but my counselor never mentioned anything, NOT ONCE about it affecting anything towards the "balance owed"($1, 136)

Now Its time to lawyer up because this is sickening and Im not going to let it get on my credit because as of yesterday I have 30 days to resolve this.

I am a single mom, struggling to take care of my daughter all by myself, thinking Itt tech was a brighter future but so easy to get in. I am being robbed by this school, and its really upsetting to know that this "business" is getting rich off of me and I can barely provide for me and my daughter. I want to sue. Any suggestions?

I am an instructor at ITT Tech. I have been working there for over 5 years. Most of the instructors do what they can to teach the students learn.

The school has a seat and keep policy where they tell the instructors to just pass the students to keep them. Instructors must call the students 2-3 times a day to make sure they come class.

During the school year they change their rules and can drop you from school if you miss 1 or 2 days off class so upper management can retain their bonuses.

They treat the instructors like crap to the point where all the instructors leave or quit. Imagine having 3 new instructors in an 11 week period.
They claim their computers are state of the art and they often crash, shutdown or they teach old software no one uses anymore.

Their books have many errors, missing pages and incorrect information. Most instructors do not even use the books because of the incompetent books you spend thousands of dollars for.

The school bounce you from profession to profession. They may teach you Architecture in 1 quarter, then engineering the next, civil engineering after that, then graphic arts. Now back to architecture. Most students forget what they were learning because they are bounced around so much.

Their career fairs consist of jobs at Home Depot, Lowes, Security Guards and working at Comcast. Try paying a $500 a month student loan bill making $10 an hour.

The school loses student paper work and screw up the financial aid on a consecutive basis.

If you really want to go there. The recruiters will take the entrance exam for you so they can get paid their bonus. The recruiters will tell you the credits transfer and they do not. No where in the US will these credits transfer.

Trust me I am an instructor there, and I don't mind getting paid $60k to teach there, but the school has bullied me enough and bullied the students enough. Enough is enough.

One more thing. Un-certified teachers teach the classes. They will have an architect teach engineering and a engineering teacher teach architecture, while the criminal justice teacher teach graphic arts. They do this just to please their schedule because of their small school.

All instructors share classes with each other. Imagine sharing a classroom with 3 instructors. All three instructor teaching 3 different subjects. Most of the time the classes are so disruptive and chaotic it's impossible for the students to learn.

Go there if you wish and I promise you will pay $50k for a crappy 2 year degree, where you can get the same service from another 2 year college for $10k.

If you are going to pay for (What my students would tell me) "crap wrapped in chrome" at least pay the minimum amount.

The picture shows an CAD class doing green screening. Nothing to do with architecture. That day we had to set up all this equipment and share the small classroom with another instructor.

Also go to youtube and search yungnine and thugworld and watch how the multimedia students used the school to produce vulgar movies in the presence of the staff. Lots of cussing and they used the school equipment and classrooms to do it.

Did ITT Tech care? No. They just wanted their money and asked the instructors to pass them.

Anonymous Instructor

Please spread the word. This happend few years back where I registed for Web Design and was taught crap. The teachers cannot teach and teachers would leave the class while students were taking finals. One of the teacher got so fed up that he wrote the answers on the board as he was in hurry to watch the football game. The counselors I have seem them Unemployment office in el monte stopping people asking them to join school and giving out flyers. I was also stopped lol. But left as at the time was no interested. The administrator gave me run around as my loan did not pass and asked me to write in and speak to our congress person and while now I see she bought time. Its a shame how can she sleep at anight. Anyways one of my class mates used to work doing data entry at night to pay bills while another worked in hospital filling in supplys to pay the bills. Please tell your kids, any one who is planning joining please go to community college you will learn better there is no short cut.

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