ITT Technical Institute

There might be typos I didn’t proof read —Can i give Zero stars? Or at least half of one. Where do i begin. I did 4 years at itt tech. I was promised I can pay $ 50 a month after I graduate or more if I had it. That’s one reason why I signed up. After graduating they wanted a minimum of $ 1200. Impossible. I have a family to feed and maintain a roof over their head. The curriculum was bad. One math class I had the instructor didn’t know how do that math so he wrote the problems and answers on the board and let us leave after 30minutes as I was paying over $ 150 a day per class. I took the electronics course and pretty much only leaned ohms law which now I can find online and pretty much with the power off google and YouTube you can teach yourself anything you desire. They also promised me job placement after graduation. After I graduated I was looking for work around the clock. after getting frustrated i contacted my counselor and she asked me to come in. I got a little exited thinking they had some job leads for me. After sitting down with her she handed me a stack of job postings from Craigslist. Wtf? Luckily none of them were «special services» lol. I’m working doing building automation and access controls, the work i was doing before I started my degree. Making a decent income but with 80+ k debt. I could have been in the same spot without the degree. I feel like I was lied to and not taken seriously when I had questions during my courses. After my 4 years at ITT I went to university of Phoenix for 2 years for my MBA. In those 2 years I leaned a lot more about my major than I did the 4 years I was at ITT. Please do not attend this school. They just want your money and could careless about your future.

My review is long, but worth the read, I feel.
In the two years attended this school, I have been subject to instructors constantly reading from the book, or being subject to sit through hours worth of PowerPoint presentations.
I have also had to fight tooth and nail, over a six month ordeal, to get a grade corrected, when an instructor didn’t give me a grade for a project I emailed to him on the date it was due. This was, of course after having my emails ignored by the program chair, the dean of my program, and the instructor himself, as well as being told by the director of the school that I should be glad I didn’t get an ‘F’ as a final grade.
This school is also chock FULL of people of questionable character. Many of the students LOOK like they’re on drugs much of the time, some of them SMELL of drugs, and several will ADMIT to being high in class every week. Not only that, but the level of morality that people here have is often very low. For instance, several students have had their laptops stolen, when their backs were turned, right out of their bags or off the table.
Then, you have the issue with having to go in and have your schedule corrected each quarter, when you’re not a full-​time student, yet they sign you up as one each new quarter, but state that the system only shows you part-​time, and should only schedule you as such.
Lets also not forget about the BLATANT, and FLAT-​OUT lies they will tell you to hook you into attending. I was told by my recruiter that credits transfer very easily, that you can test out of up to 50% of the classes in the NSA program, and that, if necessary, the school understands when you need to miss class for a week or so, due to life’s events. All of these were false informations! ITT is only nationally accredited, which means that any other school, such as IUPUI, which is both nationally and locally credited, will not accept your credits. It turns out that there are very few school that will, period. You cannot test out of up to 50% of the classes in the NSA program, because you cannot test out of their made-​up classes, like «Stategies for the Technical Professional,» which is a course on MS Office, and you can’t test out of core classes. You CAN test out of General Educations courses, like Math and Composition, but there are only a few of these in the program. The test out program is very rigged as well, so as to keep you from testing out when you’ve missed the small test out window. Credits WILL transfer in pretty easily, although sometimes you have to fight them to accept them. The school is also NOT very forgiving when missing class. First of all, if you don’t inform the instructor that you’re missing class, the school will call you to ask why you weren’t there, because attendance is taken for each class. Also, most classes have «Lab Time,» whether the class really has any labs or not, and your grade for those is often only given by showing up for class, with no way to make it up for missing. Some instructors will just simply not allow you to make up work, either, regardless of why you missed or whether you planned it with them ahead of time. So, often, if you miss a class, you’re receiving zeros in the grade book, which most of the time can’t be redeemed.
One of the most dubious things they’ve done in the past couple years is to inject an extra course into the curriculum, after we had already signed up, and are most of the way through our degree program. We now must take «Advanced Strategies for the Technical Professional,» which includes most of the topics covered in other classes. So, this class is actually just a redundancy, which we all (we students) feel is a money ploy, since we will have to pay for that class. The information from an instructor is that this extra class was included so that military students, who have their tuition paid for by the government, can be considered at least ¾-​time for the duration of their degree, as the government does not pay when they don’t got at least ¾-​time. The way it originally worked out is that the last quarter of the degree would only be one class a week, which is only 4.5 credit hours, and drops the government assistance for that quarter. So, it really is just a way for the school to rake in the money.
In all, I implore you to FIND A BETTER SCHOOL TO GIVE YOUR MONEY TO!!!

Warning. NEVER call that 800 number you see in TV commercials! They will likely hound you forever if you DO call. Full disclosure: I used to work there and my departure was not happy. Suffice it to say I should have never worked there at all. But I am not particularly angry any more.
, you need to know the truth about these folks. While the rank and file who work there are generally good people… the system is quite cynical and downright evil in many ways.
Some of what I might say in this review may have changed. The federal government may have forced them to change. I have no way to check. I am just saying that IS true is that their first objective is to make a profit. Education is, in my opinion, a distant 2^nd. The minute you call them. you know, when they tell you there is «no obligation», they start pumping you for personal information. And that information is fed immediately to «financial services» so that they can prequalify you for a student loan. Should you choose to sign up, there will be people constantly making sure you «attend class» online… in other words «rack up that debt.»
Another trick is that they tell potential students that they are nationally accredited. But it is «regional» accreditation that is important, not national, when it comes to being able to transfer credits. When I was there ITT Tech Online DID NOT HAVE regional accreditation and that me and that means students could not transfer their credits. It meant either finish at ITT Tech or lose all the money invested. This may have changed but YOU MUST ASK repeatedly to make sure.
So basically you have a loan writing machine designed to milk you dry and to keep you captivate until it has «used you up.» Alright, that is enough for now… more coming later.

Just an FYI to all you youngsters out there.
From my personal experience, do NOT attend ITT via the internet.
It is the most confusing, costly, irrelevant mistake you could ever make.
Their communication is lacking and decentralized. The learning experience is one tenth what you would get in the classroom so I feel it should cost one tenth. Each class uses the same templates from previous classes, along with the mistakes and erroneous questions and answers. I took their Web Design course, which you would hope that their online classroom would be much better suited for teaching, but the experience was no different than reading a book on your own.
The tuition is way too much since you are not in a classroom and with the online experience, you may as well be teaching yourself. Plus, what you are learning, at least in the web design class, is behind current trends. Way behind, even for an associate’s degree.
They charge you extra for classes their system forgot to assign to you. At least in my case, meh.
Higher education should be a right, not a luxury that puts you in debt for the rest of your life. I went to school to earn money to buy a house, not to start life with the payment of a house that will eventually disqualify me from buying a house in the future.