Heald College Salinas

What I have to say should be brought to the attention of a lawyer. But I will say a couple of things: question authority or student rights and expectations in few cases result in positive action; other times, retaliation for daring to speak up or speak out. Even instructors are not immune to Mr. Cox’ special brand of humiliation and control.
I recently received an email encouraging students to contact California Attorney General Kamala Harris to add my voice to a petition to keep the college open. I will contact Ms. Harris but what I have to say is far different from what the college wants us to say. I don’t know if the college should continue but I do know a major personnel shake-​up in the Salinas campus is absolutely necessary and long overdue, starting from the top on down the line.
There are some employees and instructors who are intelligent, dedicated and worth their weight in gold but unfortunately they are not the decision makers or wield any power.

I wish you don’t have to put any stars because they don’t deserve even one. This school is beyond ridiculous. I tried to attend this school back in 2008 thinking I was getting a high quality education, boy was a mistaken. I ended up dropping very quickly and realized I can go to a community college and pay less and come out with more. So that’s what I did. I even went on to another school and received my AS. What I don’t understand is that I’m now trying to get my Bachelors degree and they won’t release the transcripts because I owe them money from dropping. Ok, but they sent my officials to the school I got my AS from… doesn’t really make sense to bring up this balance just now. So I sit in student finances for 20 minutes because everyone is on lunch. I’m listening to their two dumb administration assistants talk about what not to feed their faces and dropping the f-​bomb every sentence. To have a fairly decent gentleman from registrar try to explain they haven’t sent transcripts because I owe. Btw this request has been pending since September. No one bothers to call or try to contact me or the school requesting them. So next I go to student finances and to my surprise there is no one there to help me because everyone is lunch. The guy at the desk sees my frustration and tries to find someone to help me. And oh yay another rude lady to help me and give me attitude. So in the end if you want your money stolen from you and like to be jerked around by unprofessional people, by all means Heald College is the school for you!

If I had zero stars I would put zero ! This school hires old students to harass students ! They put students in jail from assumptions ! I got offered to buy pounds of weed from the security guards ! ! This is a non drug school but the faculty can’t give a drug test to the teachers because the teachers do drugs themselves ! I hate seeing people get raped ! Some personnel are shut out from speaking out because they are just trying to keep a job ! I have many friends who haven’t received a job from acquiring a degrees from heald ! And yes they suck your money ’ ! Why would u pay 4500 when the classes you take are worth 14 $ a class at a community college !? Know your self and know your worth !

Warning. Do not got to or work at this school. It is the biggest mess I have ever seen. The admissions and financial aid team will lure you in with part time jobs and excess funds. But after you graduate, which most don’t, your monthly bill will be nearly $ 900 a month! And unfortunatly based on the maturity level of the students that attend, and the lack of structure and discipline offered by the staff no one wants to hire the people that are graduating. Save your money and go somewhere else… anywhere else.

Expensive school for what you get. They harass you weekly by phone and use sales techniques to try to woo you. No, I’m not going to waste my money on an expensive degree from this school that will likely not get me a good paying job.
Update: It is exactly one year later from when I first called Heald College just to inquire about the cost of attending. Since that time I have received over 100 harassing phone calls. I have asked 20 plus times to be removed from their call list and have been reassured over and over again that my name has been removed. Just when I think they have done what they said and removed me from the call list, I get another call. It is driving me insane. I have been everywhere from nice to rude about my demand for being removed and nothing has worked. Every time my phone rings and I see it’s them again, I’m just seething. Sometimes the calls come in daily and mind you it’s been ONE YEAR since I made just one phone call to them.
Here’s the price to attend their school as of last year when I called:
Heald College
$ 20,000 a year
So, there you have it, no wonder they keep harassing me. They actually think I’m dumb enough to hand over this kind of money.
Do yourself a favor — DON’T call them, and if you do, never ever give them your number.
Update: still receiving harassing calls. It is now March 2013. The calls come from 831−443−1700. When I ask them to remove me from the call list, they say they will «forward it to corporate». Great, whatever that means. I’ve already heard that line a few dozen times. So I ask for that # to check on it myself and when I call corporate, my number is not in their system. I receive yet another promise that I’ll be placed on a «do not call list». I don’t know what I have to do to stop the calls — maybe change my phone #. Be warned.
Note: Phone # for Corporate’s marketing dept. 415−808−1400 ext. 1410.

Do not go to this school!!! rip off! horrible teachers!!! I have had only a few good professional teachers. For $ 30,000+ you expect way better then what Heald has to offer. I go to the vice president Mr. Cox for help but he just basicly blew me off for being irritated with the service i get around here. He rudely looked at me and asked me how old I was? WTF how unprofessional is that! Now everyone in the student services office sees me as a «Bad Student» just for speaking up for myself. 30,000+ dollers for just a aas??? rip off!!! MOST OF THE CREDITS ARE NOT EVEN TRANSFERABLE!!! I go to this school and extremely regreate it! WARNING PLEASE SAVE YOUR MONEY AND DONT GO TO THIS SCHOOL!!! NOW THAT I HAVE RESEARCH MORE, THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER AFFORDABLE OPTIONS!

Ummm is someone flagging and/​or removing all the bad reviews for this school? How is it possible that they have just one review and it happens to be 4 stars? Ummmm yeah, I kinda doubt that only one person has written a review for this school, so we’ll see if my poor review stays up. So, I called the school to find out the cost of tuition since it is listed NOWHERE on their website. After asking about 10 times I finally get an answer. The cost of tuition for a full time student is… drum roll please… $ 4,930 per quarter!!! He tried to woo me by telling me he could help me find a part time job etc. but seriously, this amount of money is crazy!!! I could become a lawyer for almost the same price… I was so shocked I had to hang up the phone.

I really like Heald College. Most of the teachers are great. It’s a fast paced school, but nothing you can’t handle. They are constantly trying to improve the school in every way. Customer service/​Office staff is friendly. It is an expensive school. But, the financial aid staff will help you with all the paper work and you may qualify for financial aid assistance :)