ITT Technical Institute

ITT student please sign the petitions.

STILL kept getting calls 5 – 10 times a day even though I’ve told them that I’m not interested in attending this school and to kindly take my phone number off their list…
Once I’ve even told one of the callers that I already have other educational plans in order to get rid of them, and the person on the phone just kept arguing with me on how I should change my educational plans to attend this school… desperate and inconsiderate much?!!

Most expensive school, you dont receive the education that you paid for. To all the new people looking for an education! DONT GO TO ITT TECH ! Go to a community college, you would receive better education and for less money !!
RUN AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL PEOPLE !!!

This is for the new location in National City.
I agree with some of the other reviewers, you are better off with SOME classes being online. They are hands-​on, however they do rush the lessons of the course and the book material. The teachers are funny and can be entertaining, they understands it’s been a long day and you’re in school at night. So they try to be fun. I don’t like that they have lab scheduled in the middle of the class time. I think it should be at the end of lecture, not in the middle and then back to class for part 2 of the lecture.

BACKGROUND:
Grew up in skyline. Joined a few gangs. Made my own gang. Killed and buried a few people, became head mafia boss, demoted to hitman, then quit the street life. Cleaned up my life after high school. Went to ITT Tech. I am now a professional working in the Electrical Engineering field in the world of Unmanned Aircrafts.
I graduated from this school in 2004 from the BSEET Program and now work as an Electrical Integration Engineer working on Unmanned Aircrafts. I don’t believe this program is offered anymore according to their website.
LIFE AT ITT TECH:
The majority of my class consisted of people with the ghetto/​thug mentality who thought getting a piece of paper that said Bachelors of Science on it would entitle them to a job. I mean literally, my classmates were people who used to be in gangs and drugs but did not want that life anymore so they decided to get an education. Hurrah for them for wanting to change. I can’t fault them since I was in the same boat in regards to wanting to move out of the ghetto and change my life.
The difference between me and the majority of the students was I asked more questions and stayed after class to really try to understand and get deep into the theories and anything else which caught my interest. The rest of the class well… was just happy they passed and went back home to party and brag about it the next week. If you are the type who just wants to pass and get that piece of paper… this is the school for you. If you are the type looking to get a good education and obtain skills to use in the real world, this is also the school for you. Absorbing and understanding the information is your choice.
Yes! The teachers do teach you in a way that increases the possibility of the student passing the tests. It is up to the student to ask questions for clarification if they don’t understand.
I didn’t get the impression my classmates absorbed the material taught and only studied enough to pass the test. There was a super bright student in the class who aced all the tests but he was punked for his answers already in the first quarter. This reminds me of high school where the smart guy is picked on and the jocks are the cool guys… I would say I was in the top 5 of the class but even that is not an achievement compared to the people I was around.
TEACHERS AT ITT TECH:
They are pretty good. Willing to stay after class and teach a little more if you want more information. My teachers were actually full time engineers and taught after work. They were able to talk to us about the experiences they had at work and share them in the class which I thought was useful. One of my teachers held a PHD and it definately showed. I believe his name was Ouerghi. GREAT Teacher.
LIFE AFTER ITT TECH:
I learned to speak proper English and not use street slang while working in the professional world. ITT Tech surely didn’t help with me understanding that.
Employers actually told me they won’t hire anyone from a non-​university when I went out to interview.
Did I learn enough from this school to go out in the «real world» and apply my skills to do the job that I do now? Well… yes.
Could I still do my job without the material I learned in ITT… partially.
Did I learn more on the job than at the school? Yes but that will be the case no matter what school you come out of. Real world experience will always trump school education.
Did I get a good education? Yes!
Could I have received a better education for the price I paid? Yes!
What would I do if I could turn back time? Go to Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD. Skip the whole going to mesa college and miramar college or whatever community college and GO STRAIGHT TO UCSD. Maybe even go to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Paying a bit more for a degree is well worth the money. I mean think about it, this education will shape your career for the rest of your life. Why go cheap (not $$$ wise but quality wise) on it and why settle for a non-​university?
Why did I choose ITT? I was intimidated by the big universities and wasn’t sure I was up to par with the other students there. I also didn’t do my research in regards to price of tuition. I also was not mentally fit to be around frats and parties. After a week of attending Mesa College I was so distracted by girls… anyways I won’t want to get into that.
WHAT ARE MY CLASSMATES DOING?
Well, I know 3 other Engineers here that graduated from the same program I did. Two are engineers and one of them is a manager and we all work at the same company. I also know 4 other graduates from my class where one is a real estate agent, the other is a technician at my company, the other is a lead technician at another company, and the other is an engineering aide at Sony.

This school is seriously a joke… STAY AWAY!!! They are in it for the money. The spoon feed thier students to pass in order to keep their acreditation. teachers are forced to pass thier students even if they cannot read or write. Go to a normal college. Go to Grossmont, get your AA, transfer to phoenix or natinal a real school not this piece of scum. Its all about the money. You will be left with about $ 50k in student loans. DONT DO IT!!!

Terrible school.
Go to a normal college and pick up a few certs and you will be light years ahead of this place, and it will only cost you ½ of what you pay for ITT.
I could honestly write about seven pages of insanity to describe how bad this place is, but to try and keep it interesting enough to read ill just touch on some highlights.
1. Anyone can get in. Literally. I’ve been in class with people who can barely read. To the point where the teacher is helping them with words like «contradict.» I remember around the 2^nd year attending a teacher asked a student to start a new slide in powerpoint, and they asked «how?»
2. The teacher I had for a networking class flatly admitted that he didn’t know how to sub net.
3. My teacher last class thought «teaching» meant reading, word for word, the entire book to us. We tried to get him to stop by asking questions about the material, and he asked other students to answer the questions. Maybe because he’s a project manager with almost no IT knowledge, I think so.
4. If you miss 3 classes in a row, you fail. If you miss 2, show up once, repeat… you are fine. In fact I know multiple students who do this and have high 3.6+ GPA’s.
5. Teachers frequently miss the first day of class. Teachers frequently don’t show up period. I would guesstimate i’ve had a teacher no show somewhere between 20 – 30 times. I would say maybe 5 of those absences had a substitute available. The sub is always someone who is not qualified to teach the subject, and usually just hangs out for about an hour and tells you to go to «lab.» Most of the time students just write their name on a piece of paper to show they were there and leave.
6. I have received 0 job offers with my degree in CNS. No one I know got a job through ITT. In fact, I had to call the head of recruiting and tell them to STOP harassing my current employer to fill out surveys about me. ITT was sending my current job (which has nothing to do with my degree) non stop letters and even calling my human resources department, asking them to evaluate me.
7. Teachers frequently show movies in place of class. Keep in mind you only get 11 classes, each of which costs you around $ 150. Making that youtube video the most expensive one you will ever watch.
The only thing to be said about this school is that you simply don’t get your monies worth. They charge premium prices and give you a sub par education delivered via mostly unqualified staff.

So im on my second semester at ITT vista. So I had to meet up with the financial aid to discuss my school funding. I sit down and she has me sign papers for a credit check to see if I am eligible for a full time student. Keep in mind im a full time student now, working and full time and a full time family man. I wanna get this school thing done and over with. The network systems admin program is a year and nine months long and after everything said in done with pell grants you still owe 50 gs. I have good credit and the FA lady said I was not eligible to go full time and that for the last 2 semesters I wasn’t eligible then. I am heated now and I know I took it out on the wrong person. At this point im 13k in debt and now if I wanted to be full time I have to fork out another 4k. Something seems fishy hear. Im at the point of no return now I can’t afford to quit and make payments or be at their mercy stuck in school for an extra 9 months. The commercials make it look like its a quick way to start a new life. Its all crap!
This is my view on this scam. Being in sales I have seen this done while I was working at a gym. They get you in the door and do what they can to keep you there (ie… 24hr fitness lock you into a contract that you can’t get out of) they know your there because your broke and you have hopes of another and better life. They string you along to keep money flowing from you, the government (ya they get money to have you there not including pall grants and what you’ll end up owing them) like a vampire sucking your blood to the point of death but keeping you still keeping you alive to feed on you later. Like a blood bank or should I say cash cow.
The teachers on the other hand treat you like you owe them your very existence but don’t understand I own you and you need to cater to my ass. All the money I am paying to be there times 18 – 26 (students) you should be asking to lick our feet or something. You get irritated when we don’t understand something and god forbid have a question. I own you your at my mercy with out us you would have a real job.
All in all the previous blogs were right not worth the money or the lack of sleep next stop Terko files and maybe a lawyer.

About 10 years ago I saw there commercial on Tv and thought maybe I can build my future. Went to their site got an interview with one of their recruiters name Ray i believe. So everything seems ok EXCEPT their price! Geez so I decided to not go, but the guy name Ray tells me ‘Wait, dont go just yet, if you stay for at least 2 – 3 months of schooling you will make it at least 15 dollars an hour, and about 10 years ago, thats alot! So im like lets sign up! My mother was asian and did not speak english but she believed me that it was going to be worth it so she signs the paper and im co signer. Today is 2011, I still owe over 20 thousand and Im doing landscaping now working for my self. VERY SAD. All I want in my life is my student loan to disappear.)=

Computer Network Systems Major. CNS
(think they renamed it after my class because you can see the reviews for it and its a joke)
Don’t take this review lightly. Avoid this place! I’ll tell you why in VERY great detail. You can scroll down to individual subjects even. :) I had a nice conversation with the Dean about my experience here. It was THAT bad.
Intro:
It’s a pretty piece of paper and nothing more. Look at the schedule and you are taking 10 days of 4 hour long classes. Almost all are let out early or start late.
I had a few good classes: The teacher threw out the I.T.T. way of teaching it and picked up the official Microsoft or Cisco books. Their recruiters will tell you anything to get you in the door. They tried to force me to stick to their schedule and taught me VERY little.
Their top students get ripped apart, fired, etc. by real professionals and most of the people in my graduating class that actually found jobs have been being hired for around $ 12/​hour to work graveyard shifts. Best Buy Geek Squad pays $ 15/​hour. If you want to see their jobs program then start searching on Craigslist because they will spam you with every single computer job that is posted on there pretty much. Yes, even the ones that are a complete scam.
I got the job they are supposedly training you for without listing them on my resume. They had to completely train me because as a Computer Network Systems major, ITT taught me almost nothing useful to working in a Network Operations Center. Take a good look at their campus and you’ll see that they aren’t even equipped to be able to teach you. Labs full of computers on Windows XP, not Vista, not 7, not any version of Server. I am graduating as a Computer Network Systems major and you know that I’ve never set up a network bigger than one you would in your home? I am so appalled by this school that I literally don’t think I’d ever hire anyone in the future simply because they came from it. I learned more from 1 month on the job than I did in 2 years at this school.
Complete Breakdown:
–Why listen to me
I am a NOC Specialist, I have run my own company doing laptop repair beyond what the school teaches and over 1.5 years of working Help Desk for a major company. I started making webpages in 5^th grade, programming real programs by 8^th and there isn’t a language I haven’t played with really. The Dean told me himself that they were basically only trying to give ex-​military a piece of paper that said they had networking experience from having learned it there.
–Microsoft Active Directory and Server 2008
You won’t learn anything that will prepare you for certification. I had one class where they managed to keep us on the first lab for 8 of the 10 days of class. I started playing on my company’s development environment and suddenly with a computer that could actually handle this Operating System stuff just started working. I taught myself with a book! This school: WORTHLESS
–Exchange
Their computers literally can’t handle to run it! Min requirements are about 4GB RAM? They have you virtualize it on a computer using more things that are below the minimum requirements than I can explain.
–Windows 7
I had my teacher get pissed off and say what I had set up at home wasn’t possible. The next week it was our lab to set it up. A simple printer sharing environment that you could Google and figure out for yourself in 10 minutes with no experience probably.
–Databases like SQL
Decent teacher and they will teach you the basics in the one class you get on it.
–Networking Basics
They will give you a 1 day crash course in subnetting. Practically no one from the school graduates knowing subnetting and you really NEED to know that.
–Cisco Devices
Take a real Cisco course! They have free ones and the free ones actually set you up to get certified! This school does not.
–Capstone (The big final project)
This is the single biggest joke. Its a class on project management and not setting up a network. You’ll get to play with programs that you’ve used but if you’re a complainer like me then the head of the department may teach your class. He sat there and told our class about all of the things we learned about and snapped back at a class full of students with EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US telling him we didn’t learn what he claimed. He sent us off to work on our group projects and that is nice and all but ummm, your computers have Visio 2003 on them not 2007 or 2010. Sweet! Doesn’t work with the files from the copy of Visio you get out of their MSDN catalog.
–Exit survey
I filled this out and put as how much I learned at their school as less than 30%. She literally threw it away and handed me a new blank form telling me to fill it out again. I put the next option 30−60% and again.
–Financial Aid
They made me lose mine because they messed up. Literally.
–Students
Mostly ex-​military. Maybe 10 girls in the whole school.
I.T.T… It Takes Time

Let me start by saying… STAY AWAY FROM HERE!!!
The Reviews Don’t Lie!
I was in the Computer Networking Systems program here at ITT. The program itself is decent, however it is ABSOLUTELY NOT WORTH YOUR TIME AND MONEY.
==REGARDING PREVIOUS POSTS by Alejandro & Rowell
RIGHT ON POINT guys! Yes some of the teachers know a little more than you, while many of them know JACK SH1T! Career services… JOKE! Administration… lose your paperwork and loan information! It is VERY possible to learn NOTHING while still pulling a passing grade to graduate 2 years later! WTF?
==COST
FORGET IT. Don’t go to this school unless someone, like your company, is paying for your education. They charged me about $ 1500 per class. At 3 classes per quarter, that’s $ 4500!!! Yes, Breaks down to $ 1500 per month! CNS program was 2 years long… do the math! Total cost of CNS Program is $ 45,000!
==FINANCING
They offer financing through Sallie Mae. They can only finance you 3 quarters at a time. Each quarter is 3 months, so the SUMMER is part of the curriculum. When you graduate, Sallie Mae gives you 6 months before they start billing you.
==PRICE vs EDUCATION
Some teachers are good while some are just EPIC terrible. I’ve had teachers that give you a break every 30 minutes of class… why? Because they SUCK at teaching. I would be lying if i said I didn’t learn anything, because I did learn a lot. However, a CNS degree or ANY computer related degree from ITT is not universal. I would recommend people saving SH! T tons of money by just simply getting an A+ N+ and/​or S+ certifications. I could have learned SO MUCH MORE if the teachers just cared a little about their job!
==OVERALL
Just don’t go here, please! I know they will setup an appointment with you and show you the in’s and out’s of the school, which may look interesting. Look elsewhere for your education. As I mentioned above… GET YOUR CERTIFICATIONS! It’s worth FAR MORE to employers than a degree from ITT.
Hopefully I have saved you some time and Truckloads of money by writing this review.

on my fourth quarter. I been on CDD program it was promessing the first two quarters. My third quarter was an utter waste of time. It might have been me but I did not learn a thing. Help was hard to get and instructor was very unhelpful. I blame the system.

First off, I took the Computer Networking Systems program and I am currently in the Information Systems Security program.
The teachers there do not know that much. They are pretty much a chapter ahead of you. If you read ahead you may be able to pwn the instructor. I’ve seen it happen too. Career services is kind of a joke. They go on craigslist and print all the ads for you. Woopy. Administration there is careless. I’ve changed my email address so many times and they’ve still managed to use my old one so I receive no notifications via email.
Bang for your buck? Nope.
Their online classes are not even worth going to. Being that they are a technology school, they can’t even get their online class to work with firefox so you must use Internet Explorer. I can’t even get on the school’s wireless network with a Mac or Linux OS. I am a Network Administrator for my own company and I think they need some serious help.
They’ve done a good job getting rid of the bad instructors but they need to make another sweep. Make sure you keep all your financial documentation or else you’ll find yourself knee deep (not that I’ve had any trouble) but I’ve heard it from other students.
I have heard that the other programs are pretty good, especially Electronics. Don’t even bother with Criminal Justice.