Westwood College Beaware of National Accredited Schools Upland California

I graduated in May of 2007 from Westwood College (Torrance, South Bay CA) campus in their Game Art & Design program. I now work for Blizzard Entertainment, makers of World of Warcraft, Diablo and of course Starcraft...enough said.

People, you will get a Bachelors, you will be taught the tools you need, then what you do with them is up to you.

They taught me Maya, 3D Studio Max, Mudbox, After Effects, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Silo, among many other programs that other colleges wouldn't.

Blame the school all you want, but what it really comes down to is utalizing what they give you. No they can't guarantee you a job but what college should? You need to let your work speak for itself.

For the people thinking about enrolling into Westwood, please be advised. Westwood College is a NATIONALLY accreditted school, therefore, if one is thinking about transferring their Westwood credits to a REGIONALLY accreditted college (i.e. University Or State College) they WILL NOT transfer. Regionally accreditted schools do not recognize other colleges that are not accreditted the same way, plain and simple. I want to clarify this to others checking out this site because of the misleadings fromt the post above. When I went to college, I transferred credits easily from a state school to a university no problem. That's because they were accreditted schools. So, for the poster above to claim that schools just want your money and that's why they don't transfer is ridiculous. The reason why they don't is because National accreditation means nothing to these schools. They see Westwood credits as a load of garbage. I wonder what college the poster above says she transferred to? I have never heard of a college just excepting .3 of a credit hour. They either accept them or they don't. Please everyone, avoid Westwood like the plague.

I went to westwood college and took the basic core classes, math and science. When I transfered to a state college my credits transfered with me, not the entire 3 credits for each class but 2.7. I know your feeling on this one, Cecil but the thing I did was call each college I wanted to transfer to and make sure my credits transferred over and give that to me that in writing.

Westwood college credits do work and your teachers and advisors know this for a fact. Other colleges do not want to accept credits from other colleges because they are losing money on each class they are not teaching you. That is why they want you to repeat each course so they can make more money off of the student tuition you pay for.

My piece of advice for you is to call the institution and make them give you documentation on why the credits will not transfer and if they cannot do they, they must accept your credits.

~Sanjiya