ITT Technical Institute ripoff, fraud, the biggest waste of money ever, STAY AWAY Carmel Indiana

I was raised in Louisiana and have resided in Texas for the last 16 years. I attended college and Vo Tech Education in both states. although I am unfamiliar with the other 48 states educational systems, let me explain something about the difference in public Vo -Tech Education and a private career technical school.
Louisiana is a notoriously poor state, and most work there consists of the blue collar type of employment.

Louisiana has public Vocational and Technical schools there because community college was pretty much non exisitant there until the mid 90's Some examples of this are the following schools I am familiar with. TH HArris Vo Tech, Opelousas, Louisiana and Lafayette Regional Technical, in Lafayette, Louisiana. Lets say a person is interested in taking something like Medical/Nursing/Pharmacy Assistant, Aircraft Mechanic, NDT, Business Office/Secretarial they pay a small tuition, say 200.00 for a quarter and pay for all their own books, and supplies. Student aid is offered.

All the instructors are definately cerfified. The schools are run by the state public education system so they know that they cannot charge a person 25,000 to become a Nurse Assistant whose average wages are 9.00 an hour. My ex husband attened the public vo tech school in LAfayette, Louisiana and took Electronics Technology.

When all was said and done he had paid approx. total 3,000 in tuition and another 1000 in books and supplies, and places like ITT Tech are charging people 50,000. Its a BIG SCAM!!! MY ex got an excellent post secondary education and even the opportunity to work for NASA.

I do not know if other states have public vo tech education, however if a person wants to major in Criminal Justice go to either a 2 or 4 year college because if one wants to become a police officer, they will need at least 60 credit hours from either a 2 0r 4 year state college, not a private career school. Now if a person wants to take something like Sound & Recording Engineer they can attend a specialty private career school because most 2 year colleges or public vo tech schools will not offer this. But even with that said, still investigate the school and do your homework and stay on top of things and then you won't get a big SCAM!!

If people would just investigate their state's employment web pages, average wages are stated for various careers and those wages are not some uninformed sales recruiter making a bogus sales pitch saying someone can earn 15.00 an hour as a nurse assistant.

I have attended community college (Texas) 4 year college (Louisiana) and a for profit career school on line, however those studies were more about personal enrichment and additional knowledgement more than transferring credit courses. When I transferred my college credit from Louisiana I had 25 credit hours, Texas only accepted 15 and I had to take a CLEP test to test out of the rest of my English courses. If every future student in the US would accept this advice, they would all be much better off and for profit careeer schools with heavy handed sales tactics would be curbed down to very specialty schools and education for more comman careers would shift exclusively to community colleges and public vo tech schools if offered in their state.

I am so glad I did not attend this school. I almost made the devastating mistake of thinking I can get an engineering degree there. I work for an engineering facility and I NEVER have seen an ITT Tech grad here. Before signing on I asked for second opinions.That's when the light came on for me. My boyfriend was interested in going to this school to for the same Engineering degree and realized it is not accredited by ABET and it will cost him close to $80,000 for only two years! What! They also highly pressure you like they are salepeople. Its a joke.

If you look at the curriculum it is nothing like a normal comuunity college or university. Its like they just want you in and out. DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL! For what you will pay you can get a Phd at a local university! Like I said about the University of Phoenix, there are no shortcuts or quicker ways to get an education. Employers hardly even recognize a degree from ITT. There are only a handful of suceesful people from their school anyways.

Let me make it clear to everyone that reads.

You will not get a job at all b/c there are no jobs out there.

I am so sick of the computertraining commercial. It makes me sick.

"What are you waiting for"?

I'm waiting for the commercial to go off the aire!!!

It makes me sick. better hours, power to do anything. It's not happening people. The contract means nothing except a piece of paper

On the last posting I agree with you 500 %. The school is a scam. Same thing with computertraining. I don't know why they are advertising. False and misleading. They will get theirs. I will embarrass this "institution". I almost applied but never gave them money.

Having worked for the company I can totally agree with what you're saying. This is a very shady company and it doesn't start within the schools, it starts at HQ. Those are the shadiest group of people that I've ever worked with in my life.

If you have other options you should act upon them and not attend ITT. If there's a good community college in your neighborhood you should go there instead of ITT. You WILL NOT get a good job once you graduate. They show those graduates on the commercials as an scheme to enroll other students but those are the only students that I've ever heard of that actually make money. The other students get stuck in lousy jobs. The school doesn't care about what happens to you after you graduate. You've earned them some money and a pat on the back from HQ.

HQ was raided! They are constantly letting people go for stupid reasons and people are always quitting. No one wants to work for that kind of company. They're about to fire a lot of people from the online department. They fired two online deans and demoted the National Registrar to an auditing postion, lucky him he was able to find a better job outside of the company. What a smack in the face. The national director of career services was fired too so students don't look for much help in that area any time soon. That guy was really dedicated. The school directors are a joke. Most of them are lazy and don't want to help the students.

ITT does accept anyone they can get money from. Sometimes they'll let students attend for an entire quarter and then find out they don't have all of the requirements so they have to make the student quit, then, they try to make the student pay for the classes. Not fair. ITT really needs to get itself together. I really hope someone reports them and they get raided again and this time they get shut down. I don't understand why the school is still around.

Stop wasting your money at ITT, you're never going to make anything of yourself by attending school there. When it's all said and done all you'll have is a degree that no one respects and thousands of dollars in debt.

Now lets talk about the email addresses that they promised. They are a joke too, they don't work. That was done to shut the students up. ITT needs to get real and stop lying to the staff and students. The school is still around because they are good at tricking people into attendance. STAY AWAY.