Art Institute Online Poor education and business practices Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

I would stay away from this school if you are truly looking for an education. The bulk of your course work is going to be things you could do on your own if you wanted to. For example, in the software applications course your assignments will be to complete the tutorials for the program you are studying. The "teachers" will not offer any help either. Even if you get something wrong they will tell you that you did a great job on completing your assignment.

Aside from the poor education, they also have horrible business practices. After my wife's first term she decided to drop out of the program because she did not feel like she was getting a quality education. She made several attempts to contact the school to drop her courses for the next term. She never heard back from an employee until the first week of the next term had started already.

At that point they told her that she would still be resonsible for the charges assessed for the whole term. Beyond that they told her that the financial aid she had qualified for would be given back to the lender and that she was now responsible for paying the full balance directly to them. If we could've afforded to pay the balance up front we wouldn't have taken out loans. Now we are stuck with a bill for something we never truly got.

Chris
Scottsdale, Arizona
U.S.A.