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Complaint Review: ITT Technical Institute - Houston Texas

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  • ITT Technical Institute Blue Ash Drive Houston, Texas U.S.A.

ITT Technical Institute SCAM, LIARS, RIPOFFS, WORTHLESS Houston Texas

*Consumer Suggestion: All For Profit Career School Students Need To Heed This Advice

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I graduated from ITT in 2003, and I must say this is the worst financial decision I have ever made. I should have listened to my wife. For starters the STAFF. STAFF told the class on numerous occasions. go to the university, go to the university. don't come here, your money could do better somewhere else, go to the college and get your bachelors. He mentioned it was better to get certified.

One of the recruiters, who also was a student complained on a daily basis, how this school sucked,and how he scammed more suckers into coming into ITT.

I am 20k in the whole, because of a lousy education, and a degree thats probably not worth the paper its printed on. Those recruiters got the best of me. I still am frustrated with the 2 years I wasted and the money that was scammed out of me. Just like many of the other reports I have read on here, ITT promised a 50k a year job. IT is the hottest sector and when you finish you can be a network administrator. ITT gave me a false hope and took advantage of my desire to succeed.

I should have know something was wrong when a a schoolmate comes high on drugs just about everyday and hardly does assignments, graduates with highest honors. I detest their commercials, they should have told me none of my credits would NOT transfer. I applied for an entry level programming position, entry level help desk, entry level network admin, guess what. I didnt get the job. I attempted to use my degree as leverage, obviously i didnt get the job,because i'm here.I should have just stayed in the military making 38k a year. I have given up on the IT field and am now close to finishing an engineering degree from a nationally recognized school where i can build on my education if i so desire.Thank you ITT for all the ridicule, family stress and financial hardship. Many friends and family have considered ITT, I don't hesitate to tell them "go to the university"

One last word. The dean walked into one of my classes in the last quarter, that he was instructing,(but not that day).Congratulated us on making it this far,and all the well wishes blah blah blah. He said "in the future if you feel like your skills need to be updated or need some extra training, come back and sit in some classes to get that extra training you need"
maybe i should take him up on his offer.

John
Houston, Texas
U.S.A.

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All For Profit Career School Students Need To Heed This Advice

AUTHOR: Margaret - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Thursday, May 31, 2007

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.

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