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ITT Technical Institute Reviews

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30% of 322 students said this degree improved their career prospects
35% of 322 students said they would recommend this school to others
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James Hunt
  • Reviewed: 4/30/2014
"Instrustors grade on 20+ point curves. Give you exams to take home, some even put the answer keys on the overhead projectors the week before the exam. They pass everyone. It is a FOR PROFIT SCHOOL. You are money to the shareholders. You go to school there, pay the insane fees, and you get a worthless piece of paper (what do you actually 'learn' from being given the awnsers?) and end up being 40k in debt. Please, for the love of God, DO NOT GO THERE. You will regret it as I and thousands of other have."
ALD
  • Reviewed: 4/11/2014
  • Degree: Information Technology
"Itt will tell you whatever they have to in order to get you in rolled in their classes. (The Madison AL campus). When confronted about something that was told to a student they continue to lie and try to make the student out to be the one who misunderstood. Their teacher are not qualified to teach the classes. And they think pizza parties make up for poor quality in the classroom. They put grades on the grade sheets before the work has been turned in. The teacher show up late for class and do not have classroom material ready for that class. And their financial aid office will lie straight to your face. Give you the wrong date on aid that is due to student. The student is not the important thing to them. They must be rated on how many people they have in class and if the student gets a passing grade. Because that is what is important to them. Getting a quality education is not real high on their list . If you are a parent that is working with your kid to pick a school, DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY."
Frank Dux
  • Reviewed: 2/28/2014
  • Degree: Computer Science
"Here is a little story about ITT Tech. My best friend and I both liked programming. He decided to go to ITT Tech. I decided to go to a state university. We both got bachelor degrees in Computer Science, his from ITT Tech, and mine from a real university. That was five years ago. I work as a software engineer at a nice company and support a family and kids off of that salary. He works nights at doing manual labor at a pipe-making company pouring molten iron. He lives with his parents and gets paid about $12 an hour. Case in point, don't waste your time at ITT Tech. He learned nothing and the degree is worthless."
Ana Maria
  • Reviewed: 2/3/2014
  • Degree: Paralegal
"I attended ITT & was passing classes with honors, still wasn't feeling like I had learned too much. It is way too easy and the education provided for Legal Assistants was mediocre. I felt like I wasted a lot of money on mediocre schooling. Would never recommend this school to anyone, don't make the expensive mistake and I wished I listened to all the other bad reviews before enrolling..."
Almost Done
  • Reviewed: 12/28/2013
  • Degree: Electrician
"I have to agree with some of the points that most of the reviews give but I would not write off ITT Tech completely. I have been a student for the past 3 yrs due to my job not working with my class schedule. I guess it depends on what area you are going to school because I have found my instructors to be very knowledgeable in their subject but they were not given the freedom to teach how they wanted because ITT Tech has a syllabus that they require the teachers to follow. They also tell the teachers that they want them to teach by power point and that these power points should be sent to the students in order for the students to be able to catch up if they miss class. Many of the teachers do open book exams but they don't allow the students to share information while taking the exams. Most of the exams are structured so that most of the answers can be found on the power points given by the teachers so most of the time the students are able to pass by printing out the power points and using them during open book exams. Because of this system, ITT Tech seems to have a high rate of turn over of employees including advisers. My reason for deciding on ITT Tech is the fact that you don't have to take non essential classes like biology when you're taking electronics. I liked that they go through your financial aide with you step by step because I was taking classes at NC Wesleyan College and I had to do my own financial aide which I always seemed to have done wrong but had no one to show me that until it was too late. Now I owe the college money and I can't get my transcripts for the classes that I did complete. While at ITT Tech, I did end up owing because if you drop out or don't pass a class, ITT Tech does not take the money from whatever financial aide you applied for. You end up owing the school for these classes instead of what ever loans that you take in order to pay for school. As far as the degree you get, I have talked to several students who have received a degree and said that the job market for that degree wasn't what they expected. So my plan is to get my degree in Electronics and then go to the community college and take the courses specific to Biomed in order to get the knowledge and training for that particular field. So while ITT Tech is not for everyone, its no different than finding out that a big prestigious college wasn't for me, so you can't really base your decision on someone else's bad experience but on whether or not the curriculum will work for your schedule or goals."
Anthony Glockner
  • Reviewed: 12/12/2013
  • Degree: Electrical Engineering
"Pros for this program, are the networking i was able to accomplish while at this school. There was a large variety and diverse group of people here that allowed me to positively interact with them to help create a network of people for my future career. Cons for this program include no sate certification that i thought was available to me, also some of the professor's at this facility only care about there paycheck and nit the students."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 8/22/2013
  • Degree: Art & Design
"I am currently enrolled in ITT Tech. I researched schools very carefully and decided ITT had the most current industry softwares and curriculum. ITT Tech offers a pretty competitive degree. I dont understand how anyone could say otherwise. I take Comp 1 & II, Algebra, Trigonometry, and next semester I am scheduled for Survey of Economics and Physics. I work very very hard to try and maintain my GPA. My Trig teacher just announced to the class 1 wk before finals that only 3 students are passing so far, (get your work in). Another instructor does not accept work 2 weeks late, and yet another wont accept late work at all. I hope to graduate with honors, not because they 'inflate our grades', but because I have devoted many many hours of my time and frustration plunking through some very demanding material. I have also seen 20 ppl show up on week 1 and by week 4 the class is down to half that. It is not just a school for ppl who work full time jobs (I dont know how they can do it), it is a school for anyone. Finally, regarding employability: although several classmates interviewed and got great jobs before graduation, my fav is a guy who after shyly admitting to class he got a job, looked over at me any said with a smile, "this s... just paid for itself"."
chrid
  • Reviewed: 7/18/2013
  • Degree: Electrical Engineering
"Tell us about your college experience.I thought ITT was a decent school. Yes some of the instructors were garbage but its like that everywhere. If you put the time in you can learn. ITT helped me get a job in my field before I graduated. I feel like I know just as much as the UCSD grads. The whole $10 an hour thing is BS, I got a job after my AS degree making $21 with benefits. Its about how you sell yourself. Because no matter what school you go to you still have to go to the interview and get yourself that job.Would you get the same degree if you could start over?I would choose electronic engineering again.What advice can you offer other students?If your a veteran this is a great school for you because it is year round and you don't miss out too much with you GI benefits. As you know if your not in school you don't get paid."
Matthew Burningham
  • Reviewed: 7/10/2013
  • Degree: CAD/Computer Aided Drafting
"I wouldn't recommend this school to anyone, however my personal opinion aside if you do decide to go to the ITT Tech, there are a few things you should be aware of... they will say anything to get you enrolled and be able to charge you for enrollment, don't take anything they say at there word get it in writing, and I mean anything from credit transfers to class enrollment, programs offered to scholarships and grants.Second they are looked at in the professional community as a joke. You can get a good grade without doing the work, the instructors will exchange easier grading and less assignments for good student reviews. If you are looking to build your portfolio of work to prepare you for the workforce ....DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY with ITT Tech. Your better off with a local community college, honestly you'll get more out of an online tutorial than at that school."
cap
  • Reviewed: 7/8/2013
  • Degree: Project Management
"I have found that the career services department is horrid, when I graduated from my associates degree I was sent out on interviews for really good jobs in my field. However, in the 1 1/2 years it took to finish my bachelors degree they turned over personnel twice and I started getting "leads" for jobs that hardly paid. I made $50 + in my current position and they were sending me jobs making $10-15 per hour, it wasn't worth it. I was promised more "leads" but till only get one email every couple months from career services. In this day in age jobs are harder to come by and they didn't help us when we graduated from our bachelor program like they did when we graduated from associates program."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 6/18/2013
  • Degree: Health Sciences
"If you are still considering ITT, don't. You will be very disappointed. As you would expect, most who are interested in these kinds of institutions have full time jobs, with children or just don't have the time. Sure the commercials insist that they will work with your schedule, and yes, they promised morning and evening classes during my orientation but that was a lie. Everyone had the same schedule. Sometimes morning, sometimes afternoon. The staff is crap, disrespectful, uneducated, unprofessional and always changing. We just had an instructor who tested positive for narcotics...unfortunately the best we've had teach at the school. I could go on and on but in short: save yourself the trouble. You definitely can do better than ITT."
Mansoor Qadiri
  • Reviewed: 6/16/2013
  • Degree: Electrical Engineering
"Pros: my favorite degree and career cons: current job market"
Darren
  • Reviewed: 6/13/2013
  • Degree: Computer Networking
"My overall experience with this business was mixed. I would recommend that a person, who wishes to achieve a degree, to seek it out from an accredited university or community college. If one wishes to acquire, on the job skills, as in trade work. Then this business might be worth your attention. Even then I would only recommend that one considers this business for training if they are seeking a Technology focused job. I completed the course work for a bachelors program for Information Security Systems at the Troy, MI campus in 2011. During that time have observed much of ITT’s operation and have criticisms and compliments. When I first enrolled I was not seeking a degree but rather to acquire technical skills that would improve my knowledge of IT/IS. That I did do. But many other students there had the expectation that a “degree” earned there would guarantee a rewarding career. I believe many others were misled by the sales pitch provided to them by the recruiting staff, that this would be the case. Likewise, the enrollment process featured, what was termed as an “Entrance Exam” which was in actuality a simple series of problem solving questions. The questions were terribly easy and I believe meant to boost the confidence of applicants so that they would be more likely to agree to enrolment terms. This gives way to my next criticism. The poor student body which is made up of people who do not take work seriously, in that the serious students are far outnumbered by the not serious ones. The same people who leave ITT with substandard skills, leave bad impressions on prospective employers, and make it difficult for the serious ones to find work. The cost of these courses, though it has beneficial information, is ruinously expensive. I have earned one of their bachelors degrees and am in debt over 60K. Thankfully institution from which I borrowed has a professional staff and is offering assistance with my loan payments. The instructors ran the gambit from highly knowledgeable and professional (at least in the IT course) to absolutely feckless. Thankfully the IT instructors were highly knowledgeable professionals. The lab work offered was the most beneficial. The equipment at my school, though in short supply, was in good working order and helped me to develop skills that I use in my current line of work. The career services were likewise helpful. These ones helped me to construct my resume and find work within my field. The only true advantage I would say that this business has over a community college is the faced paced, and focused, curriculum, which surpassed my experience at Community College, which had a confusing curriculum map and left enrollment entirely up to the students. In closing, this business did help me to acquire trade skills and did better my knowledge of Computer Networked systems and is the same knowledge which I used to acquire my industry certifications. They assisted me with resume creation and job placement in my field. However, consider that this is a business whose main concern is getting bodies in their class seats. There are almost no enrollment requirements or restrictions. So expect a mob of people claiming to be students. The expense for these courses are comparatively high. If you are interested with learning a trade then stick to the Associates program. Only then focus on the courses for which ITT Tech is best known. That is Computer Networking, Media design, Drafting and electronics. The other courses are expansions meant to draw in more customers. As for me the whole experience was somewhat beneficial, but I have made the decision, that once my debt is in control, to seek out a degree back at the community college."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 6/12/2013
  • Degree: Computer Engineering
"I attended ITT Technical University for the purpose of starting a new career, and augmenting my computer technology skills. Upon enrollment I took the tour of the school and was impressed with what I saw. The Recruiter was very friendly and accommodating to me and tailored my program to my needs. That was the beginning of my nightmare in education. There were a few instructors, who really cared about students learning for the most part, but there were times when there was not enough equipment to go around for all of the labs, and much of the classes were online. I am an in-your-face kind of person and interfacing with instructors is what I most prefer. But I do understand that because I was working fulltime, I needed to take some classes on line. Math, Physics and technical classes should not be online. When you have problems and needed to contact an instructor online you had to wait at least 48 hours before you got a response and because you were testing out of subjects every week; if the instructor contacted you 48 hours later and they did not answer your question, you would have to e-mail them again and wait another 48 hours before you got that response. By the time you got a response to your second request you were already taking an exam and you would have to pretty much fin for yourself. This happened several times to me. I drove a tour bus while attending ITT and it was convenient for me to travel because all I had to do was find a campus location and do my work. But the online classes were so difficult when it came to math and physics, that I had a tour group in Indiana, and while I was there I went to ITT headquarters and spoke to the director who put these subjects online. I explained to him that the way the classes were set up online were too difficult for students who were in need of interfacing with the instructors. He apologized and told me that the classes were going to stay online even though they were experiencing over a 65% failure rate with their student body. I started a petition drive to have the technical and math, physics classes put into a classroom. Over 75% of the student body signed those petition at my location and by the time I graduated from the school, those classes were slated to be brought back into the classroom. The director from what I understand was fired or forced to resign. I graduated with a 3.88 GPA, would have had a 3.9 if the instructor would have corrected an error in m Physics final. The formula that was in the poorly written text books that we used was presented wrong and this is the formula that I used when working out the problem on my final. When I brought it to the attention of the instructor that the formula in the book was wrong and that was the basis for my answer, they refused to change my grade. ITT technical Institute is nothing more than a for profit school and it cost me $40,000.00 dollars in student loans to attend. I am still paying the loan off to this day. I would not recommend this school to anyone; they are only interested in getting a warm qualified butt into the seats and sign the student loan affidavits. From there you are on your own for the most part."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 6/10/2013
  • Degree: Information Technology
"ITT was the best decision I ever made. It was hard to deal with while going there, but if you stick with it and work hard (like everything in life) it will pay off. DO NOT listen to those who talk negative about ANYTHING you want to do, to better your self. these people currently think there better than you and are afraid of felling inferior. So go for it, do what ever it takes, make the best of any situation where your trying to work hard. I don't care if its a trade school achieving a certificate or a college achieving a masters, it works the same way. If you don't chase after what you want, there'll be nothing to chase after."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 5/28/2013
  • Degree: Computer Engineering
"I read a lot of the reviews, so sad wish I would have read them before I enrolled. Enrolled because of the ITT name and accreditation, what a mistake. Feel I wasted 45,000 and Two years of my life. I believe that its like a car lot and your another sucker, should have just bought a car."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 5/23/2013
  • Degree: Criminal Justice
"Most expensive waste of paper ever. Not to mention if you ever need transcripts they hold them until you pay up. They have cost me tons and even if you do pay them, they still lose all your paperwork constantly, are unprofessional idiots. They have zero customers service. YOU ARE A PRIVATE SCHOOL, get that through your thick skulls you have to be nice to students or they write reviews.If you are testing for police departments do not go to this school. A LOT OF departments will not take your transcripts from here, they know its a joke too."
TW
  • Reviewed: 5/10/2013
  • Degree: Computer Networking
"In September 2008 at the age of 29 I decided to go back to school. I chose ITT-Tech because their schedule made it easy for me. I was driving a truck working 60 hours a week but I was off of work by 5pm so I could make 6pm classes. The recruiter did try and sell me on the school by telling me that I was going to double my income as soon as I graduated. Luckily for me, my best friend works in IT so I knew that was a lie from the beginning. I will be the first to admit that you get out of a school what you put into it. I learned to go on very little sleep and it was during this time that my son became addicted to video games because I tended to sit him in front of a game while I was working on homework. I am not blaming ITT for that, just pointing out that I did sacrifice for the sake of my education. The first three semesters were not that bad. There were issues with some of the labs not working but at that point, we had not hit the classes with a lot of labs yet. By the fourth semester it was becoming obvious that ITT was a for profit business and not an educational institution. What should have been lab intensive classes became vocabulary lessons because none of the labs worked. Moving back and forth from virtual networks to physical networks, trying to get some sort of functioning lab environment, we constantly lost several weeks of class time. Each time the chair would tell you that they knew what the problems were and by next quarter the lab class rooms would be fixed. In my two years there we went through four IT department chairs. The fifth quarter was even worse. I finally talked my friend into teaching at the school to see if he could figure out what was going on with this school. He taught one semester and told me that he wishes that he would have taught there before I enrolled, he said that he would have told me to stay away. His words were that the IT Chair was a "Bumbling Idiot who was teaching because he could not do IT work in the real world." He also told me that the reason that none of the labs worked was because the classes were not set up to do the labs as specified in the books and that the IT guy there on site did not know how to set the room up for labs. He went on to say that none of the IT teachers knew how either so they were not about to let the students mess with the network. He offered to help but they would not let him. But at this point I was too far along to quit. They did hire a IT guy later who could have fixed the network so that our labs would work but he told us that corporate would not allow him to separate the lab rooms from the network so that we could run labs. We continued to struggle with virtual networks that did not work correctly. We did have several good teachers there it was just that none of them stayed. The teachers that stayed were the ones who had no clue what they were talking about. We had clueless teachers paired with labs that did not work. One of the most infuriating things that happened was in my last two quarters they hired a guy to teach the Cisco classes. He had not touched a router or a switch in years and was sitting up all night reading the book so he could try and teach us something despite the fact that as usual, the labs did not work. But that was not the worst part. The worst part was that the guy was a server admin who had experience with windows and Linux servers. The guy would have been perfect for one of our server classes but he even admitted that he didn't know what he was doing with routers and switches. The guy who taught us Windows server 03 was a glorified help desk guy who had limited knowledge of some AD work. We also went through 3 Linux teachers, each one worse than the other and run off from the school. I landed my first IT job in January of 2010. It was a contract job and I took a substantial pay cut to get into the field. I don't blame ITT for that. I knew that was going to have to happen. It was an entry level position on a very large help desk. I was working with people from all of the 2 year vocational schools from around the city as well as a few self taught guys. Most of those guys were way ahead of the ITT guys. I could personally attest for all of the ITT guys on that job, we all went to class and tried as hard as we could to make the labs work. We had all taken the stuff home and tried to learn it there. We were all honors students but the fact was it was showing how poor of an education we were receiving. We were watching guys from the state run vo-tech school. They paid about a tenth of what we paid, their labs worked and they were even getting certifications while still in school. Certifications where part of their course. Several of them started after us and quickly advanced ahead of us. While I was happy for them, it did show what a poor choice I made in my school. I graduated in September of 2010. There were about 40-50 of us and more than ¾ of the class graduated with honors. I had a 3.83 GPA. It wasn't very hard at all. If you show up, do the home work and show that you care about your career, you made a B at worst. I knew several people who graduated with honors and would not even apply for jobs in their fields because they did not have the confidence to go for an interview. I am in the process of going back to school again. This time I knew enough to chose a school that was not a for profit business and one that had an accreditation that was actually worth having. My ITT degree is hung above my toilet paper holder in the bathroom at my house. The sign says "If out of toilet paper, use this degree." What I have also learned is that the financial aid department at ITT really needs to be investigated. I ended up in a ton of private student loans at ITT when there was plenty of Pell Grant and government subsidized loans to cover my education. This go around, going to a real University, I ended up with no private student loans. And if you do any research on the private loan companies ITT gets your money from, you learn that the companies are owned by ITT. It is a scam. I have been in IT for three years now and have added certifications to my resume so that I could drop ITT from it. That name on your resume is a career killer. I have an A+ as well as several Microsoft certs. I have a MCITP and hold dual MCSA certifications. I have not advanced as far as I feel I should have. No matter how much I learn, I still feel like I am behind others with same amount of time in IT as I have. I feel like I started with a disadvantage because I went to ITT. I could have done better had I just bought the books and studied for the certs myself. A degree is not needed to be an IT Tech. I can think of a lot of things to call ITT but Educational Institution is not one of them."
Anonymous
  • Reviewed: 5/9/2013
  • Degree: Computer Networking
"I'm about to graduate from ITT it would be from another college had I looked here first.The only thing the local ITT has is a lady in career services she has actually helped me. I am now going to be in debt over 40,000 dollars while making less than 30k currently with no change in sight. She was able to place me in my field just not a great position. As for classes they were a joke. Many of the labs and projects we were unable to complete due to lack in equipment and materials. Questa the online program they use is horrible only works with IE and you have to enable pop-ups. The professors online can't help you if Google can't. Because that is pretty much the same thing they give you is what Yahoo answers said or some other site. I may attend another college to feel as though I have actually achieved a degree and not just paid dearly for 2 yrs. for a piece of paper that may or may not help me to achieve gainful employment.Oh and most of the online professors are only online and available from 9-5 while you're at work. A limited few of the professors cared. They do change frequently and the online classes are by far the worst I've heard of or personally had the pleasure in dealing with. Had my credits been able to transfer I would have left long ago but the amount I have already paid put me so far in debt the only option I feel I have is to complete the course and hope that it will be helpful in the future and not laughed at and discarded. I hope everyone considering going to ITT does their research I didn't and it cost me dearly, 40,000 dollars, two years, and a lot of headaches for a degree that may be next to worthless when trying to obtain a good position at a decent company."
George Sly
  • Reviewed: 5/3/2013
  • Degree: MBA
"You are basically learning on your own. The instructors (some are real nice, some are not), are merely facilitating, but not teaching you. You have to learn each concept on your own and hope that you get it right."