Porter and Chester Institute Rankings by Salary Score™

Firstly, I came to Porter and Chester with the idea that the career services department would find me an apprenticeship after my education. However, this is not the way it works here. The career services department does absolutely nothing to help you find a job. The class itself is very unorganized. When I came into the program, I had zero electrical skill, however I was put into a class where I was expected to know electrical terminology and material from day 1. The way the terms are organized is with a rolling... Read More enrollment, so new students come into the class at a different level than the students that are already there. Since I've been here I've had 5 different instructors, as the instructors quit due to a variety of reasoning. The material we are taught is all based on old code, however we are expected to know current and old code, however our tests and such are based off of old code. When these are addressed to the director, she has said that it didn't matter, the code doesn't change that much, which it does. For the price of the class, you could expect a better lab space and material to work with, however this is also not the case. There is constantly a shortage of materials to use and broken or inept equipment for the applications they expect us to use. The other issue is the lab spaces are completely destroyed, with no known plan to replace them. The stock room for the equipment is completely unorganized. I would say try to get into the electrical union or go a different route because this school is not it. Your future as an apprentice electrician will be completely halted by coming to Porter and Chester. Save your money, do your research, and go somewhere else. Don't listen to their false promises, because that's exactly what they are, false.

I just started at Porter and Chester campus in Waterbury thank god for the grace period that I’m able to leave the school in the couple of days I’ve been there with out any issues this school is very disorganized from the directors to the instructor no communication skills had a appointment with my instructor at 9 am and was a no show didn’t even call me or anything about her no coming could have save me time and energy if she had called and told me she was not going to make our appointment neither did the... Read More school called me so I am withdrawing from this school because I refuse to put my money into a school that doesn’t appreciate my time and effort the school director couldn’t even help and had no answer for me when I talked to him about withdrawing