ITT Technical Institute Reviews

"Positive experience. Always have a job with a valuable skill. ITT provided me the tools and core knowledge to start a career in robotics. Pay is good and plenty of jobs. My student loan reached $24,000 which I paid off within 5 years. Had a job prior to graduation working for a high tech company in Robotics."

"ITT was a great place to go to school. I had great instructors that really got to know each student and work along side them. With that and all the hands on labs, I felt like I got a great education."

"Financial Aid was great, I only owed $25 000 when I graduated. I'm a Engineering Technician level 3 with a global semiconductor corporation. 30 000 employees. Living in the Southbay, working in the Southbay. I even got the CEO award for outstanding performance. Not bad for a former Bartender."

"College was a great experience to learn how to grow as an individual."

"This is the worst school ever and I am so mad that I have to pay for this crap. The teachers don't teach anything the either just pass you or you have to find a way to learn it on your own. And they ha sign up and register for the classes without telling me they took what I wanted to do out the school. I'm really considering leaving during my fourth quarter cause I can't honestly do this anymore or I'm just gonna flunk out at this point. Please do not go here."

"My collage did not teach me much of anything on what my field was the gen ed were in no way related to anything I was doing in my area of study, and there was nothing set up to show us how to get a job in the field"

"I would just have to say that it was the worst mistake I ever made in my life. I didnt learn anything that I could take with me. The teachers are teaching there part time, and they just pretty much give you a pass. The tuition was really expensive not only that this were all student loans. Now I have this on my back with nothing to show for it. This school is a joke."

"I just wanted to say what school is better out of ITT AND ECPI. .I attended ITT and I truly don't like the information I was given. I also don't like the attitudes of the instructor. I truly dont recommend this school to anyone. I was also told credits don't transfer."

"I can honestly say attending ITT Tech was one of the worst mistakes I could've made in my life. From the start, the school felt shady. How pushy they are when you just come in for information about the school. They had me switching my financial aid forms not even twenty minutes of me being there. I had all plans of going to a school to get my Bachelors in Business only to get to this school and find out that the only Bachelors they offered was in Project Management, which I have the least amount of interest in. So the plan was to finish my associates but that shortly changed after being placed in the associate Dean's class for COMP ll. This lady is rude and impatient and to an extent, illiterate. For her to be an English professor makes me wonder where she got her education and if she was out of it all her years of college. They only offer minimum online classes and this class I didn't even have the option to switch. I called the dean for a week straight and he was never there but us as students are expected to stay until 10:55p every night. After a week of trying to reach him, I decided to switch over schools because I was sick of the run around. As far as them helping you with job placement, you have maybe one or two job fairs a year and the career services team will help you redo your resume on a template that they already have made up. They used to post jobs on the board but they don't even do that anymore. They have a bigger team that does less than the smaller team did last year. They mostly sit in there listening to music and having conversations all day. The LRC is a joke. There is one bookshelf. And they want you to use this expensive system that is like Google on acid that doesn't even pull up half of anything relative to what you need. You type in anything and it will give you over 40,000 articles, videos, books, websites, etc. and it's all unfiltered so you have to make your way through all of it to find a useful source. Some of the sources that come up aren't even on the topic! This school was a nightmare from the start. DO NOT. Go to a local community college and take night classes on your time but ITT Technical Institute probably won't be open very much longer with the CEO being charged with fraud and all."

"I made the decision to finally go back to school to finish my degree and attended Tampa, FL ITT Tech. Filled with excitement at first as I began my new journey, only to be highly disappointed. I carried a 3.66 g.p.a and was proud of it, until I began noticing that my hard work to maintain this g.p.a, didn't really mean anything at all. The tests are all re-circulated, meaning the exact test we take today will be given to the next class coming in. Basically recycling the same tests. There were students not only cheating their way through, but the honest students were then made to retake tests they had already passed. Every quarter there we less and less students attending, and more dropping out or transferring to other schools. Some of the students behaved like children still in high school, arguing and crude remarks to one another. All accepted by the instructor of the day. If that wasn't enough to make you say hmmm, how about returning to school after a weekend finding out that your Chair Director has quit and no one (staff of ITT) wanted to address the hysteria surrounding the matter. Once the Nursing Chair Director quit, other staff members also began quitting as well. The school is very small so it wasn't as if we the students wouldn't take notice. Much like some of the others, I too have withdrawn from the school, due to the poor curriculum, poor teaching staff, and seeking an education that will benefit me in the future."

"I am very disappointed in this school, not only is it not accredited with any nursing Boards, in Florida or any other states but you can not transfer any credits either. So after having paid 50,000 dollars for a useless degree and having the worse teachers ( they scraped the bottom of the barrel) and not barely finishing the program, now I have a useless degree and no one will recognize the affiliation!"

"I graduated from ITT in 2014 with a BS in EE with a 3.5 gpa. This is school is not accredited with the ABET so real Engineering jobs won't even consider you. I have dozens of no thank you emails for engineering. I even got denied from the government 6 times and I'm a veteran. This school will make you an over qualified technician or an under qualified engineer."

"I chose ITT TECH in Cordova TN in 2007 to get my Degree in Information Technology/Computer Network Systems. I went on Advice of my mother who used to work for the company before it was a school. Well while at the school, I dealt with classes that were pointless to my degree. I had an instructor who slept during class. I had another replaced after midterms because she was not qualified to teach the class. So this meant we had go do half a semesters training in one class period. That was just a few of the problems. So I thought it would get better. Well it did'nt, so I went to a different campus in Nashville which I thought would be different Well I found the same horror stories. Then i took a class getting ready for my CCNA. Well I found out that after all the time wasted, I had to go and pay EXTRA to get the certificates, which we should have had already as part of the training. But after I completed half a year. I found all the stories on sites like this. So I continued on. I graduated with 3.45 GPA. I now work for an IT company as a trainer through a marketing service."

"This school was awful. They cared about nothing and taught nothing. I would sit in class prepared and ready, but instead, I would have to sit and wait for TWO hours for other classmates to get caught up and do what they should have done a week ago. It was terrible. It is not my fault that they can't get their school work done on time. Don't punish me for that and waste MY TIME! I would ask a teacher for help when I have already tried everything in my power to figure it out on my own, and the teacher had the nerves to tell me to GOOGLE IT! I cold have rung his neck. That was my last straw. I then withdrew from the school. I informed the Director and he seemed to not care at all. As long as these people are getting paid, they do not care one bit. This was ITT Technical Institute in Columbia, SC Terrible school. DO NO ATTEND!"

"Overall the school can be summarized easily by stating that it doesn't provide enough value for your dollar. You are going to be paying roughly double what it would cost to go to a regular college. What they market is that you will be getting hands on, real world, technical knowledge for this inflated price. What you actually receive is no better than what you would get from any other school, in some cases it's actually much worse. The quality of the teachers was abysmal, of course there were a handful of decent ones, but they are rare. Most of your teachers will have a very basic level of understanding of the subjects they teach. They rely heavily on the book and worksheets, adding no real value to most subject. This would normally result in a lot of failures per class, but at ITT the majority of teachers "teach the test" in some cases they even let you grade your own work, including finals. Guess how many people failed when they got to grade their own papers? It sure does help keep grades up to keep those government checks coming in though! The subject matter is laughably behind. The career services department consists of a couple of people doing google searches for you and mass emailing the entire class the same job postings. Even if you had an amazing time, got all the best teachers for every class, it still doesn't make up for the cost. You can and should get your education elsewhere, it will cost you almost literally half, and they are giving out any secrets at ITT that make up the difference."

"The degrees are useless without certifications, example: A+, Network +, Security +, CCNA, MCSE, Cloud, just to name a few. They need to offer certifications included with your degree. It’s hard for me to say that I recommend ITT, when I need to take the extra time and money on top of the school loans just to get a certification. But other than that, the school in NOT bad at all."

"I started ITT Tech San Bernardino in March 2014. I was forced to withdraw due to financial aid issues. However I chose to go back June 2014 and pursue my career. I'm in the middle of my 4th quarter now holding a 4.0 GPA. My chairs really do know their specific fields as the associate dean was a math major in college and an excellent math professor. My IT chair is just brilliant and makes it her personal mission her students succeed and she helps place them with employers.. all the complaints I see about ITT tech, well to say the least, it is a matter of perception. It was what you do with your education. I do know there are good instructors and terrible ones. I also had this experience in a community college. Expensive as this school may be I am proud to say I attend there. I was recently brought on as a federal work study in academics and I have a lot of support from various professors when ever I need it."

"This review pertains mostly to the Visual communications track. ALL of the software is outdated and it is a joke! All of the courses use Adobe CS5 not Adobe CC and the 3-d courses i.e. 3ds max use 2012 versions instead of the updated ones. Industry standards states that you must stay current with the newest technologies to be relavant, however ITT doesn't do that. Everything you learn is old and outdated. All of your design courses rely on PC instead of working in a MAC environment so you don't ever get to learn how to use both systems. IF someone tells you that it only pertains to one ITT campus they are lying! ALL campuses no matter where the location are using the same thing as of 2015. So across the board it sucks. All the computers on the labs are so old its sad. The computers are so outdated its not uncommon to come across errors for updates, video playback, outdated software that you cant update yourself and so on. As much as you would pay to go here your better off going to a university. At least you would have REAL up to date software, REAL instruction, and be surrounded by staff who know what they are doing. Do your self a favor and save your money for a worthy education."

"At first, I thought this school was pretty good. Students, like myself, were pretty cool to talk to and the teachers seemed to know what they were doing. At least, that's how it was during the first quarter. The second quarter came around and that's when things got sloppy. The Intro to Networking teacher was pretty much reading off of the slides, that were made in '07, not going into detail about some important aspects of the field selected, and when lab came around, he pretty much did all of the work for the students, not challenging their knowledge. When he spoke to the class, it was pretty much the students that were directly ahead of him he was speaking to. Everyone else had a hard time following what he was saying. The College Mathematics teacher did not know what he was doing. Every time I started to get the hang of his techniques, I was immediately thrown off as the teacher himself screwed up the whole equation, EVERY time. I was surprisingly passed by the teacher, near end of the quarter.. Which was odd to me. Honestly, the question surfaced to mind, that he HAD to pass me or he, himself, would get into trouble. After reading the past comments, turns out that's the truth. The teachers do not seem to have any teaching degrees either. I am only in my 3rd quarter, and am not going any further with ITT-Tech. By June, I will be free from them and going to a community college. I owe 9.5k and will be paying that off for the next couple of years. However, I'm glad I read the past reviews, or I would be in a greater amount of debt of at least 40k. I wouldn't recommend this school to anyone. They promise hands-on training, show you a high percentage of graduates, and persuade you that they can get you a job. All of those are false. Heed the warnings of your peers."

"I have to admit that when I started at ITT I was skeptical based on peoples reviews. However, I attended while I worked and still managed to graduate with honors and the Career Services at the Columbus branch goes above and beyond to help students with their career goals. Again I urge students to do there own research its all in what you make of it and what you put in is what you get out."