Has anyone on here went to ITT TECH and graduated from there. im looking at switching schools next year from ecc to ITT. I want to take the cad courses. JW if anyone had a good experience there and how it is. Also if anyone took the cad courses there was it hard for them to find a job. im going there tomorrow to check them out but i jus wanted to see what people said.
i went there, for cad…and lets just say i’m not doing anything related to my degree at all, and its now useless as i need to go back to school to get anywhere again with it
many companies wont even consider hiring you with an itt degree
so i take it stay at ecc.
Or see if you can transfer to a more credible college, say UB?
If you are looking for a good degree, UB would probably be a good bet. If your grades are good at ECC I am sure you can get in.
yeah thts were i wanted to go after 2 years of ecc im just gettin done wit 1 year. but i always see itt advertised so i figured i would check it out and ask some people about it.
I know a lot of places who put resumes with ITT on them right in the trash…
damn so its tht bad. they seemed good. well im glad i asked
i’ve heard the same. it’s like the university of phoenix but you actually have to attend the classes.
I know 3 people who went to ITT for programming. every single one of them is back in school for something completely different because they couldn’t get a job.
When you spend all your money on marketing, you’ve gotta cut corners somewhere…
I know a lot of people who went to ITT,graduated and owe 30k+.
They make $9 an hour.:lol:
I went to ITT for CAD. I was one of the lucky ones to get hired by a good company and making decent money out of school. but I owe a lot in loans now. I wouldnt recommend it at all to anyone else.
When i interviewed with them to be a teacher it was shaddy as hell. Their main student base is aimed to be highschool drop outs that arent going to make it anywhere anyways. They know that they have bad students that cant learn much and they just milk them for all the money. Even the class substance was horrible! The ciriculum was very basic and barely taught anything useful in the real world.
It was quite sad. Needless to say, i passed on that kind of place.
Griff is definitely right about the ciriculum, what i “learned” there i could have easily taught myself… what a waste, i should have just went to UB or something. Unfortunately that was 8 yrs ago before anyone knew any better…
Yea … i would say ECC at the very least. You’ll get a job a lot easier and learn a lot more
I agree with Griff. I went there thinking it was something totally different than what it was. They kind of trick you to signing intent to go there. Everything I learned there was stuff that I had somewhat learned in HS. I actually felt out of place there almost like i was too good to be there. I should have stayed at UB. Def go to ECC and get atleast all your core stuff out fo the way. I might actually do the same to go back and get my Engineering degree
This echos what I’ve heard.
I met two people who came out of there for IT. It sounds like they give A’s to everyone because these two people were not competent for anything beyond a help desk position.
Alright guys.
When I was 18, I went to ITT tech, and got an associates in computer networking.
The school itself is an absolute joke. I was too young and foolish to figure out that it was a complete ripoff. I got some serious financial aid, and got out of there with a bill for around 20k.
It is a serious scam. They lost alot of their accreditations, and your degree can not be transfered anywhere. When I was going there, they treated it like an elementary school, and took attendance, and would call your house if you weren’t at class. I later found out that financial aid companies were going to shitcan them, because students were not showing up to class, and still getting very high grades.
I barely opened a book, and graduated the top of my class.
The shit that we learned there was very very dated. We were learning about novell netware, and very early programming languages. I heard that they improved upon this since I left, but when I was there it was pretty shitty. Also when I was there, they would charge you in your tuition for ITT Tech printed textbooks. They were an absolute joke, tons of typos and wrong information in them. Some of the teachers would say to throw them out and we would learn from xerox’s of a book that he bought on amazon.
The teachers were very poor, maybe two deserved to be there. The teachers there have full time jobs, and they teach as a second job. Most were so tired, that they only wanted to teach half time, then just let us leave early. At the time this seemed great to an 18 year old kid, but now I look back, and it was terrible.
As for my degree, where is it getting me?
I got some experience as a system admin for a local buffalo company, for very very little money. I worked there for a year, then started an entry job at Citigroup for much more money.
Now in august, I can move to a tech job with Citigroup in another state making more than double my current salary.
Employers look at the degree, yes, but the experience will get you the job.
Also moving up within a company is far easier than submitting a resume to a company and hoping for an interview. At Citi, they will make every effort to hire an internal employee than someone from the outside.
Bottom line, is go to a community college, then transfer in your last year to a university.
I’m going back to school, this time my employer is paying for it in full, and I’m going to a community college.
Good info. I want to add that it is a good financial idea to go to a CC and then transfer. However, before you spend the time/money at a CC you should sit down with an advisor at the school you want to transfer to and make sure that the courses you take will transfer. Core/humanity courses usually transfer no problem but courses that are specific to your major may not. They won’t just let you transfer in for your last year, they want to make sure you have gone through their curriculum before they give you a degree with their name on it.