IIT Technical Institute offers some of the best career-focused degree programs available today. The course material is carefully designed by experts to focus on traditional academic education combined with practical hands-on experience in the labs. This sort of education is aimed at preparing students to achieve professional success in a variety of technically related fields after the completion of graduation.
IIT Tech was founded in 1946 in Carmel, Indiana. Over the years, the school has spread to 30 different states in the United States. It currently has more than 85 campuses, covering every state between California and Maryland, enabling students from any city in the United States to enrol in the different campuses. Students have a wide choice of degree programs they can opt for based on their interests. They can go in for the Associates, Bachelors or Masters level degrees in several specialized programs. For all those students that cannot attend a regular school because of their professional and personal responsibilities, IIT Tech online offers them the chance to take up degrees in the most convenient format.
The school is proud of the recognition it has gained. All programs at IIT Tech have received national accreditation from the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. This includes both on-campus and online programs. IIT has earned the distinction of offering the largest number of Associate degrees and Bachelor degrees in electronics and other electronic-related programs in the United States, through the several campuses. Thousands of students joining these educational programs take pride in following in the footsteps of the high-flying and distinguished alumni of the school.
The online programs offered by the school comprise of several modules. The number of modules can be anywhere between six and twelve, based on the program chosen by the student. Students will go over these modules with an instructor and all content will be accessed online. The lessons will be posted online by the faculty members and students can access them on their computers at their convenience. The school also facilitates discussion between the faculty and students through the use of online classrooms. The school shows no distinction between its on-campus and online classes. The faculty assigned to deliver instruction to online students is the same as on-campus faculty. The only difference being, they receive extra training to handle virtual classrooms in the most efficient manner.
Degrees are offered in several fields, some of which are Graphic Design, Criminal Justice and Business Administration. All programs are designed to bring the student up-to-date with the latest happenings in their field of study.
This school has earned a good name for the well-designed programs and excellence in imparting education to hundreds of online students that have gone on to achieve great successes in the fields of their choice. The hands-on practical training has proved to be one of the best and helps students step out of school after their graduation, with full confidence and land themselves jobs they would never have dreamed of previously.
First and foremost, I am writing this because I keep seeing people ask, “Should I go to ITT Tech?” when I look up college info. I do not “blog” or like to give my opinion. So I will not give you my opinion. I will give you my experience with ITT Tech. Why I went there? Why I left there? Why I went to a real college? And the pro’s and con’s of both.
To start with, I knew nothing about college and I wanted a degree fast. So I saw ITT Tech and thought this would be a good place for me. I signed the contact and was told this would be better than other places. Things were good in criminal justice, having a 4.0, and working hard. But as time went on I found that the teaching was not that good. Here are some more reasons: A lot of teachers I found out were not qualified to teach a class and did; I saw a teacher let a student pass a class, who should have failed the class, right in front of me. The reason the teacher stated, “I have to let a certain percent pass for enrollment stuff.” Also, the course out-line for every class I went to were not even teaching the basics. I had it with ITT. I wanted to transfer my credits to a new college and move on. But there was one problem: ITT credits transfer no where. Trust me I tried. I had to start over after a year and half. I did not go in to CJ but a better field. And yes I tried to get my money back and had no luck. It was a hard lesson to learn, but I have a better education now.
ITT Pro’s- NONE! Well, ok one. You can do nothing and still get a degree.
ITT Con’s- The teachers’ are not up to standard all the time (qualified). You cannot pick your classes. You cannot choose to get used books, they come with the class. You will spend, more or less, $80,000. It takes 180 credits to get a BA. CREDITS WILL NOT TRANSFER. Not regionally accredited. Regionally accredited is the highest standard. DEGREE WILL NOT TRANSFER DUE TO CREDITS. Not considered a college, it is a trade school only. If they do not have a higher degree you are stuck with the level you have. Overall course out-line is not well rounded. I asked people in my chosen profession about ITT and all I heard was laughter.
Real college con’s- May have to take remedial classes to meet standards.
Real college pro’s- Highly qualified professors that teach in their field only. You can pick your classes. Can get used books. For a BA: state run, more or less, $15,000- 20,000; and are regionally accredited. Degree will transfer. Can get a PhD. Credits will transfer also. Overall course out-line is very will rounded to make you more worldly knowledgeable person. I asked people in my chosen profession about a real college and they said, “Keep that GPA high and you will do just fine. You can get a degree fast i.e. you can take up to 7 classes at a time. I take 5 and do just fine. It only takes 120 credits to get a BA.
So, what is my out look on the real college experience:
I am so glade I went to a real college. I know all my professors. If you make studying a part of your life you will do just fine. The professors are great. Some of my old professors are friends now too. Every college is different; so, I would say to find a college you like in order to make the experience funnier and better. Like I said this is my experience and not my opinion like others give. But I will leave you with these 3 things 1) Do your own research and ask if ITT Tech’s credits can transfer to the college you want to go to (you will get a better understanding if you ask why or why not?). 2) Ask your future employer where they prefer you to graduate from and what classes to take. 3) Before you graduate from a real college, join your professional association in your field. If you’re a student you fee will be free or $50 more or less VS in some cases $1000. Why is this important? Your professional association, like the APA for psychology, sends out a magazine about what is happening in you field, when their annual expo takes place (100’s of top people will be there in you profession), and they have job listings that are only given to your professional association from top employers around the world. So, this is how you get the job, in this order: It is who you know (professional association), graduate from a good regionally accredited college with a good GPA, and have some experience i.e. internship. All in all, it is your choice not my choice. I just hope that my experience helps
Biggest waste of money. The teachers are not qualified. And if they spend as much money on teachers as they do on food they might be half way decent
It makes me sick to think of how much money I have spent on this place
Run as far as you can!! The are not regionally accredited, credits won’t transfer to a real college and instructors are not qualified.
Please dont wasnt your time or hard earned money on a worthless degree, made up credits, unmotivated teachers ect. The schools are run more like a business then a place for education and even businesses are run better then this. I was told by my recruiter and several people there that there credits are transferable, well THEY ARENT. The teachers tell you they make very little themselves, show up late and arent motivated. The classes are slow and time is wasted on things like figuring out why half the computers in our class dont work, and this is if were lucky enough to be in a room that has computers(im in the drafting and design program). Employers dont want to give a ITT graduate a job, this school is a joke to them.
Spent more on this school in 3 Quarters than I have at a real college getting my associates, none of my credits transfered and you could pass a class just by showing up, a lot of the students were abviously not cut out for college, and one teacher even told us he would never hire anyone out of ITT tech, he only taught to make a few extra bucks. Got my certificate, but most emplyers asked if I had any real college, so I had to go to a real college. Waste of money and they maxed out my financial aid then sent me an additional bill for $3000
The tuition associate degree is $43,000, ITT TECH is nothing but money launderers, and can you imagine paying such a high cost for an unaccredited school, you cannot transfer credits to a different college. Once you start ITT, you’re stuck there or you wasted a lot of money.
Most of the students that started when I did have already dropped out due to misleading promises made by the recruiters. Itt tech was a disappointment, I feel like I wasted time and money.
Here is the main problem with this company — they are extremely misleading and what they describe as their “Mission Statement” and what is being said and reviewed behind closed doors is the definition of hypocritical. They claim to be changing students lives (yes this is true will bleed you dry, ITT TECH is nothing but money launderers, it is a mafia) at ITT TECH You are not a student — you are a “start number”.
ITT Tech is a joke, if you are serious about bettering yourself – steer clear of ITT.
ITT TECH runs by used car salesmen and the most horrible management practices, most immoral and unethical they violate state and federal laws but they have the best lawyers on payroll (will get them out of any Contravention most of the time) I filed complaints with the attorney general, State of California Department of Consumer Affairs and the Better Business Bureau and they both told me they couldn’t do anything.
I filed complaints with the City Officials and after investigating they found no fault with ITT TECH. ITT is surely paying off any and every agency that could get them in troubles.
Who would have thought that an educational institute in the U.S.A can be allowed to be up and running with so many complaints, ethics, morals violations, and educational deception and fraud.
Do not forget at ITT TECH you are not a student you are only a “start number”. ITT TEC is the nastiest business on earth, it’s not a school, and this institute runs by animals the only concern of these animals in the HQ is to increase profits and do not care about students or education.
But I did find some help with the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, please please and please send your complains to http://www.acics.org/uploadedFiles/Contact/ComplaintsAgainstACICSSchool_004.pdf
Or call Ms. Shameka Erby, (Complaints Coordinator at ACICS) (202) 336-6849
E-mail serby@acics.org
This is our last hope.
THE WORST MOST EXPENSIVE SCHOOL EVER. THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO SCAM YOU FOR YOUR MONEY
OK guys!
ITT is crap. What is your opinion about DeVry University. DeVry has accreditation, I believe. But probably same crap as ITT, they all are hungry predators for your money.
Thanks for your opinion,
Val
You are all sad, weak and you need to stop feeling sorry for yourselves. Try learning something for yourselves for once. If you need everything handed to you, then this program isn’t for you. If you are a piece of sh*t, then your a peice of sh*t. No employer is going to judge you on what school you went to. Having a degree is what matters. Make up your dam mind of what you want in life and roll with it.
- To all those drop outs!
You make me sick
School is what you make of it. Whether it’s a certified school, or just one to get you to the next level. I have seen the facilities and have high hopes for this school. They are just a institution to help us pass the certification test. They may not shove the information like they did in high school, but they have the tools and the information that I’m going to acquire to start my new career. I think that all of you that give this school a bad review, are the types that want life handed to you on a platter, and aren’t that dedicated to the classes that you have paid such a high price to be in.
Seriously, Who really cares if I have to get a used book. I’m actually happy that I don’t have to buy a expensive new book and that they are just given to us, just as the information would be to.
I worked for Xerox through the last half of Assoc. degree with ITT, also I worked there through the B.S. degree, a job that ITT tech helped me get. After 3 long years of grinding and studying and working to keep attendance up I was hired by USWEST straight out of school.
I never applied, they called me. I hired in at $36,000 a year in 98. I was promoted a year later into management. A year later I was offered a job in Service Management. I have been here ever since. I made 112,000 in 2009. I have a good 401K, in the employee stock option plan. I get 6 weeks vacation and I work from home when the need comes up. There are plenty of people here from UW, WSU, OSU (I am in Seattle) and they want my job.
So here is my take: I paid, I learned. I had never missed a day of school, I did all my labs, I graduated on the honor roll, had the NVTHS induction. Also got the triple A award. All I did was dedicate myself to learning. Took it serious and worked my ass off.
Any place can be a great place of learning. Any place can bad. It is your job as a student to take what is offered and commit it to your memory. No one that worked hard during my enrollment is without a job, alot work at QWEST as CCT’s CDT’s. But the ones that thought the perverbial “cost” of education was not justified because of their inability to focus and learn is merely a direct reflection of ones self.
A loser is a loser no matter the source of the education. You pay the money, you screw off, you blow it and blame the educational system. You paid the money and wanted them to just hand you a piece of paper that said you did it and that did not happen so your mad at yourself because you didn’t like the attendance policy or the practice of mid terms and finals as a way to track you statistically based off of a scoring system that is deployed in almost every aspect of the modern work force. What you know shapes your pay and career.
No philosopher has ever said that education in and of itself is worthless. Education is the art of knowledge passing from the greater to the lesser until balance is achieved. Only a fool will declare that what they know is that education no matter the cost is and/or was stupid. To know that knowing has a price is to accept the outcome of learning. I suggest that most of you spend some time learning about the teachings of Socrates! He is after all the father of Western thought. Good day.
Leo
After reading the comments posted I have to ask…are you sure you went to ITT?
I never had the problems that was described here. Being accredited Nationally is not hidden and was explained to me. (I did not get all this free food and would like to know where I was at that time)
The teachers spent time answering all of my questions and the qualifications are the same in that yes they have to have a degree and had to have been in the real world working five years in the field. By the way all students are suppose to fill out questionaires every quarter for ever class to evaluate the class and teacher. This is how the school determines what works for the students.
I have been working every since I graduated in the public sector. I love what I do and would not be there without the degree I have earned. I could not have been nearly as successful or comfortable with what I do if it wasn’t hands on. The hands on experience is what really made the theory and outlining foundation solidify and bring it all together.
Perhaps you should have spent more time asking questions and doing your work (I worked for my degree it was not handed to me) and putting the dam effort into what you were paying for so you could get the full bang for your buck.
OH and by the way WAH WAH perhaps you are better suited for a school that is more likely to hold your hand so you do not fall on your lazy ass
To: Case, Matt, Belinda and Degree in 1998:
Your opinions are not justified well enough, you need to read the complaints. Do you honestly believe that all of the complaints from thousands of people really believe you, reading your nonsense.
Then you have to have fowl language to back it up too. If you are so intelligent you must not have done your research very well. I really do not think that cases, that complaints are won against Itt from hearsay, but evidence in courts of law, with qualified
attorneys and investigators and law enforcement reading this that are to prove the rights of the people pro or con.
Follow up before you bash the victims of scams. Everyone is different but at the very least they tried to earn a living and some of the victims testified they were given “A”s in their classes so it was easy for them to go through the school of Itt, but many of those students did not get employment and if they did some of those could not perform the duties of their trade. There were also some students given unfair grades and they worked very hard with their studies, but some of the teachers failed them! Your opionions are important, it is in your rights. Freedom of Speech.
Students that are signing up for loans that are too high are not doing it, in my opinion because they on the most part, are lazy, they want a job so they can work, not pay for dropping out! To pay bills, bring up their children, work for the American dream, free enterprise, free choice, the right to be innocent before being proven guilty;
who wants to be a victim?
It is important that they, the alledged victims of scams, crimes, speak out and have their say. There are too many complaints againt Itt tech schools that are the same all over the States. I am witness to that myself. But I see a pattern of complaints that are very similar, and they should be tried in a court of law.These are our constitutional rights and there is enough probable cause to investigate each and every complaint case.
I am so glad to see both sides of opinions and people talking out and sticking to their principals! This is a democracy, there are two sides to every complaint, facts and the best evidence wins!
My good friend works for ITT and we have long talks about her guilt for bringing weak students. You can get a nursing degree at a 4 yr state school in your home state for about 30 grand, but ITT charges 50 grand for a degree only good with their partners. If you do get a job paying $12/hr ($23,000)it is not enough to cover your student loans of 80 grand and job paying that little will not cover the interst. The Department of Ed is looking at these programs. The cooking schools are worst. I graduated from real college twice with only 15 grand of debt because of GI Bill but took some loans help with Masters. The electronics school is what get the respect, but most IT jobs do not need degrees, but certifications.
Honestly, all ITT TECH are different,i’ll give an example one class i was taking was rapid viz our final was three story buliding in 2 point perspective cars,trees, rivers,statutes people and rendering was requierd to make it look prsentable all this in 3 months in the program, two students that came form lousianna transfer to our class. you know what there final was for that class? draw 2 people and 3 trees!!! So it depends where you go and who teaches there not all the same i attend the one in Phoenix and from personal experiance i enjoy this school, faculty is happy to help even if there not teaching the program that your in. And they dont just hand out A’s people cant handle the fast pace class then well maybe ITT-Tech Isnt for you.
All schools have their ups and downs, ITT being no different. Yes, because it is only and nationally accredited school credits are hard to transfer, but the people that say ITT is a waste of money are the people who didn’t finish the program and QUIT for what ever reasons makes them feel better now. Its fast pace “Quarters not Semesters” but you will come out with knowledge that most schools wouldn’t teach in that amount of time.
I started my education at ITT and did get my Associates in Computer and Electronic Engineering. After 2 years I landed a job as an engineer for a medical instrument company, making more then my friends with 4 year degrees from university’s.
Like anything in life if you don’t finish what you started you are not going to benefit from it.
So the people that go for a year and a half and then quit, well that’s your fault. You were so close and now you are right, you are stuck with those credits that will do nothing because you quit the program.
ITT is not for everyone but if you stick it out you will get what you paid for.
ITT Alumni- Computer and Electronics Engineering
Currently working on Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
And I don’t regret a thing.
ITT TECH is a such a rip off for students and employees. If a student is willing to dig and teach themselves, the student will probably learn more than the student who expects to just we taught, do the general home work etc. ITT has a practice of hiring instructors who in some circumstances, have just graduated from coolege, with little or no practical work experience. These instructors have little to offer ITT Tech students who come with no understanding of the area of study they entering. How can you teach a subject when you have no practical experience in the field???. National credits rarely transfer into Regional programs? If this important. Yes, it is if your paln to get a higher degree? You will spend just under $100,000. for A BA, over $50.00 for an associates degree. You might as well go to a really good University for that kind of money and get a degree that is really worth something. If you are not interested in a college degree there are other trade schools that are much more respected at half the cost of ITT Tech. Why grease the pockets of a wealthy coorporate CEO (Around $400,000,000. per year), other business men and women, and stock owners, yes ITT is publicly traded and you would probably do better to buy stock in ITT that tuition money tahn to spend it on their particular brand of “education”. Hell no I won’t go! (Again). T
RN PROGRAM IS A JOKE!! SAVE YOUR TIME, EFFORT, ENERGY, AND MONEY and go elsewhere!
I have NEVER been in an ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL but this schools environment is Alternative HIGH SCHOOL GOES TO COLLEGE!
If you are looking for a program that will accept ANYONE and pass everyone merely on attendance this is the school for you! Otherwise keep looking!!
First RED flag should have been that there were NO pre-reqs’ required! Who starts nursing school with NO PRE-REQ’s !? There were students who did not know what an electron was, or could even do simple math problems, yet they are being passed on to the next semester. You are only hurting yourself if you are unprepared for the NCLEX. You could be thousands of dollars in debt and at the end of the day NOT pass your boards. (which is a $400 testing fee)
This schools RN program just got started in December 2009, which means the true results of this program will not be available until December 2011, when the first class graduates and sits for the NCLEX. (I’m sure more than half will fail)
The instructors are not competent to teach a nursing program, everything is a “group” activity so that those who are scraping by can ride the coat tails of others in order to pass on to the next semester. ITT does not care about quality education, they only care if you are attending class so that they can get every dime out of you. They even fill out all of your FAFSA information so that everyone can qualify for their $56,000 program! The classes were very unorganized, and the instructors were never prepared for questions you threw at them. They would often have another student address the questions. There was no structure to the program, on the first day of school they overwhelm you with 11 books, and you only use 1 the entire semester, if any. All classes are a four hour slide show, and a bathroom break. Does this sound like college to you!? There is NO homework that is graded, your tests are only worth 10% whereas in a REAL college your exams/finals ARE your grade, and at ITT your grade is by group activities, again for those who would have NEVER survived in a real college. Keep in mind the job of an RN is taking care of peoples lives!!
Making a long story short ITT’s RN program is a “technical associates degree”. The credits will not transfer for a BSN degree, because the school is NOT regionally accredited. (I do not know how they even got nationally approved) So after you are in debt of $56,000 you will only have an associates from a program with a poor reputation, more than likely any manger with any sense would not hire a graduate from this program! Only time will tell, unfortunately it will take two more years!
I was reading some of these comments more than half the people complaining can’t even use puctuation correctly. No education is perfect it also depends on how motivated the student is. It doesn’t matter where you go to school you are still going to pay for your eductaion. If this school was that bad why would it be around for 26 years or more?