| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 7:18:02 PM | Tomorrow is my make or break day with them (financial aid appointment). If this works out, I could be on my way to an Associates degree with them. I'm still trying to decide if I want to do business accounting systems or networking.
If you (or someone you knew) went there, what was the experience like? | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 7:34:41 PM | I've gone there. I have my associates degree in Computer Networking Systems.
I plan to return to get my BS in Information Systems Security later.
Since it is a trade school, it is rather on the expensive side. The credits are almost 100% non-transferable except to another ITT Tech campus location. When I went there, they wouldn't offer edu addresses, so if you're looking to get a student discount make sure to go to a place that offers it based on seeing id, or one that doesn't require verification.
Aside from that, the two fields, business accounting will probably have more jobs than networking considering how the market is so flooded already with techs. You'll want to see what places like monster.com and dice.com have in your area or area you're planning on moving to, to help you decide.
One thing I would do if you decide to go with them rather than go to a university is to bug the HELL out of your instructors for knowledge. If you feel you aren't getting the education you are needing from an instructor, or if they aren't prepared (eg: they teach too slowly and seem as if they wrote up the class schedule last night to go over the next day) make sure you see the dean of students or your program chair so they can set you up with a different class or instructor.
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Make sure you monitor the funding that they are applying for, and look for any grants or other financial aid you can apply for (PALGRANT, FASA, etc..) This will help you avoid mistakes or unneeded charges to your account.
Another note,
Pressure the career staff into helping you find a job in the field you are studying for while in the program. This will help you out tremendously as you will not have the job experience starting out, and that may hold you back while you complete your degree.
If you want any more info, just msg me :) | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 7:35:21 PM | I was extremely close to going there and when it came time to sign the papers, the student advisor looked really nervous & reminded me of doing a deal with Smeigal (the little green guy from lord of the rings)
I ended up telling her I needed to think about it, went home & researched ITT Tech on google .......Research it & decide for yourself
My sisters boyfriend goes there for Electronics Engineering & he likes it
I have my Associates from different tech school w/transferable credits & it specializes in I.T. only, and almost have my dual B.S. in Network Security & Computer Network Technology
edited content: more objective | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 7:44:08 PM |
I was extremely close to going there and when it came time to sign the papers, the student advisor looked really nervous & reminded me of doing a deal with Smeigal (the little green guy from lord of the rings)
I ended up telling her I needed to think about it, went home & researched ITT Tech on google w/keywords like 'unsatisfied' 'scam' 'crap' 'rip-off' & came up with some interesting things....
It's up to you but you should research it before you sign...They are a 'For Profit' School
I've read complaints about "once you sign, they don't care" kinda stuff & there are some youtube videos students made w/their opinions...check it out
My sisters boyfriend goes there for Electronics Engineering & he likes it, BUT...after what I read about it, I am glad I didn't go there for the Network Security/CompNetwork degrees.
Research it & decide for yourself
As with any school, it is what you make of it. If you press your instructors, the career department, and the program chairs / dean of students, then you can make the most of it so that way it isn't a loss.
The old standby for ITT means IT Takes Time. You'll hear a lot of people say it, including faculty lol.
If I knew what I know now, I probably would have gone elsewhere to get my degree, but that doesn't mean I don't value the knowledge I gained or the time I put into their degree program.
You just have to make sure you make the most out of it, wherever you decide to go. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 7:47:10 PM | I already have a bachelors degree and dont want another one, so I wont need them for that. They ARE a private school but what's amazing is that their tuition, even now , is cheaper than instate tuition was at my undergrad at a state school 20 years ago.
This guy (the advisor) reinforced that they WANT you in a job after you graduate so that you're able to pay your loans back. He also told me that since I already have an undergrad, I dont qualify for any grant money.
But I'll be sure to have an eye out for any weirdness. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 9:11:42 PM | I never actually went to school there at ITT , just was looking at it and almost went there.
If N3T says it's good, I am inclined to trust him on it
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He definitely knows his shit when it comes to networking so that's another good sign
But like any large purchase, it's always a good idea to research before you commit. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 9:36:00 PM |
I never actually went to school there at ITT , just was looking at it and almost went there.
If N3T says it's good, I am inclined to trust him on it
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He definitely knows his shit when it comes to networking so that's another good sign
But like any large purchase, it's always a good idea to research before you commit.
Never said it was good, but it is what you make of it lol.
You just can't expect to go into any college and be handed an education
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/4/2009 9:49:59 PM | Sure have. I got my degree not too long ago in Electronics and Communications Engineering field. I personally find it to be a great hands on school for anyone interested in the technology field. They also have a lot of diff types of technical schooling there as well. It's not just your 'A' typical type of technical school.
A budy of mine is starting to go to school their for his Criminal Justice degree. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/5/2009 9:44:21 AM | | ITT is just a technical school. You can get the same level of education at a local community tech. center with a far less demanding tuition. Either way, your employer isn't going to care -- technical education is technical education. It works a lot differently than actual colleges and competitive education, where which school you attend actually makes a difference in the opportunities available to you. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/5/2009 3:18:44 PM | I'm checking out the local college too, but they dont have the same respect ITT does. Also I doubt that they have the same depth of technical facilities and instruction.
One thing the local college DOES have that ITT doesnt is a wide variety of courses and facilities. Like a Student Union/Student Center and a network of campuses.
One thing is for sure though, there are a lot more financial aid opportunities at a public place like that, and with courses costing less, a greater likelihood I'd be able to get my whole tuition covered. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/5/2009 3:37:54 PM |
Either way, your employer isn't going to care -- technical education is technical education. It works a lot differently than actual colleges and competitive education, where which school you attend actually makes a difference in the opportunities available to you.
Are you saying that I could go to some community college and it doesn't matter if I went to ITT or not because the employer is both going to look at it the same? LOL. If you went to a high honored technical school vs. some community college for your technical degree, the employer will most def look at the guy that went to the high honored technical school first, because it show that he went through a higher degree of education over someone that went to some community college for their technical degree which will give the guy that went to that high honored school a lot better chance of getting hired then the guy that went to that community college. So yes it does matter, especially when you are talking large corp jobs. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/5/2009 3:52:19 PM |
Are you saying that I could go to some community college and it doesn't matter if I went to ITT or not because the employer is both going to look at it the same?
Unfortunately, that is the case with technical education. There is no such thing as a" high honored technical school." Technical schools aren't competitive like colleges are, and it won't matter which technical schools appear on your resume since technical-level education is regarded a less grandiose. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/5/2009 4:09:44 PM | | Of course there are. Are you saying schools like M.I.T. Stanford and ITT aren't highly honored technical schools? Try to get a IT corp jobs at IBM, Sun, NASA or any other job that deals with a lot of technology with a regular community college techinical degree and see what happends. I mean, if what you are saying was the case then I wouldn't have bothered going to ITT but instead to some community college. Highly technical jobs require highly trained technical schooling for. I mean, when was the last time you heard someone getting hired by NASA on a community college degree.... | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/5/2009 7:01:53 PM | | so degrees in (subjects offered by) technical schools aren't the same level as degrees elsewhere? What on earth is a "technical level" education? We're talking Bachelors degrees, Associates degrees and Masters, etc offered by a school that may have a technical focus. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/5/2009 9:17:32 PM | Nope. Degrees offered by technical or vocational schools are recognized as completion and competency of a specific skill set. They are terrific for obtaining employment in arenas that have short training periods. People from technical colleges are normally able to begin work in a specific type job, quickly.
University or liberal arts college degrees are recognized as a more generalized education designed for those people who are not interested in immediate goal specific type employment. People who are continuing their education in law, medicine, architecture, career ladders in academia, higher management positions, etc. are more likely to pursue this type of degree. In other words, it is sort of a rung on a ladder to get to another level. Also, these types of degrees have credits that can be applied to other types of degrees. If you have a BA from an accredited colleges, those credits will transfer to a technical college and you won't have to take the initial courses. Credits from a technical college won't transfer to most universities and 4 yr. type colleges, and unless you can pass the life experience tests, you will probably have to start from ground zero.
Since you already have a BA, an associate's from a technical college won't take quite as much time (usually 18-24 mos.) as it would for someone with a GED or high school diploma.
Edit: This was just a short synopsis. There is a lot more to it than just what I have written. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/6/2009 12:28:23 AM | I have a liberal arts degree and it is getting me nowhere. So what do you say to that? And besides, if only to go along with what you said, my objective is to go quickly into a related job.
and on the credits thing, I'll be lucky if I get anything to count from my old transcript. English *maybe*, but that's it. And I have no problem with taking all the courses that are required. What's the big deal?
And who made you master education advisor of the universe anyway? | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/6/2009 11:39:52 AM |
so degrees in (subjects offered by) technical schools aren't the same level as degrees elsewhere? What on earth is a "technical level" education?
I was trying to answer your question. I apologize if I somehow offended you. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/6/2009 7:10:45 PM | | Yall have no idea honestly wtf you are talking about. If you want to learn something do whatever you want. ITT is over priced. CC is cheap. You learn the same thing excpet you have useless general things added. Overall is what you do with it. If you know it, you know it. I wouldn't care if you had no degree if you can do something a guy with a degree from MIT and 10 years experience. Given yes you would have to prove it to me but I would expect the same thing from everyone. Standards have been lowered and you are just expected to know how to do things. Reason some people get laid off, they have a degree in something but have no idea wtf they're doing. Also you have those that have no clue and go up, they're good at social engineering that's all so don't hate. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/7/2009 12:12:01 AM | | Go to a large corp. that deals with a lot of high-end technology then if that is your mindset and go apply for a job with just a community college technical degree. Good luck with that because I guarantee you won't get hired on anything above an office desk clerk job. You think companies like Intel, AMD, IBM, Sun, and NASA just let anyone from some community college deal with their high-end expensive technology equipment? Why do you think schools like MIT and ITT are costly schools compared to community colleges? Because they are the real deal, you work with everything in that field has to offer and get a complete, in-depth hands on training experience to really prepare you for those types of highly technical jobs, unlike many community colleges out there where you only get a certain amount of basic hands on training. I know this because I have been to both a community college and ITT and ITT is much more in-depth then the community college I went to was. Thus is why you pay a lot more to go to those types of schools then a community college. This is why large corp. jobs will look at someone that went to those types of schools first in foremost knowing the amount of in-depth training that they had to go through to graduate from there. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/11/2009 10:03:01 AM | Yup. HR requirements are what you must meet to get hired. After that your aptitude for learning new tech and being a quick study is what keeps you around.
I can't comment on ITT as I don't know anyone who attended there. I did attend DeVry starting some 20 years ago and while I could have attended a more local vocational/technical school, it was the opportunity to obtain an accredited degree over a diploma that swayed me. While the technical background was useful, what I really gained was learning how to learn.
To the OP, what you get out of ITT or any other technical school is exactly what you put into it. Use all of their resources as you're paying for it. Good luck! | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/15/2009 9:36:50 AM | | I never looked at ITT but I did look at Rasmussen they wanted around 30,000 for a AA degree, with taking max student loans and grants I would have still been stuck with over $600 upfront per semester. They tried their hardest to convince me to enroll with them using excuses like "We'll have you work on real Cisco equiptment unlike HTC" Well I got a real CCNA lab for myself for just $125(3 2500 series routers 1 2600 series, and a 3500XL switch) so now I have the real stuff at home not just school so that cancels that out. They offered the certs but still thats gonna be under $1000. they claimed HTC(which is the local tech school) wouldn't have tutors and all that(which they do!). So basely a lot of these people who you talk to at the private colleges are like used car sales men they'll try anything to convince you. They also claimed I'll have a cert in less than 6 months after i'll start that can land me a $16 a hour job to start. Yeah right. I have a friend whos going there and has been there for over a year and he still doesn't know any about the OSI model is which is like the first thing they teach you in networking. haha pretty glad I stuck to a public tech school. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/25/2009 12:22:16 PM | Well, I gave up on them. Really they gave up on me, but I had to. Basically what happened is I had trouble getting funding for the remainder of my tuition that a "stafford" loan wouldn't cover for associates classes. They mentioned "public and private funding options" in the initial consultations, but when it came time to stump up they said "I dont know who told you we had those", and all they have are those loans and pell grants for those who qualify. They have their own scholarship but you have to go full time to get it, and that doesnt cover the difference for full time tuition after the stafford loan is maxed out. They also wanted me to fetch my transcript (not sure why, since I passed the entrance exam and I was willing to take all the classes for an AS degree), and they wanted me to go it alone to look for other funding options because they didnt have any more. They did do one thing for me, they set up a FAFSA, so now all I have had to do is change the school name when needed.
(oh and for those wondering, the county college here doesnt do masters programs ).
So, I've been talking with a few schools, and its materialized that I could easily ask about masters programs since I have an undergrad already. I was so nervous but the reality is it is so easy! And you can get tons more funding even though the cost isnt that different than what I was planning on before. The only one I've put any fee money toward is University of Maryland University College. Its a college of UMCP and their MSIT program that I'll be taking online is the exact same content and list of requirements the campus students take. It's also a state school which means even more funding options. They, and also all the other schools I spoke with since, have said they will get my transcript no problem. Things are looking up. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/25/2009 2:48:15 PM | Yeah, I think you may have saved yourself a lot of money.
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/25/2009 3:11:42 PM | and another thing, ITT was the only one that would not send any financial aid overage to me. All the other schools said that they would send me a check after the balance is cleared each time, but ITT Tech insisted they don't do that and return any overage to the lender instead of "keeping it" like they say some schools do. They said "this money is for school not for rent".
There wansnt going to be an overage in my case, more like an underpayment, from what I was being told, so it wouldn't have affected me anyway, but it is just the way they handle it that doesnt seem very student-friendly. | |
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| Anyone ever go to ITT Tech?
Posted: 8/29/2009 8:00:09 PM | | ITT is good, i have a former roommate who went there. But it's expensive and run like a business not a university. Over the long run, having a BS from a university is more beneficial because it helps when changing your career from one type of work to another type of work. but really, you can get a great (or crappy) education anywhere. It just matters how much you put into your education. | |
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