ITT Tech

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

Get some certs. FYI, IT is a crap shoot right now.

not a bad idea, grab some certs in what you want to do and go get some OTJ training if you have time while goin to school....or just move to india, jobs a plenty there

 

[MmatsDude 10+ year member]

i get college free financial aid FTW

 

[RossDrivesFast 10+ year member]

Yeah from my beginning research they were surprisingly high priced.. I expected it to be extremely affordable, but it ended up not being the case.

 

[faullkton 10+ year member]

i get college free financial aid FTW

nothing is free.

You spent something.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

those schools are pretty pricey
$30,000+ for the degree I got Engineering Tech

I went to a local college and spent $10,000

I get paid exactly the same as a guy who wetn to Texas A&M.

But half my check goes to saving vs paying a loan off

This. Dunno about the Texas A&M thing, but I'd go to a community college over ITT/DeVry.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

nothing is free.
You spent something.

Arbitrage, by definition, is free.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

i was looking at going to a/m for grad school... but its texas //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

are you kidding? A&M is a straight party town. I'd move back there in a second if I could get a decent paying job there. Which is the problem, the entire city of college station is over-degreed. You have people with masters degrees working at Arby's. There are masses of hot chicks there, best town i've ever lived in. How many cities can you actually say have 50 keg private parties? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

I was offered an IT job at A&M in the Psych department, but they were only going to pay 45k a year for a job that in the Army i'd be getting paid almost twice that.

 

[faullkton 10+ year member]

Arbitrage, by definition, is free.

they probably have some hidden cost.. like interwebz required to make the transaction..

 

[etznova 10+ year member]

not too mention as soon as you contact them for info there recruiters will not leave you alone they work on commission so if they get you to sign they get paid

 

[faullkton 10+ year member]

are you kidding? A&M is a straight party town. I'd move back there in a second if I could get a decent paying job there. Which is the problem, the entire city of college station is over-degreed. You have people with masters degrees working at Arby's. There are masses of hot chicks there, best town i've ever lived in. How many cities can you actually say have 50 keg private parties? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif
I was offered an IT job at A&M in the Psych department, but they were only going to pay 45k a year for a job that in the Army i'd be getting paid almost twice that.

numerous rednecks and 50 kegs ... mmmhh .. sounds like texas... you didnt really help the cause.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

numerous rednecks and 50 kegs ... mmmhh .. sounds like texas... you didnt really help the cause.

Actually, not as many rednecks as you might think. More chicks, which is far more important.

 

[faullkton 10+ year member]

any school with an infomercials HAS to be good, right?

 

[faullkton 10+ year member]

Actually, not as many rednecks as you might think. More chicks, which is far more important.

if they offer me assistanceship i might go there.

 

[Ferendon 10+ year member]

DO NOT GO TO ITT TECH.

I wasted 2 years and $33k at that shit hole.

I went there back when they had "guaranteed job placement" and "transferable credits".

Notice how they no longer promise the job placement, and "Some credits may not be transferable" has become "Credits earned are unlikely to transfer"? That's due to the multitude of law suits for all the non-sensical bullshit they were promising back in 2002 when I took the plunge. I have an AAS in Computer Network Systems from ITT, and I lost out on many a job due to people who were "more qualified", as in they has less experience but they had the same degree from a better school. I lost out on a job to a Remington graduate, simply because of where he got his degree. The same employer that passed me up for that guy even told me it was because of where I got my degree from. He told me that if I wanted to ever be taken seriously, that I needed to go elsewhere and get a new degree. I called lots of schools and 13% of my credits were transferable, at best. And very few of their campuses have a BA program, so don't let them tell you that you can get your BA at any time. Make sure that the campus you're at has a BA program in house. They told me I could, but the nearest ITT with a BA program was 2 states away... They didn't mention that. And 90% of the jobs on the job board had NOTHING to do with any of the fields that taught. Most of them where warehouse work and shit.

 

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

Start out a Tx Jr college, see how you do, make sure the classes apply

to the A&M core for the program your interested in. The credits are guaranteed

transferable.