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I attended ITT-Tech for two years 2009-2011. I have been trying to get a copy of financial forms for a year, which I finally got. I was pissed to find out that I was being charged $1,972.00 per class and now I have to pay Peaks Loan $9,600 and Sallie Mae $21,712. That's more than most colleges and universities, which I have previously attended. Their classes is so bad you don't learn anything because their class assignment does not work with their old and outdated computer systems.

My son attended 3 semesters of ITT, quit before his 4th because he tried to change his major of study and they said no. They continued to charge him for that 4th semester. He refinanced his car to pay off his loan with them. The Credit Union sent them a cashier's check to pay it off. I had taken a parent plus loan out. I have not started to pay my part of the loan yet. I tried to get copies of the charges from ITT AND Sallie Mae and was unsuccessful. They are now garnishing my son's wages for $3000.00 more and today, he got a call and a letter from some collection agency saying he owes $5000.00 more. My loan started out as around $8000.00 and Sallie Mae is saying I owe over $20,000.00 now. I do not know how I am going to pay for it.

They are charging when the kids don't go, then doubling the interest and fees, and when I sent copies of where he paid his part off, ITT nor Sallie Mae acknowledged it. I sent a letter to the governor and the collection agency today telling them to not contact him again about his part. I told Sallie Mae that I was only able to pay $100.00 a month on my loan. I am close to bankruptcy as it is. I asked them to quit doubling the fees, but they continue to call daily and double the fees and interest. I just went online and paid the $100.00 and hope I die soon, except then my kids would be stuck with this bill. I am so disgusted at how they treat the little people. I have no clue what to do. I cannot afford an attorney. It's such a waste because my son nor I have anything to show for all this money they are getting.

I went into ITT Tech one time with my son and the loan never went threw. I received a letter stating this and then someone had called me about another loan and I said, "No. I was not signing for any loans."

Then a few months later, Sallie Mae was harassing me about a loan that I did not co-sign for and I did see a legal aid lawyer. Here, my signature was forged. ITT Tech took a loan paper from my son that I never signed and he never went to school.

ITT Tech got all that free money. I feel they should return the money.

Now I'm getting letters from collection agencies saying that they're going to send it to all these credit people and I'm not at fault for this.

I have been trying to get my transcripts for over a year from ITT. I took online courses and I canceled one of my classes and noticed that I still was enrolled in the class. I called back and was informed to log into the system to check to make sure I was not enrolled in the class. Next thing I knew a month later I received a bill for a class I never took or submitted any assignments. I have contacted the dean as well as the corporate office who was not trying to help me resolve this issue at all.

I'm trying to drop out to attend another college/university. They told me that I owe money when I am still enrolled and just signed papers for federal funds, grants and a $10,000 student loan. Then hoped that I would forget about the transcript forms and enrolled me in more classes. I told them that I am dropping out, and take what financial means are due from the above money, and send my transcripts. Still, they are refusing to send my transcripts to the University of Cincinnati, Tiffin University and Galen University.

They have constantly kept me scheduled at a part-time status, when I am supposed to be a full-time student. I had to constantly go in a demand my third class. They call themselves a professional institution, but how professional can you be, to hold back a student from bettering themselves.

My son attended ITT in Arnold. This was the biggest waste of time and money ever. He had a credit balance of over $ 7,000 on his account and they still kept getting student loans for him. They kept calling him in the financial office. They told him to sign these papers or he couldn't go back to class. So as anyone would do, he signed them. Now he is in so much debt it's affecting his whole life. They taught him nothing and also discontinued the two year degree program after his freshman year there. And then, he had to go 4 years to get the degree.

If anyone has any information about how to get back any of this debt, please feel free to contact me. Also, he had a counselor that he had never even met as of the last of his sophomore year. He never even talked to the guy. How are you supposed to make good decisions without a qualified counselor? And he has found a job, not in his field. They refuse to help him find a job. He was even told by a potential employer not to put ITT on his resume because they wouldn't hire him.

I just recently graduated of June 2011. I tested out of both composition classes in September of 2010. I got a call early October of 2011 saying that they lost my test for my second test, out of Composition 2. So me being nice, even though it was not my fault, still had a copy of my essays, so decided to print out another copy, drive an hour to the school, and hand it in. So here I am talking to the director of ITT Technical Institute in Harrisburg,PA, saying that my essay has to be regraded to see if it meets the requirements.

I'm lost at this point, because I've already attended graduation, and received my A.S. in Networking. So I went with the flow, and just agreed to it. I got a call about a week later, saying that my essays did not then meet the requirements. I asked, how so? So, the director tells me that some people were not certified to grade these tests, and some grades were just given out. Wow! What a professional school.

They lack communication also. How can I not be mad? But me only having access to so much information that is confidential like that, they would just take advantage of me. Maybe because I was the only Asian female in that school, at least for the whole two years that I attended. Talking about having a bad day. They achieved it for me, and yes, my family is mad.

Deciding if I should make a YouTube video to warn others about attending this school. I would definitely not recommend it at all to anyone! And the review I read about them just passing anyone and everyone, that is 101% true. Some people I graduated with, never handed in work and still graduated with me. I do not understand at all. I have to pay a $2,000.00 loan, because of this class, along with my other loans from graduating for a time period of 6 months already, and have to put my future plans on hold, because of them. But then, this is not the end of my story.

I have several complaints. First, I was lied to by my recruiter by saying that I would receive a laptop in my second quarter. I received an external HD. It was no big deal.

Second, I was told by my recruiter and the (so-called) Financial Aid Department that all of my tuition would be taken cared of by Government Student loans or grants. They were not. There was a convenient hole in my ability to pay so that they could force a private loan company on me at an outrageous interest. I signed out of fear of not graduating. I should have ran then.Then I was told that I would not have to sign any more loans. I was lied to, again.

Third, I was called into financial aid again and was told that I would have to sign another of these private loans. I did, and was called back 6 weeks later stating that it did not disperse. That is not my problem.

Fourth, this school passes anyone and everyone for the sake of $$. There are people in my program of study that do not even know proper terminology for simple equipment, protocols, etc. I felt cheated. Fifth, I am being threatened that I will not be able to graduate in December because I refuse to sign another loan from this company.

I went to ITT tech for 14 months as a morning student and then was told that my classes would only be offered in the evenings. I had started at job in the evenings and could not give it up. The recruiter we spoke to when I started told me and my family that ITT would work around my schedule, so I could take morning or evening classes. Almost everything we were told to get me to sign up was a lie. Now I owe more than $20,000 and I don't even have an Associate's Degree. The director will not even return phone calls. Credits were not transferred. I now owe large amount of money on student loans and nothing to show for it. I cannot go to another school until I pay for an education that means nothing.

I wish I would have listened to my brother when he told me not to attend ITT Tech. He graduated in 2004 and had a very hard time getting a job. He eventually found a great job through a friend. He has friends in high positions. They let him know that they really don't like hiring people from ITT because they give degrees to everyone. In fact, they even made the news in my city when a student submitted a recipe and received an "A" with a "good job" comment.

My problems with ITT Tech occurred quickly. I first enrolled in August of 2009. But due to a family emergency I had to drop way before classes started. I re-enrolled in December and noticed right away that you will be given an "A" no matter what kind of work you turn in. After three months of utter crap, I decided to dropout and attend another school. Right before I did, I found out that they never turned in my financial aid papers. On top of that, they kept my Pell Grant from August. They never sent it back like they were supposed to. I contacted the Dept. of Education and they said that what ITT Tech did was illegal.

That's not the worst of it. When I called to drop out, the woman was extremely angry and unprofessional. I made sure that I was officially dropped out and signed at a different school. Thank heavens I did. Because two weeks later after I was officially dropped from the school, I found out that they tried to take a loan out under my name. If I hadn't signed up at a different school when I did, they would have gotten away with it. Also, if you're thinking about enrolling at ITT Tech, do a little searching on the web, because many of their campuses have been raided!

I was a former ITT adjunct instructor, main campus tutor, malware/IT club leader with very high remarks, surveys, ratings, and awesome reputation for many years until one day. Well, I have been hearing rumors that people who cause waves or mention anything will be let go. It includes reporting attendance inaccuracies, false survey results, undocumented fill in teachers, not qualified instructors, handing out all exams including finals with answers, changing grades from F to A, etc. I never mentioned these issues outside of the walls of ITT. I heard that other instructors were harassed over and over that they will be fired. One day I was talking to another instructor about attendance. The next day, I was asked not to come back because of some student saying that I emailed her about some test scores. This was a total made up story. They made this up. Over the phone, they read the emails to me, which was not even from my email address. They said the email address was not important and was not from my work email nor personal.

I was failing this student, so the school decided to fire me. They told me in the past that I needed to pass this student and to change the grade if possible. I said no. Then, weeks later, I got fired. It is crazy. I have never had a bad thing against me. Check my records with the school. They even hired me to do more work for them. I have more to this story if you like to know about it. Please let me know. Thanks.

I was a former student of graphic design at the local state university following graduation from high school back in 2002. I found great success within the program and gained praises from several individuals based on my work and talent throughout my three years at the university. However, like many college students, I partied too much and accrued a great deal of debt which forced me to withdraw and work a series of dead-end jobs full time for the following five or six years. I always wanted to go back to school like so many others and complete my education.

I came upon the commercials for ITT Tech and soon after enrolled at my local campus in Wichita, Kansas. The staff were friendly and things felt good. But I should have listened to my senses as my recruiter was a former marine recruiter who never let me get a word in. I went in to the school only hoping to get a little more feedback, and before I knew it, I was "enlisted" (I mean enrolled). I was a visual communications student in the School of Drafting and Design. The classes were nice but did conflict with my work schedule despite their advertisements. I barely made enough to live while attending.

Throughout my two semesters, I passed with flying colors and accumulated a 3.7 GPA. I began to doubt things at the university when I first began noticing that the work being turned in by the other students fell way below par of my own work, and yet were receiving similar grades as my own. No offense to my peers, but the art that they turned in could have been done by either my niece or nephew, and they're both 4 and 2.

Then, in our other classes, Math, more specifically, there were people that would cry, complain, and throw tantrums in the middle of class due to them not understanding the material, and yet they passed every time? As time continued, despite my instructors continuous promises that they would try to get us a job post graduation, I couldn't believe that any respectable advertising firm or graphic design agency in town would ever offer any of these people a job (having worked with several of them on both freelance jobs and as an intern years before). Plus, many of them have conveyed to me that they did not view these technical schools as legitimate universities in the first place. So, I withdrew from the school and received much ill will from the faculty. It was like night and day, and they were sure to let me know it.

I enrolled in ITT Tech after seeing some of those commercials on TV. I took the Electronics course they had while I was in high school, so I figured it would be a fun career field. Well, I'm not an electronics person, but I do catch on quickly so I aced the course, so it was a no-brainer I'd do the same while at ITT, which I did. I aced it all. I aced it all a little too well. It was all on a level less than what was offered, for free, at that class back in high school. It was all handed to you. Try as I might, I could not fail anything. But neither could anyone else. The grades, as I'm sure you've seen across forums and complaint websites, were handed out. One of the instructors said, "I'm not here to fail you, I'm here to pass you. You know the answer..." And he gave a hint. A hint for a test the person had already failed. Then another hint, and she got it right and he passed her. This girl, no offense, had no right to even touch the dial on a microwave for fear of blowing it up. Yet, there she was, passing tests left and right.

Did I feel cheated? Yes, I was quickly learning my degree was going to hold no weight if people like her, and there was many in the class, all passed. I already knew many places would never accept an ITT degree based on my own research with Google, but I wanted to believe. I enjoyed the instructors while I was with them in the high school class, so I enrolled. But I digress. If you've looked up complaints about ITT giving treats for classes as an incentive for showing up, let me dispel the rumor: They do. They order pizza, I think from Papa John's, to every single class with perfect attendance. Now, the classes are about an hour and a half long, so when they interrupt them for about 20 minutes to eat food, in addition to our normal breaks, yeah, I felt robbed.

I brought it up to the teacher after class one day, and he responded saying I'm a smart guy and can pass even if I don't show up. When I asked about those other people he just hands grades to, he laughed and told me they wouldn't make it to Q2. Well, they did. Because the teachers carried them. They stop an entire class and refuse to even continue the lectures and lessons when just one person is being a problem. Until he finishes talking on his phone or arguing with the teacher (whom will not argue back, instead only say, "Waiting on you to stop so we can continue the lesson..."). I asked her to go get the dean and have the person removed because I'm not paying $40,000 for 2 years to sit here doing nothing. She told me she's not doing that, because we're all here to learn, and be respectful. After that the troublemaker stopped, but he'd do it again every day, wasting a significant portion of time. Another instance, the chairmen of the electric department stopped our class to enjoy a single slice of red velvet cake a student brought her. Just for her. She stopped an entire lesson to try the cake and then we wasted almost a half hour talking about red velvet cake. When that conversation shifted to politics, I got up and left. It's not a class for politics or cake, it's electrical circuits.

I spoke to the dean and told him about the issues, and then told him I wanted out. He then told me it's the 2nd week of the 2nd quarter, and that I have already paid for the entire 2nd quarter since it was already the first day of the 2nd quarter. If I had done this the day before, I'd only be charged for the first quarter. On another note, one of their instructors for math was late by about an hour. We had no teacher for an hour. The Dean wasn't even aware of this. None of the faculty was until one of us got up to tell them. The teacher showed up eventually, yes, but everything was rushed. He had to leave shortly after class for something, and myself and one other needed some assistance. We didn't get it. He just said do what we can and he'll grade us on that, and not the full assignment.

The cake and politics were the straws that broke my back, and my bank, so to speak. If I had came up and said I was leaving the school one day sooner, I'd have only been charged for the first quarter. But since it was day one of the 2nd Quarter, they charged me for the entire quarter. Needless to say, I was outraged. He told me to stay since I already paid for the 2nd quarter, but he didn't promise or even mention my complaints, so I just left.

Here I am, a new year, unemployed, with a car payment I have to pay before school bills, and a very large debt to ITT for something I didn't even get. I owe the school just over $10,000. Their debt collection agency called me every hour of every day it seemed like to get me to pay in full. I've been forced to get a debt counselor to help keep them off me. My car comes first or I can't even get to work to try to pay that debt off. I've tried to get employed with the state to no avail, military service would be a last ditch effort for me, but the day I walk to the recruiting office is fast approaching. My parents health is deteriorating and when they go, I start to sleep in my car, from there I don't know what option I'd have.

The experience with ITT has turned me off from college completely and I have resigned to a life of hard labor like my father for the rest of my life. He was a cabinet maker when I was born, and he still is. He doesn't like it, but he has no GED. I do, but after this experience with ITT, I may end up like him. I can barely afford my car note working for what jobs are available in this recession, and ITT's debt collectors wanted $400 per month on top of that! My debt counselor convinced them for $276 per month, but that is going unpaid too. I don't know what I can do now.

There is a collection agency that is leaving threatening messages on my phone. I took out a payday loan a while back and was not able to pay on it. Now, they say that I owe them $800 on a $250 loan. I am willing to make payments on it but all of this interest on a $250 loan is not right. My bank account was closed because I had some fraud issues on my account. I got behind and have not been able to catch up. I wrote them a check but was making some payments to them before it was closed. They are saying that I wrote a bad check, which I did not.

Anyway, I have asked this collection agency to send me a bill in the mail so I can see what I owe. I will also send them payment through the mail. But they refused, saying that they want my credit card information over the phone. I am not giving that. It is against the law for them to call me at work and say that I have committed a crime, that I am going to jail and that they are going to take legal actions. These are just scare tactics. I want them to stop calling me at work. I have asked John from this company to stop calling me for these payday loans.

I recently received my BS in Criminal Justice from the University of MS. I also hold my associates from Itawamba Community College in Criminal Justice. I attended ITT Technical Institute in Cordova, TN from March 2005-September 2005 pursuing a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice. I relocated back to MS to finish my schooling at U of M because I wanted to go to law school. When I initially decided to go to ITT, I had spoken with the representatives there as far as my education and what I wanted to do. They knew at that time that I was planning to go to law school after attaining my bachelor's from that institute and they led me to believe that I would have no problems attaining that goal. Well, after I had completed two quarters (approximately 6 months of schooling) there and after thorough research I found out I would not be able to transfer those credits or that degree from ITT to any other college/university, especially to go to law school.

At this point, I knew my time there and any education I had received was wasted/useless. I was ok with the fact that I would be unable to transfer those credits/semester hours or use that schooling for any job/potential employers/prospects, etc. The problem that I have now is the cost of the education that I did not receive, not only did I waste valuable time, but money. I currently have a student loan bill with Sallie Mae that I did not authorize, to my knowledge, or had any information about. When they (admissions clerk/registrar) signed me up for their school I was told financial aid would be no problem and they would take care of everything. I am now in debt with Sallie Mae approximately $15,000.00 for 6 months of schooling.

I am showing about 3 loans with them. I do not feel obligated to have to pay these loans because I am also showing I received federal financial aid such as Pell Grants for this schooling during this time as well. Not to mention, I can't afford the loans at this time along with my other student loan debt that is legitimate and I am aware of. I am in deferment/forbearance with my other student loans and they are advising that my private loans are not eligible for either. I do not remember signing any loan forms or being counseled on any loans during this time. What can or should I do? Can you help me? Do I have a legitimate case? I am not sure legally what I can do. I believe that there have been lawsuits filed against ITT in several states and areas for this same reason but can't advise on the validity of my claim. Any assistance/advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

I attended school off and on from 2004 to 2008. I was hounded by "reps" when I would miss class. After I dropped out, I was still hounded by ITT reps telling me to finish and get my degree. After I re-enrolled and graduated, the career placement department just ignored me.

I was promised for 4 years, that I would successfully be placed into a job after graduation. Then they ignore my emails and ignore my situation altogether. Now I can't find a job, can't pay bills, and pretty much have a worthless degree that I have been told several times is "worthless". When I try to get into a realuniversity, they tell me that I owe too much in student debt to even enroll.

ITT has ruined my life and the lives of family members who depend on me. I will never be able to get into a real college and I feel that if there is a class action law suit, I would be very willing to be a part of it.

I am no over $30,000 in debt, which makes me ineligible for any kind of student aid for further education. Employers have told me that ITT degrees are not real degrees. Now I can't pay my bills, feed my family, or even hold down a residence. I have been evicted due to having to pay the interest on these loans.

I attended ITT from 2006-2008 for computer networking. I graduated with an Associate Degree. Ha-ha! As with probably every student who has ever attended ITT, I was led to believe that my credits would transfer so that I could go onto a university if I wanted. It wasn't until after graduation I found out that my Associate Degree that I owe $40,000.00 for isn't worth a cent. The teachers can't teach but they insist you fill out Questa Ire about them so that they get a bonus. I never did fill them out. Why should they get a bonus when they're not teaching us anything? The laboratories I was supposed to have, well not one laboratory worked'. They would tell us something wasn't being updated. Either the books or the software. It was always one or the other. No one knew anything and their answers to this problem were move onto the next lab'.

How do you do that when you haven't learned anything and if it wasn't working for this chapter? It surely wouldn't be working for the next. I was promised that I had career service to help me find employment and that is a lifetime guarantee. Whenever I tried to contact someone in career services there was never anyone there. Then when I did finally get in touch with someone, they said they couldn't get me an interview with anyone. There were times that I had called, left messages and they actually emailed me the listings from Craigslist. Something I could do myself and I could have done it free'. I didn't have to go into debt of $40,000.00 to do it.

I attended only 1 class there and was dropped. That wasn't the issue! I went to other colleges and they wouldn't let me in with financial aid. This happened four to five times that they made me come all the from Portsmouth to the Norfolk campus for them to reject my entrance. They spent too much of my time going to the dean and waste my time for the FA advisor to tell me that I have so many loans open that they will not help me. Did anybody go through this? Every time I see a stupid ITT Tech commercial, I want to break the TV. That's how angry I get.

I was mislead, it's unneeded debt.

Where do I begin? It was about 30 minutes before class on Friday evening. I left my bag in the student lounge like I always do, mainly because I am on foot and do not have a car to store my backpack in. I come back from dinner only to find my backpack gone from the table where I placed it. So I go up to the custodian and asked if she has seen a black backpack. She says check with the dean, so I go to the back where the dean's office is located, only to discover the associate dean looking intently through my bag. He says is your name Kshetra R.? I say yes, he says do these pictures belong to you? I said yes, so? All they were, were two pictures of women in bathing suits. The dean looks at me and says, you know this school has zero tolerance towards ****, right? I said but those pictures are of fully clothed women, which would make it not ****. He says in my mind this is considered ****, and he also says that it could be considered sexual harassment.

For starters, the guy is searching through my bag without permission, which is a total violation of rights, then he's considering the pictures **** which is totally untrue. It was a picture of Mariah Carey in a bathing suit, which I had printed at home and another random woman in a bathing suit. Then the dean says to me that I'm giving you a write up this time. Next time, you get kicked out of school.

Please help me! I have been constantly harassed and treated unfairly since I have enrolled into this school. This is only one such instance, another time I had a bottle of cologne that I was splashing on in the student lounge associate Dean V. walks by and asks is that alcohol? I go of course not; he did that just to be a jerk. Help! I need legal help in this matter.

I believe this was during the year of 2003, or maybe even 2004. I visited ITT because they had a class called "Computer Multimedia". While getting a tour by one of their "sales" reps, I was informed about how everything was top of the line, and we had so many resources to be able to use, and how flexible the schedules were, so that you could get to class and have a job. I signed up, and everything changed.

Upon getting into the first day of class, we are told that the schedules are 5 hour days, 3 days a week, and that due to certain teachers' schedules, we had to take classes on a certain 5-hour block, which did not meet my or their definition of "flexible schedule".

We had a teacher who was from the Far East, who did not know English too well, and would constantly miss-grade, misinform, and even just not communicate to us in a form we could understand. The class went by so slow, due to people having to continually ask him to repeat things, as they were unable to understand him.

We had another teacher who showed up maybe 2 times during the semester, the rest of her classes were subbed by other teachers who happened to be in at the time, though they had no clue about the content they were teaching, thus making it almost impossible to learn anything when you ask them a question and they can't find it in the book.

All those were major problems, and then what finally broke the camel's back was the announcement, after about 2 months of going to classes, that this was their first time ever trying a "Computer Multimedia" type course, and that this was "all new to them". After hearing that, it made plenty sense as to why I had not learned a single thing I already did not know from High School Computer Science classes.

I dropped out and have not paid them a single penny since. I do not want them to get any of my money, but the loans are now past default, and they are saying they will start deducting from my paychecks.

This might have been a great school to learn electronics and maintenance of said electronics; But this was not a school prepared to offer its students anything in "computer multimedia". I had made friends in that class that I still keep up with, and they all left shortly after I had. It's sad that it took that long to realize such a problem, and even more sad that I could be without money due to their negligence and how hard it is for a consumer to fight for their rights against such a company/corporation.

In my opinion, I was ripped off by ITT TECH. 50K for a 2 year degree. I was told how I would save lots of money on books and lab fees because they were included with the class cost. Well at $400+ a credit hour and each class being 4 credits. 96 credits later with interest 50K. Here's my problem. A basic class like Composition 1, same as English 101 at a real college. Here's how they got me. Composition 1, 4 credits cost 4X433, books free = $1,732, 12 weeks 4 hours = 48 hours of classes. Now at a real college here's the math. English 101, 3 credits + cost of books. 3X259 + $89 for books = $866. 16 weeks 3 hours = 48 hours of classes

Where's the savings? -$866 savings. 96 credits for 2 year degree 96X$433+ books free = $41,568 and that's without interest. A real college requires about 70-75 credits for 2 year degree. We'll use 75 for this argument. 75 X 239 + books for 25 classes @$100 (high estimate) = $20,423.

Think twice before going to ITT TECH! I'm sure prices have gone up since I went there. Remember their credits don't transfer anywhere. If you want to get a Bachelors degree, It will cost you you nearly $100,000.

Try paying for it in today's job market. It won't happen in our lifetime. A house for $100k or an ITT TECH degree for a $100k? Learn by mistake, do not go there. I have 2 year degree with $50,000 debt credits and can't transfer anywhere. I will have to pay nearly $100,000 to get my Bachelors degree.

by the horrible ways I was treated throughout Itt's whole process that now today I find out they want me to pay for it too. I had complained from the very beginning of going to that school to the recruiter to the dean and now to consumer affairs. In the loan repayment papers it said that you can defer your student loan by going back to their school. NO THANK YOU! I say don't believe what that school is saying and warn others too. For me this school crashed my hopes and dreams but I have sought out help, it is not a picnic! I am so glad to be out of there, really glad!

If I only researched this so-called school before I registered! I went for two weeks, people, only two weeks. After being promised the world and extremely misled, one of my instructors advised me to drop it all and run. I did, only it was the second week. I get a bill for, get this, $6200. Highway robbery? I would say so. This should be illegal!

These poor kids who are only trying to make a life for their selves get ripped off and credit shot! I am thinking of suing anyone up for a counter lawsuit. I am seriously thinking of contacting the media over it. I would advise you, guys, to do the same who had the horrible experience I did, as well as my cousin. Only his debt was $14000.

I began attending ITT in Orland Park, IL in September 2009. I had been out of college for 7 years and I decided to attend ITT for a degree in CTNI. Seeing all of the commercials and the individuals who had become business owners, etcetera intrigued me. Upon speaking with an advisor, they told me that I would enter this field and online classes would possibly be available to me. They also stated that they were heavily involved in job placement and that I would have a job 6 months after I graduated. In my Strategies class, the teacher then tells us that the program is only for entry level job positions. My advisor told me that they were much different from other community colleges and that I would not have to take the unnecessary classes the community colleges would take. The very first day of class comes and I had orientation for what seemed like hours! After orientation they would then allow the teacher to come up and begin class!

Well, they only have morning and evening classes and in that particular day, I had one of each. I sat through orientation for the first class. My next class comes that evening and they did the same thing over again. I figured I would not need to sit through the same exact thing again that evening, so I then went to my advisor and asked her if I needed to attend the second orientation. She told me no. I then went to the teacher who was teaching at ITT for the first time by the way and asked him if I needed to attend and he also told me no.

I left only to find out the following week that they did an assignment and a lab and that I missed it. He still expected me to turn in the work. I would travel from Peoria to Orland Park which is a 2 1/2 hour drive 1 way. They never seemed to work with me much as far as missing class. One teacher would make sure that he called me every time I missed class to see why I missed class. Now, I understand that they are concerned but what about privacy? I thought I was an adult? When and why do I have to answer to someone about why I am missing class?

Aside from the fact that they call, they also mentioned that when they call, they will ask for you only and if they do not get you, they will simply hang up. They called my house and asked for me. Of course, I was in the city but I was sick and I did not make class. They told my sister that I was not in class and gave her the assignment I was to complete! What was the use? It was crunch time and I had a few missing assignments. I turned in all of my needed assignments that I was missing in one of my classes and I still came out with a D+! I also had assignments missing in my Intro to PC class. I completed all of the needed assignments again in that class and aced the final and he also gave me a D+!

I often wonder if they even took the time to go through and see that I had turned in the work! I am now in my second quarter and I am very disappointed! I have one of the same teachers that I had from last quarter who is teaching a programming class. If you know nothing about programming, you will not learn anything about it from this class. He teaches as if we should already know this stuff. The very first day, he gave us 3-4 assignments to which one of them we completed in a group.

After the Christmas break, he hands it back to us and tells us that we did not complete it right. When in class, while we were trying to complete it, we asked questions! He still made us redo it! I have had the weather against me. Again, I'm from Peoria and I have not been able to make class all the time. One teacher doesn't even respond to my emails and when I asked her to send me the work from that class, she states she will and I never receive it! Out of three teachers, only one has really worked with me. The registrar takes it upon herself to call me and remind me that I have class that night or the next morning. I am very disappointed in the quality of the teachers they have there. I had a math teacher who was new and I complained about her to the Dean the first day. Nothing was done about it until a few weeks later. They fired her for her being incapable to teach a class. The class taught her. Why did they hire her to begin with?

In my programming class, I knew that the work was tedious and that the more class I missed, the harder it would be to catch up. So I talked with my advisor two weeks into the class, and asked her if I had the option to withdraw and after checking with the registrar, she came back and told me no. Being that they had counted the two week Christmas break as class time, I was not able to withdraw without having to pay back half of what it would cost for that class. So I had to stick it out, bad weather and all, and I now know nothing about programming.

I still missed a few classes and the quarter is almost over and I am clueless as to what I am doing in that class. I was forced to take tests in that class, even though I was not there to learn the needed information. If I could do it all over again, I would have totally decided against ITT. I feel as if it's a waste of time, and that I have learned nothing at all. I plan to withdraw after this quarter is over so we will see what tricks they will try and pull with that. I would not suggest anyone toattend an ITT anywhere. You would better off elsewhere.

As a person who has dealt with adversity throughout my life, I thought that my experience was just a live-and-learn scenario in which I would just have to live with the consequences of attending school at ITT and learn never to believe a trade schools slick tongue. I had dreams of becoming an Engineer in high school but wasn't really sure how I would get there. I didn't take high school seriously, and as a result, limited my opportunities. I could have gone to a 4-year school nevertheless, but was told by an ITT Tech recruiter that ITT could offer me all that I wanted and more.

"Two years and you are done with school. Designing and establishing yourself as a leader in the industry while your peers are wasting time at college with English classes," was told to me from across the table by a female recruiter in her 30's. "We will help you with job placement, housing, anything that you need while there."

As a high school senior living on my own, I was sold. What I quickly learned was everything but what she said was true. I attended school in 1996 at the Greentree, Pa. ITT. At that time, ITT wasn't well known but talked a good game and used the lack of coverage to their advantage. My first day there I was told by a theory teacher what to expect out of the experience. "If you came here to learn how to design and build, you are in the wrong place. If you came to fix copiers, printers, or other such machines, we can help you. "

Later we received a tackle box, yes a tackle box, with ITT Technical Institute on it, about $25 worth of tools in it, a 3M breadboard worth about $30 and were charged over $125 for them. During my six-month stay there, I learned nothing more then I had working on cars and in car audio the summers before the end of high school. For that lack of knowledge, I am forced to pay $15,000.

During my semesters there, I had a drunk for a Lab instructor, went through 2 theory teachers in about 2 weeks culminating in the dean teaching us math for a week while they found a replacement. Math was also taught after theory. The dropout rate there is tremendous, not because the work is tough, but because of the way they prey upon people in unfortunate circumstance. Feeding them lies so that they can profit off of them. At one point, we were even being taught by a fellow student and former Navy nuclear sub tech as the teachers just couldn't cut it. The housing was on the other side of Pittsburgh from the school in what had become section 8 housing.

There were incidences of robbery, attacks, and other such violence committed while living there. The "job placement" consisted of the financial advisor looking through want ads and sending you to temp agencies and companies that made junk mail or did phone telemarketing. The highlight job I achieved while there was a job as a busboy/planner for the Holiday Inn Greentree. The only job even remotely related to the field we were attempting to embark upon was at MSA in Cranberry, a 45-minute drive from our "housing" and "school". That job lasted 2 weeks, then they closed down the job because of contract issues.

Why after so long am I writing about this now? Because I have seen time and time again in my travels too many guys and girls that are $30,000 or more in debt and don't have the know-how to succeed in the jobs they were promised. As a manager I have trained these kids and retrained them, time and time again. Some make it, most don't. Even the ones that do make it wish they had gone to a 4-year school. I haven't met one person who either isn't disappointed or wished they had never gone.

As for the "Bachelors Degree" they offer at ITT, good luck having anyone take that seriously. I have worked in the technology industry and know for a fact that every company I have worked for requires 3 years experience with another engineer if you have an ITT Bachelors degree or the like before your resume is even considered. These are "entry level" jobs too, not Senior Engineer positions.

I am a technician now, by the way. The $15,000 I owe ITT is now going into default. What did I get for that $15,000? Little more than learning that I should have chosen a community college over them. I would have saved myself nearly $10,000 and been taken more seriously. The credits would have transferred, too; most of ITT's credits won't transfer. They don't tell you that either. If I can honestly prevent one, just one kid from going there and instead going somewhere else, it would make a smile shine on my face. In closing, let me end by saying, please, please, if you plan on going for a secondary education, make it a four-year college. That degree will get you so much farther in life. This I promise. The consequences are: $15,000 in debt just from the school, $2-3,000 additional debt from housing situation, and damage to credit.

Okay, so I was there for a few quarters and the only reason I left was not because of my performance there, or any lack of participation. The main reason was the Financial Aid Office there. They were asking for a specific form that only my mom could give them (for those of you planning on going, it's the one they call the "W2 form"), but my mom wouldn't give it to them because it had private information.

But for some reason, since I left, I've been getting these bills about some $100 fee. I just called their Financial Aid office, and this is what I got out of it. Apparently, on top of tuition, I have to pay this Registration Fee for simply being there. I'm only 20, but is there any way I can sue these guys? Oh, and did I mention that the credits don't transfer?

I also had a math class where the instructor was middle eastern, I could barely understand him with his thick accent, which was also more hindered by the fact that he talked into the whiteboard away from the class. I complained and a number of other students said the same thing, they had no clue what he was talking about. I spoke to the program chair about these issues who only had to say "I'm sorry about that." As if that wasn't enough, there was a third class I had that was called, Intro into Game Design. The class was three hours of playing video games. You heard right! We literally played video games for three hours.

I had a line of credit from them, I clearly asked would it be deferred as long as I'm in school. The finance personnel said yes. Then I asked, would I have monthly payments to pay this back. Once again I was told yes, a company who handles the accounts will set up payments with me. When I switched to a different school, they demanded $2500 to be paid in full instantly. I had taken 1 period, 3 classes for $2500, that's more than I'm paying per credit for my son in UW-Madison.

Even though I dropped the awful math class I still had to pay it. So I cleaned out my savings account to pay them, as they were threatening to screw up my credit rating by posting this. I'm begging everyone to not go there, it will only drain you and put you in a deep financial hole. Because of trying to save my credit rating, I cleaned my savings and got them off my back. Now $25000 in debt to Chase for one year, I have nothing to show for it but credits that don't transfer anywhere and a large debt.

After graduating i then went to UNM and was informed that the degree i obtained was basically useless and that i would have to start from the beginning; if i wanted a bachelors degree. i am now stuck with $30,000 in loans for a useless degree, "not worth the paper it was printed" as i was told to me by a counselor at UNM

Two sons bearly graduated High School both attenton defecit ottom line got loans to pay back and prbably never will. They were hoodwick, if they stop going to class, why keep charging full tuiton and have us being harassed. I wnt to sue the corp One son autistc, the other ADD and both young men graduated special ed

I enrolled in the Digital Entertainment and Game Design program in St. Rose, Louisiana. Before signing for loans, I was always told that I would be able to consolidate them and they would be manageable monthly payments. WRONG!!! Sallie Mae is asking me to pay over $500.00 a month on both federal and private loans. Also, the program sucked so bad because we were the second class to take up this program. We had teachers who in fact worked for video game companies, but for some reason or another weren't given full-time positions so they ended up quitting. We were left without a decent instructor. All they did was take an existing teacher and make them teach a class. I've never heard of a graphics designer teaching physics. That's like having your PE teacher in high school teach geometry. If they aren't qualified in a certain subject, how can they teach that class? I was also tired of being forced into taking online classes and teaching myself. Not only was I teaching myself when I was actually going to the school, now I have to do it online as well. I didn't learn a damn thing that I couldn't learn buy purchasing a book and doing tutorials. I was an honor graduate and valedictorian, so I'm not a disgruntled student. This is scary and real and I've been bamboozled. My college life has been completely wasted and so has my money. Six months after graduating, the career services department are finally buckling down and trying to find jobs. Not decent paying jobs either. This school and/or campus was not in no way ready for this curriculum. I urge everyone to stay away from this school. I also blame the government for not stepping in and helping out us students. These privately own schools need to be regulated and so does Sallie Mae. I was told by a Sallie Mae rep that they no longer consolidate loans due to the economy, but they expect me to pay over $500.00 to them? What about the economy affecting me? It's ridiculous. Now my parents might have to take out a home equity loan just to help with my student loans. PLEASE PEOPLE, STAY AWAY FROM ITT. I will be starting a website soon that will very informative and I will try to create a group to encourage our government to bailout the student debts. Get ready for this and sign up!!!

I was attending ITT Tech, I was only going there for a week so they try to bill me a 2700 dollar fee. I went by the proper procedure by call stating I will no longer attend the online program. I got a phone call from the bill collector saying I owe money. I told the collection agency to send me the paper work from ITT Tech saying that I will have to pay them but when they sent the paper work the forge my signature on the paper. When ITT Tech sent me the information I had to copy it an sign it but they didnt send the right papers. The paper they sent I have them save in my email address.

An instructor even explained that he would get a bonus after we all do good, and times are hard so he would "help" us.

I left the school before 30 days and was told that I could come back to continue where I left off at. Than I began to receive calls from collection agencies demanding money, even though I had a student loan. The so called hands on education was not hands on. We ended up doing work over the computer, which means that we would teach our selves at least one full course. The recruiters lied about receiving commission or incentives for their work. I was told that there was no money out of the pocket!

The school has custom published books to save money! They advertise way to often! Teachers complain of being under paid and ward off good friends from becoming entangled in ITT's mess. I owe money and I wasted time.

I graduated in 2005 with highest honors and they promised to have lifetime job placement when you graduate from their school, which they did not do that with me and I have over $80,000 worth of student loans that I need to pay back but can not due to the fact of not getting a job like they promised. The school didnt teach me things that are on the state wide test you have to take to get certified. As to this result I can not get a job in the field that I was going to school because I am not certifed even though I have hands on experience and anyone can go and study for the test and take it but that doesnt mean they have the hands on experience like myself.

Did not get a job for what I was going to school for and was not taught anything that was on the test that I needed to take to get certified.

I attended ITT Tech in 1984 I was enrolled in a Electronic Tech excelerated program, I completed and never heard from the school for job placement and have never been able to use the schooling in the job market because employers said the program did not give enough experience for the field that I claimed to train you in. I had to got back to school and pay for it out of pocket because I could not get another student loan because the one for ITT was in default. On 4/6/2009 my taxes got taken to pay for this 25 year old debt from a school that did nothing to help me.

The debt has caused me credit issues and now 25 years later when we are a economic crisis and I'm trying to just survive an was depending on my tax check to pay bills and keep a roof over my families head the department of ed took it. The stress possibly losing my home and collection calls has cause physical and mental issues for me.

Hopes, Dreams and Promises. Thats what I had when I first got accepted into the Computer Networking systems 2 year associates degree program at ITT Tech. ITT Tech made it clear before I joined that they wanted nothing more then to see me succeed and graduate with hopes of a brighter future. A dream short lived with my first 3 quarters at ITT Tech. In late 2004 before I graduated from high school I was already planning to attend ITT Tech in the summer of 2005. I was contacted a couple months before graduating by my former recruiter of ITT. He told me that ITT tech was ripoff and I should rethink my education, it was just a big scam out to take peoples money and give you less of an education. I should have stopped right there and listened. I ended up attending ITT in the summer of 2006 in order to get my finances straightened out.

After three quarters at ITT Tech I was ready to call it quits because for the money I was expected to shovel over, I didn't feel like I was getting out what I put in. Instructors were often late class, not up to date with curriculum, confrontational and unwilling to help you. Instructors made you feel like you were a waste of time and instead of helping you they'd refer you to a tutor. The only downside to tutors were most of them had different methods of teaching a subject and its not the correct way of learning the material. If you have a full time job then you could forget about getting extra help. ITT Tech was also unwilling to work with people who had jobs and fit your class's in around your schedule. But wait this is the total opposite of what ITT tech promised isn't it?

My campus that I attended was filthy, garbage and pop bottles often cluttered my learning enviorment. Computers were damaged, stolen or missing parts. Which makes you wonder where all the money your paying is going? Text-books were lousy and if you were lucky enough to have one or you'd often have to wait weeks or so just to get one, and by then you were behind. ITT tech would send you a draft schedule between quarters, so when you return back to class to get your final copy of your schedule you find out that you already missed one or two of your classes and are behind. Then ITT Tech has the audacity to send you an attendance reminder. If you ever want to talk to any of the staff such as Career services, Financial Aid, Administrators...good luck. Most of them were unavailable to talk to and since ITT has a such a high turn over rate you'd never know who to talk to or where to find them.

I recieved a letter from Finacial aid about my student loans and tried contacting them through the phone and email but was not able to get ahold of anyone. My relationship with the staff wasn't that great either. I had one instructor for programming who on the day of exams came in under the influence. Then my instructor for Math read my grades allowed in front of the class and insulted me. Before I withdrew I spoke with the Dean and my recruiter and we discussed the problem I was having and that I was not happy there. They failed to assist me but helped me decide that ITT Tech was not for me. In the end I am expected to pay Sallie Mae nearly $30,000 dollars for an unsatfiactory education.

I've tried contacting Better Business Bureau, Congressmen, ITT Dean, Ombudsman & ACICS but have come out unsuccessful. My response from ACICS was that there was lack of evidence and I basically got called a liar. How am I supposed to pay back this rapidly growing loan with no college education or degree? I work in retail making minimum wage. I can barely afford to pay rent, car payments etc. I'm sorry, but the last thing on my to pay list is my student loan. Which is like throwing money in a bottomless jar. I've been fighting because I believe I should be entitled to a refund. The only evidence you need is the fact that I will never return to the school. From the moment I left ITT, I've made it my sole mission to keep future students considering that school to rethink their education & future.

Sallie Mae keeps harassing me for money calling me at work & home. We've had to call the police dept. because of the phone calls, and they've recently started back up. I cannot afford this loan and cannot get a better job without a degree. I cannot transfer to another school because ITT credit's do not transfer. I can't afford to borrow loans, and I would be denied too since my account is in delinquency. My credit is shot because of this loan. I can't ask for help from my parents because my parents are in a low income situation. I am near defaulting on my loan.

ITT failed to inform me that my basic consumer protections have been stripped from my student loans, so bankruptcy is not an option. I may have to move back in with my family but I still wouldn't be able to afford these loans. I will be an old man still trying to pay this loans if I did consolidate but its hard to do with private loans, I may be retired using my social security to pay on it unless they decide to garnish that as well. I don't know how they justify charging that much for not even attending a full year without receiving a degree?

I have a bill from ITT Tech that I believe I do not owe, they have sent it to Cincinnati, Ohio. The collection Agency is harse and they act as though they are out to destroy rather than get money. Yet, I do not owe the bill because. ITT Tech Master Degree Program is online, and my opportunity would have had me graduating in 2010. But ITT Tech online Master Degree is prejudice, they let a student named Lionel claim to me that, since I was african american that he should run the cohort group. I ask the professor for special accomodations, and they stated that, That I should apologize to Lionel, and the cohort group who seemed to be arguing anyway. I got blamed for the whole insecurity.

At the same time I finished the whole class and still recieved a F for the class. At that time I requested a withdrawal from the school in which they said that I could not withdraw. Therefore, they started the next class I stated I needed to withdraw due to the failing grades, and the lack of graded classes to compensate for the financial aid that was being paid.

I would have completed at least 20 credits, and they say that I complete on 8 for a $19,000 + Bill. Then in the end they added the $2,000 + credit violation.

I recently enrolled into ITT-Techs online education program. When I called to enroll, classes were going to start in a couple of days and Ed Fruits, who was my recruiter told me it would be best to start in the next semester because it would take a while to recieve my books and get my online program classes started and downloaded. I had problems with the online classes as far as I could not finish the Orientation that was required and I could not get anyone to help me with. I never was able to get into the orientation and I was missing a class that I had signed up for.On one of the classes there was assignments that were completed by someone else that was on my assignment board. So that meant that someone else had my student ID. I told them of this and had no response to fix the issue.

When the day came for me to start school I checked out the site online and the problems had not been fixed. The Enrollment Agreement was wrong so I asked them to fix it and they wanted me to E-sign it. I did not because of the issues were not resolved. I terminated my involvment with them and they say that I owe them over $300.00 dollars because I did not terminate my contract in time. I told them I never e-signed the Enrollment Agreement with them. Ed F. would not return my calls or e-mails.

I have talked to many people about the issue and e-mailed them as well. I have all the e-mails I sent and letters. Chase who is the lender of one of the loans for my school says that ITT-Tech did not send the money back which is over $1300.00 dollars and ITT-Tech says they sent every thing back but the $300.00 dollars. I told them I would send them a copy of the Chase Loan and they will not respond to me. I owe them nothing because I never signed the e-agreement and all the issues with classes were not resolved for me to start. Can you help me.

I was enrolled in the Nursing program at the Indianapolis campus. I felt like I did a lot of research in order to make a decision as to what school to attend to obtain my RN. I am somewhat young so I always thought I would start out with my BSN. When I talked to the program director of the Indianapolis campus, she had so much enthusiasm and love for teaching that I thought it would be the best program in the city. I WAS WRONG WRONG WRONG!!

The gen ed courses are such a joke. I can honestly say that I do not feel I learned ANYTHING from the gen eds. During Comp I, we had 3 weeks to write a paragraph... are you kidding me? I feel like the nursing program was great until 1 crazy (literally) instructor began to run it into the crapper. There is no support for faculty or students. I went to the dean in regards to how I was afraid to go to class because my instructor was so unstable and he told me that it was just my perception. Here's a tip for you my perception is my reality. I do not appreciate being talked to in such a manner.

Then to make matters worse, all Dr. H will talk about in a conversation is everyone he thinks he knows and how his family is full of doctors and nurses. First of all, I dont care who he is related to, who he knows or who he thinks he knows. Also, my family is full of nurses but that does not mean I know anything about the medical field. I have always thought that people who cannot get in anywhere else go to ITT.

Well, after the year I spent there, my suspicions were confirmed. I would guess that at least 30% of the student population at the Indy campus has a learning disability. I am not trying to be rude, but that is the truth. Please keep in mind that these students are there on government grants. Yes grants, our tax dollars hard at work to give a mentally challenged person who will never be successful a degree. I would strongly advise anyone who is thinking about attending ITT for anything, run away as fast as you can because you will end up in debt with nothing to show for it.

I worked for ITT at two different campuses: St. Rose, LA and Fort Wayne, IN. ITT management forces faculty to pass students no matter what. When I failed two students from my class, the Dean reversed the grade and I was disciplined by being placed adjunct for one term (punishment). The recruitment staff go after poor, minorities with in some cases criminal and mental issues.

I used to work for ITT tech in their online division. It is all a scam. They purposely enroll students they know will not finish. They purposely charge high prices and keep students' money. In fact they target uneducated, ignorant people who are poor, convince them to enroll, and place them in programs they know they will fail.

I am in the last two weeks of my first year at ITT Technical Institute, am maintaining a 3.9 GPA, and am realizing that it means NOTHING. To be honest I don't even know where to begin. Textbooks are bought, but rarely opened. Instructors are severely disorganized, and quite often make no real effort to teach. One class in particular, was actually never taught at all. Students would arrive, and the instructor would basically sit while we surfed the net, and accomplished nothing. I have had multiple instructors clearly state: If we show up, we'll pass? Yes, seriously, not one, but MANY instructors have said that out loud to an entire class. The instructor to my current Thursday class just told me last week, You don't even need to bother coming to the last week of class, it's not like there is a final exam. Ha! He laughed as if this whole thing is just one big joke!

A's are literally handed out, and I feel cheated out of an education, not to mention the thousands I will owe in student loans. The Dean of Students was actually FIRED during my 3rd quarter. Apparently, too many people were receiving A's in Physics, and the school fell under investigation. There are students who attend with me, who are almost never in class, yet boast of A's and B's at the end of the quarter. This is completely unacceptable, as I work to earn my grades. To know that my efforts have no bearing is just mind-blowing to me. This particular location only offered an Associates Program at the time of sign up, and I am in pursuit of a BA. I asked that important question before I signed anything.

Will credits earned, transfer to other schools? I was told that they would, which is a blatant lie. None of my credits will transfer to a University so that I can pursue a valid education. I am now (suddenly) seeing a little discloser on the ITT television commercials stating most credits will not transfer. This tells me I am not the first to complain, and it finally caught up with them. Unfortunately, it is too late for me. I already owe close to $20,000 in loans to Sallie Mae, who is also the subject of multiple horror stories. I am concerned that there is information regarding these loans that I may be unaware of. I feel completely misguided and betrayed by this institution and its affiliates. Honestly, my goal is to file a class action suit against ITT Tech, as I know I am not the only person who has fallen victim to their scam. There is a website called www.ripoffreport.com that is chock full of complaints.... Thank You for your time and consideration in this matter.

Everytime I see there many, many commercials I just want to throw a brick into my T.V. Its just not fair.

My mother and father, 86 and 90, are being harrased by a collection agency. They cosigned on a loan for their grandson and he has defaulted.

I am their daughter and have been trying to work out some reasonable payment plan which the collection agency will not agree to. They want full payment or they will take my parents to court.

They call constantly and scare my mother. They tell her how much money she has in the bank and how they intend to go after her.

The original loan people ITT will not even talk with me or try to arrange a payment schedule. They connect me to the collection agency whenever I call.