Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology

First of ladies and gents, i would like to start off by saying MONEY!
This school is a scam for profit school. They want your money and they’re damn good at getting their filthy hands into your precious pockets.
They’ll start you off with a lovely tour, more than 75% of the stuff you see in the tour is all display/​cosmetics. You will not be working on that big fancy turbine engine that was donated to the school.
Dont buy their overpriced tools. you can buy your own tools at sears or even harbor freight for more than half the price. I would like to say even 75% of the price.
The parking is horrible, even if you’re visiting. There would be times as a student here where I had to street park and pay the meter. (MONEY MONEY MONEY).
The workers at the school can care nothing about you. The instructors there are less qualified than a car mechanic. Some of them have been hired right after they graduated from here. Day classes during break the students would smoke weed in their cars can smell it from a mile away. During nights same thing but they would be drinking beers, you wont be surprised to find beer bottles in the back of the parking lot.
Oh and can i say… this school has changed name about 4 – 5 times now? [Westwood, Redstone, crimson, now spartan] hmmm i wonder why?
I highly advise not attending this God forsaken school. If I had known before hand, i would have gone somewhere else. If only If only there was a time machine.

Good school. has had a bad rep before. It is expensive and yes you can go to a community college. but you won’t finish as fast… like every thing there some good teachers and some bad. but over all my experience so far is a positive one. they have new owners who are slowly making more improvements to the school

They changed their name to Spartan college.
Upgraded a fancy new sign outside. New paint, more advertising.
Still using computers from 2002?
There are better, cheaper programs in la.

most A & P jobs require experience… I got my A & P license through the school i have yet to find a descent job. upset and dissapointed. Oh and the career couselor is lazy and rude

Owning a machine shop I have to tell you I will not hire any crimson graduates, they claim you will be working on the flight line etc, but most MRO shops really do not need a A and P, they just want to get you in debt, is just a scam, the teachers are mostly unqualified, I know one Larry who lied about his National Guard Service .The place is a joke, ask the guy who worked for Alaska Airlines, yet another fraud, because frankly if you have 20 years experience unless you get your ticket pulled you could work for Gulf Stream at three times the Salary. They are a bad bunch of people they want you to sign the line, they get the money, you owe.

So I attended this school. Graduated 2014 of May. This is a 18 month program to be an aircraft mechanic technician.
I started out going at nights which was from 5:30 till 11:45 at night. With two 30 min breaks in between the hours.
The way this school works is. You have class Monday through Friday. And you only have 1 class for 5 weeks. So that’s 1 class for about 25 days. And your hours for that 1 class for 25 days is the same. You either have class from 7:30 am to 1:45 pm every single day or like I said above 5:30 till 11:45. These two different schedules are the same time wise and break wise. Just different parts of the day.
I went from nights because I did have work from 6 till 3:30 so going school at nights for my schedule. I later on found it really tough for me to do both work and school. So I simply changed my hours to day time pulling my work hours back.
This school is not in the best condition. Here at school we like to call everything studentfied. Meaning that everything is pretty much been messed around and f’ed up and poorly taken care of because of students.
I can pretty much tell you about almost all the teachers in the day time hours. But my opinion on the teachers are subjective due to everyone learns different and what not.
The parking in the day time is more of a beezy then the night. Parking during the night anyone can leave anytime they want. Parking during the day people are double parking cars the are already double parking another which that car is double parking another car. And people start parking and making their own parking spots because it gets crowded.
Over all I minded my own business in this school. I wasn’t popular but I wasn’t a loner. I did have friends who I hung out with but nothing more outside. The school itself isn’t bad. But it isn’t the greatest.
Like I said mind your own business. Do what you have to do in this school and you will do great.

Attended this school last year. Since Crimson took over the school it has improved a lot. They have a knowledgeable staff and teachers that made learning fun. After graduation they helped me get a job with a major airline as a mechanic. If you are looking for a job in the aircraft, this is the place to go.

I attended this school (went thru 3 different name changes since 2006-​Westwood/​Redstone/​Crimson) and they hired students that had graduated only months before I did and still advertised that the teachers were experienced. It is over priced. Buy your own tools from Sears and you will get a lot more for the price they charge. Equipment is old and out of date. Most things you see on the tour you never actually get to work on or even touch. Highly do not recommend