Westwood College – Los Angeles

I enrolled my daughter in this school in 2013. They promised my daughter a bright academic future in their school. They said that if my child passes all her classes, she will get her business degree and college diploma three years later. They disclosed that they are a Nationally Accredited school but not Regionally Accredited and they said because of this, if my daughter transfers to another school some of the subjects may not be credited so that it is best for her to stay in Westwood. That’s what we did. At that point we didn’t care about which accreditation, we just want a good college education for our daughter.
She did great! Constantly in the Dean’s and President’s List. Meanwhile, they charged my credit card $ 2,400+ monthly or almost monthly since 2013 because we didn’t qualify for any assistance.
Five months and five subjects SHORT of finishing her course and graduating, they announced that the school will close and that it was a «corporate decision».
You cannot close a school in the middle of a school year!!! Don’t do that to the poor students!!!
Someone has to be accountable! You cannot just do this to people! Not in the United States of America!
If I had any authority, I would throw some of the people responsible for the closure behind bars!
I would NEVER recommend Westwood College to any parent and or student if there would be any Westwood College campuses that will continue to operate in the United States.

I attended this school in September 2005 to June 2006 and dropped out twice in between. The only good I can imagine this school has to offer are their Criminal Justice and Business Degrees. If you’re not going for those degrees then just avoid this school, your time and money is better spent on a CC or a REAL COLLEGE.
The program I signed up for was a Bachelor of Science in Video Game Art/​Design and it was at the time, the first year the curriculum was offered by Westwood. For a practice that promises a fast earned degree, the faculty and staff responsible have no idea how disastrous the workload is between General courses and Primary, there literally is no time for both. If you’re smart and you have 20 bucks, you can take a proficiency test at the beginning of your General course and avoid on wasting your time and money (of course, they won’t tell you).
For my instructors, there was a few at the time who were genuinely interested in their students’ progress and really helpful; one actually developed part of the software we were using in his class (thanks, Joseph). Some even told their students that «majorities would fail and become nothing while only a handful might actually make it»…it’s a phrase that every student hears at least once in their life. If only Westwood had any success from it to give the instructors any validity for that kind of statement, then perhaps it’d be easier to take those statements for fact.
Westwood College couldn’t even offer jobs related to the Video Game industry with any of the video game developers at the time, but they could on rare occasions, offer a temporary position at Game Stop. Some students already had jobs for as long as a year with video game companies like Activision and I can say with assurance that they didn’t get them from Westwood College.
My last day with Westwood came around the end of June 2006. My monthly bill from the start was 1,200/month (books, parking, supplies, food not included). Being a HS Graduate with a minimum wage job (7 dollars at that time) and unqualified for financial aid, and using a stafford loan, I could only pay 200 every month and they knew that through my monthly visits to their financial offices numerous times. That last day, Scott Peterson, the financial shark called in students who were short on their tuition fees including me and all he said was «You owe us „X“ amount, how are you gonna pay the rest? If you can’t then you may not proceed to the next semester». It was clear, for an agonizing reappraisal of the whole scene, to throw in the towel and drop out a second time, for good.
Everyone knows how expensive the Wilshire district is and how absurd it is to give money to a school that charges outstanding fees probably just to keep their lavish property and perk themselves. Trust me future graduates, if you want an education but don’t want to be in huge debt, go to a Community College and take General courses there, then transfer those to a college that will take them. DO NOT GO TO WESTWOOD!

This school should be shut down immediately! they are not professional and they have no idea what they are doing. the only thing they care about is your money. they give you very poor education with armature instructors and leave you in huge dept for the rest of your life. dont believe anything they say they will do ANYTHING to get you money! no wonder they have all these lawsuits against them! DO NOT GO THERE!!!

Completing our first term next week how fast and exciting that was, the experience was awesome! Professors here are motivated in each class, from the admissions rep (Katherine) to the administrators (Mr. Tom Bustamante) they are sure to help us in every way possible to get our schedules that fit our personal lives and we would like to specially say he Rocks Awesomeness! Thank you to our Professors: Ms. Linda Lien, (you should take her class)
Ms. C. Ellison, and Mr. Swearengin Thank you, will miss being in class thanks for making our first term here at Westwood College a GREAT one! Can’t wait for our up coming terms. Will keep you post it.

They’re so annoying!!! Worst than a psycho girlfriend blowing up your phone. Nothing worse than a desperate sales call. They scared me away before I even stepped into the school. I read all their bad reviews. They have more bad reviews than good reviews and the numerous calls I would get from them a day was ridiculous. I didn’t think it was professional for them to blow up my phone that way. I was annoyed which made me brush them off. I really just wanted to tell them off of how annoyed I was but instead I blocked all their different #s they were calling me from.

I attend here currently don’t come trust me they say they will help you find jobs if it wasn’t foru spouse helping me find good jobs I wouldn’t have one because they don’t help one single bit

This school is a joke, I came here because it HAD a good Animation program that actually worked in 3d… but now that is getting phased into an associates degree and the hours of the classes are being cut in half. That being said you would better serve yourself and your future debt at an actual college.
This is a for profit school and only cares about your money, they do not generally care what you learn (or don’t). I used my Veterans benefits to come here and wish I had used them at a school like USC or UCLA. I would not recommend anyone to come here, go to a community college… they are cheaper… they will teach you better, and may actually be linked to a school that means something with name recognition.

They don’t care about students just taking their money. They say they offer night classes but they force students to take online or day classes too. If I could give them zero stars I would.