ITT Technical Institute

This is not a good school by any measure…
Let me say, before going any further, that ITT is not a good school *anywhere* in the nation, because their curriculum is awful, written by corporate morons in Indiana, and is a pyramid scheme for people to make money (Yea, I worked there once, and believe me, it really is BAD… teachers are not allowed to change course material even though it is out of date and yes, the questions on the exams we’re forced to give are so off-​base that they obviously were not written by anyone in the field, or even with brainwaves.)
Aaaanyway…back to ITT in the old Parkway Ctr, now in Robinson township:
This school is particularly bad. They don’t have enough equipment to do the labs that they need to do for their IT program, or for their electronics program. It’s an embarrassment. My students had to share everything in lab, because everything is broken (and out of date.) Even worse, they even have to share the lab rooms themselves, because they don’t have enough of them. It’s very hard to conduct a classroom for one thing when you’ve got another class in lab with you doing a lecture and lab on an entirely different discipline, but ITT acts like this is OK. They also fired all of their full-​time faculty last year and replaced them with adjuncts like myself, in order to avoid paying benefits and cut costs. There have been known to be people placed to teach classes that had no qualifications to do so whatsoever, just because there were too many openings, and SOMEONE had to teach it, even if it was outside of their field (for this, ITT provides pre-​made slideshows… which are HORRIBLY constructed, boring, and oftentimes filled with errors.)
ITT sells students on the idea that they have 1) small classes, 2) hands-​on emphasis, and 3) flexible schedules, but NONE of that is true. At this particular location, day classes were cut several quarters ago, never to return according to upper management. My classes were typically large, 40+ people, so that I hardly ever had a chance to get around to everyone in lab. That whole hands-​on thing is not working for them either since, as I said, the lab equipment is awful and often not equipped to do some of the actual assigned labs in the cirriculum.
Wish I could give negative stars, because this institution is a net drain on our society (taking in pell grants, veteran grants, gov’t backed financial aid) leaving its graduates with large debt that they’ll likely not pay off, due to lack of real skills (and the fact that the jobs they sell people on just don’t pay much money, compared to the student loan payments these poor people are going to find themselves stuck with.) What a scam. Negative five stars.