- Report: #535160
Complaint Review: Florida Technical College - Orlando Florida
Reported By:
David -
Titusville, Florida, United States of America
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Florida Technical College
12689 Challenger Parkway Orlando, 32826 Florida, United States of America
Phone:
(407)447-7300
Web:
http://www.flatech.edu/
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Florida Technical College Lied, Nothing of value learned Orlando, Florida
I attended this college, and took the core classes (math, economics, language, ect.), and everything was fine until I started taking my main course, which was "Web Design." A few months into the course, the current man-child professor of the course quit, and I suddenly found myself being sent home with multiple-choice worksheets, and having to come into the college only once a week to get "graded." Talk about getting gold stars, the teacher that was assigned to me after my professor left knew nothing of the course work I was studying. I found myself paying $25,000 for... multiple choice worksheets? What was I thinking when I enrolled...
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Fredonia,New York,
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for-profit means just that
#2Consumer Suggestion
Sun, January 24, 2010
Unlike traditional colleges and research universities, career schools are usually proprietary, for-profit institutions and are therefore run as a corporate entity. While some career schools are ethical and offer a high quality education and decent job placement assistance for their students, many are only concerned with their bottom line and cut costs wherever possible to garner the biggest returns for their investors, shareholders, and owners. This frequently is at the student's expense and may include misrepresentation of facilities, under qualified instructors, inadequate or outdated course material, and lack of promised hands on training or job placement.
Career schools are subject to different accreditation procedures than traditional institutions, and there's considerably less oversight. I've two friends have similar experiences at career colleges and they both told me the same thing: really do your homework. Don't settle for the testimonials the school offers, find your own, talk to current and past students yourself.
Cheers!
-Thom
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