hoapres
San Jose,#2Consumer Comment
Sat, December 17, 2011
Eaton's basically accurate. The crackdown on student loan aid regarding for profit schools is a big joke. The for profit trade school industry was able to gut down to almost nothing all the proposed tightening up suggestions for disbursement of student loans.
With regards to web development and design, Web developers are a dime a dozen and the vast majority of the skills can be picked up in self study or at the local community college. HTML and CSS is hardly worth thousands of dollars. The other front end stuff being Javascript does require some study along with real world experience. The back end stuff being PHP and MySQL can be picked up with some work.
If you really want to get into web design then you would be better off getting a full blown CS degree from a TOP 10 school such as UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, etc. The trick is that getting into a top 10 school might be a tad difficult but the IT job market is so difficult right now that employers can pick the "creme de la creme"
Another thing not told by these for profit IT schools is that the vast majority of IT jobs don't pay very well. A typical web designer is not going to be making $100K a year right out of school. Very few people right out of ANY school start off at a $100K year. If that were not bad enough then IT is heavily H1B infested with companies bringing in low cost foreign labor.
Another problem with web design is that the software development tools are so much better than in the late 1990s and you don't have to be a genius to get to the point such that almost everybody can get a simple website. And if you don't then you can easily hire the job out to a web company for a small monthly fee.
FullSailReview
United States of America#3Consumer Comment
Thu, December 15, 2011
I love how someone that hasn't gone to the school is commenting in a factual sense. That friend of yours is probably around $75,000 in debt. $75,000 for sound engineering? Are you kidding me? Even $30,000 is ridiculous.
And yes, there are a few decent programs there. However, regarding your comment on the laws tightening...
Those laws were built to be tight but for-profit schools didn't like how much it was going to affect their bottom line. They pumped millions of dollars into government official's campaigns and pockets and got the laws loosened considerably.
The quality you learn there is no where near worth the money you have to spend. They claim a 3-6% default on student loans. This seems completely bogus and the fact is, they haven't been audited on any of this. But you better believe it is coming.
The school is a waste in so many respects it is ridiculous - and this is coming from someone with experience in my industry (web design/development) and the quality they teach you is a joke. Everything they taught or came up with lesson plans for was designed to let anyone get great grades but not requiring them to learn anything, nor give any time to hone skills "taught".
You can read my entire review at http://fullsailreview.com
Eaton923
Fargo,#4Consumer Comment
Thu, September 08, 2011
My best friend went to Full Sail and works in sound engineering now. She did spend a lot of money there but was taught skills that led her to the profession she is in today. Maybe the department you were in wasn't top quality but I really don't see the ripoff here. It reads more like paranoia than a complaint. Also, the federal government has tightened the laws on for-profit universities recently, so the "exposed" comment doesn't hold any water. If you have that much concern about the school, you can file a complaint with the accreditation board.