Has anybody attended or will attend ITT Tech?

I would go for Idaho State U hands down. Not only will you be getting a higher degree, but like you said it'll be cheaper and it appears you have ready housing available. I'm sure Idaho is like most Uni's in that you don't have to stick with the major you put down in your application. You should be able to switch to any major within the college you applied to without any problems. For example, here at UIUC, if you applied for a CS major, you would most likely get into the Engineering department. So if you wanted to do Electrical Engineering instead, then all you'd have to do is sign up for EE courses, you don't need to do anything like transfer between colleges and what not.

An education is what you make it.

ITT is very expensive for what you get and the biggest draw back is the credits Are Not Transferable to a traditional degree so if you want to go further you have to start from scratch.

As b2b said “I would go for Idaho State U hands down.”


Good Luck

Mitch

Wow, That seems high for an Associates degree. Go for the University! I have nothing against Associates degrees, but for that price, it does not seem worth it. You will have a lot more options with the Bachelors degee. Can't you change your major later on to get a BS in Elec. Engineering at Idaho? If so, I would go that route.

Out of curiousity... how do you earn "credits" ? Is it judged from earlier grades or work in relation to what you are going to study or something else ?

Classes are normally assigned Credit Hours. Normally a class that meets everyday is a 5 credit hour course, 3 days 3 credit hours. Universities require a certain number of credit hours in your major field of study and a grand total before you are awarded a Bachelors degree

Credits, or credit-hours, are supposedly based on the work you do for a class and the time you spend taking it. The heavier the courseload, the more credits/credit-hours the department will probably give the class.

EDIT: Ah, John beat me to it

The problem is that you usually can't get a typical living wages earning job when you go to a university. If you need to work to live, it will be torturous. Not impossible but very difficult.

Wow so it's basically $480 for every day he attends to class then... ehrm.. How do people afford this ? Loans ?

EDIT: Ahh so that is why it's a good thing when it is only three credit-hours, i.e. earn the money the last two or three days for the course/degree. Yep, sounds incredibly hard.

I highly doubt you'll be in class from 8-3 five days a week. When you register each semester, you'll sign up for classes and you'll have a good portion of free time. In addition, fill out the FAFSA forms and any other forms required to receive financial aid. At UIUC, I had a full ride my first two years and now that I'm a Grad student I have an assistantship that gives me free tuition and a stipend of $800 /month (I've got a 25% assistantship, more time would mean more money, my roommate gets $1600 /month). The only reason why I did not receive full scholarship and loans last year and last semester is that my parents moved out of state and my folks never got their taxes done early enough for me to file the FAFSA to be considered for most grants. If you're worried about financial aid, I would contact the University and learn about your options, but the fact that you can live with your sister will probably help decrease your living expenses.

That is insane. I'd be checking out a Community College instead.

When I went to Control Data Computer School it was 40 hours a week for 11 months. I think I paid about $7,000 (1972).

And here I was balking at paying $17,000 for Refrigeration School (1 year course).

There is no way under heaven that I would pay $37,000 for an IT education.

I've had several friends who went to ITT, and they all regretted it.

I'd take the good advice given here, go to a community college for two years, spend two more years at a university, get a bachelor's (don't even bother with an associate's degree - I think a lot of employers would say that seeing an associate's degree on a resume, even if they went on to get higher degrees, has a negative look to it), etc. I wouldn't do the ITT-route, and I certainly wouldn't pay university rates for the first two years of your education.

Even if all you want is an associate's, go the community college route.

I wouldn't spend $37.00 for ITT Tech.

-Ed

Heh. I wouldn't even consider ITT Tech. If you have to consider this as your last resort, maybe you should choose another option. But at the very least, go for community college.

By all means, do try for a state University though. You'll get a much better education for less money (especially with scholarships), and you will still have plenty of time to work, if you really want to. An associates degree isn't even a degree these days. It means absolutely nothing, and is usually just a broad range of obfuscated general education classes. Most people get an AA degree (or similar) and move on to a University for a Bachelors, and later if they want, a masters, or hell, the grand daddy of them all, a pH.D. (oooh )

On that note...

"School" is not from 8-3. Ever heard of homework? You can take classes, but if you want to learn the material, you have to spend time studying on your own. Most of my classes require at least 1 hour of work for every 30 minutes of class, and that adds up fast. Throw in work and you have a very busy and very prohibitive schedule. Also, your schedule varies by semester, and by the classes you are taking. You can take more or fewer classes, depending on how hard you want to work yourself.

But I digress. If you have to work, you are missing the point. An education is a way to get a better paying job. If you have to work and you're taking heavy classes, you'll burn out. Fast. Throw in clubs, extracurricular activities, and you're setup for disaster. But that is part of a wholesome education, and not really something I can see ITT Tech offering. A university offers far more than ITT Tech could, because it is a public entity, not a private organization.

My Humanities professor, Dr. Coverston posted this to his website (http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ncoverst/...dvertising.htm)

Not to mention, $37,000?! You don't want that kind of debt. Debt = BAD. Stay out of it!!