I went to CDL school at Douglas. The admissions office is really helpful. Loretta and Tony were…read morethe best!! They made everything simple from the application to paying my tuition. Everyone in the office is great. My instructors were over the top fantastic. They really helped keep my nerves calm, when I was overwhelmed or forgot what gear I was in! Ron is the best instructor ever! Lol if you want your CDL, I highly recommend this college! I can now officially say I can drive anything! Thank you DEC!

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The school is beautiful, the dorms are nice as well. Most teachers teach from a powerpoint and I…read morecan tell you I barely learned anything. President Alicia Harvey-Smith is a sketchy joke who fumbled the school. I wish I could get my money back, definitely not worth it. I was better off paying for a scenic apartment, thats pretty much what this place was anyways. Just an apartment with a dumb school nearby.

The teachers at PTC do not seems to be qualified to teach the course content they are assigned nor…read moredo they seem to understand how to use the learning management system Bright Space. For example, my son enjoyed his classes turned in all of his assignments, and was excited to be a student at PTC. Unfortunately he received an F in all of classes in the first quarter. However when I calculated his grade by hand he received 3 B's and 2 C's. I contacted the instructors to let them know about the discrepancies and they replied that the system automatically calculated the grades. Therein lies the problem. The instructor did not assign several assignment that were worth 12 points each but the system automatically calculated the points for those assignment resulting in lowering his grade from a C to an F. Additionally, PTC is deceptive about the qualification of the instructors. For example in the faculty profiles the critical thinking teacher is a male with 15 years of experience. However the critical thinking teacher for my son was a female and she was not included in the faculty profile page. Shady to say the least.

PCI is a small school with great programs. Their accredited surgical technology program is a fast…read morepaced program with great instructors who genuinely care about you and your education. Compared to other education I've had, PCI is the institution I would pick again and again.

PLEASE READ!!! I was a student there for a long time,…read morestudying Surgical Technology. I loved it, I went all the way through. How? I have no idea. we would have fights break out in the middle of class, the student would not be kicked out. I had a teacher ( I cannot make this up) she let us go on a break, she never came back. the school did not have a staff to replace her, so my tuition paid for a class that we sat and hung out. then about three months later, they brought her back, with a pay raise. about 3 weeks later, you guessed it. she never showed up to class and never came back. I had to sit through a computer class... taught by someone who was not qualified to teach. then I went out on my 1st clinical rotation. I asked repetitively Please don't send me to children's hospital. I was about 25 weeks pregnant, and a firm believer that babies do not deserve to be sick. guess where they sent me? Children's hospital. I cried about 95% of the time because I am a firm believer that babies do not deserve to be that sick. then after I completed my 10 week rotation. I put in a leave of absence because I was due the week I was supposed to graduate. well in my couple of months off, I kept in constant contact with the current Clinical Coordinator. I mean in the 3 months I took off. I had 6 clinical coordinators. then finally they called me asking me if I could come back. I was like YES!!! I just want to get done. I got all the way through my 10 week clinical rotation. I had an interview set up at a hospital, I GOT THE JOB! my then Clinical coordinator told me I had met ALL of my hours, then I got the call! I was hired! life was making sense again! then on a Monday night I got a call that changed everything, turns out I had not met my hours and was then disenrolled from the program for missing a day without calling off. I appealed this every way I could. then they made me wait 3 weeks after promising an answer within the work week, guess what. DENIED! I waited 6 months to appeal this decision again!! I even contacted several lawyers! (no one would take it due to no written proof) I appealed the decision again. waited another 2 weeks after being promised an answer within the week. and guess what. I spent $32,000 to get denied because my clinical coordinator left me out to hang and wouldn't tell anyone he told me I was done. I hope someone out there reads this and runs so far away from this school.

My son works with Ron on Geometry. He feels it's going quite well, and he's doing well in the…read moreclass. Scheduling is easily done online, with days and availability clearly shown. Priced reasonably. A great value for learning.

Ron is knowledgeable and patient. He is good at simplifying complex concepts. He is a great teacher.read more

I want to 1st start off with; I loved attending VTI. The reviews I read on here are pretty…read moreupsetting. My class was 2019 to 2020, the year these reviews were made, and let me tell you, the staff does not/will not blind side you with the amount of workload that this course takes. From day 1, they say it will be tough, and if caring for animals was easy, literally everyone would do it. Most students dropped or failed because a good percentage did not do the work and were constantly on YouTube or tiktok at the back of the classroom. It was absolutely frustrating for the ones trying to pay attention. They didn't study and then blamed the staff. Me and a friend of mine offered help to struggling students to study in the NAVTA room, but many decided blaming the program or the staff was a better idea. The comment about hitting a dog, I'm going to clarify this real quick. I remember that day perfectly. We walk dogs outside the facility daily and encounter many people downtown Pittsburgh. Many of them have to put their 2 cents in about dogs. Most of the time, it's unwanted attention. There was a girl (dog walker) shaking and in tears about this and wanting to quit. No one was hitting dogs. Making false allegations and destroying someone psychologically is not going to make your day any better. People! We did not drown in student debt to hurt animals!! When I went to my externship, it was covid lockdown, so it wasn't my original facility. Everything that VTI taught me was utilized. Everything. They set their students up for success. Period. I wanted to know more because there ARE LIVES ON THE LINE. It's not about playing with kitties and puppies. It's their lives. Treat every patient as if their your own animal. Take this review for what it's worth, but it comes from the bottom of my heart, and I take this profession very seriously.

I can't speak on the whole school but I'm just talking about one individual in particular. This…read moremorning while waiting for the bus on Penn and ninth right across from Nicky's Thai kitchen. I had my lunch in my hand while waiting for my bus, while at the bus stop one of the vet tech students walks up with this dog while wearing air pods. The dog jumps right on me she doesn't say sorry or tell the dog to get down either. She couldn't even keep control of the dog the incident could have went way worse if I had of gotten bitten. Again I'm not speaking about the whole school just one individual in particular.

This School is part of the Community College of Beaver County. A great bargain price wise for the…read moreeducation and credentialing. Ease of access is fine over off Broadhead Road in Beaver -- just beyond the Beaver Valley Shopping Mall. Lots of subdisciplines -- my favorite is the welding track as virtually everyone appears to end up with a solid job in a profession that isn't being phased out anytime soon. With the increasing number of natural gas extraction systems coming online, I am guess that certified welders will be in demand, increasingly. f8 and be there.