The CSI Academy was an amazing way to learn hands on with instructors that have worked in the…read morefield. An unforgettable experience that everybody should get involved in! They have tons of classes that could help you earn certificates towards your career! Absolutely will be taking more classes!

Very awesome hands on training! If your looking to jump into CSI work this is where you should…read morestart. Instructors are very helpful and full of knowledge.

The program was much longer than most programs and required a bit extra from its students. The…read moreprogram only focuses on the state exam and nothing more, but when it comes to testing time and the requirements your on your own. They have no follow up and you are just left in the dark. I understand they have a small staff but they are aware of that when they except the students and the money. My entire class ( that finished 2 months ago) is still waiting to hear something and we are all getting a different story. At this point I feel they are scamming people as well as the non profit organization that help these people to further their skills

Affordable training is a place where you can feel comfortable about being yourself, while learning…read moreabout your medical career. The staff provided the help and skills I needed, in order to get where I am. Or where I am going in the future. Online classes were not helpful, but I am so glad I got the hands on training I needed to succeed.

Instructors- There are a couple of decent instructors. The others don't care at all about their…read morejobs or the education of their students. You would be better off taking the classroom days for diesel engine mechanics and underwater welding and just teaching yourself with textbooks online. Other important classes will be substituted with old episodes of Modern Marvels down on YouTube if the instructor doesn't feel like teaching, which is understandable. It probably gets pretty hard teaching all day when you're drinking four lokos out of a Gatorade bottle. Don't worry though, you can fail the final exam 4 times and still graduate. You don't even need to show up sober. Facilities- The deepwater training center at Ocala is an incredible facility and probably exactly what you picture in your head when you imagine dive school. Unfortunately you only spend two weeks there. The rest of the four and a half months is spent in a cramped school under a bridge in a dangerous part of Jacksonville. Hope you have a small class, or else you can look forward to putting three to four people to a cheap folding plastic table. Oh, I almost forgot. Every Friday your dive time/education is cut short so you can walk around the grounds picking up cigarette butts, picking weeds, sweeping floors and mopping. If you dare to think that's the job of the maintenance crew your tuition pays for you can look forward to being rolled back to another class in 30 days, or being used as a free form of labor for several hours after the school day digging holes, doing more cleaning, or any other task the administration doesn't want to pay somebody to do. Dorms/barracks- The school says they model the rooms to prepare students for life offshore. That is a pretty genius way to spend the bare minimum on living space for adults spending over $30k for a lackluster product. You can look forward to living in a cramped cubicle with 4 other grown men. Prepare yourself for the stench of dozens of filthy feet and tons of unwashed underwear. You can also look forward to having your dive/classroom time interrupted if one person in your class fails their daily room inspection. If you want to spend over $30k on a school that provides a subpar product, instructors that belittle their students and talk to them like they are children this is the school for you. If that's not what you're looking for, go to DIT in Seattle. I wish I would have.

I am currently a student at CDA. I will say looking at my choice of school I would not do it again…read moreever. There is an extremely large turnover of instructors, I have only been here 4 months and have seen at least 5 leave and new ones arrive. But dont think thats the only downfall of this institution they do whats cheapest for them the pictures and glamorous clear water shots are not what you will experience. They front their deep water facility at OCALA florida which is where you will spend only 2 weeks of your 5 months there. You will spend your time diving in 20ft of water in the trout river which is extremely dark and murky. Not only will you dive in this but every morning you will get up around 530am to come and swim in the cold water while having instructors yell at you if you have problems fighting the rough current. Of your 30000 dollar tuition you will recieve only 1 week of topside welding and then maybe two months later you will take your underwater welding test. This test gives you 16 tries to get it right with no prior welding practice up to that point. also with your tuition they fund their racing team and their huge propaganda campaign. They will Spam you with ads that if you come here you will instantly regret. If someone offered me my money back to leave this place I would. Do not believe their lies. You will regret ever coming to CDA technical insititute. especially once you spend 5 months living in sub par facilities. They dont care about you only your money. They will lie to you to get you to stay and nothing is ever done

I'm a current dental assisting student and the school has been great so far! the teachers are…read moreknowledgeable and are very helpful and the classes are fast paced and engaging! I hope to graduate in march!

This is a technical college focused on certain careers. If you're interested in getting into the…read moremedical field as a nurse, surgical tech, or dental assistant, it's a wonderful option. The training is based on what employers want. There are some amazing instructors.

I don't usually write reviews, but my experience with Jtech left me honestly uncomfortable,…read morescammed, disrespect, mistreated, and disappointed A major issue was the conduct of Mr. Vaughn. Instead of creating a supportive learning environment, his approach often felt intimidating. There were multiple instances where he used what came across as scare tactics toward students . Threatening to send home, raising his voice, insisting making examples out of people, telling students they don't want to see Drill Sergeant Vaughn, and creating unnecessary pressure rather than actually helping anyone improve. Learning is already stressful with it being nights and some students have work schedules, but this kind of environment makes it worse. Instead of deescalating, it felt like students were hesitant to speak up out of fear of being singled out. That's not how a classroom should operate, especially in a program where people are trying to build skills and confidence. Beyond that, communication and overall organization at the school didn't help much either. It often felt like concerns weren't taken seriously, and there wasn't much effort to address the environment being created.

Need to be transparent and professional. Their hiring practice is questionable . They practice…read morehaving people come in for a 2nd interview only to be ghosted and then inform them they don't have open positions. If that's the case, why the second interview?

I attended a few of their classes within the past couple years, simply because they were cheaper…read morethan Santa Fe and UF, and I did not have a good experience. If you want to take CPR/FA and HIV/AIDS classes, and other "little" certifications (less than 40 hours), this is a good and cheaper alternative, but I would not recommend taking one of their larger classes like their Nursing program or Pharmacy Tech program. The staff and teachers are nothing but nice and knowledgeable, but that's their only saving grace. This school caters to people looking to get a new start at a good price. They offer in-house loans for tuition (for classes more than $800 I think) since you cannot put this school on the FAFSA, so you gotta get the money on your own. I received an in-house loan and the process was very straightforward and easy. You gotta pay for your own background check and drug test, get caught up on your vaccines, and get a physical. All of that will cost you between $200-$250 and it's all mandatory for a few of their classes. Though their vision is very clear that they want to help people "get on the right track" their overall system is very shady and places a lot of pressure on its students to succeed or else they will be right back where they started at ground zero. First off, this is NOT an accredited school. If you find their Course Catalog on their website and flip a few pages, they admit that they are not accredited. I found this out a little too late since I found their website difficult to navigate when I first found it, but it's there. This school was made to get students to take national exams and certifications. They will also tell you that you have to take and PASS national certification exams in order to complete their classes and find work. If you fail those national exams, they will not give you a certificate of completion from your class/program and you will have to wait to retake the exam and hope you pass the second time to finally be done. No matter how good you do in the actual class, you will NOT be given a certificate of completion or any resources on how to become registered with the state until you pass those exams. It's completely unnecessary to take some of these national exams to work in Florida, and Express will basically force you to take them and then keep you from graduating until you pass them. Example: In the state of Florida, you don't need to be nationally certified to work as a Pharmacy Technician. Sure, you'll earn a few extra dollars on your salary, but it is not required to find work. You just have to enroll in an accredited class and complete 80 externship hours and then pay a fee to register with the sate, and then you're done and can seek work anywhere in Florida. Through Express, you must complete the class, complete 120 externship hours (their contract is with CVS), PASS the national certification exam, and then they will grant you your certificate and then you pay your fee to register with the state so you can find work. So, you gotta work an extra 40 hours for free, and if you fail the exam then you will be denied your certificate of completion (and you will still have to pay those loans!) even though you completed the Florida requirements of finishing a class and earning over 80 hours from your externship. I talked to someone that recently finished their tech program this year, and he said that none of the students had externships lined up - even after over a MONTH of being done with the class - because their coordinator was very slow. So, they have to wait until their externships are lined up, then do those 120 hours, and then take the test before they can even think about applying for jobs. If you work full-time and you're trying to fit in 10-15 hours a week for the externship, you're looking at another 3-4 months. So some of those people may not even "finish" the class until the summer - almost a year later - assuming they pass the first time. Pay the extra $1000 and take this class at UF and (if you're disciplined) take it online. You can finish this program within 2 months if you do multiple modules a day, you'll have the peace of mind knowing that UF will set up externships for you and will send you regular emails on available jobs in the area after you finish the program (Express does not), and you could have jobs lined up for you before you even finish your externship since they contact people for you to make sure you get a job ASAP. If I could have done it all over again, I would have paid the extra money so I wouldn't have had to put up with all of the pressure and stress this institution placed on me. I am embarrassed to say that I attended this school (which is a shame since the teachers and staff are SO nice) and I have yet to recommend a single person here for classes beyond CPR/FA certification. This school is an absolute scam.

I took my cna test here and the staff was extremely rude. The women was talking on the phone (in…read morethe test room with multiple people testing) with prometric, giving out a customer's personal information (with speaker on) during the written part of the test. The place was very unclean and unorganized. I asked a simple question and the women was very rude about it. People pay good money to take a test but get greeted with unprofessional staff. I would never recommend this place to anyone!