I wanted to love this school. I am a firm believer in trade and technical colleges. I was so excited to see a new building and had high hopes for great programs to be added but was sadly let down.
I want to say this is the place to go if you want to be a medical assistant , CNA, EMT, or Phlebotomist. This school offers these programs at such a low cost compared to private schools so it is a wonderful place to go for training in these fields without taking out loans.
The plumbing and electrician apprenticeship programs are a great value as well with great jobs in the end.
I had one of my children very interested in starting post high school life at a school like this that did not require all the freshman classes like English , music or art and just wanted to start by getting a certificate in a computer or science related field. My child was interested in at least 10 different computer or science certificates but none are offered here. The computer class were almost the same IT microsoft class my child took and passed in high school. We were looking for certificates in cyber security or technology engineering (both of which are in very high demand in the workforce) or science cerificates like lab tech, pathology assistant, biomedical tech, sonography, robotics, engineering. It seems like they just built or spent money on a pretty new building but did not add many new fields of study. All the fields of study I listed are in demand and pay living wages, something I know many people in this city struggle with.
My child was able to find many other tech colleges outside of Utah that offered the courses they wanted. It is sad they had to move and we could not have local options for such great fields of study. My child did have one friend do the IT program here and it was basically like I had thought a repeat of high school with 1 new certification and no full time employment was found after finishing. Luckily the cost is low so the friend has no debt but it still at a low wage retail job.
I hope in the future the school will get some of these scinece and tech options and we really need an LPN program and ultrasound tech program here too. So many living wage jobs in this city are given to people that relocate from others states because we have no training here. read more