I would attend just about any school before going here, and here's why:…read more
If you're considering going to Miller-Motte in order to make a better future for yourself, please do as much research as possible. Not all schools are created equally nor are the instructors who ultimately hold huge sway in the likelihood of your success. A lot of reviewers take time to discuss accreditation. This review is not going to be one of them, but that's an important topic as well considering that many reviewers attempted to transfer credit earned at MMTC to another school and were unable to do so. Please check into where you can take your credits, especially if you are Military personnel or a dependent and are going to relocate prior to your graduation.
I attended their massage therapy school and initially felt good about that decision.
The people who were responsible for enrolling me were kind and helpful and seemed to be genuinely interested in the success of their students. It wasn't until I was well into the program that I began to second guess everything.
First off, the scheduling for the LMT students is extremely inflexible. If you have a full time job and are the primary breadwinner of your household, you're gonna have a bad time (quoting the South Park meme, here). The reason for this is is because the classes run from about 8 in the morning until between 2 p.m. and 7:30 at night. You will be going at a minimum of 6 hours/day 5 days/week and depending on the class will be given ample amounts of homework, making this essentially a full time job. This is doable if you have a lot of grant/loan money to make up the difference for missed work while you're in the program or have a spouse who can support you while you're completing the program, but if you are already working a 50 hour a week job, have nobody to help you and are a single parent doing all of this, you will struggle.
I won't mention names, but I met at least a couple of women who were working minimum wage jobs full time as single parents who had to drop out, were sleeping in class because of the grueling schedules they kept and who not only had no support from the faculty, but who were bad-mouthed in class by their instructors to other students. I witnessed this firsthand; the instructors were ridiculing these students during class and were marking down their grades with little to no explanation.
Two instructors who work at the Clarksville, TN campus, one of which still works there, were particularly problematic. It didn't matter how much you applied yourself, how dedicated you were as a student: if they didn't like you as a person, you would get D's and C's. You would get disciplined for anything and everything while other students whom they liked slept during class, came in late, and acted generally disrespectful. I realize that some students don't take their education seriously and deserve the low GPA, but I'm not talking about these people. There is a genuine lack of professionalism with Miller-Motte's faculty and I would go so far as to call some of the instructors bullies.
For example: one woman in our Swedish Massage class was called out for needing to use the bathroom "too often"; the same instructor made sarcastic, snide comments in front of us over anything and everything she did. If she did what every other student does and had a snack in class, she was called out for it. If she was late like every other student was from time to time, she suffered more serious consequences. When the director was informed, she tried to help, but it was impossible to convey the seriousness of what was happening when it was so hard to prove. But we saw what was going on; we just kept our heads down and said nothing because we were afraid of our GPAs being affected.
Another instructor made a huge scene over a student over god knows what; she said she "felt disrespected" by them, but they were being quiet in class, doing their work, and didn't say much. Apparently, it was the fact that she "wasn't providing enough feedback in class" that irked the instructor, so for the remainder of the year, she was targeted for arbitrary and completely irrelevant reasons.
This, again, while the more favored students could be late, loud and inconsiderate, have their late attendance overlooked and so on.
I tried to take my complaints to Academic Affairs after the stress of being in such an unhealthy, unprofessional environment began to take its toll on my ability to even focus in class, but was dismissed largely because I wasn't directly involved. Now that I'm licensed and out of there, however, I feel like I have an obligation to speak out so that others who spend thousands of dollars and invest so much time, energy and effort to try and build a better future for themselves aren't jeopardized. Avoid this school if you can.