09-12-2016, 09:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2016, 09:35 AM by Laura27282.)
One of the appeals of the for-profit route for welfare/underemployed/receiving unemployment folks is/was the speed. For instance you mentioned medical assisting. For programs like medical assisting/nursing/dental hygiene or most anything medical the community colleges require prerequisites and a wait list. You take a year or so worth of pre reqs and then wait for a slot to open. And the community college I went to required you to be state licensed nurse assistant with a number of hours practicing before you enter the RN or LPN program. That is a lot of hoops for nontraditional students. But honestly I see the state's point too- more hoops to jump through will equal higher sucess rates and better health care workers.
I ended up doing both nurse assistant and phlebotomy at the cc. There are a few hoops to jump through- entrance exam, interview, and mandatory orientation classes to attend. But no wait lists or reqs. My phlebotomy training led to a job that started out at $14.50. I realized that is what medical assistants start out as in this area. I'm glad to took a one semester pbt class instead an associate degree program. :/
What I don't understand is why you would go to ITT or something similar and do like a Criminal Justice or Business Admin. associate degree. The same program, no wait list, is offered at the cc. I had a close friend go to ITT and I still don't understand. Other than they did seem to be more helpful streamlining her grants and everything. She came out of foster care so she was entitled to college at the state's expense, but ITT costs exceeded those grants (and she had previously used some on art school). So still, the community college would have been the better choice.
And I agree about community colleges and job placement. The job placement center in my cc was a room with computers, a board with ads and fax machine you could use at no cost to you. If you are a current student. It was geared towards finding students part time work at places like UPS. Not towards helping recent grads.
Someone on here said Kaplan was charging nearly $800 per credit hour. If that is true, I don't know how that is not greed.
I ended up doing both nurse assistant and phlebotomy at the cc. There are a few hoops to jump through- entrance exam, interview, and mandatory orientation classes to attend. But no wait lists or reqs. My phlebotomy training led to a job that started out at $14.50. I realized that is what medical assistants start out as in this area. I'm glad to took a one semester pbt class instead an associate degree program. :/
What I don't understand is why you would go to ITT or something similar and do like a Criminal Justice or Business Admin. associate degree. The same program, no wait list, is offered at the cc. I had a close friend go to ITT and I still don't understand. Other than they did seem to be more helpful streamlining her grants and everything. She came out of foster care so she was entitled to college at the state's expense, but ITT costs exceeded those grants (and she had previously used some on art school). So still, the community college would have been the better choice.
And I agree about community colleges and job placement. The job placement center in my cc was a room with computers, a board with ads and fax machine you could use at no cost to you. If you are a current student. It was geared towards finding students part time work at places like UPS. Not towards helping recent grads.
Someone on here said Kaplan was charging nearly $800 per credit hour. If that is true, I don't know how that is not greed.
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