ITT Tech?

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Have any of you looked into their ADN program? It is new in Michigan this year; however, Indiana just had their first graduates, or are getting close to graduation.

I took the HESI at ITT Tech in July. I'm on pins and needles waiting to hear something. If all goes well, I plan to start in September. :yeah:

One drawback is the cost. Another is that nothing you take here will transfer. That's something to condider if you are young and may eventually go on to obtain your BSN. Me? I'm in my 40's now. No chance of getting my BSN.

Please post if you know anything about this school, or if you were one of the many who took the HESI here. No waiting list. Score high enough on the HESI and you're in. The caveat is that they are only taking 30 students to start. I plan to be one from the initial class. We should hear something this week.

Hey everyone, I live in wv as well and I'm just courious of this whole thing. I was going to go to Marshall university but y take a 4 year when I can go 2 years. The woman on the phone couldn't answer many of my questions. How much is this school a semester? I'm suppose to go for orientation on the 5th but I want to look more in this then go in knowing nothing about the school. Iv read alot of negative things about this school and was just wondering on some opinions. I know there is no success rate yet but the woman I spoke with said that once there is a success rate they will b adding the bacholars rn to the school, anyone else herd anything about it? Sorry for all the questions just dont want to put all this money into something I know nothing about.

Thanks :))

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU, Med Surg, Endoscopy.

Hello everyone, new the site. I'm attending the Nursing seminar for ITT

May 18th, can anyone give me some in site on what to expect.

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I would like to address a few things:

I am in my fifth quarter at an ITT program in Indiana.

For the record--we are accredited. Our credits also transfer to some colleges here in IN if we want to go on to get our BSN, which I personally plan to do.

We do our clinicals in hospital settings, just like every other nursing school. And, in fact, every quarter since I started, our school has gotten phone calls from administration at these hospitals, talking about how great ITT students are. They've even gone as far as to tell us that they like working with us more than the local CC nursing students because we seem to know what we're doing a little better.

All my local hospitals will also hire ITT grads just as easily as they will any other grads. We sit for the same NCLEX, they don't care what school you go to as long as you know what you're doing.

Obviously every program will differ depending on the state it's in and the instructors, but to issue a blanket statement and say that ITT is a bad school is ridiculous.

Congrats to everyone who has made it into nursing school, no matter where you decide to go!

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Hi,

I start the ADN RN program at the ITT Tech in Evansville IN on June 13th. I would love to talk to some people who go there....well I would love to talk to anyone who goes to ITT Tech fr there RN.

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Specializes in Cardiac, AICU, Emergency, Floor care.

Have any ITT Tech Nurses passed the NCLEX yet?

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Have any ITT Tech Nurses passed the NCLEX yet?

You can check with the state's Board of Nursing to see schools NCLEX pass rates.

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I keep seeing posts from naysayers on this site in regard to the high cost of the ITT nursing program. I'm in my second term at the Portland campus and, first off, am loving it. The instructors are outstanding, very seasoned professionals and they give us a lot of one-one-one attention and guidance. There is a lot of homework and reading and I work VERY hard for A's, but because they schedule each class to meet just once a week, I am able to keep working 30 hours a week. The only thing suffering is my social life!

Secondly, the cost is absolutely relative. If you are 20 years old and being supported by mommy and daddy, or are married, young enough to spare several years and are being supported by your spouse, then going to a cc makes sense. But if you are like me - over 40 and without all the time in the world - and you have to support yourself with a nearly full-time job, then if by some miracle you are accepted into a cc program, you will have to live on student loans for nearly two years anyway. This is because, unlike ITT, the ccs make it virtually impossible to work once you start their nursing programs. So if you have to take out $40,000 in loans to live on in addition to $15,000 for all your pre-reqs and the program, where exactly is the savings? It looks like $55,000 either way to me. The difference is that I will be done in 27 months total, as opposed to taking roughly that long to complete the cc pre-reqs alone, then waiting for acceptance for who-knows-how-long and then a couple more years to finish the program. After I graduate and am looking for a nursing job, I'll still be financially afloat and making a living wage at my current job, not having had to give it and my clientele up to attend school. Let's do some more math on top of that, shall we? Best case scenario, after pre-reqs, it will take three years to get accepted into and finish a cc nursing program - 5 years start to finish - as opposed to barely over two for ITT. Suppose you can make $30,000 more per year as a nurse than you can in your current profession. In three years, that adds up to $90,000. So looking at it that way, ITT costs $55,000 and a cc costs a whopping $145,000 - minimum!

Furthermore, the ITT program has initial approval status with our state's board of nursing, so graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the NCLEX and become licensed RNs - and that is all that matters in the end. We've yet to have a class graduate and take the NCLEX, and thus have no current pass rate. That is the ONLY reason the approval status is in the initial stage. Once the first class takes it, then the approval status can become complete. I have no doubt that the pass rate will be stellar. The program also has full articulation with three well-respected universities for continuing on to a BSN: Linfield, Walla Walla and Regis, and ITT recently opened its own online BSN program. So no worries about higher education.

I have several clients who are nurses and doctors, and even a couple who run a medical staffing agency office locally. All have said that I will have no trouble at all getting a job quickly. The reason, they say, is that I am older, very professional, mature, have a quarter century of experience in direct customer service and several years in management. According to them, the new grads having trouble finding nursing jobs are either in their 20's, and thus not as credible to patients as older nurses, or don't come across as very professional, or don't have much solid work experience outside of menial jobs and a couple years of CNA work, if they are lucky - that sort of thing.

So what it comes down to is that everyone's situation is different. ITT was the only school that offered a program that worked for my circumstances. Regardless of what problems ITT grads in non-nursing programs have had, the nursing program differs in that at the end, there is a state licensing process that makes us valid RNs, no matter what other universities have to say about it. I've not had one single medical professional tell me that the school I attend will be any kind of a hindrance to my employability, as long as I'm licensed.

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Specializes in Cardiac, AICU, Emergency, Floor care.
You can check with the state's Board of Nursing to see schools NCLEX pass rates.

Thanks STEENER! However, I dont know if you were able to find Michigans NCLEX pass rates, but I am unable to do so! See if you can and let me know... Please and thanks! To everyone else, does anyone know how the NCLEX pass rates were for the first graduate nurses of ITT Tech Canton MI. I am starting their program soon and am curious!! ;)

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I'm currently in my second quarter at ITT canton abs or first class doesn't graduate until december so we won't know until then!!

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Specializes in Cardiac, AICU, Emergency, Floor care.

Sweet! Thank you so much! I start ITT Canton MI. This fall.. Im hoping to meet ppl on here that are going to be in that program as well... To Ms. Ashley.. Have you started clinicals yet? And if so, which ones (med surg..etc.) and where abouts? U of M?

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You don't start clinicals until your fourth quarter which for me is in december. Right now im in fundamentals aka NU110. We are starting to learn the basics like bathing history and physicals and bed making and such. This part is pretty simple for anyone that has taken the cna classes because they have learned these things already. Its pretty fun so far and I like the teachers. They are finally getting everything in order too so things are less hectic for us than for the first two classes. All in all you should have a great experience and enjoy it!!

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Nurseextern1 I'll be starting this September also. :)

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