JAGS

I don't. I am watching how they treat students and it is so wrong.

FYI: ITT Technical Institute is no longer attempting to get NLNAC accreditation for ANY of their campuses. A couple of campuses have graduated nurses and the graduates are having trouble finding jobs, just like everyone else.... To the person who wrote they graduated from ITT and have a job in Legacy - this is impossible as the Portland program started in June 2010 and will not graduate their first class of nurses until December 2012. ITT has started their own RN to BSN online program and they want ALL of their ADN grads to continue on in this program to a tune of more than $500 a credit hour. If you do the math, the students will owe over 100K for both the ADN and the BSN from a for-profit, career college with a questionable reputation. For those looking to start in a nursing program, do not be fooled: this is not the program you want. Many campuses throughout the US lack quality instructors and clinical sites. For instance, the clinical sites for the Portland campus are similar to those of an LPN program. Think, do you want a RN degree that only has LPN experience? I have looked into the school- several campuses, asking the Directors of nursing hard questions. I spoke to a former student in one of their other degree programs at another campus. He told me that the financial aid people wrote on his financial aid forms "0% interest" for his loans at that was the only reason he went to that ITT. There is no such thing as a zero percent loan at a for-profit college. This is false and a misrepresentation of the facts. Upon leaving the school because of problems with bad instructors, he found out that his interest rate was much higher than 0%. Ask yourself this, if a college does this, what other corners are they cutting just to fill their seats? Are they really in education for the students or just for the money? Somehow, I think it is just for the later reason. Go to the Portland campus and ask the students if the promises they were made when they signed up for the program have been kept. Ask the students how many instructors have been hired and fired in the past year. Ask the students about the quality of their instructors. Ask the students if they are getting the tutoring they were promised. Ask the students about their clinical sites. Call the NLNAC and find out when they are going out to the Indiana campus to complete the accreditation process (I called the IN campus and asked for Donna Austgen, the listed Nursing Program Chair for that campus and she's not there anymore). The campuses in FL are graduating students, how come they aren't on the candidate list for the NLNAC.....Ask these hard questions....What you will find may surprise and horrify you. If what you find horrifies you as it did me, then post what you found so others can make an informed decision, after all, isn't that the basis of nursing/healthcare: informed decisions.