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We should be thankful: Another For Profit College is downsizing
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:37 am
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:37 am
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After many years of successfully preparing students for new careers, Virginia College in Baton Rouge will no longer enroll new students effective Sept. 10, 2018.
As always, we continue to focus on helping our students graduate and assisting them with getting jobs in their fields. We are proud of our history, and we look forward to the success of our final class of students.
They will focus on offering over priced, useless degrees in other parts of the country instead. I guess the poor and disadvantaged in Baton Rouge that couldn't get into Southern University or La Technical College got tired of graduating from a fake school with a useless degree and crippling student loan debt.
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Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:38 am to member12
wish the govt wouldn't back student loans for For Profit colleges. I'd love to see them all go away
This post was edited on 9/11/18 at 8:42 am
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:39 am to member12
I wish I was thankful for you reading the board before starting threads
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:40 am to member12
First downvote
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:41 am to member12
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got tired of graduating from a fake school with a useless degree and crippling student loan debt.
You just described 70% of all degrees at any college. Eventually, people will figure out the scam.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:43 am to member12
I have no idea about this specific school, but what's so bad about a school being for profit in general?
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:43 am to Sao
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You just described 70% of all degrees at any college. Eventually, people will figure out the scam.
Unless going to school for Medicine, Law, Engineering or Finance/Accounting- College is a huge fricking scam.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:44 am to SLafourche07
Right, because all the "not for profit" public colleges are all so much better!
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:47 am to deathvalleyfreak43
I mean, there are more than that but it completely depends on the specialization within each. That is the critical thing. But Americans are addicted to choice. And the more choices there are, the more schools can keep the scam rolling.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:47 am to deathvalleyfreak43
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Unless going to school for Medicine, Law, Engineering or Finance/Accounting- College is a huge fricking scam.
Do you really believe this?
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:49 am to member12
With for profit schools, and non profit for that matter, the market is being oversaturated with bachelor degrees. Soon, entry level is going to be masters and beyond.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:50 am to deathvalleyfreak43
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Unless going to school for Medicine, Law, Engineering or Finance/Accounting- College is a huge fricking scam.
Partly agree. My position requires a minimum Master's degree, but I could have been taught this work right out of high school.
Yes, schools offer some worthless degree programs, but there are also many jobs that want that shiny degree because they believe it helps in the interview process and they can brag about how "educated" their staff is.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 8:50 am to BHM
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Right, because all the "not for profit" public colleges are all so much better!
for profits usually have open admission with high tuition and fees who get their funds from govt backed loan companies.
They also rarely have anything substantive in terms of buildings, supplies, etc that other colleges have.
It's a huge scam
Posted on 9/11/18 at 9:15 am to SLafourche07
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I have no idea about this specific school, but what's so bad about a school being for profit in general?
The primary purpose of any school should be educating the students. When you introduce a profit motive you change the focus to maximizing the amount of money you can suck out of each student before they graduate or quit. Why would a for profit college spend money on research or anything else that doesn't increase profit?
They are simply set up to transfer money from the federal gov't to investors through the student loan program. They are scams.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 9:19 am to deathvalleyfreak43
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Unless going to school for Medicine, Law, Engineering or Finance/Accounting- College is a huge fricking scam.
This may be the most myopic thing ever typed on the OT and that is really saying something.
Computer programming? We don’t need that shite. Oh wait, are we typing this on an internet message board?
This post was edited on 9/11/18 at 9:20 am
Posted on 9/11/18 at 9:52 am to jbgleason
As an AAS graduate of ITT tech I can chime in here.
Due to the amount of money and the whole profit thing. Teachers passed students. Cheating was rampant and overlooked. Classes were gravy. Students could talk to teachers like dogs. Teachers got in trouble if students dropped out.
Top it off that I paid 36k for a two year degree.
Now, i will say they did have the tools available for you to learn if you wanted to. I did. I managed a 3.9 GPA.
Only 3 of us were hireable that graduated out of 14 in my class/program.
13 years of work and making payments and I still owe 17k.
Due to the amount of money and the whole profit thing. Teachers passed students. Cheating was rampant and overlooked. Classes were gravy. Students could talk to teachers like dogs. Teachers got in trouble if students dropped out.
Top it off that I paid 36k for a two year degree.
Now, i will say they did have the tools available for you to learn if you wanted to. I did. I managed a 3.9 GPA.
Only 3 of us were hireable that graduated out of 14 in my class/program.
13 years of work and making payments and I still owe 17k.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 10:15 am to jbgleason
Learning basic programming and some useful languages doesn’t necessarily require a BS.
Some CS degree programs require you to learn an awful lot of languages with very narrow uses instead of learning several from a few different families (position oriented, object oriented, procedural, etc) to know how each family works and what the general differences are between them.
If you are learning to program Ada, like a former housemate of mine did, you better be planning to work for the DOD or in a field like satellites or airplanes where the language is used for specific reasons.
Some CS degree programs require you to learn an awful lot of languages with very narrow uses instead of learning several from a few different families (position oriented, object oriented, procedural, etc) to know how each family works and what the general differences are between them.
If you are learning to program Ada, like a former housemate of mine did, you better be planning to work for the DOD or in a field like satellites or airplanes where the language is used for specific reasons.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 10:18 am to jbgleason
I think the point here is you can go to Harvard, but if you major in international lesibian pop-culture, your degree is going to be a worthless waste of money.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 10:20 am to deathvalleyfreak43
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Unless going to school for Medicine, Law, Engineering or Finance/Accounting- College is a huge fricking scam.
This sounds like Kentucky's Lt. Gov. saying Psychology and Sociology are bunk degrees in a state with the highest opiate abuse rates who desperately need substance abuse counselors and therapists.
It all depends on what you do with it.
Posted on 9/11/18 at 10:37 am to King
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As an AAS graduate of ITT tech I can chime in here.
Due to the amount of money and the whole profit thing. Teachers passed students. Cheating was rampant and overlooked. Classes were gravy. Students could talk to teachers like dogs. Teachers got in trouble if students dropped out.
Top it off that I paid 36k for a two year degree.
Now, i will say they did have the tools available for you to learn if you wanted to. I did. I managed a 3.9 GPA.
Only 3 of us were hireable that graduated out of 14 in my class/program.
13 years of work and making payments and I still owe 17k.
Did anyone in your life tell you this was a bad move?
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