My background: I am a FULL stack web designer and web developer who has put together an ENTIRE web platform (blogs, forums, private messaging, search engine, statistics, control panel, etc) from SCRATCH entirely by myself over the years and ENTIRELY by learning in my own time. If that doesn't make me qualified to post this then nothing does.
I attended IADT Orlando in the early 2000s perusing an associates degree in Web Design (client side languages) and a bachelors degree in Web Development (server side languages).
Half way through the associates degree they dropped BOTH programs and then had me attend no technical classes that were in ANY conceivable fashion applicable except the most fundamentally basic HTML class. All the technical classes they had me attend besides the HTML class was for graphic design which is a completely different field (e.g. signs for billboards, cars, logos, labels for food, road signs; NOT web related).
I took the last class for the associates degree and had added several different designs to my own website with the ability to switch between any number of designs and was failed intentionally. I waited until a different, competent teacher was to teach a semester and until I just walked away it was the same teacher.
I began taking classes for the web development class and the absolute closest thing to web development was a Flash class. Do your research: Flash is dead, was outright rejected by Steve Jobs, search engines (Google) can not read Flash objects and Flash has been in a steady decline across all actively maintained websites.
I attempted to talk with the guy assigned to answer my questions and got an ambiguous response at best. I talked with another head (not sure the title from over ten years ago) and was blown off and late to see my cat who died before I arrived and after talking with the president in his office at the front who commented on how professional I looked I received absolutely no help.
They had replaced my web design and web development degrees with game design. 5% of a video game is graphics TOPS; everything else is code because graphics don't do anything on their own. Did they teach programming? No, there were guys sitting around playing video games and all they did was teach graphic classes. Almost any one can do graphics, CODE is what makes something functional.
I eventually just stopped going and returned home. I had attempted to gain support from the loan companies since I was surely not the only one being ripped off. You'd figure Sallie Mae and others would be concerned about not getting paid back loans if a "college" was not producing results; I wouldn't invest my money in someone attending a "college" that gave their students no help! In fact the job placement rate is considered fulfilled once you left if you were working at 7-11 and I'm NOT talking about sitting in a corporate environment, I'm talking about charging people for slurpees at the cash register making probably $8 an hour.
I have after years of learning, teaching myself and building my web platform have finally begun to find success purely through my own perseverance though not without the loss of the best decade of my life burned through what is easily the worst mistake I have ever made. It was ignorance to walk in those doors and presume that they intended to help me in any way. The only department that would talk with me in any fashion was the fiance department for obvious reasons. I only have one friend I keep in touch with after all these years from that "college" because after all, almost everyone there was just another face in the crowd to be taken advantage of.
When I enrolled at IADT they claimed that they had employment placement with a large number of Corporations within the Fashion Industry and they would have no problem placing students in positions upon completion of the program. I already had 15+ years of fashion retail and management experience and was looking to move up and work as a buyer. Upon completion they were not able provide ANY legitimate business contacts. With my level of retail experience under me combined with my bachelors degree they should have been able to provide some contacts to get in as an assistant buyer somewhere. The only thing our career advisors could provide were contacts for low level retailers that a person with NO DEGREE could obtain and was offering me half of what I was already making.
Destroyed, so much effort and all they impart is all old knowledge. I leraned more in lynda.com in a month than i leartned the whole year...and also i had a genuine problem with the health of my grand mother and asked for a leave and they denied and when i whithdrwa they invented some debt and called me 2 times a day for 4 months.....im gonna do everything i can so this people do not fool not even a soul anymore......they charge you like a harvard and give you much much less than a $ 25.00 of studies at linda.....and actually 80% of whatever old they teached was thru the videos at lynda or else.....oh my GOD what im going to? does the goverment or the board of skills stays aside and look how honest and less previleged people get scrwed and the a lifetime paying those animals.....no...animal are decent ....these criminals of persuasion.
IADT Reviews
My background: I am a FULL stack web designer and web developer who has put together an ENTIRE web platform (blogs, forums, private messaging, search engine, statistics, control panel, etc) from SCRATCH entirely by myself over the years and ENTIRELY by learning in my own time. If that doesn't make me qualified to post this then nothing does.
I attended IADT Orlando in the early 2000s perusing an associates degree in Web Design (client side languages) and a bachelors degree in Web Development (server side languages).
Half way through the associates degree they dropped BOTH programs and then had me attend no technical classes that were in ANY conceivable fashion applicable except the most fundamentally basic HTML class. All the technical classes they had me attend besides the HTML class was for graphic design which is a completely different field (e.g. signs for billboards, cars, logos, labels for food, road signs; NOT web related).
I took the last class for the associates degree and had added several different designs to my own website with the ability to switch between any number of designs and was failed intentionally. I waited until a different, competent teacher was to teach a semester and until I just walked away it was the same teacher.
I began taking classes for the web development class and the absolute closest thing to web development was a Flash class. Do your research: Flash is dead, was outright rejected by Steve Jobs, search engines (Google) can not read Flash objects and Flash has been in a steady decline across all actively maintained websites.
I attempted to talk with the guy assigned to answer my questions and got an ambiguous response at best. I talked with another head (not sure the title from over ten years ago) and was blown off and late to see my cat who died before I arrived and after talking with the president in his office at the front who commented on how professional I looked I received absolutely no help.
They had replaced my web design and web development degrees with game design. 5% of a video game is graphics TOPS; everything else is code because graphics don't do anything on their own. Did they teach programming? No, there were guys sitting around playing video games and all they did was teach graphic classes. Almost any one can do graphics, CODE is what makes something functional.
I eventually just stopped going and returned home. I had attempted to gain support from the loan companies since I was surely not the only one being ripped off. You'd figure Sallie Mae and others would be concerned about not getting paid back loans if a "college" was not producing results; I wouldn't invest my money in someone attending a "college" that gave their students no help! In fact the job placement rate is considered fulfilled once you left if you were working at 7-11 and I'm NOT talking about sitting in a corporate environment, I'm talking about charging people for slurpees at the cash register making probably $8 an hour.
I have after years of learning, teaching myself and building my web platform have finally begun to find success purely through my own perseverance though not without the loss of the best decade of my life burned through what is easily the worst mistake I have ever made. It was ignorance to walk in those doors and presume that they intended to help me in any way. The only department that would talk with me in any fashion was the fiance department for obvious reasons. I only have one friend I keep in touch with after all these years from that "college" because after all, almost everyone there was just another face in the crowd to be taken advantage of.
When I enrolled at IADT they claimed that they had employment placement with a large number of Corporations within the Fashion Industry and they would have no problem placing students in positions upon completion of the program. I already had 15+ years of fashion retail and management experience and was looking to move up and work as a buyer. Upon completion they were not able provide ANY legitimate business contacts. With my level of retail experience under me combined with my bachelors degree they should have been able to provide some contacts to get in as an assistant buyer somewhere. The only thing our career advisors could provide were contacts for low level retailers that a person with NO DEGREE could obtain and was offering me half of what I was already making.
Destroyed, so much effort and all they impart is all old knowledge. I leraned more in lynda.com in a month than i leartned the whole year...and also i had a genuine problem with the health of my grand mother and asked for a leave and they denied and when i whithdrwa they invented some debt and called me 2 times a day for 4 months.....im gonna do everything i can so this people do not fool not even a soul anymore......they charge you like a harvard and give you much much less than a $ 25.00 of studies at linda.....and actually 80% of whatever old they teached was thru the videos at lynda or else.....oh my GOD what im going to? does the goverment or the board of skills stays aside and look how honest and less previleged people get scrwed and the a lifetime paying those animals.....no...animal are decent ....these criminals of persuasion.