Unitek College

My name is David Ross Nahrvar and this is my factual, true-account, on the ground review of the $15k Information Technology Certifications Pilot Program at Unitek College, coming from one of the program's TOP STUDENTS.

These are not opinions, there are facts.
Please read and consider the following carefully.
The website, marketing literature, and admissions representatives state that this program is:

Claim: Focused on IT Industry-recognized Certification.
Fact: No, this program is centralized on producing "College Credits" and the hope is that you'll be able to pass the Industry Certification at the end of each course. Which you more-than-likely won't, unless you find concurrent third-party training materials to augment your education.

Claim: Taught by Experienced and Certified Instructors.
Fact: None, our primary instructors are not certified in the material being "instructed", nor do they have the qualifications or experience as teachers in general. When students asked a relevant classroom question, students were told to Google it themselves. The "instructors" spent the majority of classroom time on Social Media Websites. ie: Facebook or LinkedIn

Claim: Consists of 50/50 Lecture to Real Hands-on training.
Fact: Of a 20hr week x 5 weeks the instructors lectured roughly 2 hours per week while reading from a page in a book, There is no hands-on training, just labs set up in the back of classrooms untouched since the instructors have no knowledge to utilize them, as they do not know the material.

Claim: High-quality Instructor-Led Training (ILT)
Fact: Completely false, the training offered is a RESELL of a Self-Paced Online (SPO) Product called TestOut, this is $495 to buy on your own. You WILL save $1,500 per certification and get the EXACT same training as attending Unitek College. At this moment in time at Unitek College, your "instructor" is there to "instruct" you to do TestOut.

Claim: Structured Curriculum
Fact: As it is right now, there is an official curriculum that has been accredited by the ACCSC(might not be soon), but the "instructors" cannot follow it as they have openly stated to the classes that they do not know the material themselves.

Claim: Free Lunch
Fact: Flat out lie
Claim: IT Students Only Breakroom
Fact: Flat out lie
Claim: You purchase 2 chances to pass each certification exams when you enroll.
Fact: You get 1 chance, then you're forced to sign a waiver and pay 1/2 the cost for the second, IF you get a 90% or above on TestOut.

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Now on to the more serious offenses after consumer fraud.
When students shared grievances and informed College Management of issues, they were immediately retaliated against in the forms of course failures, internship termination, employment termination, discrimination by association, derogatory comments and statements, accusations of collusion, slander, and threats.

These retaliations happened the moment the students started speaking out against the lies and gross misrepresentation of material facts committed against them. Starting in Dec. 2014 and continuing through this posting day.

To this day, Unitek College/Unitek Education has not only chosen to not make the good-faith effort to mediate and correct these issues, but they have fired the only qualified instructor that actually taught material he is certified to teach and the only instructor the students actually learned from. Best part, he was fired for helping us, fighting for our education, talking to us and convincing us to give Unitek the chance and to help them fix it's broken program with our input as Program Pilots.

If Unitek College PR representatives wish to officially comment on the state of their IT program, I invite you to do so. This candor review was solicited by Unitek College to be an honest review, this is mine.

Once again, these are Irrefutable Facts from an actual Student that has attended the Pilot Program since Sept.17th, 2014. Who has since taken a 5-week period of non-enrollment in the effort to give the college management a fair chance to right wrongs, effective January 16th, 2015.

Request for meeting with CEO has gone unanswered.Please reach out to me for further details and accounts.

1st Year Male -- Class 2015

Perceived Campus Safety: A, Education Quality: F