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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I attended Tampa Technical Institute back in the late 1980's when it was owned by National Education Centers. I studied their Graphic Design program. I have very mixed feelings about this school. First the positive: I had a friend who had started this school and talked me into applying. I was shocked I was accepted into the graphic design program because I could not draw a thing. The very first day of school, I questioned my own abilities when our first assignment was to draw a picture of anyone in the class. Mine of course was like stick people, but so where most other people's, so I didn't feel so bad, but I did wonder why any of us were there. Artists we were not! But a miracle happened! A wonderful teacher of the class named Orlando Savadra, took me from drawing stick people to drawing life-like portraits of John Wayne and Grace Kelly in a matter of a couple months. He was a master at finding your hidden talents and used a technique pioneered by others called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. He was so devoted to what he did, and everyone loved him. He was the favorite teacher in the whole school. Through his encouragement and faith in me, I pushed on thru each semester feeling more confident with each one. I excelled in every class and was at the top of the class in most cases. I had lots of fun there, and felt I was learning what I needed too to get a graphic arts job. Now for the bad: After 2 years, $12,000.00 and one Associates Degree later, I was no more prepared to work in the graphic design industry, than I was before I went to school there. Turns out the curriculum was at least a few years behind the workplace. It was a time when everyone was switching to computer design, and the school concentrated on old fashioned paper/pencil design. We had about 4 weeks training on a Macintosh, which was little help in an ever changing industry. After graduation, I could not find a job in this field what-so-ever. I felt betrayed and like I just wasted 2 years of my life! I even had one employer who looked at my portfolio tell me, I should go to school to learn graphic design because I had potential. I told him, I just graduated. He laughed and said, well they didn't teach you what you need to know. Meaning computer graphic design... I loved the school at the time, but had no idea they were not teaching me what I needed to know. I never when back to school, and never worked in the industry I trained for. Buyer beware is all I can say. Do your homework before picking a school. Faculty Accessibility: A, Education Quality: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 24 2008 2nd Year Male -- Class 1989    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=45493&uid=1931'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Computer Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I was at TTI back in the late 70's when it was in downtown Tampa, next to the tv studios for NBC. The school moved about 3 months before graduating. The courses were great and the subject material went very deep. This was the years when electronics were changing-fast! and I had exposure to vacuum tubes, solid-state, microprocessors and basic language programming, all in 12 months! The Profs were real-world workers and thinkers, from big companies, academia and the military. Got placed with IBM in Vermont and stayed for 15 years there, doing test equipment work for 10 of that and then layout design of circuits (CAD) for 5. Went next to Intel for design and stayed for 12 years. Made some of the patterns for Pentium, Itanium, Xeon, and Celeron as well as chips for cellulars, including the I-phone. Now doing layout at company in Arizona. TTI worked out well for me, and I worked hard at it. I'm hoping that it is still a great place to learn. We placed 95 percent of our class. Sometimes, in a career, you take turns and new avenues, like I did. TTI did not have a courses in layout design, but the fundamentals made it possible to break into this field. I was there when the design arts program was just starting and I had no opportunity to see what it was about or talk to students or staff there. Looks like the school has moved again since I left. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Social Life: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 06 2008 2nd Year Male -- Class 1979    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=44143&uid=1931'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etc  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment I attended here when it was Tampa Technical Institute. I can only hope now that it's a different college that they cleaned up their act and start actually giving people real tools they need to get jobs. I came here after having 4 years of experience as a working designer, mainly because it was closer to my house and less expensive than Ringling or the Academy (which I've heard sucks worse) Most of the teachers were clueless hacks who had never actually held down jobs to speak of in the field of graphic art. So it was hard to take advice and guidance from someone who cannot DO the job. I can think of maybe ONE teacher who actually knew what she was doing and didn't just pass students for the sake of passing them (like most of them did) I had one teacher who was supposed to teach us Photoshop. She spoke terrible English and was very hard to deal with. On top of that, she really didn't know much about Photoshop at all. I had already used the program for many years, so I ended up correcting her many times when she was showing people the wrong way to do things. Photoshop is one of the most important tools a graphic designer needs to use. Come on already, you know?? I was one of the lucky ones in that I had experience and I didn't listen to a word the fools in the "career services" department said. I was forced to take my resume to them as part of a stupid class they make you take on getting a job. To make a long story short, the person who was supposed to help me get a job spelled the names of several programs I was supposed to know wrong. Can believe that? I took that to the dean and told him I dared the teacher to flunk me for refusing to spend another 5 minutes in that worthless class. Another highlight of my time there was showing up for class in my 6th quarter to find the FBI had shut the place down for the day. Nice. I had less than 3 weeks to go and luckily they figured out the problem at least long enough for me to get my diploma and get out. I am currently the art director where I work and when I see resumes from graduates there, I know what to expect. People who made it by based on teachers trying to keep up that pass/fail rate and not on the fact that they learned anything of value. All the TTI grads I've had to work with often don't know how to prep files for print...and that's one of the most important thing a designer needs to know! I've run into several classmates since graduation and not one person I've talked to is actually working as a designer. At last count we had a girl working at a doctor's office, at Geico answering phones, a gas station, a pizza place. All of them are probably stuck with student loans still. Bogus. Since I was a working designer before I went there I remained one, but I truly felt bad for the people who really wanted to learn this trade. The job market in 2001 was terrible and even with lots of experience under my belt it took me almost 6 months to find a full time job that paid what I needed it to (It's the job I still have) I can't imagine what it must have been like for the people who had no real world experience. So in short, I paid $20,000 for an education I could have gotten from an Adobe Classroom in a Book. And I would have also saved a ton of money I instead spent on cookies and tater tots at the Putt Putt next door. :) Preparedness: -, Reputation: - Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 31 2007 Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=37278&uid=1931'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Computer Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average I went a few years back. Some teachers were good, some were bad. I felt the school had more to do with money than education. I got very sick of the school during my 3rd quarter and purposely tried to fail on the test, I got 70-80% of the questions wrong and the teacher passed me. :-) My opinion at that moment was changed forever. Most of my schooling I took does not apply to what I do currently now. I already had the technical experience for PCs.. my degree was related to electronics. Can't get those better paying jobs without that piece of paper regardless, so I got it. All I can say is if you go there.. and focus and work.. you will come away with alot of knowledge.. if you don't really like the course (like I did) then you will still come away with a degree (and maybe honors like me) and not really grasp alot. Degree cannot be really transferred to other locations.. so its all or nothing there. Helps to live in another state so they have no clue what kind of college it is.. :-) Go back again?? No.. its also pretty expensive. Starting Job: PC Technician, Preparedness: B, Reputation: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Aug 28 2006 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! 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