Northwestern College - Chicago

Date: Jan 30 2009
Major: Accounting (This Major's Salary over time)
I went to an "Open House" last night after making a call to the admissions office to get some more information on tuition/class schedule for the Accounting Cert program. That Open House was more akin to a lot of low-income level people who desperately wanted some free pizza and a free backpack. The staff seemed partially retarded, they wouldn't truly answer a single one of my questions, just kept giving me business cards to call other people for more questions. If you are on the staff, at an Open House, YOU should be the one able to best answer my questions. Period. I spoke briefly with the financial aid staffer who again, dodged everyone's question of what will it REALLY cost me to go here? Granted, you can't give specifics as each individual course load and assistance will be different, but my god, ballpark it for the kid! I am 33 years old and just looking for the paper backup to the accounting skills I have already acquired at various jobs, and when I did the math, the tuition for the 30 credit hour course would have run approx. $13k!!! I was FLOORED to say the least. Wright College, which is a REAL school only a couple of miles away is $75/per credit hour, and this JOKE of a business school is $390?!?

One look at this place was enough to tell me that it wasn't worth five dollars and I would probably walk out of there dumber than when I walked in. CHECK OUT OTHER ALTERNATIVES…THIS PLACE IS A RIP-OFF.