The Universal Technical Institute of Texas

Date: Feb 28 2012
Major: Automotive Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
I attended UTI Sacramento campus in 2009-2010. I did the B.S. automotive curriculum, Ford FACT, and SMOG at this campus. In 2010 I attended Mercedes-Benz at the Ranch Cucamonga campus. What a joke. This place is ALL about the money. PERIOD. GPA 3.8. No help EVER from Employment Services. EVER. You go in there and look at the employment board they have and it's filled with leads, what they don't tell you is that all those leads are at least six months old. Called a bunch of them and the people I called told me that the positions have been filled and to tell Employment Services to take the ad down. That's just Employment Services.

The students are retarded. I watched a student stab his own hand in class. Seriously, he stabbed his own hand with a knife and went running down the hall trailing blood. Did they kick that fool out? NOPE. Most of the students there I wouldn't trust to replace a center cap in a rim nor, would I give them a dull screwdriver. However the instructors were knowledgable if they deemed you intelligent enough to understand what they were telling you. I feel bad for the instructors. The management there is $$\( driven while they all wanted to teach. They don't even teach you how to change oil. Case in point, I work at an asian dealership as guess what, an oil changer. Another employee attended UTI as well. Guess what, he was an oil changer too. Two hour oil changes from that man. He had never touched a wrench the whole time he was there, now he washes cars. When I was looking for work while attending UTI I noticed a trend on Craigslist about UTI, the ad's started to state SRF:ELEMENTS:6xsrf How depressing is that? I attended STARt in Rancho Cucamonga in L.A.. Completely different campus. Nobody there cares (except for the instructors). Had a problem with financial aid. The financial aid dept did not care. The instructors tried to help. Just think I spent 72,000\) to not be able to work for Mercedes or Ford. I should have just bought a 500SL and enjoyed it.
One word of advice for prospective students, Dealerships will hire you with no skills and then PAY you to go to training. Not you paying for training.