I'm taking the Night Class Professional Massage Therapy Program at UCMT in Salt Lake and I've been in school for 8 months. I think some people just don't click with certain modalities (for example I didn't feel like acupressure was a great class because I didn't get it) which is why they think the instructors are incompetent. On the other hand I loved Cranial and Shiatsu and I had awesome instructors. Some of our courses are just introductions to modalities and if you are really interested and want more education, you have to go to a more specialized school. I think it says something that UCMT hires instructors that attended UCMT. Most of our instructors have attended more specialized schools on top of UCMT so they are more than qualified to teach. Our school is the best around-businesses love hiring from our school because they know the quality of education Steiner schools offer. As far as the school making money on clinic, they have to give away a lot of massages every week for free because there aren't enough people who pay. For those who've come in to clinic and were less then satisfied, I'm sorry but we're students and we're still learning. The internship is more for us to practice and you should understand that going in. We really appreciate your willingness to support us but you have to understand, If you get a student who's just started clinic and they are in the day program, they've only been in school for a month so what do you expect? Sometimes you get what you pay for (like the loud environment). Clinic is an amazing opportunity for students to grow and get experience (of course I would like to get paid but the money the school makes pays for linens and helps keep our tuition costs lower). If there was no clinic and we had to intern at a real massage business (depending what you want to do that could be working for a sports team, working in a hospital, or at a chiropractor, etc), you wouldn't get to practice everything you are learning and figure out what you like (There are so many different types of clients that come in to clinic). You also can't build clientele for your own practice if you are working for a business. Most businesses will make you sign a non competition agreement and it's not really ethical to steal clients from a business and bring them to your own practice. But at clinic, they want us to bring these clients into our future practices if we can. One thing I have to say about UCMT is the recruiters are a little pushy. They want you to sign up ASAP and they call you a ton and I feel like I didn't have a lot of time to think about my decision. There were so many things I didn't know when I signed up (like about clinic, about having school on Fridays some times {only the night students}, how often classes start-so I started school a semester earlier then I really wanted to). Most of the things i've learned since starting school that I didn't already know have been positive. I didn't know it was going to be this hard but I'm glad it is because it means i'm getting a better education. I never expected that I would know this much but I've loved my education at Steiner and I would recommend it to anyone. Just make sure you look into it first and ask all your questions and take your time. I promise if you look into other schools, you'll end up back at UCMT because it's the most you get for your money.
Pros: Caring Staff, Amazing courses
Cons: They do push you into signing up and leave out things
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