If you think it's bad being a student, let it be known they also teach their instructors awful, and the owners are very abusive to the staff. The owners don't care about art or design at all and are flat out business people out to make a huge profit, and they do, they probably gross close to 3 million a year off your student loans. And what does everyone get out of it? I think maybe I saw 25 people graduate a semester...but 400 students enroll every fall-they count on all those people that drop out. They make about 3,000 per person a class, you know how much they pay their adjuncts? $3,600 per class if it's over 10 people-ask yourself what are you paying for? where does the other 30k go? And it's as hard to get your check as it is for students to ever get the classes they need to graduate. I've seen students wait years for them to finally run a class so they can graduate. They dont care about art, they care about making money off young people that think they are going to be the next andy warhol, None of you design majors will ever find graphic design work in albuquerque-I'm sorry but it's true. This place is fraud. and I'm sorry if you found this message too late and you have already started handing them your money. Once you graduate and that 700/month student loan bill starts coming and you are working at JCPenny's home and design center, and you can't afford to ever put a mortgage down on a house, tell all your friends don't by into for-profit institutions-it's modern indentured servatude, and the people running these places have not a lick of conscious about what they are doing to people lives. It's all about the bottom line to them.
sigh-it's a sad state of affairs in this country right now. we all need jobs, and people are cashing in on our believe that higher education is the only answer.
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