United Education Institute [UEI] review: Misled/did not not deliver as promised 16

I followed the schools advice on how to take off when my much wanted pregnancy turned into a dangerous situation, and because of unclear sonograms it did not get terminated until i was 20 weeks into a 40 wk gig. That messed with my mind a bit and having a mental health diagnosis, and unmedicated because of the pregnancy i went to many different ppl at the school, explaining what was happening and that i needed to pause my education for two months max, to get my head back in the game. the lady i landed in front of said "oh well that's a lot of paperwork, lets just do it like this... " i asked but won't there be repercussions? i want to do it the right way, i want to finish this. "It takes awhile to be approved and if u want to be able to miss this week's class we will just have to do all the assignments on time, and then go to labs if u feel u can.." Now i have done a lot of work on myself and that is the only reason i didn't get pushy about it. i thought she's a professional, so i'll trust her, she wouldn't steer me wrong."

Then ok, my bad, i forgot payments started and never saw any email or call saying hey, u missed a payment, until i'd missed around 5. Then the pressure was intense even after i explained i hadn't been hardly working due to my mental state, my 8 year relationship ended, and i was close to being homeless. still almost daily the calls of can u pay anything? if not u will default and owe it all at once! I like to eat at least once a day too, i mean i kinda have to, to stay alive.

Then all of a sudden i get an email, your schedule has changed, i go in and they were like no u should of been here yesterday. So on Mon i go in, i say i'm not sure which classroom i'm supposed to be in can you tell me? After about a half hour i'm directed to my class, the same one.

Then one day halfway into the module they say you have a new teacher. This guys an [censored]. He immediately had preconceived misconceptions about me that caused him to act very unprofessionally. As an American with a Disability there are certain concessions I need to be able to do the program. Not only did he embarrass me infront of the class, when i let him know i'd be needing to speak to him about some things, he shut me down, fast and hard. "no, please don't" were his exact words. I asked that next time he had something like that to say, to please pull me to the side, away from the class. "We aren't doing things the way you want them done" he says. I couldn't help myself, I say, "no its just whats professional" I let the school know what happened and that i no longer am comfortable taking his class. im told there's no way to change in the middle of a module. i'd have to go back to his classroom or fail the module. after speaking to my mom and therapist they agree with me its not smart to go back into his classroom. i have anger problems, so to avoid a bigger issue i decided to wait till the next module and go into my new class. i was told id be called or emailed with my new schedule. i wasn't. if i had not checked in i'd have missed even more.

So i miss class because i got offered side work, $500! that would help greatly! And i get kicked out.

I should be able to allow life to happen and not be kicked out, especially when i was following what the school said to do! i did my best to do things the right way, and now ur school needs to fix it or face a lawsuit. and i'm not even gonna touch on the [censored] education because so many others already have. Unfortunately i need my certification, and my money is tied up in you guys. your employees were lazy and guided me to disaster after promising to lead me to a better life...

all i want is to be allowed to continue my education, otherwise ill be letting the dept. of rehab and the fasfa peeps just how u guys get down.

Hi I also went to Uei it’s been years and never got a job the career services never even helped me get a job and now I have so much student loan debt it’s crazy it’s sad how they

Just mislead you and false advertise to make money and steal money from low income family’s hopes up and til this day more than 10 years later no job in the dental assisting program I went for

The UEI Class Action has settled for approximately $9 million in settlement monies. (Cordova et al. v. United Education Institute et al., AAA Case No. 73-516-Y-[protected]) In order to be eligible to receive settlement monies, CLASS MEMBERS MUST FILE A VALID CLAIM BY OCTOBER 4, 2016.

You are a member of the class and may be eligible to make a claim if you graduated from UEI’s California campuses on or after October 15, 2008 and enrolled before August 22, 2013, who, within six months of graduation, did not find employment working at least 32 hours per week in a single position, within their field of study.

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After graduation I was laid off, after reviving an bonus check for my great work, I was not taught what I needed to get into a agency, and without a job for over a year, I have tested for over 4 agencys and applied to anything remotely close to CJ, thank God I will never give up on my dream even though I feel I was dupped into attending, and I know of one girl that went on to be a stripper after she realized she will never make what she needs to pay them back or live without this option, me myself I could not do this because my daughter. Is 7 and anything she sees me do is influence to her, I hope, I and my children. Can come out of this. Mess okay. All I ever wanted to do is do something involving. Law and today. After graduating. Uei college, I am a home maker, extremely invaluable feelings, and had worked all my life, now not. Working for over a year, i hope. They get what's coming to them my hopes in my efforts. Have never. Felt more low

I am a graduate of URI criminal justice diploma, When unrolled I was told, my credits we're transferable, and they will have a AA program by the time I graduated, and that the skills I need to get a career in law enforcement would be taught, not only this but I used there reference to get a security job as securitas Inc. Suspiciously, I was stopped being. Called for work and payed off only one month after graduation, all of my good instructers left us and I found that I am unable to take care of my family, so I am now
I'm a university obtaining my BA, with all my hard work and efforts 0 credits of 34 applied, I was directly told by my current school those are not college courses, with this I say even the name on Uei college is a false representation, Eventually Ill have to pay for my missleedings and my 2 small children will pay too.for the

I recently graduated from UEI and I have the same story as every body else. I was a straight A student and it did not make any difference. I had been turning in about 10 resumes a day for the past 4 months and still has not even given a chance for an interview...

So i just started uei i been there for 2 weeks with 3 different subs and havent even met my teacher cuz shes at home prego i already hate it how do i get out ? Can i transfer to another school ?

Totally agree just go to regular school and stay away the same thing happened to my ex, she told me.some girl wanted to fight her and she went to an internship and never made a cent always had parties in class and now she is working at a retail store making min wage. How sad uei should be illegal.

I have to agree that I felt disappointed when I attended at UEI college in Chula Vista, California. I definitely feel you for the discrimination against not being able to speak Spanish. I am half Swiss and Half Sicilian but was raised on the East Coast all my life. Needless to say I did not grow up with Spanish spoken in my home. I moved here after I got out of the Navy and it's almost an invisible requirement to speak Spanish to get hired here. I did the Business Office and Administration Certification as it was the only degree aside from the IT that you could transfer into an Associates Degree. My main teacher was a pompous professor who held a masters and attended Harvard. You would think this person would extend his knowledge and we'd learn more from him...WRONG. They started this thing where we had to go to like 3 different classrooms in everyday. During our trip to one of those classrooms we had to take a 10 minute walk to the other classroom and then sit there for 30 mins only to go back and waste another 10 minutes walking back. In this 30 minute class room, we had no computers, never did any work and just sat around and shot the breeze. In class I found out that our class was behind the curriculum stated by the school. We were supposed to be on like chapter 9 in one class and instead we were on like 3. There were times when I felt we should have learned more as I was very excited to learn about business and marketing in my class. We got tested on some questions and the answers were clearly wrong as I found the answers they should have been or the lack of support from the book that the answer was given from. Instead of accept the mistakes the teachers said "Well that's what the answer is and it didn't matter if it was wrong because he's the professor and he's always right. Not an attitude of someone who is supposed to be teaching. When I went to career services I went early and informed the woman that I did not speak Spanish so please put my in a place I can work. When I got sent to my Externship, I got sent to a lame racist tax agency Gonzales Tax Agency. I showed up the first day early like instructed and the point of contact for the job site who was supposed to be there never showed up. So I did nothing but file some paperwork. The second day I was informed that the point of contact would be there at 12 yet I was instructed to be there at 10. This time he showed up 2 hours late! Again, I did pretty much nothing and got no experience. Then the manager Mr. Gonzales informs me that he doesn't think it's a good fit because I don't speak Spanish and everyone in at the "agency" does (they were ALL Mexican) Why did the career service person send me there in the first place?! Obviously, like another posting pointed out she didn't listen or care about my success or even what I told her. I then got transferred to another tax agency Liberty Tax. I did really well here and even worked past my externship requirements because I was really looking to at least get hired. It was September when he informed me that he wasn't hiring till tax season in February! I told the Career Services woman I was unemployed since November 2009 and I needed a job that would offer me an opportunity. Why then did she send me to 2 dead end jobs with no hope of employment in the future?! I am now attending a REAL college (Devry) that has Bachelor programs available...btw UEI does not transfer to a lot of colleges as it's National Credit. If you want a good school go regional accreditation. Devry is also a school that offers online opportunities for those with schedules. They also have a much better portfolio of job placements than UEI. UEI is a poor man's replacement for a community college and although more cheap than average campus you pay for it in quality.

I completely disagree with anyone who states " its not the school it's YOU." Excuse me, but i am a 4.0 graduate of UEI college in Ontario and am livid at this school. I am a very hardworking and dedicated individual, and i have been trying to get a job for 6 months. When i met with the administrative rep she told me many things, which now i have come to find out were complete lies! Shonda (administrative rep) first asked me to write down on a piece of paper all of what i was looking to accomplish this next year. I had wrote down i wanted a career that i love, and to make enough money to afford an apartment of my own. She looked me right in the eyes and said you can accomplish this here at uei. She went on telling me about how "real" she is, and how she wasn't lying to me. She said that 8 out of 10 students get placed, and the reason why its only 8 out 10 instead of ten out of ten was simply because those people weren't trying to pursue getting a job. She also promised me that in career services they would help me with making my resume, and helping me get placed in a job. So me falling for everything she said, i went through with the pharmacy technician program. So a month before i was suppose to start my externship i went into career services to speak with Jennifer, who is the career service rep for the pharmacy technician program. There was a younger guy who told me i couldn't just go speak with her i needed to set an appointment. Well when i went to set the appointment he told me that i am only suppose to see her a week before im suppose to start my externship so i could fill out papers, and she then will start looking for my externship site. I told the guy it was very important to speak with her sooner because i wanted to get placed in a hospital not retail so i needed to know if there was additional things i needed or anything. He told me you are fine if there is anything you need she will help you at your appoointment the week before your going to start your externship site. So i waited, the day of my appointment with her, she walked into my classroom and spoke with us about the externship. She said that getting into a hospital there is a lot of steps you need to take and additional shots you need to get before even applying to extern there, and told us that it is probably too late to start the paperwork already since we only had a week left. I was so upset, so i stopped her before she walked out and i explained what had happened with the guy. All she said to me was, "well im really sorry about that, you can still try to get the paperwork in on time but other than that i don't know what to tell you." So i than just decided to go with a compounding site instead (i did not want to do retail) So i went to talk to her about getting me into a compounding site, she said i had to go look up places and give her all of thier information and she would call, so that same day i researched and gave her two pages full of compounding sites, thier phone numbers, addresses, everything. Everyday after that i went into her office to ask if she had made the phone calls, she said she was busy but she would get around to it. WTF? get around to it?! isn't that the purpose of her job, to help us students in getting an externship site?! I was livid! The next couple days roll around and she got student after student an externship site, and to get the students who are failing in the class an externship site before even helping me out really offended me. Also, i asked her to help me with my resume and she just glanced at it and said that one looks fine. Anyways, i ended up days after my last day of school getting an externship site at target. I finished my externship with a perfect score and good reccommendations. All Jennifer did after that was send me job postings from indeed.com which i could have done myself. And most of them are way too far for me to drive, plus they all want experience... now tell me why would she even send me a job post if i cant even apply there? She has also sent me posting for pharmacist jobs... what is she thinking? Plus I am not the only one who has the same problem, everyone in that class is upset because no one will help us look for a job, and we have this huge loan that we cant even pay for. When you work so hard at something to just find out everything was a bunch of lies is very upseting. I think it is totally wrong of them to lie to people the way they do... I understand that not everyone will get placed into a job afterwards but they should at least try to help you. My career counselor has done nothing but treat me like another number. The school might not be a huge scam, but from my personal experience they are there for the profit not the students which is very disappointing. If i had known that this is how it was going to be i would have just went to the community college, it would have been a lot less expensive.

I went to UEI and it wasnt the best school ill agree to that but I have a career in IT and Ive been doing it for about 10 years now and it all started with UEI :) I have friends that went there and did nothing with it and said the same thing it was a scam or a waste but they also did nothing with there life. I also have a friend that went to a university and got his masters and now works in retail. So its not the school you attend its YOU. People are just looking for a QUICK way to get ahead and when it dosent work its automatically a scam. I believe that no matter what you do in life you cannot give up even if it gets hard. You have to set your goals and go for them! I could have easily gave up and said it was a scam but i kept pushing to get into the field and it was because i had the UEI cert that got me in the door. No matter what school you go to it does not gaurentee you a job anywhere. So keep pushing and never give up and you will all get a position in the field you went to school for. Well good luck to all of you!

Wow I totally almost made one of the biggest mistakes in going to UEI. Thank you soo much for letting me know what it is really like. Its people like you I thank god for cause I would have been the stuck with a little certificate from UEI not having a job offer or nothing, man it must be so hard for you guys I really feel for you. And especially for the spanish thing, I'm half mexican and people always assume that I speak spanish all the time, I'm like noooo sorry, but i shouldnt be saying sorry cause we are in the United states where the dominanting lingo is English, and I know all the controversey about california really belonging to mexico blah blah blah, idk wat to think, sometimes i get mad and wish I actually did speak spanish. But who cares I'm me, but the thing I am really concerned with is that aspect of when I do plan on pursing a career in the healthcare field am I really going to be obligated to be bilingual? Dang thats going to be hard, I already tried to speak spanish, doesnt really work for me, unless I move to mexico for about a year, which is never going to happen! Well thanks again!

UEI is a mess! Thank you for letting us know! I have family in Ca., and I will tell them not to go to UEI! What for a non-professional place... promises...promises... Hey! everybody... don't go there...you will waste time and ...money...
Workers at UEI...what are you thinking? Are you laughing at people? Are you there only to take money out of our pockets?
Do something! Prove yourself!and do something about it!

I agree home health might be an option. Why must these schools who say they are accredited not be liable for misleading and extorting money from those who only want to better their quality of life. Sure they say they are accredited, but your next question should be are they regionally accredited? Like most Community Colleges and Universities. Can you transfer any of your completed work for credit anywhere else toward a higher degree. If UEI answers yes they are LYING TO YOU. If UEI were as confident about their program(s) as they speak of when you enroll; then they should offer a guaranty for job placement or free tuition especially to those who do exceptionally well. To UEI I say BOO your just like all the rest of those businesses out there that exploit people who are hard working and productive in society. I guess Quality is a thing of the past and in UEI's case Quality never was.