YTI Career Institute’s earns a 2.2-star rating from 0 reviews and 7 complaints, showing that the majority of students are somewhat dissatisfied with educational programs.
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Medical assistant associates degree program
Hello Everyone,
I am a 2012 Medical Assistant Associates Degree Graduate. I was very fortunate to have been hired two months into my externship at a doctors office. However it is very unfortunate how expensive it is to get an education at YTI and if you would like to continue your education elsewhere the credits are nontransferable. Complete waste of time. I literally started off at the doctors office making 10.50/HR. for an associates degree. I wish someone would have warned me (guided me) into the LPN program instead elsewhere. I refused to remain feeling stuck for a living. I am very fortunate to have gotten into the dialysis field now for the past almost 10 years. I am now making close to 30/HR. Motivation and hard work does pay off but you have to want it. Do not feel discouraged. keep looking for better options. I am now starting school after so long. No credits sadly. starting all general credits from scratch again. If your young and straight out of high school and would like to further your education after YTI this is NOT the place to go and waste your money! Hope this helps.
Respiratory Therapy
I have been enrolled in the respiratory program since 10/2021 however classes were first canceled due to hem not being able to secure clinicals. When I finally started in January of this year I ended up getting really sick with Sepsis and even with excuses I had to continue on with the classes and failed two of them. My second attempt at one of the classed ended in failure again, so I took the class a third time and finally had a passing grade and just had a final to take to continue to move on. I misunderstood the timing of the final and begged the teacher to let me take it as I was only a couple hours passed due. The instructor didn't budge so I went to the program director and explained what happen which she then asked if I could have it done by a certain time and I said yes. A few minutes later she changed her mind on allowing me to take the final based on whatever conversation she had with the teacher. I accept my mistake for misreading the announcement on what time the final was due, however, to be told I can go ahead and take the final then have it switched in the matter of minutes is what sucks. It was a true honest mistake. I felt like the teacher had something personal against me and told the program director I wanted to file a complaint on the school and she just brushed me off which is against their policy as they threw in my face multiple times. I also wanted to file an appeal which was also brushed off.
Business Program is a rip off
If you're considering going to YTI Altoona for Business, DON'T! Go to South Hills or Penn Tech instead. Biggest waste of 2 years of my life. Went through 13 instructors because they kept leaving because the director was a joke. The business students are the lowest of the low. Always the first to get yelled at, and the last to be appreciated. Not to mention that once an employer sees that you got your business degree from there, you won't be hired. Also, once you graduate, career services will ditch you. They're supposed to help you find employment, but they will either ignore you, or tell you there isn't anything out there. Think twice before considering this place.
Is YTI Career Institute Legit?
YTI Career Institute earns a trustworthiness rating of 94%
Highly recommended, but caution will not hurt.
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classroom bullying
during my first term i underwent extreme classroom bullying.the teachers were never in classroom.and they told me it was my fault and to suck it up deal with it.the 3 students were never suspended.i left the school because if there lack of experience in this matter. if any of you had this problem join me in a lawsuit to make yti pay for our pain and suffering plus the fees paid to yti. email allan.[protected]@yahoo.com
Worthless School / Degree
I graduated from YTI career institute 1 year ago the school's idea of job placement is to spam job leads to temp jobs at slightly above minimum wage. Unfortunately if you go try to find a job yourself, any reasonable job that looks at the Degree, Associates in specialized business, dismisses your application due to this schools reputation for being the worthless waste of time that it is. I am currently working outside my field and making nearly twice the amount that my classmates are making. That is assuming they actually found a job.
While attending YTI, 2 instructors were fired/asked to quit, 1 quit, and another was asked to leave after a sexual abuse complaint shortly after graduation. YOUR CREDITS WILL NOT TRANSFER no mater what they tell you. Everything taught in YTI was basic knowledge that you can learn on your own by simply using a computer, besides Cisco routing.
Finally to top everything off, career services will "check in" with you every 2 or 3 months to ask if you have been hired into a job in the field and if you say no they will begin to spam you with useless job offers, almost all of them you do not even meet minimum requirements to apply. If you finally say yes, they will check you down as a successful job placement, helping their numbers, and helping them convince new naive perspective students to fork over their money and follow in your footsteps.
Your success means nothing to this school, your just a source of income.
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This is so true, i graduated from yti 5 years ago and still cant get a job in my field, totally sucks and feel like i wasted 2 years of my time and money.
Lied about credits tranfering
This school is a joke. I was lied to by the admissions office saying that all my credits would transfer to ANY school I choose to. So I took the plunge and was completly disgusted. There were a couple of teachers that taught well and I learned a lot from them, however most either could not teach or just didn't care.
The staff (exculding teachers) treated me very rudely, since they got their money, I guess they don't care. Your last "term" you have to complete an internship, most of which were not paying. They charged me $5000 for that term and I only stepped foot in the school one time during that term.
So I graduated, relocated to another state and decieded to go for my bachelor's. Guess what? None of my credits transfer to any college. I called YTI and asked them about my credits and was told "Oh, you know most schools don't accept our credits." The only thing I could do was laugh, I was never screwed over so bad by any company in my life. Now I started over again and have to go for another four years to get a degree from a real college. Don't go to this school, they will lie about anything to get you in the door, and you'll regret every minute of it.
I wish my daughter had previously read your comments about this school. She attended YTI Altoona for a year and felt the school was so disorganized and the communication was awful. She decided to withdraw and attend a real college, she was so disappointed to find out that ALL 48 credits did not transfer. She was told that "some" of her credits "may" not transfer to a higher institution.She now is 17K in debt with nothing to show for it. It truly should have a BEWARE sign with a full disclosure of the fine print. If you only want to make a minimum wage, you do not need to go to this school.
I went to YTI, got a 3.92 with many student of the term awards. I graduated and got a job in the field. With that said I agree with every word said on this complaint. Keep in mind your job options if you find any local will start you out at $10_$15 an hour and you must start paying that $35k you borrowed immediately. Further more if you would like to advance ( get a raise raise to account for the $35K) Many require specialized training/experience you wont get from YTI, or a Bachelors degree. I'm not saying you cant go here and get promoted or land a good job, but its an uphill battle you will have to do with no additional schooling as an option. worth 35K?
Rip off school/waste of money
I have attended this school for two semesters. I was sucked with a weak sales pitch from an admissions officer. She was very pushy and convinced me I needed to start NOW. I did start their Medical Assistant program and I am so unhappy with it. The education is so terrible, I was challenged more in 8th grade biology class. Terrible. Then they have the nerve to charge me 5, 000 a term when a community college would cost me only 2, 000 a term. No one is in charge and teachers are constantly coming and going. Before i attended i searched this site for complaints but found none so i ignored my gut and started class. What a mistake. I am dropping after this semester and starting over at a community college- however my credits wont transfer (and i don't blame any college for not taking them I LEARNED NOTHING) I wasted over 10, 000 on 6 months of schooling. Please think twice about this school, I know there is not many complaints about it online but I swear you will get a better education elsewhere. The teachers are extremely unprofessional. It is a total joke.
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Hello my name is Darryl Kelly and I also attended YTI and my recruiter told me that I was guaranteed to get a job after graduation even with a criminal record I have a wife and two kids I was trying to support and trying to go to school at the same time to try to get a degree so I can make it in life but found out that we wasn't worth nothing because of my criminal record spent all that time going to this school I even worked as a work study program for the school and still was unable to get a job in my career still to this day and graduating 2013 and still unable to get in the field and now everything I learned is going down the drain and also now I have this big debt over my head and struggling to try to take care of my family and still unable to be able to do so because my past is still hanging over my head one little mistake in life and boof you can't do anything in life just because of that one mistake you made when you were young I'm sorry for anybody else that was promised to be able to do something with your career and was unable to and now you're sitting here having to pay back a debt that is messing up your credit and you're unable to get any credit that graduated one of the top students and work for this school as well while going to school and was hoping that with all that that I might be able to get in the career but was still unable to it's sad that we're out here doing all this work and these recruiters promise you everything just to get seats filled up and come to find out you and all your hard work was worthless please be aware anyone who hears this please take heed of my words my name is Daryl Kelly I wonder why YTI for computers system specialist and also did a work-study program for yti and still after I graduated I was stuck working a dead end job that had nothing to do with my career and steal all this time I'm still unable to get my foot in the door at any job in his my criminal record has been over 10 years old actually almost 15 and still it doesn't matter I feel like It .
I was a 1999 graduate of the CADD Program. I am continuing my education (finally) and need the syllabus for course taken in order to transfer credits. Per the registrar "YTI does not provide their syllabi".
Very disheartening consider they really push their "We support you forever" message.
I will be filing a complaint with the PA Education Board but am not hopeful.
I left yti after a horrible car accident a half semester before externship in 2010. When I returned, I was told I had to begin again, from the very beginning, bexause the two months I needed to recover, left me (in their terms) unable to be considered qualified in the field.
They wanted an additional 20, 000 dollars for the exact education I had already showed I had.
That's 40, 000 dollars folks. For an education provdied with sliding paper walls and revolving teachers.
I was a 3.8 GPA student. I worked hard dispite what wad provided.
After paying on the loans for four years, I took two years in deferment. I currently owe MORE then the initial amount. For no transferable credits. For nothing more then lots and lots of loans and regret.
Please never attend this facility . It is not a school.
If a lawsuit can be formed, I think we should all invest in it
Yes, I see the grammar and spelling mistakes I made in my comment. Sorry about those, I was quite upset while writing it.
I just visited the campus in York for the vet tech degree. I was impressed enough to schedule a one on one meeting for this Thursday. I think I am going to cancel it after reading the reviews. I plan on working very hard for my degree but I want attentive and helpful teachers. I want hands on learning and to be able to know what I am doing and pass the AVMA credit exam when I am done. It sounds like this is something YTI did not provide, even though it promises too. Feeling very depressed because I was excited to start school here, but thank you all for opening my eyes. Better to hear it now than sieging $and time there.
I attended YTI for Design Drafting Technology when it was on the drafting board (before CAD). Sure there were some teachers I didn't like, but that is typical. But I put forth some effort, and had a 3.9 GPA. Five of us were hired full time in our last semester and graduated early. All of us got jobs!
Recently, my son attended for the same degree. Sure it was expensive, but he got hired right away also. His employer was so impressed, they are sending him back to York College for Engineering and paying 75% of the tuition!
You get out what you put in. If you are an illiterate dumb-[censored] before you start, well don't expect miracles!
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People that say the school sucks or that they don't learn anything ought to try and maybe put forth a little effort on their part to try and learn something... you get out what you put in. I currently attend there and have 3 ### in my class with the attitude that they should be entitled to the degree right out of the door with no effort put out on their part. the mentality is they have paid money and think it is an automatic right that they pass... that's not how it works. They don't put in any effort and when then complain about the instructors not teaching and resort to cheating to pass exams. They create a negative atmosphere and complain about any and all curriculum assignments handed out. They can never accept that maybe just maybe that the trouble they have with assignments is because of the lack of effort on their part. Its not that the instructors suck or that the school sucks... the problem is that the people the school attracts because of the all the hype put out that you can have a degree and a career in a short amount of time suck and don't do their own fact seeking before enrolling... they don't understand the requirements that will asked of them in order for them to succeed.
Do you need to show actual diploma to apply at trial or can I just go with a copy of it
Hey I have a question do you have to take ur actual diploma to enroll or can u take a copy
Interesting comments, though I find it difficult to distinguish between those with legitimate complaints and those with sour grapes. FYI, these "Professors" are no such thing; they may (or may not) have a college degree in the field at hand, they may (or may not) have relevant experience, and they sure as heck are not being compensated adequately for the role they play. YTI is not a college, it is a technical institute. The program(s) offered and not college courses. Know the difference and know what you are buying. At day's end, move along as soon as you know you are unhappy, don't wait until several semesters have passed.
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YTI Career Institute address1405 Williams Rd, York, Pennsylvania, 17402, United States
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