I have attended CTU online as a part-time student for the last five years, on and off. Each year they have me fill out my FASFA. They never follow up to provide any further information on the amount that is being requested, or how much my sessions will cost. The only documentation I can find on my own is an estimated yearly cost, which is usually around $4,000. Last year, 2015, they took out over $24,000 in loans in my name. I am currently over $63,000 in debt because of this 'program'. The average cost for my degree is $34,000. I have contacted CTU several times asking why this amount is so high, and why no one ever told me how much they were taking out in loans. I have yet to find someone to answer my questions. I have requested a detailed invoice of exactly where my money has been spent, and have yet to be given one. The employees I've spoken to keep running me in circles. I don't see how it's legal for them to take out loans in my name for such high amounts, without my knowledge. I still have a year left until I receive a degree from them. I don't know how I will ever be able to repay these loans. This seems criminal. I would have never enrolled in this program if I would have known it would cost me so much. I'm not even receiving a quality education. CTU's curriculum is a joke. I rarely even read the books or study and am receiving 'A's'.
Colorado Technical University refused to refund me after multiple complaints I made about their online platform. The online platform was riddled with wrong answers, wrong information and non working video links that came from YouTube.
When clicking the links, the YouTube videos would say they had been removed by the original user making it nearly impossible to learn. I had to resort to learning the material from outside resources like Khan Academy, Google and other websites. CTU taught me nothing.
Their Intellipath screen would scatter and the words would be scrambled like a puzzle. The Intellipath answers would be wrong forcing me to mark answers incorrectly. I had to reach out to Instructors who kept apologizing to me for the "technical mishaps". I contacted IT, to no avail.
After months of wrestling with the platform, I considered it to be too stressful of a situation and contemplated withdrawing. I reached out to an advisor to get information on withdrawing. She NEVER replied back. When someone finally decided to, they waited to respond to me just a few days past deadline to withdraw in time for a refund. Cleverly planned.
CTU never replied to my requests nor any of my feedback, suggestions or concerns about Intellipath despite my plethora of complaints over a course of time. It is only now, that I demand a refund, that CTU chose to look into the matter, yet they wholeheartedly attempt to defend a faulty online platform while acknowledging it has quirks. They refunded me a $125 tech fee.
My entire CTU experience was horrible and I requested a refund for the entire 2nd semester. I had a 4.0 GPA at the time of withdrawal and despite the evidence I sent them of my computer's history where I taught myself the material from other websites, they insisted that I earned my 4.0 from them. Not true!
I sent them mounds of evidence and screenshots to substantiate my claim, yet they refuse to refund me. This school's online system, in my opinion, is not fit to properly teach students and I wouldn't recommend ANYONE attend the online classes.
Definitely do your due diligence and research this university thoroughly before you consider attending. What I learned during my time there was what I learned on my own.
"The continued upheaval in the wake of Corinthian’s collapse is a long overdue reckoning for an industry that profits off of students while sticking them with a worthless degree and insurmountable debt," Senator d**k Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a written statement.
Colorado Technical University is a degree mill. Please do yourself a favor a stay away from this institution. You may get a degree but trust me, employers are not stupid, no one is going to value a degree from this institution. You will be in debt for the rest of your life with nothing to show for it. Intellipath allows you to revise your grade, making it easy for anyone to earn a high grade without learning anything. Employers know this, it takes a simple Google search to see the school's reputation. Please do yourself a favor and earn a degree that will give you a return on your investment.
In my case, after being in the school for only 28 days they manage to take out several unauthorized loans on my behalf. They also changed my award letter 8 times in 28 days. After I decided to withdraw, they then held my transcripts from another university until I pay thousands of dollars ou of pocket.
Many students weren’t actually able to find well-paying work after completing their studies and job placement figures provided by the school were bogus. The Obama Administration’s new “gainful employment” rules, which require schools to show that the average student isn’t paying more than 8% of their total income in loans after graduation, would have hit the chain hard. So, in early May, the company announced that it would wind down operations at 14 Sanford-Brown campuses.
In addition, Career Education Corp (the company that owns Colorado Technical University). has either sold or is trying to sell several other career colleges it owns, including Briarcliffe College, Brooks Institute, Missouri College, and the Le Cordon Bleu Colleges of Culinary Arts. The company plans to focus on its two universities: Colorado Technical University and American InterContinental University, which enroll 75% of the chain’s students, according to PBS.
"The continued upheaval in the wake of Corinthian’s collapse is a long overdue reckoning for an industry that profits off of students while sticking them with a worthless degree and insurmountable debt," Senator d**k Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a written statement.
Nationally, hundreds of thousands of students have been left with heavy debts and no degrees since two large for-profit college chains collapsed and closed their doors in the last two years. Many are appealing to a federal program that offers debt relief to students lured by false promises concerning costs and jobs. Others joined in filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
In Colorado, an investigation by The Colorado Independent found that Colorado Tech has generated more complaints from veterans using GI Bill benefits than any other college in the country except for two large for-profit chains, University of Phoenix and ITT Tech.
Veterans feel ripped off by Colorado for-profit college;
According to new U.S. Department of Education data, Colorado also performs poorly in a regulation that distinguishes between affordable career education programs that lead to well-paying jobs and those that don’t base on the debt-to-income ratios of their graduates. Nationally, one-fourth of these programs did not achieve a passing grade, nearly all of them run by for-profit colleges. But in Colorado, the problem is worse. One of every three career education programs fell below a passing grade.
'Technical' Problems
While enjoying a wealth of students from around the country, Colorado Technical University has also come under nationwide scrutiny for a series of complaints, lawsuits, and fraud reports that include alleged incidents of the following:
• Refusal of access to transcripts
• Fabricated charges in excess of $4k, with no available contact for recourse or appeal.
• Deception with regard to career potentials and job placement programs.
• Circular bureaucratic transfer being used to deter students from resolving false charges.
• Students receiving poor or no customer service.
• Failed promises of guidance from â€career coachesâ€.
• Deceptive recruiting tactics, misrepresent of job placement rates and have high rates of student loan default and student withdrawal.
• Student debts being sold to multiple collection agencies.
• Abuse of US veterans and VA loan programs.
• Predatory sales practices.
AIU and CTU are brands of the Career Education Corporation, which was found by the GAO to have deceptive recruiting tactics, misrepresentation of job placement rates, and high rates of student loan default and student withdrawal.
In August 2013, Career Education Corp. reached a $10.25 million settlement with the New York Attorney General. The Attorney General’s investigation revealed misleading advertisements, including inflated job placement statistics.
Over the course of the next few years, Career Education Corporation experienced declining enrollment numbers and profits. In May 2015, it announced it was closing or selling all of its career colleges, but would continue to operate the universities.
Ask yourself, how long before Colorado Technical University is shut down as well?
".......while sticking them with a worthless degree and insurmountable debt," Senator d**k Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a written statement.
Basically I have been graduated for quiet some time and have had to juggle and worry about loans from this school, and even had credit issues because of them. They had promised me once I finished all my degree studies, and let me tell you they are convincing. So I began while active duty and then finished after retirement from the Navy. They told me I would get employment help, and they would guarantee with their degree programs I would find work in my closed field. To this day and having more than one degree from them I can’t find a job. I had to go back to school and earn a different degree to find stable work. Now I have seen that the school has already been named in a lawsuit. I need some help and direction because plainly I can see they basically put me in debt, and I don’t have anything to show for it. Plus they have denied my transcript request because they say that aside from a mountain of student debt that I also owe them over $3000 not covered by Student loans.
I was sick and only had one class to finish the Master degree. I could not complete the class. I sent them an notice over the weekend. They said they did not receive the notice in time, because it had to be sent before Monday. I sent the notice before Monday, but they did not read it until Monday.
The class was paid through my student loans.
I thought I was getting better and I wanted to take that one class over. They said I could not take that one class. I had to take more classes to be able to get that one class. So I did what they said I had to do and I was afraid taking more classes would be too much for me. It was and I got sick again and sent them another notice. This time the doctors found cancer and I had to have surgery. The cancer was why I kept getting sick.
After surgery I tried again to take this one class to receive the Masters. This time I was told that I could just take that one course and I did not have to take any other courses. I finally got my Masters, but CTU charged me personally about $3,600. I am not going to pay this, because it has been paid through my student loans. It also not my fault their employee gave me the wrong information the second time.
In my opinion, they are trying to rip me off for a class that was paid for probably twice through my student loans.
My law suit is agianst CTU (Colorado Techical University), and Financial aid Department in handeling wrongful of the money on my behalf for fee and tuition. My assiocates Degree i was told by memeber of CTU that i would be able to find work in the field i picked after my degree. if fact that the area of my degree was so flooded with so many people getting the same degree that there was no jobs available .. SO my degree didnt do me and good. So they talk me into getting my bachelors degree in criminal justices. They told me that the financial aid department would handel all the money for fee and classes that i didnt need anything in the cost and that i had enough to get my degree.
i had four classed left to get my degree and in the middle of the class they informed me that there was no more funds for me that i would have to pay out of pockets if i wanted to get my degree. I asked them how could this be... they told me before i started that everything was good and nothing was needed. so my question is where did all that money go too. they couldnt answer me or tell me where it went too, but if i want to get my degree i needed to come up with another 5,000.00 more to get it. I feel that they handel my money wrongful and i should have be able to finish school to get my degree.
In 2005, i was cold called by a telemarketer asking me to attend University, Not junior College? I told i didn;t qualify at the time and the requirements i did not meet for FAFSA to submit money to Colorado Technical Univeristy! After weeks of badgering and cold calling odd hours of the day and night and email beyond count? I was desperate for a better life and futrue. I knew something was not right, because in (Order to attend university, you required minium a High School Diploma at the time i did not have). The sales person kept insisting that they are professionals and that they know what they are doing and they have done this before? It was convincing at the time, and they said all i had to do was sign a few documents and that was it? I would be going to University, which is a step higher than junior college? Without a hihgh school diploma i was shocked and super excited.
Class started soon and i was taking two course per period, books and other useful items where being mailed to me as mentioned for the first several classes? After the thrid quarter, i noticed text books and classes started to STOP coming, the classes continued! This is where the real nightmare starts.
The whole entire time that i was enrolled in school, (CTU online) was busy taking out loans against my name without myknowledge from multiple lenders (predatory lending - which is ILLEGAL) and including robbing money from FAFSA. So i was thinking i was in school, but in acutal reality i was sitting in a classroom for fraud victims.....THey borrowed and kept borrowing until leders couldnt risk giving it out no more and, FAFSA was under review for scam from other students.
So when CTU reach a maxium threshold from borrowers, and created a another debt for school fee's to get me bumped out of school so i couldn't attend anymore. 1. FIrst they create a debt for you using federal and goverment money, then they create a bill and debt from the school side of CTU online to get you out of school and back on to the streets.....SEE HOW THEY OPERATE? Now i was stuck with a debt and no education, no transcript of classes already taked to transfer, and now they won't let attend again because of no High school diploma? They are commiting FRAUD, SCAMMING, ROBBING innocent people of moeny? They prey on the most innocent knowing that they woud never be able to finish, or don;t have jobs etc.........What a sinceless act of crime and illegally crimminals? How does the faculty live with them selves, knowing or not knowing the school is defrauding students of money and a future and promise? Probably they are in on it as well.......It's a boiler room?
I am seeking legal represenation in this matter, anyone that could help or has started a class act lawsuit or would like to get together and create one together please contact me with information about your CTU online nightmare and include a contact email or number. You may also reach me at ((( REDACTED))) to discuss these crroks and what we need to end our problems and nightmare.
I start school in June around the 5 or 6 . I got one stipend payment $364 I went to school to July 20 so I with draw no money since then.I like doing the courses but I want my monies. The success coach ask you must was going to school for the money. It does matter what I was going for I still want my money.I finish 1 quarter my grades was a B . I am afraid to try another online school,I will just give it up.
Colorado technical university told me that finacial aid would cover my classes i wanted to take. nut first i had to take there reqiured information class, to learn how to use the colorado tech online school. so i started taking that one class and only that class.
i did not even complete the whole class, when i relized that they wanted me to pay over $500 a month just to continue classes. so i decided to unenrolll my self from colorado tech university.
they are now charging me over $5000 for my time i spent with them. wich was maybe 2 weeks. they have broken the $5000 up and sent it to multiple collection aginces. i get multiple phone calls everyday from diffrent aginces.
I got two degrees from this raggedy school. And i have a job but not because of those degrees. They aren't worth the paper they are printed on. I am so frustrated. I graduated with a Frachelors degree. ( fake bachelor) in February. And they have been calling non stop saying that I owe $10,000. I was like how? They kept all my financial aid including my Pell Grant. So how in the hell? I never received a " dividend " or refund. I got a ctu card in case I had money coming to me but never received a dime during my bachelor degree. I am pissed. She told me today 06/13/2017 that I have to set up payment arrangements or my account will be sent to collections. Huh? They took every cent of my pell grants. I got over$ 10,000 in those. Then she got rude, she said we are giving you a discount by not adding interest to it. I was like what? Interest? Why would there be interest? And I thought I had 6 months to pay this off. She said no that's for the school loans. I was taken for a fool. The healthcare management course is a joke. The associate degree was so completely easy I graduated with honors. Which doesn't mean anything in Atlanta where I live I absolutely hate this school. I hope an attorney looks over this and realizes this should be closed down.
Colorado Technical University Online Attended CTU online from 2007 to 2009. Got a Associate in General Education and Bachelor in Criminal Justice. I wish I had never gone for the BA. The lady was so persuasive and persistent, that she convinced me. The teachers really didn't teach and I elk you the truth, I didn't learn anything. I am now $23,000 in debt and I'm not working in the field I went to school for. They didn't even assist in helping me find a job in that field. I also got screwed by Katharine Gibbs in New York. I have a certificate that is useless. There has to be something done to stop these schools from taking advantage of students. We didn't get what was said we would get. They are misleading, liars, and thieves!!! I am stuck paying $200.00 a month. Is there any way maybe the loan can be discharged
I did enroll with CTU for the first semester and I did attend for THE FIRST SEMESTER ONLY!!! At the 4435 N Chestnut Colorado Springs, CO 80907 location for on campus from 8/16/2015 to 9/22/2016. I discontinued my education at CTU after the last week of semester one ending 9/22/2015 because of my dissatisfaction that I had to attend my classes in person on campus, but received F's fr my grades due to the lack of attention and I had to due my work online regardless. I never applied, enrolled, attended or withdrew.They are fraudulently collecting money from Veteran Affair from my BAH and have reported that I enrolled for online classes and attended and then withdrew myself, which has caused me to have my BAH funds to support my son and myself to b with held and garnished leaving me nothing to care or house my son and I. They are misleading that I enrolled for classes for the 2nd semester online in 11/2015. I never enrolled to continue my education with CTU after I completed the first semester and was not satisfied and they allege they dropped me when I attended all of the first semester. I never enrolled, logged into any online classes, or attended, or withdrew myself for the 2nd semester at CTU in 2015. I would like to file an official complaint for falsifying records, falsifying enrollment and withdrawal documentations. I have no signature nor did I sign anything stating I wanted to enroll and continue with CTU and then withdraw myself knowing that would cause me to have to pay back funds. This is an attempt to defraud the Military Education Funding Benefits and Veterans Education Benefits. This has cost me over $6,000 in my BAH to be garnished from my family and I and has caused undo hardship. I have struggled with keeping a roof over my head and the money isn't owed to CTU. I would like CTU investigated for fraud and false documentation.
Started the Paralegal Science program in November of 2008. Graduated in March of 2010. Before registration was told what an excellent success this program was having.
Was promised internship placement and help with job placement upon graduation. NEVER happened.
Right after graduation, I frequently called and inquired about internship openings near me and what kind of job placement was available in my area.
I spoke to people that bounced my calls from person to person. One person requested to see my resume so I sent it. Their response was that "it needed to be tweeked"?
A friend called about 6 months after I graduated and was told that the Paralegal Science program was "cancelled/discontinued".
I have loans that I have put into hardship forebarence because I am unable to pay them back. I have never been able to find a position within the field due to no experience in a law firm or without any intership qualifications.
Colorado Technical University has all off a sudden required me to use my full stipends check that i received over a month and a half ago to pay my tuition. If i don't pay the tuition myself with that full amount off stipends I'm going to be unable to finish my education. I never have, in the past, had to use the stipends that I received in a direct deposit, to pay my full tuition in order to continue my education. I always use the stipends for other school expenses like paper, pens, notebooks, toner for my printer, etc., but for tuition? Never! I'm just not sure this is legal what they are doing. I also have a school bank account called Higher One, which I've currently heard a lot off negative things about. Is this legal what CTU is doing with the stipends? And if what i received was supposed to cover the full cost off tuition, then what do i use to spend for my school supplies? Please help?
For 2 years, I ha been trying to clear my name for a debt that is not mine. CTU sent loan to Texas Guaranteed and they disbursed to school with an electronic signature. I asked for proof is mine, and they just forward an email between "a student" and a teacher, from an email that's not mine. I searched online and saw a list of classes that were dropped, but the school kept the money! Now Texas Guaranteed wants to garnish my wages, even though I've tol them isn't mine. The 1st employer they contacted wasn't even mine, and neither is the mailing address they have on file. CTU is washing their hands, when they didn't return the money to Texas Guaranteed, and Texas guaranteed just tells me to file a grievance with CTU. Per their words"you're res for the loan, even if it wasn't endorsed properly."! The school is a scam. If anyone wants to join on a class action lawsuit, let's do it.
I hate this school! it takes advantage of the student loan programs and the unsuspecting adult learner that is usually in a bad place emotionally and/or finacially to lure them into the web of deceipt! this started in 2014 for me. A sales rep called me during the day in summer of 2014. My stupidity was in giving him the time of day!
First off, they want to get to know more about you. Then when they find out you're unemployed and in financial distress, they emphasize that you can get stipends from student loans. They also don't give you time to think it over.
I kept enrolled from july 2014 - january 2015. I needed desperately in early january to take a break of maybe 3 - 5 weeks to get myself together. I had just filed bankruptcy and gone to court which was a very humbling experience for someone like me. My "student advisor" told me that i would have to start over with the class, and of course, that meant paying again, and she could not enroll me for the same class that would have started about 3 weeks after i called. So, i told her to unenroll me. Big mistake!! or maybe not. It gets even better.
So, by the end of january, things seemed to have been going better for me. Wham! here comes another sales "advisor" calling me to see if i wanted to re-enroll! of course, i did. I had already devoulged that i suffer from anxiety and depression and have been on meds. Heck, my doctor filled out paperwork and i even applied through ctu for a learning disability acceptance program! now, i don't really think someone who is unemployed, gone thru bankruptcy, and on heavy duty meds should be a great candidate for getting a master's!
So, i ended up going back, but not till april of 2015 Scheduling conflicts by them), and i just owed them more $$$. Every class was the same as the prior classes...Same presentations, same assignments, and cookie-cutter professors that gave me a's and b's when i knew i'd have gotten at best, c's, in my undergrad program. I had been through hell and i kept those papers and re-read them. The only reason they gave me good grades was due to the fact that if i couldn't keep up a b average, then i wouldn't qualify for student loans.
I, too, would love to file a class action lawsuit against them! they hound you for money and after you withdraw...It gets worse. Much worse. I've made arrangements to pay them $54.18 bi-weekly for a total of $2,866 more that i owe. Finally...After having reported them to the bbb, i got someone who agreed to make a descent payment arrangement with me.
If anyone feels like me, the navient people told me to file a complaint with the attorney generals office for my state, and to also file a complaint with this website: [email protected]. Trust me...Do it! i've even given them money from my unemployment checks! trust me...Do not go to this donald trump clone school.
I wish there was some legal action I could take. This school is a rip off. I did what I was supposed to do. I applied for FASFA for 2015 and 2016. I was approved for both years for a total of 20,000 in Pell grants and Stanford loans. I signed the paperwork needed for the school to accept these funds. I had them notarized, I mailed them to the financial department and waited. A few weeks later they called me and said that they never got the paperwork. OK. So, I repeated the above process and started my classes thinking all is well. Nope. Halfway through the first set of classes they contacted me again telling me that they had not received my paperwork. So now a third time, I print out the papers needed. I fill them out, I take them to a notary, I sign the, I mail them in. While all of this is going on, I am also working full time, now going to school full time, raising 3 children, and grieving for the lose of a 4 child. After the first round of classes. I couldn't take the stress of all of it, so I unenrolled. At this point there was no mention that they had still not processed my papers for my financial aid, so I thought all was well. Fast forward to seven months layer.
I get a call stating that I owe them almost $5,000. They advised me that they never got my paperwork for the release of funds so now I was responsible for paying. I told them that I did my job and was sorry they didn't do theirs. I still have all those funds available in my FASFA waiting for them to collect it and they refuse to do so. Now, a year later, I have started to get calls on a daily basis asking if I would like to re enroll. Heck no! Are you crazy? I told the re enrollment specialist, who also was a student of CTU, what had happened and that the lady from the finance department told me that I must not have done the paperwork. The gentalman from the re enrollment department told me that it is odd because that almost never happens anymore. ANYMORE! This other lady is blaming me and the gentleman says yes it does happen. Screw this school. I hope there is a class action lawsuit against them and I will be right there with everyone else. I have read all of the reviews from the US Veterans that have been ripped off for their GI bills too. I hope like hell that this school is shut down and all the debt is forgiven because of their business practices. On top of that, the teachers don't care about you. I also got emails all the time intended for other students.
My report is going to be short. Simply put, this company takes loans, and flatout lie to your face about the money you will be receiving. I was told I'd have a stipend from 2015 in the amount of 3.9k, and would receive it immediately. Now I'm being told I won't receive it until after my first required student payment and it will be cut down to 1.5k. I'd been withdrawn simply because I'd decided to leave the school and go to another with the transcripts from CTU, and when i attempted, they notified me i owed them 3k after only going to the school for six months. These people lie and take your money and then point the finger directly back at you.
If you enjoy wasting your money then sign up with Colorado technical mental institution AKA Colorado Technical University, it's absolutely one of the worst school you would ever imagine, not just from education point view, From the financial point view also. The reason I call it the Paper Mill is because they issues degrees to anyone as long as they get paid tuition and they specially thrive of the GI bill recipients. I remember some times 2012 I was speaking with a student who was getting her PHD at CTI, and I had asked her where did she get her AA, BS, MA she had told me that she got them all from CTI online and the she finished all in three years and now she is going for her PHD, she had stated the she never not once had opened CTI books or any books related to CTI, she had goggled the assignment through all her schooling at CTI, now you understand why I call it the paper mill, now a day’s most student's don't care if they learn or not as long as they get that diploma or certificate then they are happy, and CTI knows that that's why they keep milking students out there.
I enrolled for a Bachelor IT security and max loans I have ADA Accommodations and a veteran fighting cancer. The financing was covered and there was enough extra for me to receive stipends for my needs during school. I have straight A's GPA 3.65. Upon graduation they send back my last course financing and make it where I owe 1477 dollars and cannot graduate or get my degree. I have discussed these matters many times with accounts and financial aid and was assured I was covered co mpletely. But they refuse to graduate me and now have arranged for me to owe 1477 this destroys me for a job especially government. I cannot get my degree or transcripts. Financing is supposed to be arranged to cover all expenses and allow for stipends when and only if all tuition is paid in full. I received very large stipends and at the end of courses when graduation came they sent back 1477 dollars and ruined my life. I can't get the job I was getting someone else got it. I can't get my degree or transcripts. I have straight A's and GPA 3.65 but they calculate the GPA strangely as well. Another school calculated my GPA at 3.91.
At any rate I graduated with perfect grades and fought casncer through all of my classes as a veteran of the US Navy I feel I should have better treatment from a college I paid 190 credit hours of financing at a very high rate.
The Law states that student who borrow are entitled to stipends if and only if All Financial responsibilities are met. The CTU staff did not tell me that I needed to take two classes at the end of my school to have financing to graduate. They just ruined my life and my wifes.
Colorado Technical University Online is a pack of very mouthy theives. Not all are bad but it only takes a couple of trash people to destroy a system.
All be warned they are dirty and will hurt you when you do your best to have a life
This online school are a bunch of non-counting crooks. I have attended this school for two years and within the two years their policys have changed at least four times. besides that i have always had a problems getting any of my transcrips. I have to send my transcrips to my job quarterly and ctu refuses to help me every time. Then on top of the run around trying to get my transcript they charge me every time i asked for it. I have paid for 5 transcripts and have only recieved 2. Now that i want to transfer to a different and better school for me, they will not release my transcript and now they claim i owe them $5000. I have checked with Navient ( the place that gives you the student loans ) and they told me and showed me how much they have paid out to CTU. CTU has been paid every dime according to their credit chart. They have been paid almost 9000 more and no one at CTU knows where the money is. I know it sounds crazy but they still claim i owe 5000. they locked me out of my login but calls me and tells me i have to go online to solve the problem. It is so much more i can type and so many more issues i have with them but not enough space here to tell it all. Bottom line is CTU has seriously screwed up my plan for my life as well as my financial aid. I need help asap.
They will talk you into submitting an application and they will enroll you without you having to pay an application fee but after you're accepted, they will cancel your enrollment if you cannot come up with financial aid or a way to pay for courses.
When I applied, I was accepted and allowed to enroll on November 15th, 2015 and on the day I was to start class, the enrollment counselor by the name of Virginia Humphrey abruptly cancelled my first class without giving me any prior notice or warning that I needed financial aid before I enrolled.
This was AFTER I repeatedly informed Mrs. Humphrey that I did not qualify for financial aid because the Dep. of Ed. was investigating why someone illegally applied for a loan under my name, leaving me with a debt owed to another institution.
AFTER I told her all of this, Mrs. Humphrey STILL requested I submit private information to the college (transcripts, bank statements, credit reports, etc.) depsite my lack of funding.
On Sunday, November 15th, 2015, after she told me my classes were being cancelled, I demanded that she or anyone from this bogus college DESTROY all of my information and that she send me a confirmation letter acknowledging that she has done this.
She STILL has not done this and noone from Colorado Tech has sent me an email confirming that my private records were destroyed as I requested.
This individual still has my private information which is unfair because I am no longer registered with this company.
Colorado Technical University Reviews
I have attended CTU online as a part-time student for the last five years, on and off. Each year they have me fill out my FASFA. They never follow up to provide any further information on the amount that is being requested, or how much my sessions will cost. The only documentation I can find on my own is an estimated yearly cost, which is usually around $4,000. Last year, 2015, they took out over $24,000 in loans in my name. I am currently over $63,000 in debt because of this 'program'. The average cost for my degree is $34,000. I have contacted CTU several times asking why this amount is so high, and why no one ever told me how much they were taking out in loans. I have yet to find someone to answer my questions. I have requested a detailed invoice of exactly where my money has been spent, and have yet to be given one. The employees I've spoken to keep running me in circles. I don't see how it's legal for them to take out loans in my name for such high amounts, without my knowledge. I still have a year left until I receive a degree from them. I don't know how I will ever be able to repay these loans. This seems criminal. I would have never enrolled in this program if I would have known it would cost me so much. I'm not even receiving a quality education. CTU's curriculum is a joke. I rarely even read the books or study and am receiving 'A's'.
Colorado Technical University refused to refund me after multiple complaints I made about their online platform. The online platform was riddled with wrong answers, wrong information and non working video links that came from YouTube.
When clicking the links, the YouTube videos would say they had been removed by the original user making it nearly impossible to learn. I had to resort to learning the material from outside resources like Khan Academy, Google and other websites. CTU taught me nothing.
Their Intellipath screen would scatter and the words would be scrambled like a puzzle. The Intellipath answers would be wrong forcing me to mark answers incorrectly. I had to reach out to Instructors who kept apologizing to me for the "technical mishaps". I contacted IT, to no avail.
After months of wrestling with the platform, I considered it to be too stressful of a situation and contemplated withdrawing. I reached out to an advisor to get information on withdrawing. She NEVER replied back. When someone finally decided to, they waited to respond to me just a few days past deadline to withdraw in time for a refund. Cleverly planned.
CTU never replied to my requests nor any of my feedback, suggestions or concerns about Intellipath despite my plethora of complaints over a course of time. It is only now, that I demand a refund, that CTU chose to look into the matter, yet they wholeheartedly attempt to defend a faulty online platform while acknowledging it has quirks. They refunded me a $125 tech fee.
My entire CTU experience was horrible and I requested a refund for the entire 2nd semester. I had a 4.0 GPA at the time of withdrawal and despite the evidence I sent them of my computer's history where I taught myself the material from other websites, they insisted that I earned my 4.0 from them. Not true!
I sent them mounds of evidence and screenshots to substantiate my claim, yet they refuse to refund me. This school's online system, in my opinion, is not fit to properly teach students and I wouldn't recommend ANYONE attend the online classes.
Definitely do your due diligence and research this university thoroughly before you consider attending. What I learned during my time there was what I learned on my own.
"The continued upheaval in the wake of Corinthian’s collapse is a long overdue reckoning for an industry that profits off of students while sticking them with a worthless degree and insurmountable debt," Senator d**k Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a written statement.
Colorado Technical University is a degree mill. Please do yourself a favor a stay away from this institution. You may get a degree but trust me, employers are not stupid, no one is going to value a degree from this institution. You will be in debt for the rest of your life with nothing to show for it. Intellipath allows you to revise your grade, making it easy for anyone to earn a high grade without learning anything. Employers know this, it takes a simple Google search to see the school's reputation. Please do yourself a favor and earn a degree that will give you a return on your investment.
In my case, after being in the school for only 28 days they manage to take out several unauthorized loans on my behalf. They also changed my award letter 8 times in 28 days. After I decided to withdraw, they then held my transcripts from another university until I pay thousands of dollars ou of pocket.
Many students weren’t actually able to find well-paying work after completing their studies and job placement figures provided by the school were bogus. The Obama Administration’s new “gainful employment” rules, which require schools to show that the average student isn’t paying more than 8% of their total income in loans after graduation, would have hit the chain hard. So, in early May, the company announced that it would wind down operations at 14 Sanford-Brown campuses.
In addition, Career Education Corp (the company that owns Colorado Technical University). has either sold or is trying to sell several other career colleges it owns, including Briarcliffe College, Brooks Institute, Missouri College, and the Le Cordon Bleu Colleges of Culinary Arts. The company plans to focus on its two universities: Colorado Technical University and American InterContinental University, which enroll 75% of the chain’s students, according to PBS.
"The continued upheaval in the wake of Corinthian’s collapse is a long overdue reckoning for an industry that profits off of students while sticking them with a worthless degree and insurmountable debt," Senator d**k Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a written statement.
Nationally, hundreds of thousands of students have been left with heavy debts and no degrees since two large for-profit college chains collapsed and closed their doors in the last two years. Many are appealing to a federal program that offers debt relief to students lured by false promises concerning costs and jobs. Others joined in filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
In Colorado, an investigation by The Colorado Independent found that Colorado Tech has generated more complaints from veterans using GI Bill benefits than any other college in the country except for two large for-profit chains, University of Phoenix and ITT Tech.
Veterans feel ripped off by Colorado for-profit college;
According to new U.S. Department of Education data, Colorado also performs poorly in a regulation that distinguishes between affordable career education programs that lead to well-paying jobs and those that don’t base on the debt-to-income ratios of their graduates. Nationally, one-fourth of these programs did not achieve a passing grade, nearly all of them run by for-profit colleges. But in Colorado, the problem is worse. One of every three career education programs fell below a passing grade.
'Technical' Problems
While enjoying a wealth of students from around the country, Colorado Technical University has also come under nationwide scrutiny for a series of complaints, lawsuits, and fraud reports that include alleged incidents of the following:
• Refusal of access to transcripts
• Fabricated charges in excess of $4k, with no available contact for recourse or appeal.
• Deception with regard to career potentials and job placement programs.
• Circular bureaucratic transfer being used to deter students from resolving false charges.
• Students receiving poor or no customer service.
• Failed promises of guidance from â€career coachesâ€.
• Deceptive recruiting tactics, misrepresent of job placement rates and have high rates of student loan default and student withdrawal.
• Student debts being sold to multiple collection agencies.
• Abuse of US veterans and VA loan programs.
• Predatory sales practices.
AIU and CTU are brands of the Career Education Corporation, which was found by the GAO to have deceptive recruiting tactics, misrepresentation of job placement rates, and high rates of student loan default and student withdrawal.
In August 2013, Career Education Corp. reached a $10.25 million settlement with the New York Attorney General. The Attorney General’s investigation revealed misleading advertisements, including inflated job placement statistics.
Over the course of the next few years, Career Education Corporation experienced declining enrollment numbers and profits. In May 2015, it announced it was closing or selling all of its career colleges, but would continue to operate the universities.
Ask yourself, how long before Colorado Technical University is shut down as well?
".......while sticking them with a worthless degree and insurmountable debt," Senator d**k Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said in a written statement.
Basically I have been graduated for quiet some time and have had to juggle and worry about loans from this school, and even had credit issues because of them. They had promised me once I finished all my degree studies, and let me tell you they are convincing. So I began while active duty and then finished after retirement from the Navy. They told me I would get employment help, and they would guarantee with their degree programs I would find work in my closed field. To this day and having more than one degree from them I can’t find a job. I had to go back to school and earn a different degree to find stable work. Now I have seen that the school has already been named in a lawsuit. I need some help and direction because plainly I can see they basically put me in debt, and I don’t have anything to show for it. Plus they have denied my transcript request because they say that aside from a mountain of student debt that I also owe them over $3000 not covered by Student loans.
I was sick and only had one class to finish the Master degree. I could not complete the class. I sent them an notice over the weekend. They said they did not receive the notice in time, because it had to be sent before Monday. I sent the notice before Monday, but they did not read it until Monday.
The class was paid through my student loans.
I thought I was getting better and I wanted to take that one class over. They said I could not take that one class. I had to take more classes to be able to get that one class. So I did what they said I had to do and I was afraid taking more classes would be too much for me. It was and I got sick again and sent them another notice. This time the doctors found cancer and I had to have surgery. The cancer was why I kept getting sick.
After surgery I tried again to take this one class to receive the Masters. This time I was told that I could just take that one course and I did not have to take any other courses. I finally got my Masters, but CTU charged me personally about $3,600. I am not going to pay this, because it has been paid through my student loans. It also not my fault their employee gave me the wrong information the second time.
In my opinion, they are trying to rip me off for a class that was paid for probably twice through my student loans.
My law suit is agianst CTU (Colorado Techical University), and Financial aid Department in handeling wrongful of the money on my behalf for fee and tuition. My assiocates Degree i was told by memeber of CTU that i would be able to find work in the field i picked after my degree. if fact that the area of my degree was so flooded with so many people getting the same degree that there was no jobs available .. SO my degree didnt do me and good. So they talk me into getting my bachelors degree in criminal justices. They told me that the financial aid department would handel all the money for fee and classes that i didnt need anything in the cost and that i had enough to get my degree.
i had four classed left to get my degree and in the middle of the class they informed me that there was no more funds for me that i would have to pay out of pockets if i wanted to get my degree. I asked them how could this be... they told me before i started that everything was good and nothing was needed. so my question is where did all that money go too. they couldnt answer me or tell me where it went too, but if i want to get my degree i needed to come up with another 5,000.00 more to get it. I feel that they handel my money wrongful and i should have be able to finish school to get my degree.
In 2005, i was cold called by a telemarketer asking me to attend University, Not junior College? I told i didn;t qualify at the time and the requirements i did not meet for FAFSA to submit money to Colorado Technical Univeristy! After weeks of badgering and cold calling odd hours of the day and night and email beyond count? I was desperate for a better life and futrue. I knew something was not right, because in (Order to attend university, you required minium a High School Diploma at the time i did not have). The sales person kept insisting that they are professionals and that they know what they are doing and they have done this before? It was convincing at the time, and they said all i had to do was sign a few documents and that was it? I would be going to University, which is a step higher than junior college? Without a hihgh school diploma i was shocked and super excited.
Class started soon and i was taking two course per period, books and other useful items where being mailed to me as mentioned for the first several classes? After the thrid quarter, i noticed text books and classes started to STOP coming, the classes continued! This is where the real nightmare starts.
The whole entire time that i was enrolled in school, (CTU online) was busy taking out loans against my name without myknowledge from multiple lenders (predatory lending - which is ILLEGAL) and including robbing money from FAFSA. So i was thinking i was in school, but in acutal reality i was sitting in a classroom for fraud victims.....THey borrowed and kept borrowing until leders couldnt risk giving it out no more and, FAFSA was under review for scam from other students.
So when CTU reach a maxium threshold from borrowers, and created a another debt for school fee's to get me bumped out of school so i couldn't attend anymore. 1. FIrst they create a debt for you using federal and goverment money, then they create a bill and debt from the school side of CTU online to get you out of school and back on to the streets.....SEE HOW THEY OPERATE? Now i was stuck with a debt and no education, no transcript of classes already taked to transfer, and now they won't let attend again because of no High school diploma? They are commiting FRAUD, SCAMMING, ROBBING innocent people of moeny? They prey on the most innocent knowing that they woud never be able to finish, or don;t have jobs etc.........What a sinceless act of crime and illegally crimminals? How does the faculty live with them selves, knowing or not knowing the school is defrauding students of money and a future and promise? Probably they are in on it as well.......It's a boiler room?
I am seeking legal represenation in this matter, anyone that could help or has started a class act lawsuit or would like to get together and create one together please contact me with information about your CTU online nightmare and include a contact email or number. You may also reach me at ((( REDACTED))) to discuss these crroks and what we need to end our problems and nightmare.
I start school in June around the 5 or 6 . I got one stipend payment $364 I went to school to July 20 so I with draw no money since then.I like doing the courses but I want my monies. The success coach ask you must was going to school for the money. It does matter what I was going for I still want my money.I finish 1 quarter my grades was a B . I am afraid to try another online school,I will just give it up.
Colorado technical university told me that finacial aid would cover my classes i wanted to take. nut first i had to take there reqiured information class, to learn how to use the colorado tech online school. so i started taking that one class and only that class.
i did not even complete the whole class, when i relized that they wanted me to pay over $500 a month just to continue classes. so i decided to unenrolll my self from colorado tech university.
they are now charging me over $5000 for my time i spent with them. wich was maybe 2 weeks. they have broken the $5000 up and sent it to multiple collection aginces. i get multiple phone calls everyday from diffrent aginces.
I got two degrees from this raggedy school. And i have a job but not because of those degrees. They aren't worth the paper they are printed on. I am so frustrated. I graduated with a Frachelors degree. ( fake bachelor) in February. And they have been calling non stop saying that I owe $10,000. I was like how? They kept all my financial aid including my Pell Grant. So how in the hell? I never received a " dividend " or refund. I got a ctu card in case I had money coming to me but never received a dime during my bachelor degree. I am pissed. She told me today 06/13/2017 that I have to set up payment arrangements or my account will be sent to collections. Huh? They took every cent of my pell grants. I got over$ 10,000 in those. Then she got rude, she said we are giving you a discount by not adding interest to it. I was like what? Interest? Why would there be interest? And I thought I had 6 months to pay this off. She said no that's for the school loans. I was taken for a fool. The healthcare management course is a joke. The associate degree was so completely easy I graduated with honors. Which doesn't mean anything in Atlanta where I live I absolutely hate this school. I hope an attorney looks over this and realizes this should be closed down.
Colorado Technical University Online Attended CTU online from 2007 to 2009. Got a Associate in General Education and Bachelor in Criminal Justice. I wish I had never gone for the BA. The lady was so persuasive and persistent, that she convinced me. The teachers really didn't teach and I elk you the truth, I didn't learn anything. I am now $23,000 in debt and I'm not working in the field I went to school for. They didn't even assist in helping me find a job in that field. I also got screwed by Katharine Gibbs in New York. I have a certificate that is useless. There has to be something done to stop these schools from taking advantage of students. We didn't get what was said we would get. They are misleading, liars, and thieves!!! I am stuck paying $200.00 a month. Is there any way maybe the loan can be discharged
I did enroll with CTU for the first semester and I did attend for THE FIRST SEMESTER ONLY!!! At the 4435 N Chestnut Colorado Springs, CO 80907 location for on campus from 8/16/2015 to 9/22/2016. I discontinued my education at CTU after the last week of semester one ending 9/22/2015 because of my dissatisfaction that I had to attend my classes in person on campus, but received F's fr my grades due to the lack of attention and I had to due my work online regardless. I never applied, enrolled, attended or withdrew.They are fraudulently collecting money from Veteran Affair from my BAH and have reported that I enrolled for online classes and attended and then withdrew myself, which has caused me to have my BAH funds to support my son and myself to b with held and garnished leaving me nothing to care or house my son and I. They are misleading that I enrolled for classes for the 2nd semester online in 11/2015. I never enrolled to continue my education with CTU after I completed the first semester and was not satisfied and they allege they dropped me when I attended all of the first semester. I never enrolled, logged into any online classes, or attended, or withdrew myself for the 2nd semester at CTU in 2015. I would like to file an official complaint for falsifying records, falsifying enrollment and withdrawal documentations. I have no signature nor did I sign anything stating I wanted to enroll and continue with CTU and then withdraw myself knowing that would cause me to have to pay back funds. This is an attempt to defraud the Military Education Funding Benefits and Veterans Education Benefits. This has cost me over $6,000 in my BAH to be garnished from my family and I and has caused undo hardship. I have struggled with keeping a roof over my head and the money isn't owed to CTU. I would like CTU investigated for fraud and false documentation.
Started the Paralegal Science program in November of 2008. Graduated in March of 2010. Before registration was told what an excellent success this program was having.
Was promised internship placement and help with job placement upon graduation. NEVER happened.
Right after graduation, I frequently called and inquired about internship openings near me and what kind of job placement was available in my area.
I spoke to people that bounced my calls from person to person. One person requested to see my resume so I sent it. Their response was that "it needed to be tweeked"?
A friend called about 6 months after I graduated and was told that the Paralegal Science program was "cancelled/discontinued".
I have loans that I have put into hardship forebarence because I am unable to pay them back. I have never been able to find a position within the field due to no experience in a law firm or without any intership qualifications.
Colorado Technical University has all off a sudden required me to use my full stipends check that i received over a month and a half ago to pay my tuition. If i don't pay the tuition myself with that full amount off stipends I'm going to be unable to finish my education. I never have, in the past, had to use the stipends that I received in a direct deposit, to pay my full tuition in order to continue my education. I always use the stipends for other school expenses like paper, pens, notebooks, toner for my printer, etc., but for tuition? Never! I'm just not sure this is legal what they are doing. I also have a school bank account called Higher One, which I've currently heard a lot off negative things about. Is this legal what CTU is doing with the stipends? And if what i received was supposed to cover the full cost off tuition, then what do i use to spend for my school supplies? Please help?
For 2 years, I ha been trying to clear my name for a debt that is not mine. CTU sent loan to Texas Guaranteed and they disbursed to school with an electronic signature. I asked for proof is mine, and they just forward an email between "a student" and a teacher, from an email that's not mine. I searched online and saw a list of classes that were dropped, but the school kept the money! Now Texas Guaranteed wants to garnish my wages, even though I've tol them isn't mine. The 1st employer they contacted wasn't even mine, and neither is the mailing address they have on file. CTU is washing their hands, when they didn't return the money to Texas Guaranteed, and Texas guaranteed just tells me to file a grievance with CTU. Per their words"you're res for the loan, even if it wasn't endorsed properly."! The school is a scam. If anyone wants to join on a class action lawsuit, let's do it.
I hate this school! it takes advantage of the student loan programs and the unsuspecting adult learner that is usually in a bad place emotionally and/or finacially to lure them into the web of deceipt! this started in 2014 for me. A sales rep called me during the day in summer of 2014. My stupidity was in giving him the time of day!
First off, they want to get to know more about you. Then when they find out you're unemployed and in financial distress, they emphasize that you can get stipends from student loans. They also don't give you time to think it over.
I kept enrolled from july 2014 - january 2015. I needed desperately in early january to take a break of maybe 3 - 5 weeks to get myself together. I had just filed bankruptcy and gone to court which was a very humbling experience for someone like me. My "student advisor" told me that i would have to start over with the class, and of course, that meant paying again, and she could not enroll me for the same class that would have started about 3 weeks after i called. So, i told her to unenroll me. Big mistake!! or maybe not. It gets even better.
So, by the end of january, things seemed to have been going better for me. Wham! here comes another sales "advisor" calling me to see if i wanted to re-enroll! of course, i did. I had already devoulged that i suffer from anxiety and depression and have been on meds. Heck, my doctor filled out paperwork and i even applied through ctu for a learning disability acceptance program! now, i don't really think someone who is unemployed, gone thru bankruptcy, and on heavy duty meds should be a great candidate for getting a master's!
So, i ended up going back, but not till april of 2015 Scheduling conflicts by them), and i just owed them more $$$. Every class was the same as the prior classes...Same presentations, same assignments, and cookie-cutter professors that gave me a's and b's when i knew i'd have gotten at best, c's, in my undergrad program. I had been through hell and i kept those papers and re-read them. The only reason they gave me good grades was due to the fact that if i couldn't keep up a b average, then i wouldn't qualify for student loans.
I, too, would love to file a class action lawsuit against them! they hound you for money and after you withdraw...It gets worse. Much worse. I've made arrangements to pay them $54.18 bi-weekly for a total of $2,866 more that i owe. Finally...After having reported them to the bbb, i got someone who agreed to make a descent payment arrangement with me.
If anyone feels like me, the navient people told me to file a complaint with the attorney generals office for my state, and to also file a complaint with this website: [email protected]. Trust me...Do it! i've even given them money from my unemployment checks! trust me...Do not go to this donald trump clone school.
I wish there was some legal action I could take. This school is a rip off. I did what I was supposed to do. I applied for FASFA for 2015 and 2016. I was approved for both years for a total of 20,000 in Pell grants and Stanford loans. I signed the paperwork needed for the school to accept these funds. I had them notarized, I mailed them to the financial department and waited. A few weeks later they called me and said that they never got the paperwork. OK. So, I repeated the above process and started my classes thinking all is well. Nope. Halfway through the first set of classes they contacted me again telling me that they had not received my paperwork. So now a third time, I print out the papers needed. I fill them out, I take them to a notary, I sign the, I mail them in. While all of this is going on, I am also working full time, now going to school full time, raising 3 children, and grieving for the lose of a 4 child. After the first round of classes. I couldn't take the stress of all of it, so I unenrolled. At this point there was no mention that they had still not processed my papers for my financial aid, so I thought all was well. Fast forward to seven months layer.
I get a call stating that I owe them almost $5,000. They advised me that they never got my paperwork for the release of funds so now I was responsible for paying. I told them that I did my job and was sorry they didn't do theirs. I still have all those funds available in my FASFA waiting for them to collect it and they refuse to do so. Now, a year later, I have started to get calls on a daily basis asking if I would like to re enroll. Heck no! Are you crazy? I told the re enrollment specialist, who also was a student of CTU, what had happened and that the lady from the finance department told me that I must not have done the paperwork. The gentalman from the re enrollment department told me that it is odd because that almost never happens anymore. ANYMORE! This other lady is blaming me and the gentleman says yes it does happen. Screw this school. I hope there is a class action lawsuit against them and I will be right there with everyone else. I have read all of the reviews from the US Veterans that have been ripped off for their GI bills too. I hope like hell that this school is shut down and all the debt is forgiven because of their business practices. On top of that, the teachers don't care about you. I also got emails all the time intended for other students.
My report is going to be short. Simply put, this company takes loans, and flatout lie to your face about the money you will be receiving. I was told I'd have a stipend from 2015 in the amount of 3.9k, and would receive it immediately. Now I'm being told I won't receive it until after my first required student payment and it will be cut down to 1.5k. I'd been withdrawn simply because I'd decided to leave the school and go to another with the transcripts from CTU, and when i attempted, they notified me i owed them 3k after only going to the school for six months. These people lie and take your money and then point the finger directly back at you.
If you enjoy wasting your money then sign up with Colorado technical mental institution AKA Colorado Technical University, it's absolutely one of the worst school you would ever imagine, not just from education point view, From the financial point view also. The reason I call it the Paper Mill is because they issues degrees to anyone as long as they get paid tuition and they specially thrive of the GI bill recipients. I remember some times 2012 I was speaking with a student who was getting her PHD at CTI, and I had asked her where did she get her AA, BS, MA she had told me that she got them all from CTI online and the she finished all in three years and now she is going for her PHD, she had stated the she never not once had opened CTI books or any books related to CTI, she had goggled the assignment through all her schooling at CTI, now you understand why I call it the paper mill, now a day’s most student's don't care if they learn or not as long as they get that diploma or certificate then they are happy, and CTI knows that that's why they keep milking students out there.
I enrolled for a Bachelor IT security and max loans I have ADA Accommodations and a veteran fighting cancer. The financing was covered and there was enough extra for me to receive stipends for my needs during school. I have straight A's GPA 3.65. Upon graduation they send back my last course financing and make it where I owe 1477 dollars and cannot graduate or get my degree. I have discussed these matters many times with accounts and financial aid and was assured I was covered co mpletely. But they refuse to graduate me and now have arranged for me to owe 1477 this destroys me for a job especially government. I cannot get my degree or transcripts. Financing is supposed to be arranged to cover all expenses and allow for stipends when and only if all tuition is paid in full. I received very large stipends and at the end of courses when graduation came they sent back 1477 dollars and ruined my life. I can't get the job I was getting someone else got it. I can't get my degree or transcripts. I have straight A's and GPA 3.65 but they calculate the GPA strangely as well. Another school calculated my GPA at 3.91.
At any rate I graduated with perfect grades and fought casncer through all of my classes as a veteran of the US Navy I feel I should have better treatment from a college I paid 190 credit hours of financing at a very high rate.
The Law states that student who borrow are entitled to stipends if and only if All Financial responsibilities are met. The CTU staff did not tell me that I needed to take two classes at the end of my school to have financing to graduate. They just ruined my life and my wifes.
Colorado Technical University Online is a pack of very mouthy theives. Not all are bad but it only takes a couple of trash people to destroy a system.
All be warned they are dirty and will hurt you when you do your best to have a life
This online school are a bunch of non-counting crooks. I have attended this school for two years and within the two years their policys have changed at least four times. besides that i have always had a problems getting any of my transcrips. I have to send my transcrips to my job quarterly and ctu refuses to help me every time. Then on top of the run around trying to get my transcript they charge me every time i asked for it. I have paid for 5 transcripts and have only recieved 2. Now that i want to transfer to a different and better school for me, they will not release my transcript and now they claim i owe them $5000. I have checked with Navient ( the place that gives you the student loans ) and they told me and showed me how much they have paid out to CTU. CTU has been paid every dime according to their credit chart. They have been paid almost 9000 more and no one at CTU knows where the money is. I know it sounds crazy but they still claim i owe 5000. they locked me out of my login but calls me and tells me i have to go online to solve the problem. It is so much more i can type and so many more issues i have with them but not enough space here to tell it all. Bottom line is CTU has seriously screwed up my plan for my life as well as my financial aid. I need help asap.
They will talk you into submitting an application and they will enroll you without you having to pay an application fee but after you're accepted, they will cancel your enrollment if you cannot come up with financial aid or a way to pay for courses.
When I applied, I was accepted and allowed to enroll on November 15th, 2015 and on the day I was to start class, the enrollment counselor by the name of Virginia Humphrey abruptly cancelled my first class without giving me any prior notice or warning that I needed financial aid before I enrolled.
This was AFTER I repeatedly informed Mrs. Humphrey that I did not qualify for financial aid because the Dep. of Ed. was investigating why someone illegally applied for a loan under my name, leaving me with a debt owed to another institution.
AFTER I told her all of this, Mrs. Humphrey STILL requested I submit private information to the college (transcripts, bank statements, credit reports, etc.) depsite my lack of funding.
On Sunday, November 15th, 2015, after she told me my classes were being cancelled, I demanded that she or anyone from this bogus college DESTROY all of my information and that she send me a confirmation letter acknowledging that she has done this.
She STILL has not done this and noone from Colorado Tech has sent me an email confirming that my private records were destroyed as I requested.
This individual still has my private information which is unfair because I am no longer registered with this company.
ALL FUTURE APPLICANTS- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!