Unitek College Concord Campus — Attraction in Concord

I do not recommend this school. Please look elsewhere or goto a public college and get your ADN there or whatever course you're looking at. I'm taking the 1 year LVN accelerated program & let me tell you my experience so far has been subpar.

1st problem with the school is it's a for profit private institution. Unless you don't care about spending a lot of money, this should be something to look out for. Because they are a for profit institution this means that they will do anything & everything they can to cut corners on the stuff that matters to you as a student.

For ex. by providing a terrible stethoscope when this is supposed to be the thing you must have on you at all times because it can & could help save a persons life or make an accurate assessment on someone. You cannot hear any respirations, barely able to make out a heartbeat & it's super clonky. It will always be falling off of you. Another, by providing uniforms that are god awful. They are so big. For reference I like wearing large shirts & I'm 5'9-10. I had to get a small in mens & that's for it to at least look it presentable. Getting into it is a whole different issue. And don't get me started with the pants. You would think institutions would care for their students in providing some DECENT, WEARABLE clinical uniforms, but they aren't. The materials are terrible.

2nd problem, now this not might happen to you, but this did happen to me & I won't say any of the teachers names even though I should. When I was @clinical, I was jotting down medications because we have to create a care plan & 3 feet away from me are the 3 clinical instructors with us students @the facility. Guess what they're doing? Talking s* about me. You heard that correctly. You would think the instructors would have the brains to discuss elsewhere, where I am NOT next to them, but no. They were talking about how I was late to clinical when the 1st day of orientation, who was late? A clinical instructor. El. Oh. El. Oh & btw they were talking about s* that they don't even know about, but assuming they know about.

3rd. The facilities that we students are assigned to, are so god damn far away. Like actually, why? I was talking with my family friend who works at a facility close to the campus in Vallejo & she said that there were students from Unitek, but from Sacramento... why the hell are students from Sacramento driving to Vallejo for clinical? And why are we students from Concord going all the way to Santa Rosa & Sebastopol? Can the people that make the clinical sites actually within at LEAST 30 minutes? I can guarantee you, anyone that works at a facility is not driving an hour to get to work every day. Why? Because they would live near their job. It's impractical & inexcusable.

4th. Which this is going to be followed by, this school has no facilities ready for students now & in the future. Everything is last minute with the administrators. It will be Tuesday & we have clinical on Wednesday but we still wouldn't know if we're going or not. How? No coordination whatsoever.

5th. There is now a new rule implemented at the school because of a student in my cohort, so you can thank them for it, but essentially the lectures that are taught from 8-5 are not going to include all the information from the chapters we're supposed to go over & we're not to be told any 'key points' or given any 'study guides' to help out with future quizzes or just important information to focus on. That makes no sense? Why would you not want to go over information, especially all the information in the book that you, THE SCHOOL, are supposed to teach us, the students?

All in all this school is really, really, terrible. Don't get me wrong, there are moments I was glad to be here but it doesn't come close to making up for all the things that have happened & are going to keep happening. So let me reiterate, veer away from this school. I will not be attending this school after my course & I suggest you...

My experience at Unitek's Medical Office Administration program was very much a mixed bag, unfortunately. While most of the course curriculum was fine, I think that the lecture and assignments of the the Microsoft Office portion could be much more interactive. Most of the staff were wonderful, especially career services, who were very prompt and helpful in their feedback. My biggest issues were pertaining to the externship. Before I even enrolled, my admissions representative led me to believe that I would be externing relatively close to where I lived and that I would have a selection of sites to choose from. Later on in the program, my externship coordinator informed me that she was only obligated to find me one site and that it could be anywhere within a 50 mile radius of the school (which was already 40 miles away from me), meaning that my site may be as far as 90 miles away. Once I got to the time of my externship, the site I was assigned to did not comply with the dress code requirements of Unitek, so I had to be reassigned. There were absolutely no sites for at least 3 weeks, so we resorted to reaching out to another campus to see if they had openings. Once one was finally available, it turned out to be almost 60 miles away from where I lived, making my externship very logistically difficult, but also expensive due to the amount of gas I went through commuting. Altogether, it seems that Unitek accepts more students than they can accommodate for externship in a timely manner, making students wait in limbo between the time they finish their classes and the time they start externship. Not everyone can afford to wait at home until they find externship sites before applying for jobs. I hope that they are able and willing to expand their network of externship site participants and that admissions does a better job in the future of informing students of the realistic logistical challenges that externship may present. Otherwise, they should really think about reducing their student intake,...

Full transparency: I recently entered into the enrollment process for the nursing program and had to cancel my enrollment last minute because I was not fully prepared to start my program immediately, which is what my advisor was pushing me to do. The staff at the school itself were great. Very friendly and welcoming. My advisor, who I never actually met in person since he worked remotely, was pretty pushy and reminded me of a car salesman. During the enrollment process, I expressed my concern about starting my program so quickly- the start date was exactly 7 days from the day that I had reached out for information. I was kind of pushed into enrolling anyways, submitting an enrollment fee out of pocket and trying to submit everything that they needed in a rush. There was so much communication from the advisor/school during the enrollment process that I could barely keep up. Of course, the nursing program is to be taken very seriously. It’s an intensive and fast-paced program and I was fully aware of that, however the minute that I listened to my intuition and decided to cancel my enrollment and wait for a later date or look at other schools, I became chopped liver. My spouse who was also going through the enrollment process with me has reached out several times without a response regarding our enrollment fees that we were told would be refunded. It has been 10 days since we dropped. Hoping to hear back from the school soon regarding the refund, but I’m doubtful we will see it. I had really high hopes for the school after a quick tour and observing the classes taking place. I can’t speak on the quality of education but the students seemed to be engaged and happy. However, the disorganization and pushiness of the enrollment process was a red...