SAE Institute of Technology Nashville — Attraction in Nashville-Davidson

CAUTION

(It’s a long one but if you’re serious about this school….take a little time to read.)

Not a very accommodating school even though they advertise that they are….After several mods (“semesters”) of attending i found myself in a very interesting situation. I had a back and forth with my “advisor” when the school failed to get my scheduling correct. I ended up coming to the school to have it worked out. After 10 minutes or so of repeating that I was UNABLE to do a Monday/ Wednesday schedule, that I was only available to take them on Tuesdays and Thursdays (my off days). He said they simply didn’t have the classes available on those days. That I basically couldn’t move forward…They only had classes available on mondays and Wednesday’s. I told my advisor that had I known this I would have been the case I would have never started attending this school. I had already invested THOUSANDS of dollars into something that cannot be completed.

Ben Hans (“advisor”) recommended that I quit my job (supervisor position making pretty decent salary) to take one of the “ SAE survival jobs” that they offer. (Um, rude. I make a good salary, and they don’t have survival jobs offering that kind of money.) I advised him that I have rent and a car payment that’s being paid by this salary, and WOULD NOT be quitting to pick up a job a Gibson, chick fil A, or Aldi. He then recommended that I go to a university such as Belmont or MTSU because they’re a bigger school with better accommodation for my schedule. I had stepped out to make a phone call about my schedule and when I had returned his office was locked and lights were out. 🤷🏽

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*Moving onto the classes *

The classes are sub par. The Music Theory class was extremely vague and didn’t equate to much by the end of the 7 weeks). Not to mention this slightly pretentious student who knew a bit much about music theory kept talking over the teacher to where she couldn’t even teach the class. 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 it was quite painful.

The Studio Production class was so jammed packed that the poor teacher could hardly manage/ have time to get all the information out…. Out of the seven weeks for “studio production” we were in the studio less than a handful of times. The rest of the time we were left doing “busy work” or being educated through a YouTube channel. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽

The school was very hit, and miss with communication. One day I arrived for class and we (about half the class) had no teacher. I personally went to administration thinking the class was cancelled….turns out the teacher was just really late and hadn’t told anyone. 🙊🙊🙊🙊

With all that having been said…….I just want to thank Ben Hans for steering me in the right direction and advising me to go to Belmont!

I’m no advisor but…I advise you to do the same.

SAE Nashville needs some serious improvement. No hard feelings though! Just glad I’m not waisting my money or time there anymore....

i was thinking going to this school but after summit my transcript from a real college of 50 credit hours they wanted only to credit me 4 credit hours, not counting after i dig in on my VA benefits and the department of education have please this school in a (Heightened Cash Monitoring (HCM) other college they credit at least 30 credit out of my 50 credit hour in music even that i have more general studies

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My personal opinion you will learn more from me who have been in the industry for years as a real producer that these guys who wanted me to almost start college all over no way i will shop for a better college i just think they money hungry and they dont know to much about real people...

Great studios, great studio tecs. I suggest not going unless your specializing in live sound because thats what they're really centered around and the only thing they help you get a job in after graduation.They didn't even put my graduation video in at the ceremony -_- . Out of all of my classes that i took while attending, about only four were beneficial (ENT-100, AUD 220 Studio Maintenance, AUD200- Signal Processing, & AUD120- Studio Production ... plus music theory cause josephus taught me how to play the piano lol). It's a cool school, the staff is nice, & a good place to network, but it just didnt help much in what i was going for (Audio Engineering). At least i can say after a year & 4 months i graduated & still dont know how to...