Midlands Technical College - Northeast Campus — Local services in Columbia

I went to this school for two and half years as I started out as a parttime student and switch to full time. I tried to get into the nuclear med program and the staff there are horrible, rude and not worth the extra Charmin they wipe their butts with. Also, Mrs. Martha Harris is the worst chemistry teacher ever, just very evil. The chemistry 111 class I took with her had around twenty-five students to start and after the second test dropped down to five. I was one of the five students left over and of the five students only three pasted her class and two of the three were chemistry honor students in high school. My advice is to stay away from this school. There are many other schools out there whether there online or physically have to be there that are much better, polite, willing to help when a student needs it, and so forth without even having to try hard. Another piece of information, Mauren Kreiner, nuclear med program coordinator has absolutely no soft skills when speaking with her students. I had to request another staff member sit with us during our counseling sessions because she was such a jerk. I do believe wholeheartedly that she is somewhat racist as I witnessed her treat her white female students with much more respect than the other ethnicities, I have seen roll through her office. I have read over this review, and I know I am bashing a few of the staff members and they do deserve it, however, Chemistry professor 110 (Rick Ollson and Mrs. Thompson) are the best professors for basic and intermediate chemistry I have ever seen. These two professors and a few others like Dr. Carter and Tracy McCoy are why I decided to stay there and finish my associates in applied sciences. If y'all are reading this a big THANK YOU for caring pushing me and taking the time to break down the information so it could...

I went to midlands tech for many years. I struggled through the nursing program (and associates in arts and associated in science programs) for years as a single mother of a child with disabilities who was also exiting a decade long abusive relationship. I walked on a broken foot for four months through Clinicals in order to make it, had a foot surgery, totaled cars, and 20+ hours a week of therapies for my son with disabilities. And still I made it to my LPN semester only to end up in the hospital the last week before finals. I was told that I could not have a medical drop as I had received one for my foot surgery and was forced to take test 3,4, and the final in the week following my visit to the hospital. My grade dropped from a 90 to a 79.4 and I was told that I’d have to repeat everything all over again. The ombudsman and the VP went to Mrs. Bannister and begged her to allow an exception based off of the healthcare related nature of my situation and she refused. This place ruined my life and left me with no way to support my child and no nursing career after I already had a job waiting for me on the surgical trauma floor at Richland. After everything I lived through and survived. I am still traumatized. This place will ruin your life. DO NOT ATTEND THIS COLLEGE! Edit: In addition to my previous post this school is taking it a step further and denying me the right to participate in graduation after everything I have been through due to me being locked out of my MTC email (PS who only sends email info on a school email? nothing in the mail?) and was unable to receive the notification in time and they are now refusing my participation in graduation. I wish I could let anyone at that school know what they've done to me, my family, and my life. I HATE THIS SCHOOL and I've never hated anyone...

I am in the Computer Technology program and am supposed to be completing my last semester, however we are at midterm and I am now finding out I have 1 more class to take . This is particularly infuriating because not only did my advisor tell me how many courses i needed to take to graduate, but Financial aid department told me that the aid for the semester was awarded based on how many credit hours i needed to graduate (I am taking the classes that I was told and showed I needed). Overall, in my 2 years as a student, my opinion has always been that's it is very much a subpar school-regarding the staff as well as education quality. My first semester (my education foundation) I had 2 that didn’t care and literally booted you out of the classroom before class was over as they had other things to do. The computer advisors are extremely ill prepared to help anyone. They continuously have no idea what each class will teach you, do not know which classes you should take for any career path, and are usually new personnel each semester. I, like many other students here, have a family outside of school and do not have the means to be a student and unemployed for another semester. Also, they don't have ANY tutors for the computer department! This makes things VERY difficult. The teachers do what they can in their office hours, and I can name 3 or 4 that are worth calling a teacher/professor and actually care about the subject and students. They claim to help you find a job after, and boast they have company’s asking them for their graduates… however this is not easily accessed, nor are there plentiful opportunities once graduated. The level of education and subjects taught seem not to be in line at all with what is desired...