College of Eastern Idaho — Local services in Idaho Falls

CNA.....their cna program is a joke. You pay tuition $1100.00 plus you have to pay for your own materials books and scrubs. Nothing else is included in tuition. Clinicals are a joke because you go to old nursing homes where the nurses don't even want you there and you have to clean the messes they don't want to. During the final in person skill test at the end you get failed because they say your instructor taught you all wrong. So at this point who's fault is it that the instructor taught you wrong? Well too bad all your money and hard work was all for nothing. If you want to re test you have to pay $65 each time. You only get 90 days to retest up to 2 times and then guess what if the person testing you doesn't want to pass you they won't, even if you are doing the skills exactly by the book. Then they run out of teachers who want to do the testing so then you are really screwed if you need to end up retesting. The tester has to be from a different school they won't let you test by your instructor. CEI's CNA program is such a scam and a joke waste of time waste of...

First off they hire special needs individuals to help out in the lunchroom and bookstore, so if you call one of those locations and the person can't spell very well that is why. I am in the welding and fabrication program. I do not have a class that has over 15 people I have not met an instructor there yet that is unwilling to spend extra time with me outside of class, one teacher even gave me their personal cell number so I could call if I had trouble with an assignment. Like most of the other students that attend I have a family and a full time job, the teachers are very understanding and helpful with this when it comes to deadlines. They also have a very good tutoring center that is free. EITC is very helpful with helping and working with individuals to succeed, if you attend school here and fail a class you really have no one to blame but yourself.

Pro's Low tuition cost Small class size Available one on one teaching Night/day/weekend classes

Con's Low name recognition Despite excellent programs they seem to be less respected because they are a...

I have been attending this college since 2012 it is now 2015 and I have still yet to finish my program. At first I sat down with a counselor and we came up with a schedule for my prerequisites that would end the semester before my professional program. After completing my prerequisites on time and being told I have a guaranteed spot in my program for the upcoming semester I was waitlisted another year. Now I am once again guaranteed a spot in my program of study, but they decided to wait on sending out my acceptance letter until the day my letter of intent was due as well as attending a mandatory meeting the next day. So they don't even give their students 24 hours to plan for child care or anything else, but expect us to be professional. If I wasn't so close to being finish, or have invested so much time or money into this college I would have left long ago. The medical professors are amazing, but the counselors or other facility seem to not care, or seem to not understand how to...