New York City College of Technology — Local services in New York

WARNING! YOU PROBABLY WILL NOT LIKE THIS SCHOOL IF YOU WANT TO PURSUE A CAREER IN THE ARTS.

Every professor I've had outside of the design dept. Is grossly unprepared. I've had a math teacher who teaches his hour long quantitative reasoning class with only short math tutorials from Youtube. The class contained over 30 students and It was impossible to get individual attention. Instead of helping the class, the teacher flirted with girls and talked about how he'd rather be home watching Jerry Springer. This was an early 9:30 am class and I could have stayed home instead since he never engaged the class or entertained any questions. If we did not understand we were told to go see a tutor in the Midway building, a small building City Tech uses to hold classes outside of the main building. The tutor room is always overcapacity with too many students you can barely ever get enough individual attention. I received a low grade in this class having not been in school for a while and I forgot most of the math I learned in high school. Lazy, careless teachers like this are all over City Tech. Of course I've enrolled in classes with teachers who cared about doing a good job but the amount of under performing faculty is too note worthy.

I major in communication design. I went to city tech to gain enough credits to be eligible to transfer to the Fashion Institute of Technology where I major in Computer Animation. Having graduated from a vocational magnet school, the High School of Art and Design, then attending the School of Visual Arts, I know what a good art program looks like. City Tech's design department is good for helping students figure out what they want to do in the art world, then go do it at a better school. The New York City College of Technology has a competent design department to say the very least but it is not very impressive mostly due to the mediocrity I see in so many of my class mates. There is no auditioning required for this major so the school sucks up all the riff-raff of undecided young who couldn't get into real art schools. The instructors accept their mediocrity without challenging students to up their ante. The large amount of inexperienced students coming from average high schools with little or no art programs makes for a dull talent pool. Most of the students in the COMD department are just looking to test the waters and be introduced to the field. Every art class I enrolled in made me feel like a big fish in a small pond. Teachers gave me a break on numerous occasions because I knew the material so well there was nothing to teach me. I actually ended up teaching some of the teachers and embarrassing them in front of everyone. I learned nothing new except for what I learned in a 3d animation class. Which is a senior class. I entered City Tech with 40 credits. Normally I would have to take many prerequisite classes before I can take this class but since I already took a 3D class at a different college, I was given permission to enroll. In other words, I was only able to take this class, which is geared towards learning what I actually want to do for a living, because I cleverly exploited a loophole. Everyone else who wants to be a cartoonist, animator, or Illustrator has to take 2-3 years of classes mostly focusing on design. Boring (If this is already your forte).

If you are talented and have high hopes and ambitions for your artistic career, do not go to City Tech. If you are 100% sure of what you want to do with your talent professionally and have the grades to go elsewhere, do not go to City Tech. If you want to seriously improve your skill, do not go to City Tech. If you want to study one thing, like illustration, animation, fine art, film, photography, and study it to the max, DO NOT GO TO CITY TECH. It will slow you down with rudimentary courses before you can get serious with you Major's focus.

Don't waste your time with this school if you are serious about your art career. Audition for a college that has more specialized art departments, like FIT, SVA, RISD, Cal Arts,...

My acceptance into the "Medical Laboratory Program", was almost put to a halt corresponding to the bias opinion of a female professor from India. My placement into this program was contingent on my grades. A white male professor reviewing my grades said; " It seems you have the prerequisites and the grades to gain acceptance in this program. BUT.... A comment clearly expressed from this Indian professor was; " You can't let him into this program!" And he said; " He has the grades and prerequisites." I can't see why I can't accept him into the program. ". She then added, " He can't be accepted into this program because he's.... Do you know what high school he graduated from? We have students from prestigious and reputable high schools and they don't make it. What makes you think he'll make it into this program!" His remark then was, I can't deny him entry when he has the entry qualifications. Her final remark was; " then it is up to you." His face was reddened and he clearly expressed embarrassment with her remark of...." he can't be accepted into this program because he's...... ". Must admit, the program was tough....but this Puerto Rican descendant made it too, in spite of, " because he's.... " A continuation: after graduation from this program, my 1st employment's salary was $5.35 cents an hour. If I would have elected to work in house keeping, my salary would have been $6.00 dollars an hour. I got a scholarship to attend NYU Medical Center. My salary before I retired was six figures. Moral? The university and the program must B a carefully, well thought-out choice. Because ultimately, the final choice is always yours!!! Continuation 2: A student objected to the extreme difficulty of this program. He said; the nursing program is less demanding and the pay is better. The professor's response: You would look real nice in a nurse uniform. Also added: This is a institution of higher education, not a institution to get a job!! Moral: There is never justification in defending a program's extreme difficulty by utilizing negative and destructive reasons, that undermines a student's genuine concern in succeeding in a program, with the lack of compassion and understanding to the student. This is clear notice to you, to leave this institution...

This school deserves ZERO stars but unfortunately you have to give them one in order to leave a review. Today was the FIRST and LAST time I will EVER step foot into "city tech". I stood on line for admissions for about half an hour, not too bad. When I got to the window there were 2 older ladies sitting there HATING their jobs. Both women were EXTREMELY RUDE !!! My first encounter was with "Dorothy", she had a nasty attitude, talking to me as if I was stupid. When I got asked to hand her the money order I was confused because I had called the day before and the woman I spoke to said they accept cash. I left city tech and ran to the post office to make the money order at 3:40pm because the office closed at 4:30pm. when I came back to the office Dorothy was busy with another student so she asked the woman next to her to take care of me (of course in a rude manner). I did not get the second woman's name unfortunately, she has extremely short hair, bald almost she is an older woman. That woman's attitude is off the charts. She asked me for my money order I had it ready she asked for my ssn and my documents, looks me up in the system and says extremely loud with a sarcastic tone and face "you got denied from this school , your gpa is not good enough here .. why do you think we denied you? Did you think you were going to get in now ? Like I'm not understanding" I responded to her "why are you saying it like that, that's extremely offensive" and she replied " what's offensive? It's true". I was extremely embarrassed, a line behind me of kids waiting to speak with the same woman who yelled that I wasn't good enough for this school. I am disappointed and disgusted with the type of staff this school has they're so discouraging. The way they talk to students trying to apply is not acceptable. I would not recommend anyone to apply directly you will get the same women and they will be just as rude and disgusting as they were to me. I gave student affairs a call so hopefully they will take care of...