Laney College — Local services in Oakland

Laney college culinary program is wonderful, while back, I was looking for a culinary schools around and close by city of Oakland, I found, San Francisco cooking school, CIA and Laney College. CIA’s Tuition on full time basis was about $47,000 for all students, San Francisco cooking school tuition is about $25,000, , then, Laney’s tuition: $46.00 per semester unit…next, I started comparing each school’s culinary programs, they all were very similar with a very little insignificant differences. I visited each school as well, honestly, CIA school, has a much fancier buildings but, not for $47,000 tuition, same as San Francisco cooking school, therefore, for my budget and goal, Laney College was evidently and unmistakably was my first and only choice. I signed up in their Culinary baking program, instructors are fantastic, school’s facilities are moderate, reasonable and very much adequate for this program, equipment are the same as other mentioned schools that I visited, and much better than “acceptable” that I thought it would be, most importantly, instructors are one better than the others, not to mention, I finished the baking program while back, now, I am just finishing up 3rd semester of their cooking program. Highly recommend Laney College and their...

Like most (all?) colleges in Oakland, in the bay Area, the Laney campus está cerrado for in-person, on-site learning right now (012921) and will remain so indefinitely. Nonetheless, "instruction" continues, and it is still posible to be stimulated by some of the best, most conscious, caring, and committed to student growth facultad en el mondo. Some of them doing all that they can to structure and provide meaningful, engaging, life supporting learning opportunities using course "shells", Zoom windows, YouTube videos and whatever else they can find that helps someone do and be the best learner, the best person they can. As a deprived swimmer, who first began to learn how in the Laney College outdoor pool, I am haunted by its current disuse, knowing full well how easily and almost effortlessly it could be transformed into a site of health, healing, and sheer joy. Bringing great benefit to the community, the college balance sheet, the district's mission, and by way of every deprived, depressed, frustrated swimmer who would be thrilled to have a safe, spacious, affordable place to immerse herself in a heated (yes, it IS!) pool right now. ¡Qué lastima! Laney admins and faculty, you can do this. The way is already known. If you...

Terrible place for VA students. They never submitted any of my paperwork on time and I would go months at a time with no money from the VA because Laney (and College of Alameda) always forget about me. I was in the VA office about once a week asking when they would submit my forms, and every week they would say they were about to do it. Now, a year after switching to a different school the VA wants money back from me because I was attending Laney and COA at the same time and Laney never submitted their portion of my Spring 2014 paperwork so it appears to the VA that I was only attending college part-time. I have been trying to work this out with Laney for months. Now I have a bad credit mark that lowered my score by 100 points because Laney still has not submitted the papers and the VA sent my 'debt' which shouldn't actually exist to collections.

Classes and professors at Laney are fine. Not bad, but not great. It's the same as with any other college, some professors are great and some are just terrible. Parking is a nightmare. Expect to spend about 30 minutes before class hunting for a...