Neumont University — Local services in Salt Lake City

There are a lot of things that I like about this school and some things that I also dislike.

Positively, the school's rigorous program is designed that way as more than just a way to push out 2.5 year bachelor degrees. It provides fast paced learning and tight deadlines in order to push students(the majority of which are high school graduates) out of their comfort zone and more into a real world scenario. The system is good but isn't perfect. Students and educator faculty alike complain that sometimes courses are scheduled poorly. However it isn't so bad as to break momentum, as everyone is very capable of persevering through it.

Speaking of faculty, the staff here is for the most part top notch. Beyond just the educators, most of the staff is extremely competent and industry professionals. There are some staff members that fall below par but that's to be expected in any business(being a for profit school, that is essentially what Neumont is). My biggest complain in this department is their hiring process. Too often I see new adjuncts who join the staff and are either completely incompetent as to what this school is about or just plain out incompetent as an instructor. The big problem is that sometimes these new hires don't go through a training period at all and are given classes right away, only to do extremely poorly and fired within a quarter or two. While it's great that Neumont is good at getting rid of those that perform poorly, the damage remains as the students who go through their courses are now at a disadvantage to their peers who received above par instruction. While that may not be as important for general ed classes like statistics or ethics, it's extremely important when that situation arises in a core class like Intro to CS.

Other than that, they actually have a really great system going. Support for students, be that financial or mental/emotional, is readily available and important to the school. Services are varied and useful. Students have access to a variety of extracurricular activities through clubs and school hosted events. Students get great opportunities that they would miss in a standard educational environment through the Capstone and Enterprise Projects. They have staff that are pretty much dedicated to helping upcoming graduates with preparing their resumes and getting them out to employers.

This review was written as a currently...

As a current student Neumont is great! Neumon has small class sizes, around 30 students, so the teachers really get to know you. You also have multiple classes with the same teachers so they get to learn your learning style to make the material as easy as possible while still being challenging. That being said Neumont isn't for everyone. This school is what I like to call a fire hose of knowledge. Since you are only in a class for a maximum of 10 weeks and have to put an entire semester of knowledge into those 10 weeks the classes go by quickly. There have been multiple weeks where I haven't gotten any free time and have just been working on school projects.

Neumont isn't a normal college. If you want the "college experience" of partying, drinking, football games, etc. Neumont definitely isn't that. If you are looking for a school to coast through Neumont isn't that either. I am constantly working on at least 2 projects at any given point, and they all have hard deadlines like the real world.

Neumont has a great setting right in the heart of salt lake city which makes going out for lunch/dinner really easy. Its also filled to the brim with nerds so you'll have to get used to that if you aren't already.

The teachers also cater the classes to what the students want to learn. One of my favorite teachers will ask if we have questions on with anything we've worked with and bend the class incorporate that thing. An example of this is at the beginning of the quarter most of us, CS students who hadn't done a bunch of group projects, didn't know how to use GIT. So our instructor made an assignment to get us used to the basics of GIT then made most of the projects for the class require groups. This not only taught us the new language we were learning, it also helped us get familiar with GIT.

TLDR: Neumont is great if you can keep up. If you aren't willing to give up weeks at a time you will fall behind. If you are willing to do that then you will most likely succeed and have job offerings before you graduate...

-TLDR, come here if you're ready and responsible enough to buckle down and learn a LOT of good things and make big career connections.- This is a great school that will get you up into advanced tech fields by working you HARD and FAST. You will get unbeatable IT network connections to big companies and insights, especially from their own in-house hosted tech talks from companies like Sony Entertainment and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to name a few. They try their best to help you if you're new and willing to work hard- but do NOT come here if you have low work ethic, are addicted to video games, or if you're even unsure about a tech career, especially if you're fresh from High School. Do not get into $80,000 of debt all because it was your fault for not being ready like me at first. If in doubt, wait first or try testing your knowledge by getting a basic technology certification you have to pay money for like any of Microsoft's if you want to try the waters. The opportunities plug you into big careers is incredible and the kids I learned with were straight up geniuses. Parting notes: Get CE certificates while you're learning here to get the upper-edge against other job applicants. This is a school that specializes IT so you will pay high prices to be in high places and their GE classes are bent towards IT which is great since traditional college GE classes are boring and worthless. Also, despite what marketing tells you, there is NO alumni support. Kinda bummed being lied to about that, so...