Erwin Technical College — Local services in Tampa

Poorly run school. They put focus on getting individuals in the door versus retaining them. There is not much concern about one's learning experience, or future success, it's more about how many people they can fill the room with through grant money. There will be a lot of lip service about the care of your success, but the actions do not match the words. They may do one thing productive and then cause three other issues for you. The massage therapy program could be excellent. Sadly, the instructor's brain is all over the place. Very poor with time management and immature leadership. Our materials list was inaccurate on day one. This caused confusion for several weeks. The instructor will just raise her voice at students as if they are supposed to fix the issue created by her and the school. We were to wear uniforms 5 days per week, with their school shirt. They only had one available to us. We were able to get a second one several weeks in. We were told to buy specific books that were no longer in print or were double the cost at the bookstore than they were online. The instructor definitely wants a do as I say not as I do environment. There's very little skill offered here in teaching individuals of all ages and professional backgrounds. It's more of an authoritative experience as if each person is just getting out of middle school. If you express valid concerns of unethical behavior by the instructor, the administration will attempt to flip the concern back on the student, somehow making it the students fault. I think they are so used to their dysfunctional environment, they believe it's normal to lead people this way. This is how you "control" the classroom I guess. I find it sad that this school is accredited and able to receive federal, state and VA benefits for students in the greatest need of support, good education and leadership, yet they seem to think talking down to, gossiping, gas lighting, targeting, lying about individuals and harassing them while they are attempting to retain an immense amount of new information is the best way to lead. I stuck it through as long as I could based on some serious goals I have, but could no longer invest another day of my quality of life at this location. I left with only 14 weeks until graduation with a 4.0 GPA. I was referred to this program by a colleague who knew the previous instructor of the massage program. I didn't realize leadership changed and has become a much different environment since. You definitely get what you pay for and I can now see why grant money isn't always the best way to get an education. It offered me more mental abuse, lost time and frustrating conversations. If leadership was held accountable for their actions, this would be an amazing program. When they do attempt to hold the leader accountable for unethical behavior, they ensure they find a way to also make you feel responsible for the leader's actions. The victim of poor leadership and mental abuse is the one largely at fault. There's just a very poor display of authenticity, ownership and authentic leadership here. I hope others who really need this program can have a better experience. Being prepared for a successful career does not have to feel like a mental mind game. It really can be a much more enjoyable and...

If I could give them zero star I would, please do not waste your money on this school the phlebotomy program is terrible at least the one that Dr Harris teaches, she’s rude unprofessional and beyond disrespectful. She hates teaching phlebotomy she seems nice at first then boom she’s short with you and condescending. This whole school is unprofessional both main and west campus. They will take your money and not give you your certificate when you graduate. Dr Harris is refusing to sign everyone’s certificate she did not show up to our graduation and now she’s refusing to sign the certificates. They know how to collect your check for payments but do not know how to fix anything that they screw up, they didn’t have enough equipments for class and we missed a whole week of class that pushed us back because she decided to go on vacation. Main campus is also holding my refund check from the cares act reimbursement they are refusing to give me my check. This school is horrible do not waste your money you will regret it.Susan is beyond unprofessional and rude, she talks bad about the students behind their backs she gets mad when people call inquiring about the programs she even go as far as calling them stupid. Mr risher doesn’t care about anything except for money, he will straight up lie about ordering equipments and not actually order them. Just like he lied about ordering our certificates but haven’t ordered them the entire staff of Erwin west campus is refusing to give us our certificates they stole our money and dodging our calls and...

I'm currently enrolled, and i would recommend exploring more options. The school is cheap for a reason. From my personal experience and what I've heard from other reviewers, the programs are all unorganized, and very little is done to lay out the teachings. Am i learning anything? Yes, im learning, but after the first month or two, the teacher doesn't bother trying. I learned more from the book than i did from my teacher. This isn't a bad school, just not a very good one. I've attended soldering classes at Career Source more organized than this. + COVID-19, making me lose 3 months of class, isn't helping. I should have just kept my job instead of leaving it for school. Now i have no job, lost a lot of schooling time, and doubting myself.

I will update the review after finishing my program.

I finished a few years ago. I'm thankful for the time I spent here. I realized it was mainly covid that messed up my experience. I'm not sure who is teaching electrical now, but Mr. Willson was a great teacher. Today, I'm a 4th year apprentice, and I'm working towards my Journeyman's card. You don't NEED to do trade schooling to get into electrical, but it makes it easier to get a job when u sorta know how things work.

I recommend this if need/want to learn about the trade before you...