Universal Technical Institute

This is a great school. I can say that because I actually went here. I was the Duke from my 23 check ins over the last year and a half.
I was in the first night class that they offered. From 6:30pm to 11pm. You definitely get out what you put in. I put in 100% and my life has completely changed. I’m about to start a great job with BMW.
I see these punk 18 to 20 year olds who don’t seem to really want to be there or think they know everything already just skate through and yes they probably end up on a lube rack for the rest of their lives if they even stick with it. But guess what no effort no return. Go work at McDonald’s for $ 8 a hour for 15 hours a week and complain how you can’t live off of that. But there is definitely a lot of opportunity out out there in the automotive industry if you want it. Places everywhere need skilled technicians and the money is there to be made. Hard work pays off.
Now sure they are a for profit school and they want to believe that everyone that walks through the door will go out into the industry but that just isn’t true. It is not for everyone. Plus not everyone is going to land that great job. When you think about the thousands for students that go to just this campus and they only brag about a few really great successes there has to be some that didn’t do as well. But you can’t completely blame the school for that.
All of the instructors I had were great. Except for one and he doesn’t work there any more. They have a lot of experience and really knew their stuff. I went in knowing very little about cars and learned a lot. The administrative staff is great too. Very supportive. Helped me find a job, that gave me a lot of invaluable experience, while I was going to school. They were always available to answer any questions or help in any way they could.
So yes not everyone who goes here is a super raging success that works for a race team or makes a million dollars a month but they do have successful careers if they put in the effort. Everyone who was in my class is doing great. They may not all be working where they want to be but they are gaining experience that can take them anywhere they want to go.
For me it really changed my life. Completely. I start my new job in a few weeks and I’m going to make some really good money. I will be able to achieve all of the goals that my last job wasn’t helping me achieve. But that was my fault. I put in minimal effort and got minimal return. So I decided to to put in maximum effort and look at that I am going to be rewarded for all of my hard work.
I definitely recommend this school to anyone who is interested in a career in the automotive industry. To change your life in little over a year instead of 4 years plus at a regular college. It is completely worth it. I am so glad I made the decision to come here 2 years ago.

Instructors at this school are not trained to and do not keep their grade books secure. I attended UTI and during one phase, the gradebook was altered by a jealous classmate. Instead of going through and adding up scores to verify the final grade, the school denied the gradebook was altered.
Basically a $ 20k tuition and 18 months of my life was wasted because this left a scar on my transcript that is difficult to explain to prospective employers. I don’t even use UTI on my resume anymore. The school refused to review the gradebook in question. Not an administration that cares about its students.

Great school. I had a few issues at the beginning but the school really cares about the students.

So far, not super impressed with this school.
My husband has been attended UTI since 2011 at the Sacramento campus and overall has learned a lot from his courses. Since we moved to Arizona in February of this year, this school has been a lot of problems.
He has recieved multiple emails saying he needs to come in to sign paper work for the school so they can process his payments through the VA and every time he goes in they say they have no idea why he got the email. At the beginning of May we went in together to sign papers before his 3 week break, we arrived at 11:40 and waited to be seen. The lady we spoke with said we won’t be able to get it done because they close early for a meeting at 12. So I said it was good that we got there 20 minutes early and we wouldn’t be waiting an additional hour to sign papers when we were on time in the first place.
Well, we have yet to receive a payment since the beginning of May and my husband went in an hour early today to get things figured out and was told that he can’t be seen because the school is doing paperwork.
Maybe this school needs to schedule paperwork and meetings on a set day so it stops interfering with students who need help. It is beyond irritating taking time out of our days to try to get things done with the school whose priorities are not the students… which make no sense because we are the ones who keep the school open with the buckets of money we pay you every month. Just saying.