International Academy of Design & Technology

Wish I could give no stars! I enrolled 2011 huge mistake!!! Thank god I only attended for a month before I withdrew. I studied for the fashion design program basically $ 80,000.00!!! Insane!!! For basic education you get at csn for $ 300 I had one fashion class in which I learned nothing AT ALL!

I currently attend this school because I thought Vegas was a cheaper place to live and go to school than LA or NY. But with the economy, it’s worse now. The school is $ 28k a year, $ 10k of that is profit for supposed «supplies.» We barely get supplies. And half of the books you don’t even need for the class, although I find some of them interesting coffee table reads, and useful for references. I recently found out their accreditation is crap. It’s worthless. The company that owns the accredidation company owns the school. YAY! so they’re accrediting themselves. I have heard about people trying to transfer out and unable to transfer credits. I am currently transferring to a better school, Academy of Arts UNIVERSITY in San Francisco. I’m worried that my credits will be un-​transferrable. Regardless, I’ll throw away a year of tuition to transfer there because IADT is a HORRIBlE SCHOOL!!! The teachers are underqualified, the gen-​ed teachers are ridiculous and you can get A’s on all your tests and projects, and they will give you a C because they don’t like you, or if you get B’s and C’s on your test, because they like you, they’ll give you an A for participation. BS. I’m an A student and got a C in Politics, when I got As on all my projects and A/​high B’s on all my tests. I am currently arguing with that.
And the art teachers teach you nothing. All they do is tell you what to do, then expect you to do it without any instruction.
I do like a lot of the fashion program teachers, but a few of them have no experience in the industry and are just working their probably for minimum wage.
I’m working with the program chair to try to resolve some of these issues, however, I don’t plan to continue this school. It’s a horrible school. With a lot of wannabe gangstas and punks, immature 18 year olds right out of school, and few people there have talent.
THIS SCHOOL WILL JUST TAKE YOUR MONEY!
I DON’T RECOMMEND THIS SCHOOL.