Miami-Jacobs Career College : Columbus
Miami-Jacobs Career College : Columbus is a For-Profit, Non-Sectarian, Career, Institute established in 1998. The campus is located in Columbus, Ohio, USA and hosts students with an endowment of .
Website: www.miamijacobs.edu
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Institution Type: For-Profit, Non-Sectarian, Career, Institute
Established: 1998
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When I started with MJCC I had such high hopes for all the students that I would be working with. It did not take long for those hopes to be dashed. In my position as Director of Career Services I was charged with “placing grads in positions within their field.” Well, that makes sense, right? What I was not told, was that I would be working with students with a felony who were studying in fields where they had ZERO chance of working due to the felony. Paralegal? Surgical Technician? Medical or Dental Assistant? Criminal Justice? Really???
I was most certainly not opposed to helping these folks – they deserved a second chance. However, they were set up to fail from the beginning. It was impossible to get these students in for an interview, because they could not pass a background check. IMPOSSIBLE. However I was charged with reaching ridiculous placement numbers and a background felony did not come into play with that expectation.
We had students that were unable to pass courses for their Associate’s Degree – they should have been discharged for their own good. These folks were not going to find work in their field, every $$ they paid went down the drain. But, oh no, good old MJCC decided to “downgrade” these students to a certificate program. Keep the money coming in, convince these students that they will still end up with a good paying job. In other words – LIE, LIE, LIE!!
I just reviewed the Columbus MJCC Catalog and was not surprised that I recognized not one name on the list of administrators. That’s how it goes within that school. Hire professionals into positions that are impossible to fulfill, be untruthful with potential students’ futures, promise clinicals and internships that will never come to pass, fire those employees (that door revolves constantly – the students never have an opportunity to forge a relationship with those professionals because the “good” ones leave to go to a job they can be proud of), the list goes on and on.
Please go to your community colleges and stay far far away from these for profit “schools”. You will pay a fraction of the cost and graduate with a degree that stands for something. (You will graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary to find a good job.)
Ask a any PROFESSIONAL, not your friend, or your cousin, or baby mama,and in the same situation as you. But a REAL professional at one of those companies you want to work for. Ask them what they think of MJCC. **Red Flag #1: How are you going to get a better job if companies do not even respect your college. From my OWN research and various legitimate sources (off the record) has have even came out and expressed they would NOT even hire any grads from that school. One hiring manager even went as far to say it was a school of rejects (people that could NOT get in real colleges). The enrollment process is non-existence they take anyone with a heartbeat and a FREE FASA form.
Over half of their Health Programs are NOT CERTIFIED or ACCREDITED!!! State does not even recognize their program. Don’t take my word. DO your OWN research. The Dayton Nursing Program has been shut down for a while. Educate YOURSELF. Why go to a school and pay or get a school loan for $20,000+. Yes $20,000 to get a degree that NOT worth the paper it’s written on! And no one with hire you. Now you have debt you have to pay back. With that price tag, apply to University of Dayton, Wright State University, UC, The Ohio State University, Sinclair, just NOT MJCC. Don’t think, that you are going to just going to just transfer to one of these schools after you try to graduate from one of MJCC’s scam programs. WAKE UP!!! NO SCHOOL WILL TOUCH YOUR CREDITS!!!!! SAVE YOURSELF 2+ YEARS of YOUR LIFE. CALL ANY 4 YEAR COLLEGE AND THEY WILL TELL YOU THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TOUCH MJCC CREDITs. THEY know its a bullsh*t a$$ school
***YOU BEEN WARNED***
I do have to say I had a couple of teachers who changed my life (as all should, you are lucky to have or have had them) My Microbiology teacher LOVE her, My Med Term teacher AWESOME, MY A&P teacher Love that guy, want to drink with him, and My Pharm teach you were lucky to have them OH I forgot, My Algebra teach that plays the bass, he really wanted to make a differnce but I’m sure you took that away….shame on you MJCC for taking so much from so little…hope yourmoney makes you happy and if I ever see M B on the street I’m sure I’ll say thank you to him as well…Thanks for a giant bill and credits that transfer nowhere cuz all hospitals and schools KNOW YOU SUCK!! and will not recognize your crap…VERY UPSET X STUDENT BTW, I only left ratings cuz i had to
This school is out for your money, not your future. Beware!
And believe me, I wouldn’t even leave a rating for this if I could.
Yep, the stars are there so this can be published!
Classes here are a joke. One class I was in was deplorable. The students were allowed to talk about drugs, sex, and drinking. One student even admitted to coming to class drunk once. The teacher? She laughed the entire time. Then she went and told one group of students that their choosen career field was a crock and that they should just “drop out now”.
Seriously, do not waste your time here. They sell you a perfect future but end up giving you heartache.
I personally know of several instructors that were not qualified to teach classes, and the administration of MJ knew they were not qualified to teach the classes, but they taught the classes anyway. The administration of MJ will just tell students whatever the student wants to hear to get them to calm down and feel better. And all it is, is a bunch of BS, because they will tell the next student the complete opposite.
In Cincinnati, Mary Purcell was the campus director and for the most part she stayed in her office and very rarely interacted with the students. 90% of the students had no clue who she was.
*******************************TONYA DYER*****************************
WHAT TONYA DOESN’T TELL YOU ABOUT HOW THEY ACHIEVED SUCH A HIGH PLACEMENT RATE IS THE FACT THAT THEY HIRE THEIR OWN STUDENTS AT THE SERENITY DAY SPA AND SALONS THAT THE COLLEGE RUNS, WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY THEY GET THAT HIGH OF A NUMBER. AND I GUESS THAT IS THE REASON THAT THEY HAVE EXPANDED THESE TO THEIR OTHER CAMPUSES. BUT THIS IS NOT FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, JUST COUNTS AS PLACING A STUDENT AND HELPS THEIR NUMBERS OUT TO PROMOTE AND REEL IN NEW STUDENTS.
a student there 25 years ago and it was every bit as sleazy
then as it seems to be today. One of their practices was
charging students for an internship program – that did not exist.
I can only hope that Miami-Jacobs will finally go out of business.
The community will be well rid of it.
They have switched our instructors around at least 5 times.
They put too many people in our class (15) to begin with, so they had to send half of the students to do their clinicals and labs at a different campus because they wanted to sell those seats.
The classes are impossible to fail. For some reason “I didn’t feel like doing it” is an acceptable excuse for not turning in homework.
They don’t want anyone to quit the program or to be removed from it, so they are constantly making exceptions for absences and tardies.
Our class was assigned to do a presentation for a group of potential students, eating up the lab time we had on our last day before clinicals so we could persuade new money to come into the school. This consisted of making posters with marker like kindergartners.
All in all, they really do treat you like 3rd graders. I’m not sure what kind of knowledge I’m going to be equipped with, or who would hire me once I get out. All I know is that I’m trying to self teach as much as I can and crossing my fingers that it will be enough.
DO NOT GO TO MIAMI-JACOBS.
I am a student at Miami Jacobs, 3rd quarter. I would consider another college if I were you. Tuition is in excess of $20,000. In my opinion the quality of instructors (poor), curriculum (poor) and clinicals (poor). I realized this shortly after I began, but I could not wait for an opening at another school. I had become unemployed and wanted to complete a LPN program before my unemployment ran out. None of my credits would transfer to another school so I’m stuck. I hope I get enough from the program to pass n-clex, I am pulling straight A’s but I have a feeling I will need more than that. The school does use ATI which I feel will help me get through the N-clex. Here’s an example of how one of my classes went:
Nutrition 1.75 hours 1 day a week:
Week 1 – instructor went over expectations for the quarter.
Week 2- no class the instructor forgot we had a class.
Week 3-Watched Super Size me.
Week 4- Watched the 2nd part of Super Size me. Instructor handed out a cross word puzzle.
Week 5- Instructor collected the cross word puzzle, skimmed over a few chapters, handed out another cross word puzzle.
Week 6- Changed instructors we sat like 3rd graders, each reading a paragraph form a chapter, collected crossword puzzle. Assigned a case study.
Week 7- Sat like 3rd graders, again reading a paragraph from a chapter. Instructor walked by to see if we did our homework, assigned another case study, told us what the final would cover.
Week 8- Took an ATI assement.
Week 9- Took final
This class cost me over a thousand dollars. I learned nothing new, but got an A. The clinicals have all been at Nursing Homes, I think we will get 1 day at an OB office, A Peds office, and I’m not sure what they will do for the MRDD rotation. As far as IV therapy we have to have 1 successful stick, and that can be in a dummy arm. But that combined with the class you take is enough to get your IV certification.
PLEASE THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE STARTING THEIR PROGRAM, THEY ARE ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!!!!!