Oulton College : Main Campus
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I started their vet tech program last February, overall I had a good experience with my instructors, but the management is terrible. They only offer extra time and a quiet space for exams and tests, anything else that you’re evaluated on you don’t get any of your accommodations. No extra time on quizzes, no extra time on lab or clinic evaluations. I even had to write a MIDTERM in a full classroom, and for whatever reason the instructor asked all the students to stay in the classroom when they were done, but nobody stayed quiet, everyone was talking, I had to speak up for myself and ask everyone to please be quiet since I was still writing. I tried to fight with them for a full semester, trying to get them to do what’s right and accommodate my disability, but in the end they told me they’re giving me everything they can and they’re not interested in making any changes to the accommodations they offer. Save yourself the stress and the hardship, and just chose somewhere better from the get go. They completely shattered my confidence, and made me feel like I was a burden, just because my brain works differently and sometimes I take a bit more time to process certain questions.
Don’t do it.
The admissions staff will tell you anything to get you to do it, don’t believe it. We have way too many students in our class, the instructors are old and senile, unorganized and will lie to your face.
They will sell you on the use of force simulator, it’s nothjng but a glorified Nintendo 64 duck hunt game.
You get no certifications with the course, other than first aid and restricted firearms(which you’ll need to shell out $75 to get your non restricted beforehand which they won’t tell you until a month before) which you can do on your own anyways.
The extra costs to the program are ridiculous, OJTs are few and far between, and you have literally no more options for employment after the program than when you started.
Most agencies won’t recognize the program as 2 years, even though college staff will tell you otherwise.
You never even use the textbooks once, not worth spending the $1200+
They take on way too many students than they have the facilities for, causing a MAJOR parking issue. There are students getting towed, ticketed and booted every day because they need to find somewhere to park. I’ve resorted to parking 4 blocks away in a random gravel parking lot, and walking because it’s that ridiculous.
Overall this school is a huge money grab, shell out the extra 15 grand and to go Holland College, you’ll actually be able to get a job, good education and you’ll be treated better than just a cheque for the school.
Too many students in the school; no parking.
If you’re an LPN looking to bridge over to RN.. I have called all universities (including Ontario; mohawk college) but since Oulton is “private” they do not accept us.
In the interview they will say you are able to bridge over but that is false as evident through my research and phone calls.
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If I could give this business (not a school) a rating of -184749293747 I would. I am VERY prepared to take this to the police about how this school is handling events. They have an admissions advisor that will act innapropriately with you, yes because that’s professional right oulton?? Because professionalism and respect is what you’re all about!!!!!!! You have a counsellor that doesn’t know her job because she CLEARLY doesn’t know what patient confidentiality means, you have an egotistic, disrespectful head of the school person(if you can even call her that) that thinks that letting people in her school that shouldn’t be there is ok. Don’t get me started on the parking, food, quality of teachers, disrespect, just honestly save your money. This school is a piece of trash that just wants your money. DONT GO HERE
1. PARKING IS TERRIBLE. They accept way more students than the facility can hold, so there is always no parking.
2. Way too many people in tiny classes. They advertise this “1 on 1” experience, but with 40 students and 1 teacher, you are own your own. That is not the teachers fault they do try to help everyone, it is just impossible with the amount of students.
3. OVERPRICED. Even the food in the little tiny cafeteria is EXTREMELY overpriced.
4. CLEANLINESS. The bathrooms always stink, and there is always something very gross inside every time you go in or at least 2 stalls out of order every day.
5. Everything you learn is EXTREMELY rushed. Half the time they read off slides and you just need to teach yourself.
6. LACK OF STAFF. We had a teacher out sick for a few weeks, and instead of getting a substitute we sat in class for 2 hours a couple times a week doing nothing until our next class started and we were not allowed to leave. A free period is great, but when you’re sitting there for hours and hours, you run out of things to do. There was no substitute teacher.
7. Staff does NOT need a teaching degree. Yet high school does, not sure how that makes any sense.
WE COULD GO ON AND ON
Lockers are only free for students in the health departments since we have over 10 huge textbooks that weigh more than a 6 y/o. Supposedly Nursing has twice as many books. Fairly sure it’s only the first year too. Vet tech students also need to bring in 2 lab coats every week and some indoor shoes for the clinic. So a locker is kinda necessary for us if we don’t want to break our backs, and 5$ isn’t much for a locker.
The tuition price is high, yes. But keep in mind it’s a PRIVATE college, so they don’t have government funding. The steep tuition price includes parking and all your books. It’s basically the cost of going to local universities, for 1 semester at UdeM it cost me ~5 000$, so after all 3 semesters it would go up to 15 000$, so technically it’s pretty much the same price.
By now most of my instructors did swear, but it’s mostly because they’ve been vet techs, they’ve been bitten, scratched and got their fingers up animal butts for at least 5 years before starting to teach. They seem to favor their previous students as instructors, but I don’t blame them, it shows us that they actually got placed in the field. I know some person said that they didn’t get placed, but most of my teachers were in the field and were approached by the college to teach. They’re all very knowledgeable in their fields and kind
Next up is the size of the building. The cafeteria is quite small, but not in an extreme way some people are portraying it. There is one larger room downstairs that can probably hold 100 students, and there’s one upstairs that can hold like 20, of course, this does not hold the like 600 students on the main campus, but that’s not how they do it. Since the staff created the schedule, I’m fairly sure they made sure that all the classes don’t overlap In eating time, so there is hardly an overcrowding issue, especially since in certain cases, you can eat in your class. Some people also go back home or to a restaurant to eat. From what I hear the travel students get Friday off and we have Thursday afternoon for “independent study” and since the semester just started we basically can leave at noon.
The lady I had for Admissions has never lied to my face, she has been kind and respectful, they make sure your needs are met in any way they can.
And lastly, for Oulton closing at the same time as local School districts, sorry to say this, but you’re not in Elementary or Highschool anymore, Post Secondary Education never closes down with Schools.
Honestly, I am not disappointed with my money spent by now, so don’t let a few shitty reviews decide whether you go here or not.
The director of admissions lied right to my face and another friend of mine ( female) mentioned how she got texts from him on Saturday night really late and how he is flirty with her.
Spend your money on places that care for you and won’t bullshit you to get your money.
Again, DO NOT GO HERE!!!!!! This is a business, not a school.
SAVE YOUR MONEY
1: They over-enroll really badly. Tuition is already 3-5 times as much as an NBCC course (which has better job prospects anyways), but alongside that this school is smaller than my (small) High-School! There’s about 500-700 students at Oulton all cramped into this small “school” (which I believe the building was an elementary school previously).
2: There is a “cafeteria”. And by Cafeteria I mean lobby. And by lobby I mean a small area with a few tables and some chairs, some microwaves on the wall and a small little kitchen thing. Maybe good for serving about 20 students. 500+? F**k. No. Bring your own lunch to school like a little kid.
3: “Bring your own lunch to school like a little kid” I say above. I say that because that’s what you are to them. You’re a stupid, brainless idiot kid who has no adult thoughts or opinions. Whenever you complain about some part of the course you’re told that you are “unprofessional” or “immature”. Hilarious coming from instructors that are too unprofessional to find a real job in their field!
4: Like all of Moncton, the landscape planning is complete s**t. When Oulton was built it didn’t actually have a parking lot. The parking lot they have now (holding about 100 cars) had to be purchased by the (very overpriced) apartments behind the college! They didn’t even think they’d need parking. Really makes you wonder if Oulton College cares about their own/anyone else’s futures at all.
5: I hate Moncton. Pillheads, snotty French citizens and crippling unemployment. Oulton is situated in an area where if you want housing anywhere near the college you’re going to be in a rough neighbourhood. Compare that to NBCC Moncton up on Mountain Road, where you can live in Greater Moncton (no not crap-hole Dieppe, that actual better Moncton).
6: Policing students get their resumes thrown out. And for good reason too! I have no idea why any of the policing students thought that going to a college WITHOUT A GYMNASIUM was a good idea! They go outside in the parking-lot at 7AM in the Winter to do their exercises. Such a joke.
7: No library. Libraries are very important to a college. Disregarding the very helpful reading/computer material they are a quiet place to study. Oulton has no library.
8: No computer lab, either! Oulton has absolutely nothing advantageous over NBCC, besides the promise of giving you your diploma in half of the time (AKA cramming so much information in that you forget it all and the instructors don’t care at all and literally yell at you). The public-use computers consist of a few computers in the hallway to print stuff on. A few days ago they were told the ink ran out. Nobody has replaced the ink. Students can’t print their work.
9: The building is locked down. Security gates everywhere, you can only get into ANYTHING with a student swipe card. Maybe they claim it is for security reasons, but it is because they don’t want people coming in to look at how small/shitty the campus is without a tour guide to talk the place up. I have NEVER heard of or been to a college that was closed off to the public. Ridiculous.
10: Oulton will probably soon say that they donated X amount of dollars to a Haiti foundation. The donations were mandatory and taken from the students’ pockets. I doubt Oulton gives two shits about Haitians.
11: The OJT (On the Job Training) registration cannot find locations for any of their students, because guess what: nobody wants Oulton students! Many aren’t prepared at all for the work-force and get passed by instructors even when they make obvious mistakes in their exams.
In summary just go to NBCC. They are legitimate and will give you a good education at less than half of the price with an infinitely better experience. I couldn’t imagine the frustration that this garbage school puts people through.
My wife comes home with extreme anxiety/stress EVERY DAY and has had to see her doctor about physical pains she is going through because of how stressful this school is.
It was also quite obvious, that the student advisor did their very best to embellish their courses and long term results of said course. So much so, that I was convinced that she was working for a commission as a salesperson usually would. Either way, I decided to proceed with taking one of their courses, as It would be cheaper in the long run to stay in Moncton rather than going to UNB in Fredericton and face the various expenses including housing and nutrition.
Upon beginning my program it was quite obvious that the teachers were simply reading a script from a book and following that flow of education. It was also quite obvious that they had little to no real life experience in the field that they were teaching as I called out some of their bluffs on numerous occasions.
As is now, I am halfway through my course and left with a feeling of disappointment, not only from this school, but in myself. I did my research and decided to go against what I read about this college, but to those reading this, save yourself some time and effort and go get a real education, not a sub-par one.
Stay posted though, as I have been listing all discrepancies since day one and have only brought up very few of them in this small review. I shall be writing my final review in may and all the juicy details will be listed there. Thanks for taking your time to read this.
The courses are crammed; lessons are cut out if there isn’t time to cover them and deemed unimportant. Just about anyone can graduate from most of these courses; they want the grades to look great as a whole so everything is child’s play from day one. At first it feels great to graduate with honours but once you get into the real world and realize you can’t compete with even the community college students skill-wise, you start to wonder where exactly your $10K+ went. DO NOT fall for going here because it’s a year or two less than another college offering a similar course. If you want to work in the field put the time into earning the diploma if you can, the courses aren’t short because Oulton is great at organizing and being proficient, it’s because they cut and cram.
I chose this school because they talked themselves up so much, they spoke of having lots of connections, and promises of a job straight out of graduation. I live in a small town and moved to Moncton to take this course for the year, I was hoping that Oulton College would help me get a job and provide some kind of additional assistance with getting a job in my hometown since they had given me the impression that they had amazing connections and could get me places I wouldn’t be able to get myself.
Upon graduation, the only “assistance” I had received in finding a job was our Student Administer forwarding me job postings for a year that I could check online for myself. I also specified that I was not interested in staying in Moncton and that I was looking for work in my hometown only, about an hour from Moncton. They continued to forward me job postings in Moncton, and Halifax and the odd ad on Job Bank from my town that I had seen a week previous. Three other Oulton Grads and from last year, along with myself, are all now working together in a Call Center making minimum wage. I absolutely refuse to believe their statistic of, (and this is a direct quote from a recruiter) “99% of graduates are working IN THEIR FIELD.”
Long story short, do not apply to Oulton over another college because you believe they’ll pull strings, use connections, and put a good word in for you to get you employed in some great business that doesn’t publicly post ads. They DO NOT offer anything that you can’t get at a more cost efficient community college.
The fights with the administration were constant; there were several occasions where my entire class had to speak to them together in order to get something resolved, because going in individually to put in complaints yielded no results. This was normally due to consistency issues between instructors. You could print out two identical copies of a document and give it to two different instructors and get two different answers in regard to whether it was done properly. Some things we learned mildly overlapped in two different classes (which was ridiculous when you consider how much unique material was cut due to lack of time) and both teachers would teach how to do the same thing completely differently.
Attendance is everything and they preach this constantly. If you aren’t a young adult under 25 with no children, living within 5 minutes of the school, this college isn’t for you, I would have never made it to graduation if I didn’t live within a 2 minute walk and have no responsibilities at home. They don’t cancel school with the public school district they cancel it with the businesses so not only are you expected to risk your life on the worst days to make it in (sometimes just to be sent home at noon) but be prepared to find last minute child care when your kids are off school and Oulton College is still open. Students that drive 40+ minutes per day are held the same standard when it comes to making it in during storms as students that live in spitting distance and can walk.
I could go on for days but I’ll stop here. Very long story short: I do not recommend this college as there are plenty that are more cost efficient, and at the same offer more thorough courses that are informative and challenging. They just don’t offer anything that you can’t get from another school and don’t score an outstanding rating in any category. I honestly just don’t have any reason to recommend this school to anyone that I don’t completely have it out for.
Jammed schedules, and the books were always cooked to make it look like you had great grades. They do this so their success rates look good. I was actually given marks I never earned and was in no way entitled to.
Some may think thats a good thing, but in truth, it makes it hard to know what you are actually any good at.”Individual attention” consisted of my instructor just fixing my work and being too complacent to bother with my struggles.
This school is an overpriced puppy mill of diplomas. You WILL graduate and more than likely have a 90% average when you finish if you show up. So go ahead and buy your diploma, but I prefer to be taught and inspired.
Not exactly.
First day, we were told that they threw it out because there wasnt enough time. I was gifted 5 minutes of rushed info on how to draw a circle on the program. We were told that chances are, someone in our “group” new how to use it, so go ahead and let THEM do it.
Seriously?
Thats it.
NO WONDER they snag your student loan and overpriced cost of their books the second they can – you’re on the hook for it anyway, what good is complaining about it going to do…do YOU know what you signed? I sure dont….my fault entirely.
Before you can even wrap your head around a new concept, you are tested on it and moving on to the next thing to cram in your confused mind. It is NOT what they sell – AT ALL.
WE just finished a week and a half “module” on a very integral skill. It was over before I even grasped the concept – and then moving forward, we were told if we didnt understand the previous module – we were screwed.
Good thing we spent less than TWO WEEKS on it then, eh?
Consider yourself warned.
The teacher is super nice and the classroom is comfy and the facility is great. However, I am kicking myself in the rear that I didn’t just bite the bullet for the 2 year program at NBCC – if cramming is your thing – by all means, but its month 2 – and Im already wondering what the heck I got myself into!!
I have honestly not spoken to (or over heard) one person in the school – different courses included- who heard they were happy. If I had a dollar for every complaint I’ve heard, I could retire early.
If I didn’t love the work I’ll be going into, and didn’t require graduation to work in this field, I would have been gone long ago.
The courses are over priced and that’s not where the money ends. The parking is a crazy and horrible price – 300$ and good luck finding a spot. Second year courses have their tuition bumped and told “Oh, by the way”. We have lockers this year, but you need to pay for that too. Graduation? You need to pay extra to go. This is just a tiny list of extras.
Courses are crammed and rushed, and right now teachers are at the end of the year just tossing chapters out because it wont fit. “Study week” before exams is a joke, you’re still being tested and learning new material. Even though they have a new school building, some classes are still being stuffed into crammed little rooms and shuffled between rooms because there are literally not enough classrooms for all the students. Some large classes (around 30) need to steal chairs from other classes and sit at the end of desks. Hope you’re not claustrophobic. Also, I hope you love the cold, because no one is allowed to turn up the heat and you need to wear heavy sweaters to keep warm in the classes.
If you do decide to go here, and find yourself with a complaint about something, don’t worry, it wont be fixed. You’ll leave an administration office feeling like you’re the problem, not the school. Does half your class feel the same way, and you all go together with constructive complaints and solutions to the problems? Don’t worry, this college will come up with excuses and might pretend to take your solutions seriously. Just don’t expect them to be fixed. They’re very good at sugar coating things and act like they’re the best place in the world. This school is filled with disorganization and double standards.
Lastly, if you miss high school, this is the place for you. The rules are similar to high school, students are treated like children, and drama drama drama! Unlike high school, the teachers don’t need a teaching degree – almost anyone can be a teacher here.
TL;DR ? Don’t come here. You’ll be treated like junk and everything is overpriced.
The teachers were ill prepaired and the students payed for it by waiting 45 mins to start class on a regular basis.
I was able to secure some tutorial videos and they greatly helped me in the course content more so then the teachers we were paying.