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*Please do your own research as well. I am being 100% honest about my experience with CAU, along with things found calling lawyers and talking to former employees and students. However, as I learned from my dealings with CAU, be CAREFUL who you trust.
I lost 49k with only a private pilots license. They will up charge and upcharge your children. I reported them to the Veterans Affairs and CPPEA as they used up so much of my GI bill (which I earned after 3 deployments). I am beyond furious and have contacted numerous lawyers. They all told me that schools like this exist to only drain your money, and they know it. The contracts we sign going in prevent us from suing the university. I have never been screwed over more by any business in my life. I know multiple people who have filed complaints because of how horrid and inappropriate staff is. The parent company has also similar and nasty reviews about being lied and having their own staff complain about the school and president. The school is not even accredited anymore. Save yourself the money, time and sanity and go to another school that actually delivers accredited, transferrable courses. I left, and will forever lead the charge to expose this corruption.
Please see the below links to the character of the owner and the accreditation of the school: Please remember, SBCC was ran by M Johnston who is doing everything he can do distance CAU from there, however, the people he screwed over are not letting it happen.
The below 4 quotes are from: collegetimes.co/santa-ba…
“I worked for CAU, which is a subdivision of SBBC, for all of 3 months and hated it. The Pres. M. Johnson sits at the head due to nepotistic inheritance and cares only about the bottom line. They wanted me to sell (market) an overinflated aviation program using subversive and manipulative sales tactics by any means necessary to include compromising my own personal ethics-to which I resisted as much as I could.
This school is nothing more than a used car dealer selling you something you do not want or need.”
“Stay away. Worked there and this is a bad school. Upper management is a clueless son of the owner. He should never be in charge of a business much less of young people future. Maker yourself a favor: don’t work there and do not study there. Future of this school is bleak.”
Filing a federal lawsuit against them. Please email me with your stories. It will help to build a case and get al out money back. Christineatkinson@comcas…”
“SBBC is a complete scam. For over $30,000 you can get a AA degree and have no shot of paying off student loans. You will be in classes with people who did not graduate college, and your instructors are also low paid hacks. They charge over $1100 for 4 credits, yet they pay instructors only $18 per hour when other institutions pay double that. You pay to dollar for classes, SBBC low balls instructors and SBBC gets rich. The owner is a control freak who wants to put cameras into the classes to make sure students don’t have any food or drinks. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL… MAJOR SCAM!”
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insidehighered.com/quick… (CAU was chose this shady accreditor, and chose to reinstate with this shady accreditor after it initially gained re-recognition under the Trump administration). Biden was elected and terminated this accreditor once more (in fact, it was one of the first things he did), as ACICS accredited a university that had 0 staff, and 0 students to defraud the Federal Government. Why did CAU return to this accreditor? Why would a school that “cared” so much about it’s students successes do this? It seems to me like my experience here, like so many others, is that the school is there to drain it’s students of money while M Johnston buys his kids planes.
The overwhelming majority of votes is completely negative. Please don’t take my word on it. Do some research yourself. This “University” needs to be dissolved and the M Johnston should stand trial whenever this all inevitably blows up in his face.
Also, to the Veterans Representative, how dare you willingly and openly assist in preying on Veterans! The last Vet Rep quit because of how insane the for profit business is, but you have the nerve to continue this scheme? I assume you’ve lost close friends and brothers in the military to suicide or combat. Would you tell them the same thing if they were still alive? Would you want this business to ruin them as well if they had survived? I hope you and M Johnston do some soul searching and realize this WILL not continue.
Please see my review for the sister school of SBCC. M Johnston abandoned this one as it looks like he was doing the same things then as he is now with CAU. Here ya Go, and remember, SPREAD THE WORD OF THIS CORRUPTION
The worst worst worst! They’ll raid your financial aid for the max amount with no refund and still claim you owe them. They got over $13K for one academic year that was supposed to cost $10K. And their faculty is a joke! Admin staff are rude and ignorant.
I worked for CAU, which is a subdivision of SBBC, for all of 3 months and hated it. The Pres. M. Johnson sits at the head due to nepotistic inheritance and cares only about the bottom line. They wanted me to sell (market) an overinflated aviation program using subversive and manipulative sales tactics by any means necessary to include compromising my own personal ethics-to which I resisted as much as I could.
This school is nothing more than a used car dealer selling you something you do not want or need.
Stay away. Worked there and this is a bad school. Upper management is a clueless son of the owner. He should never be in charge of a business much less of young people future. Maker yourself a favor: don’t work there and do not study there. Future of this school is bleak.,
I did the HIT with an A.S. degree. I asked all the questions I thought I needed to before I began the program and the student recruiter swore the school was accredited with AHIMA for state testing. I should have done the research myself because $27,000.00 later, they are not only NOT accredited with AHIMA, they are not regionally accredited either so no credits are transferable. Should I wish to pursue this career, I would have to redo a whole new program. I was already working in a similar field and SBBC wanted me to give them my employer information so they could use it as a placement statistic. I am not a naive person but this school sure did a number on me that I am still paying for without any financial benefit from the degree I acquired. save yourself from disappointment and debt, stay away from this school. It should be illegal for them to obtain money for student loans.
I was thinking of going there but I seen all these reviews really got me thinking
F**K THIS WHOLE SCHOOL YOU TEACH YOUR SELF ALL TEACHERS MAKE YOU DO DURING THE WHOLE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COURSES IS DO POWERPOINTS AND WATCH STUDENTS, THEY TOLD ME I WAS GUNNA GET A INVESTIGATION KIT THAT NEVER GOT, D IS A PASSING GRADE WHICH I GOT IN ONE CLASS AND THEY SAID I FAILED IT THAT I HAVE TO TAKE IT AGAIN 1200 FOR EVERY CLASS YOU TAKE WETHER ON CAMPUS OR ONLINE BULLSHIT SCHOOL AND TEACHERS THE STAFF ACTS NICE ONCE YOUR IN THERE A******S THERE SUPER STRICT ON ATTENDANCE.THER ARE PERSISTANT FOR YOU TO GET STUDENT LOANS EVEN THOUGH U HAVE MONEY CASH TO PAY FOR IT WHY???? BECAUSE THEY MAKE PROFIT AND THEY EXPECT MORE THAN HALF OF THE STUDENTS NOT BE ABLE TO PAY THERE LOANS WHIH THEY MAKE MONEY OF THE INTREST SHUT THIS FUCKEN SCHOOL DOWN IT SUCKS 32,000 IS RIDIULOUS NOT EVEN A CAL STATE SCHOOL IS THAT EXPENSIVE, SBB COLLEGE ISNT ACCREDITTED LIKE THEY SAY THEY ARE MANY PLACES WONT HIRE YOUR WITH A DEGREE FROM THEM TRUST ME , I REGRET COMMING TO THIS SCHOOL ALMOST 2 YEARS LATER I CANNOT FINISH MY ASSOCIATES DEGREE BECUASE OF HOW THE SCHOOL IS.
you will regret it no one I know that has graduated from that school has had a job in the field they studied they do not help you with jov searching they care more about the money than anything
This school should close. All for profit, and do not care for the student. Santa Barbara teachers are potheads who have no idea what theyre doing. Pathetic courses for a Medical Assistant program. Computer concepts? college success? Like really??? STAY AWAY SAVE YOUR MONEY.
THIS IS A HORRIBLE SCHOOL. I AM CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF FILING A LAW SUIT AND GETTING MY MONEY BACK. I AM OVER 10,000 IN DEBT DUE TO THIS PATHETIC SCHOOL. READ ALL THESE REVIEWS TOTAL SCAM, PATHETIC SCHOOL, I PERSONALLY FELT SMARTER THAN THE TEACCHERS THERE. AND THE PEOPLE IN FINANCIAL AID HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON.
I had my interview with SBBC and was almost convinced to go but after reading the reviews of the students…I’m not going to sign up. During my interview I did find it really weird that the interviewee keep bring up getting a load to pay for school. Also, the simple fact the this guy calls me more than my mother…more than even bill collectors.
I do not recommend SBBC to anyone! I have been going to the Santa Maria school and it is beyond pathetic! financial aid is a complete joke. NO HELP what so ever, feel like im learning nothing, highschool teachers are better then this, over all a total horrible college experience. the biggest thing of all is that it is a SCAM. you are going to be in so much debt you wont be making any money. I am glad I am dropping out before I owe even more then they have cheated me into!
Look for another college, and this statement if for those looking for education and work. This company has some great workers, however, it takes just a few people to ruin the experience. An egotistical manager befriends a staff member, creating a sorority atmosphere of vulgarity and spy on people. People are degraded here….
Please stay away. Horrible management and ownership. Things are constantly changing week to week. Instructors are paid ridiculously low wages, I’m talking $15 an hour. Keep your money and invest in community college and then transfer to a 4 year school if a bachelors degree is your goal! Sbbcollege is a joke.
no bueno. Save your money, stay out of debt.
I have been an SBBC student for more than a year, in the paralegal program also. Boy, we have had some LOSER instructors, I must tell you. None of them have masters degrees. I have had 2 or 3 attorney instructors but a couple of them were HORRID. One strayed completely away from the syllabus, giving us so many handouts and unrelated assignments, no one could keep up. Found out later that his license to practice law had been suspended a few months earlier. Another one was rude, crude and abusive, but luckily, he was fired later. I am worried about many things concerning this school. Sometimes, I feel like I won’t complete the program. What Prior Student said in his review, about so-called “general ed” courses, is very true. The class referred to as Computer Concepts – a complete and total waste of time AND MY MONEY. The Professional Resource Development class that I am also forced to take should be for students right out of high school. I have been working for more than 20 years, how dare they force me to PAY for classes like these? I do not need this kind of “education”. It should be an elective. For other students who do not work with computers, two “keyboarding” classes were removed from the curriculum AFTER enrollment, so those students were forced into law classes where instructors demanded typed assignments.
My two major concerns:living expense loan money is held until the 7th week of a 10 week term. This is money that the government holds against you the minute you request the loan, but SBBC won’t let you have it. This money should be released at the beginning of the term/quarter so that it can be used for school and living expenses. What good does it do the student to have to wait until the END of the term to get his/her own money? I am complaining to Federal Student Aid about this – it can’t be right. The other concern is that they do not follow any kind of structure as far as when a student takes what class. We are put in classes that require you know the internet, WORD or other computer programs long before we take the classes that teach those things. There are no prerequisites here. At present I am sitting in a class that is instructing me how to use Word and Excel and Power Point, and what passwords are and how to use the Internet and email. Gee – I’ve been doing all of that for 15+ years now, but yet I must answer review questions asking me what a password is and why it’s important. A class I do not need, want or that will benefit me – yet I am paying a lot of money to be forced to take it.
My advice: go to a reputable community college. Take the classes that YOU want to take for a lot less money. Your chances of getting a job will be the same as mine, but you will be smarter because you will have learned what YOU wanted to learn AND you won’t have paid $25,000-$30,000 or more for your two year education. These private schools like SBBC and Chapman surged during the recession, making the unemployed or underemployed promises of some grand future but all they really do is put you in massive debt. Stay away.
This is a waste of my money! We have rude teachers, they think that we sit on our ass all day so they give us pointless homework! Like 3 essays for an insurance class?? That’s just dumb. & then computer concepts for a medical assistant? I just wanna know a way that I can drop out & not pay anything ..?!
Glad I didnt waste my money, almost did, till they started calling like they were bill collectors, thats when I knew it was a scam in a way.
I went here from 2009-2011 and completed the Paralegal Studies A.S. program. I recommend SBBC in some ways, but in other ways, no.
Pros:
Classes are convienient. If you live in Ventura, its nice because it’s close, and one of the few paralegal programs in the area. Night classes are also offered for full time students. I enjoyed the local factor of the school.
Class size. Small, under twenty, usually smaller. Awesome, compared to community colleges where there is not much of a one on one experience.
You don’t have to create your schedule. This made school easy because they factor in what classes you have taken and what you need into your schedule each term, so you don’t have to.
Teachers. The legal teachers (I don’t know much about the other departments) are great. Most were lawyers (we had one paralegal, good thing) that knew their stuff and had worked in the field, so when you asked questions you didn’t get too many “I don’t knows”. The instructors I had were especially good at giving us hands on real experience that we would use later. I also had one of the CJ teachers for interviewing and investigation, and he was very awesome.
Internship. This is in the middle of a pro and a con. They require a 170 hour internship as part of the program. Keep in mind if you have a full time job in another field that they will not waive this. But, for people who don’t have the experience, it’s great to have this. Firms are more inclined to take an intern as part of a school program than just on your own, and law firms usually want law firm experience for hiring on. Just don’t depend on the career and internship placement program to find your internship, because they just hand you a phonebook for the most part.
Fits California’s Business and profession code’s guidelines for paralegal education. After you complete the program, under an attorney if hired you can call yourself a paralegal because you possess the proper education.
Generally respected in Ventura County, but no where else knows what this school is. Which can be good and bad.
Cons:
Besides the legal courses, coursework is not challenging. General ed here is a JOKE, I hope you read this SBBC, it was pathetic. Thank god the legal instructors put it to the next level. Also, you have to take a class called PRD which teaches you how to write resumes, etc. This should be a test-out class for working professionals, it was a sleeping class for people who already knew how to have an interview and how to dress at a job. Also, since it’s vocational, don’t expect a well rounded education with history and science courses (good and bad).
No Westlaw/Lexis subscription. This is a must for the legal field, and is provided in other paralegal programs, we only got it for one term for research and writing. It would be great if they could give this to future students, because it is essential to be able to work with these databases after graduation.
Credits. Credits are not transferrable, except places that except nationally accreddited school’s credits. La Verne is one example, even though they won’t take all credits (great school), University of Phoenix (not so great) is another example. VC won’t have anything to do with it. I would only recommend doing 2 years here, not 4, because of this factor.
ABA Approvel: No ABA Approvel, though not required under California business and professions. This would be a plus though.
Staff. Staff, in general, is unprofessional. A few are really good, but some just crawl under my skin.
In the beginning, they told me things like, some people have gone onto law school from here, and things like that. If you are just starting, take this information very lightly because it is an exceptional case. ABA law schools will not accept a degree here, Ventura College of Law may, but under certain circumstances (probably taking the baby bar).
Schedule. The cons about the schedule are pretty significant. If you drop/fail a class, of course you have to retake it, but it could hold you back a significant amount of time depending on what class it is. Also, there is NO introductory Paralegal course, so you are automatically thrown into classes like probate, criminal, research, etc. Usually the instructors are good about accomadating you, but it would be much better if there was an intro course to give people a basis. I was so lost on some of the things for a while, I would have preferred this, and this is done in other schools.
Career placement: I don’t have first hand experience with this, but I have heard from other people they it is completely unhelpful. However, Ventura isn’t the best place to find great entry level legal jobs everywhere anyway.
Extra Curricular: No extra curricular activities. This would greatly benefit the school if there were more, and the students. Once in a while there is a pizza day, but I mean clubs, extra lecture opportunities, etc.
Overall, I would not change my decision to go here because I have learned and benefited from it, and have been fairly successful despite it, but I would warn others of the problems beforehand.
Filing a federal lawsuit against them. Please email me with your stories. It will help to build a case and get al out money back. [email protected]
I am currently in my 4th term at SBB College. I have met great people and so far, only issues with one teacher (who ended up not being properly accredited and could not continue teaching there). My feelings for this institution are still about 50/50. It takes a long time to have questions answered, and students are not properly informed of changes in administration. The Dean of Students disappeared and we weren’t told he left for weeks afterward, and then the Dean of Academics was fired, and we still haven’t been officially informed of that, either – most of our info is from student rumor. But my major complaint is how they handle financial aid. The information in the student portal is not indicative of what is really going on with our money. Also, I filled out a FAFSA like everyone else, and the government funding agencies make the decision how much I am qualified for in grants and loans from that information. However, when I needed money for living expenses, the school financial aid office made me go through financial counseling and made me fill out a budget and gave me all kinds of rather insulting information about what credit and interest rates means – in other words, it was what I would have expected if I were 18 and trying to get a loan from a bank or something. I know other college students who are told they qualify for a certain amount of loans, and they asked if they want some or all of the loan, and then they get a deposit to their bank account. But here, I had to APPLY for a loan to which I am already entitled, and then was told that my loan “request” had to be reviewed by some committee to see if they were going to give me the money or not. What is this crap? I am the one paying back the money – It is MY decision if I need the money, not THEIRS. The whole process was offensive.
Anyway – I’m going to make the best of my education here and learn whatever I can. I do all of my assignments, I read everything I am given, and I am taking the responsibility for my education. I don’t know if I could recommend this college or not – the jury is still out on that. Teachers are very underpaid – but like I said, I do like the ones I’ve had so far. Good people don’t always make the best money. And I’ve made some great friends here, too – and that is also important to the whole “school experience”.
This school will take your money and leave you in debt without ever full filling a promise. I wasted a year of my life there and two years later still no job.
SBBC is a complete scam. For over $30,000 you can get a AA degree and have no shot of paying off student loans. You will be in classes with people who did not graduate college, and your instructors are also low paid hacks. They charge over $1100 for 4 credits, yet they pay instructors only $18 per hour when other institutions pay double that. You pay to dollar for classes, SBBC low balls instructors and SBBC gets rich. The owner is a control freak who wants to put cameras into the classes to make sure students don’t have any food or drinks. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL… MAJOR SCAM!