Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts : Southfield
Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts : Southfield is a established in (unknown). The campus is located in and hosts students with an endowment of .
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For example, if your interest is in broadcast reporting and you attend a four-year university, major in communications or journalism AND volunteer to participate in the on-campus television news program, you should be able to learn everything you would learn at Specs Howard without spending any additional money. In light of this, the $17,000 in tuition and fees required by Specs Howard is probably better spent toward the first year or two at a four-year public university; just make sure you participate in a television, radio or news program while you are there.
Depending on what you are looking to get out of a program like Specs Howard, you should weigh your alternatives. In this era, there are online coding and web design certificate programs offered by major universities (e.g., Washington University and Oregon State University) which cost between $2,000 and $6,000. For the same expense as Specs Howard attendance, you would be able to complete multiple certificate programs from schools with far more national recognition AND have money remaining in the bank. To acquire a certification attached to a wider range of general business skills, the University of Georgia offers a nine-month online executive certificate in entrepreneurship for around only $1,000!
Finally, before you attend a school like Specs Howard, you should consider all of the variables. If you are tied to a family, you probably will not be able to travel and perform the jobs you qualify for with a Specs Howard diploma. In fact, in the absence of a four-year degree sitting on your resume alongside the Specs Howard diploma, your number-one asset you bring to the table will probably be your willingness to live uncomfortably for a few years for the sake of acquiring experience.
Speaking quite generally, it is difficult to recommend Specs Howard’s programs to people if you fit any of the following criteria:
1. You are a parent, single or otherwise.
2. You are over the age of 25.
3. You need to stay in the city you already live in for any reason.
4. You need to take out student loans.
This final one may be the least considered and the most important. Most Specs Howard broadcasting graduates qualify for minimum-wage broadcasting jobs… IF they are able to acquire them. This means, in order to financially justify the expense of the school, the student will need to make an additional $1,000 per year as a result of the Specs Howard education than they would have earned without it FOR 17 YEARS just be BREAK EVEN on the financial equation.
I wouldn’t be surprised if for every Specs Howard success story, there are AT LEAST two former students (and probably even more) who feel taken advantage of because they didn’t weigh the risks, and didn’t realize they were in no position to capitalize on the window of opportunity Specs Howard is able to open for people lacking other, better, less-risky options.
The majority of comments on this review were posted by an insufficient group of people due to their lack of effort. If you want to learn how to shoot footage, edit, write scripts, graphic design, apply audio, become an overall professional this IS THE PLACE TO BE. Here is a tip, go in to something that you want to do!!!!! I have experienced many struggles in my life and my experience at Specs (which is currently happening) has been nothing but enthusiastic, REALISTIC, and EXCITING. People go here and think a job will be handed to them. Here is the main point, they will teach you how to be GOOD at what you want to do, and then it is UP TO YOU TO MARKET YOURSELF. Clearly you people are NOT SELF SUFFICIENT!!! SPECS HOWARD IS AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT FALSE PROPHETS THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO KEEP IT REAL!!!!!!!!!
This school will teach you some of what you need to know for the media industry. But I felt I was misled by them. When I first interviewed it seemed like they were promising the world to me. But as I drew closer to graduation they were suddenly telling us that, “We can’t get you a job. You have to do it yourself. Use Craigslist….blah blah blah.” It was a totally different attitude than when they were trying to get me to enroll. I did end up get one job through them. But it didn’t last very long (they laid me off) and didn’t pay very much.
Also they tell you that after you graduate, you can still use the school’s equipment to work on your demo reel any time you need to, but they always gave me a hard time about that. Even just transferring my material from DVCPRO to Data DVD so I could send it to employers. They gave me a hard time about it and acted like they had no obligation to me whatsoever.
The career services department is not very helpful. They don’t return calls/emails, and it seemed like I had to be on them constantly, and then they acted like I was hounding them (which I probably was because I was out of work and needed a job!). Eventually they just quit returning my emails and calls.
So now I am on my own. I have learned more on my own than anything I learned in those classes. Looking back I can say this school is out to get your money, but when it comes time for them to deliver on their end, they are nowhere to be found. It’s more or less a racket, in my experience.
Specs Howard School of Broadcast Art is all about making money. They don’t care if you learned something or not. They will lie to you just to get you into there programs, and if you ask for assistance when you are in need they will try to avoid you or say they did not get your e-mails. The jobs offered after graduation are minimum wage jobs.