Trillium College : Oshawa
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Was accepted 6 years ago 2013 for the massage therapy program withdraw after 10 days for so many reasons I wont even get started. Paid a 500 withdrawal fee and never thought of the place again. Fast forward 6 years later I get a letter in the mail from a collection agency saying I owe Trillum college $4500 in tuition fees for a year of school I never completed.
Have spent 3 months on the phone trying to get information from trillum and guess what they have none, know nothing and the school has new owners since I attended.
What an absolute scam.
I have hired a lawyer now to deal with it but what an unprofessional awful awful school.
Dont do it.
I returned and they said I could jump back in the courses right away. They called a day before my first day back stating I would have to re do EIGHT courses and pay for that as well. I was so confused and frustrated. Unfortunately I had to leave due to the scam of the front office, mainly Martin Durlok. He was the front office chief operating officer.
He stated that he would take care of things and deal with the balance i “owed” (really did owe anything). He never retuned my calls or emails.
Last week I received mail from MAC Financial stating I owe Trillium $6000 and they took me to credit collections.
The only positive outcome of this college was the instructors. They really helped me along the way. Unfortunately they work in a scam college system.
I hope they find a better college to work in as I WOULD NOT recommend anyone to Trillium college.
The admissions coordinator sat there and told me about how wonderful the program was while I sat there and pasted a fake smile on my face. She then printed up an acceptance letter for me that had the wrong program printed on it!
I feel well and truly sorry for the folks commenting here who actually paid this place money. It’s a damned shame that organizations can get away with this sort of scam.
Dissatisfaction runs rampant within the ranks of previous, existing and past students.
This type of training will continue to happen because these businesses are fed with government funded student loans and grants.
The true test is the answer you would get if you asked a manager from one of these “colleges” whether or not they would allow their children to attend their school…I assure you they are lying if they say yes.
All decisions are made on the basis of “bums in seats”. Make a profit at all costs.
Market glamour programs, not the truth. Make up job placement stats if need be.
Employee turnover is the norm. Having a conscience is not a good thing if you are an employee as it may cloud your judgement when you are required to lie to a potential, existing or past student.
In summary, there is nothing new here. Do your research. Try and go to a community college if possible.
Research every aspect of any private career college you are considering. You are making a decision that will affect you, your family and possibly the tax payer.
Good luck
I was well prepped for the fact that you will need to attend 4 hours of lecture/lab a day with an additional 3-4 hours of homework a day to survive this course. You must also provide hands on treatment during community outreach equal to 145 hours and treatment clinic hours equalling 400 hours. Many students had trouble with this even though we were well informed of this prior to enrolment.
THIS IS NOT A CAKE WALK, if that is your expectation you should indeed look elsewhere.
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I would like to first make it clear that this review is not coming from a bitter person with awful marks. I am maintaining an average over 95%. I do my work.. and have a positive outlook. BUT , I am begging and pleading that anyone even considering this CORPORATE money grabbing facility to achieve their goals to look into a real College. I know the sound of flexible, small class sizes, and all the other fast track fast talk sounds great.. But you will be sooo much further ahead to take the time to do it right the first time. I am worried that even with these grades I am throwing my time and money out the window. I speak the truth!
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St. catharines campus is very unorganized, graduated with honors 2 years ago and still no grad pictures! had to wait 7 months for graduation. Front desk is never on task! many students that go there give a bad reputation to the school therefor nobody wants to hire a Trillium college student, very expensive too! I do not recommend this college to anybody, if you are thinking of attending college, Niagara college is the best choice!
There is a say in trillium: ” the students here weren’t admitted anywhere; Hence we can do whatever we want.
The management is instructed to mislead students. they let them spy one another.
Walk away from this hell.
Appreciate your time to write these comments to help a person like me from getting trapped. I found trillium OSHAWA campus on https://www.secondcareerontario.com … seems like its a wolf pack out there to grab money from us in the name of helping us get a job. I put in my questions and name address in secondcareerontario.com website. Within two minutes I got a call from Trillium College Oshawa. I asked simple question How much for the video gaming program and the duration. She said I need to set up an appointment to come and talk and wants to know when i’m free. She wants me to come in two hours. Seems like eager to trap me. Also told me many people bring their cousins friend family members to the appointment. I can also bring them to trap? THANK YOUUUU GUYS FOR ALL OF YOUR TIME TO WRITE THESE REVIEW. I’m OUT!!
When you apply, they will make you feel great. They will make you feel like you are doing something for your future. When you do apply and go to the registration, they will have success stories that will bring tears to your eyes, truth is, this is all part of the scam.
Everything everyone is saying on here is TRUTH. I am sitting here in my class ON FACEBOOK because e havent had text books in 3 weeks. I have learned nothing AT ALL in four months so far, I want to cry.
Campus management is a joke on every level.
There is only one purpose, one goal for Trillium College, make money, lots of it and they don’t care how that happens. How is it OSAP and the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities endorse this school. Support it?
I have taken a look at the Private Career Colleges Act, there is nothing in there to protect students from any of the above. This is Canada, 2013. How can this be? Lets make a choice for change, if you have a complaint make it to the Ministry of training colleges and universities. If they receive enough complaints they will have to do something about this. Won’t they?? Here is where you can find the form:
https://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/FormDetail?OpenForm&ACT=RDR&TAB=PROFILE&SRCH=1&ENV=WWE&TIT=58-1399&NO=022-58-1399E
It is easy to fill in and can help to make a huge difference.
Do your research, talk to existing students and check websites like this. Attend a class for the day and observe the teacher and students.
There are too many instances of hardworking people losing their money by going to schools like this.
Warning Signs:
Bad Reviews
Unhappy Students
Lack of employment/placement statistics- Ask for proof- Talk to employers.
Unhappy Staff
Lack of resources/equipment
Do the research, this decision will affect your life and family.
Good luck.
https://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/FormDetail?OpenForm&ACT=RDR&TAB=PROFILE&SRCH=1&ENV=WWE&TIT=58-1399&NO=022-58-1399E
Easy form to fill in and submit. It will make a real difference if we all submit a complaint with them, the governing body for Trillium College and all other Privage Career Colleges.
https://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/statement.pdf
https://www.quadventures.com/c1_current.php
https://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/GetFileAttach/022-58-1399E~2/$File/58-1399E.pdf
Many of my complaints are the same or similar to what many of you have written so I won’t go on and on here about that. I will say that if you are interested in attending a school that cares about it’s students, the quality of education it offers, has integrity and an ethical approach in their business, then Trillium is NOT the place for you.
The complaint process was not clearly laid out and misleading. Not that that matters anyway since they don’t follow their complaints procedure. I took my complaint to the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities. They said they can’t do anything and that I was the only one to have complained.
So what I would say to you all is: Wonderful that you are sharing on this site, it has helped me to appreciate that I was not the only one to have a bad experience with Trillium. If you want to make a real difference though contact the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities. Here is the link for the complaints form: https://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/GetFileAttach/022-58-1399E~2/$File/58-1399E.pdf
If more of us make an official complaint them perhaps they will do something about this private college they have approved of.
Other places you can contact is the Better Business Bureau, and any governing body for the profession your teacher is in if they were not qualified to teach or behaved in a less than professional manner. Some professions have very strict rules about behavior with clients and the general public when representing their profession.
There is also legal help available free of charge: Law Society – Lawyer referral – For $6, the LRS will provide the name of a lawyer who will provide a free consultation of up to 30 minutes to help you determine your rights and options. call: 1-900-565-4LRS (4577)
For human rights violations, you can find information on how to submit a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal on their website https://www.hrto.ca or by following this link: https://www.hrto.ca/hrto/?q=en/node/174.
For myself, I am contacting every organization I can think of, including this website, to get the word out there to beware of Trillium. Maybe we can all help to make a difference.
Again, thanks to all of you and your honest reviews I will most certainly take this one off of my list.
I spoke to someone at the St Catharines campus recently and asked about the success rate & the ability for students to find jobs upon course completion. She told me it was very high (in the 80%-90% range). I should have asked how many students found a job in the field that they actually studied at that school. For all I know the majority found a job all right; “would you like fries with that?”
I think I will scope out other REAL colleges so I have a better sense of security for my family’s future.
Good luck to you all. They should close these fly-by-night “schools” down. It’s not right that people are being scammed out of their hard earned money. It’s people’s lives they are playing with; their future, their family’s future. I guess they only hire individuals with no soul or conscience.
After applying to community colleges to take dental assisting I was put on waiting lists to get into their programs. Being 19 overly anxious to get into school I started looking at other options and one day my mom approached me with a Trillim college ad from the newspaper. At this point the school was fairly new and I had never heard anything about it so I made an appointment to see the registrar. I went in along with my mom and we were given the classic sales pitch and a tour of the school. The equipment and decor of the school looked very old and dated and I didn’t get the best vibe after finding out the tuition cost for my desired program was almost double that of a community college I was ready to just leave disappointed and wait until I could get into a community college. My mom however knew how eager I was to get into school and get out on the work force so she cosigned a loan for me and so the journey began. I have to say that I wasn’t disappointed in the dental assisting program and I think this was due to the fact that it was one of their longest running programs and it had always had the same instructor. There were days when I felt like the lesson plan was just thrown together or was just being made up as we went along but needless to say I got into a great placement and got a job about a week after graduating (at this point most employers weren’t aware of Trillium).
So after working for 2 years in my new career I discovered trillium was offering a dental hygiene program and decided to join up since it was next to impossible to get into dental hygiene in a community college. Most colleges get thousands of applicants and will only let in 25 at a time. This was one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made. I was even warned by a current student who was currently enrolled in the program not to join but because my first time at Trillim was mostly a positive experience I didn’t listen. I wasted over $20,000 on a program that was totally disorganized and taught by many completely incompetent
instructors. I say many because throughout the entire program we probably had 15 or more different instructors because they all kept quitting (wonder why). And the majority of them were not even qualified to be teaching our program. On numerous occasions we held meetings with heads of the school (who also were constantly in and out due to quitting) to try and sort out the numerous problems with our program and all promised us that they would do whatever they could. After those meetings we’d never hear from them again. Then when it came to the practical aspect of our course came about and we had to work in the schools clinic even more problems arose and this was the worst time for me personally. We went into it I’ll prepared because our preclinic instructor taught us more about her husband and kids than she did the course material. Students instruments (which cost an arm and a leg) started to go missing along with patient charts which we needed to keep track of our clinic points in order to write the national board exam. I went to the head administrator of my campus at the time with a list I had been keeping of the points I had accumulated and my patient charts (the ones I could find) to get her to sort things out. She took my list and I never saw it again. Next a long battle ensued between myself, my parents and the school. They never did anything to help me and tried to make me look like a bad apple and a trouble maker to my parents but they wouldn’t believe it. I couldn’t take the stress anymore and thanks to them I missed the deadline to complete my points and write the board. I dropped out of the program because it was getting me nowhere and I knew all of my money was already gone and I wasn’t going to get it back. I became severely depressed after this becaus of all the money and time that went to waste and the stress on myself and my family. I have sin e recovered and enrolled in a new program at a REAL college. For those of you over the age of 21 looking to go back to school just apply as a mature student. Each program must let in a certain number of mature students and it was easy for me to get it and the tuition cost is much much lower and the peace of mind I have knowing that I’m going to an accredited college is wonderful.
It’s been 2 years since that experience. Out of the 22 girls I started the program with only about 10 ended up completing it and only 2 have been able to find employment out of province because no one hires Trillium grads anymore. Please if you are considering going to this scam of a school DON’T DO IT!!!!!!!!!
The teacher’s at Trillium and other private career colleges only have to have experience in the area of study. They often have little or no teaching training or experience. The teachers are also often people who are exiting the industry they were working in for various reasons. They are certainly not doing it for the money (Private Career Colleges don’t pay their teachers very much). Often they are doing it because they are sick of the industry they were working in, they are retiring, or they can’t find work in their field. The result is that you don’t know who will be teaching you. You might get lucky and have a great teacher, or you might not. Most of the positive comments listed about Trillium are actually more focused on the teacher, not the school. Most of the negative comments focus on a bad teacher and how poorly the school deals with their complaints.
The registrars at Trillium College will tell you that their courses are more streamlined. This means that all unnecessary components of the course have been removed so you can finish the course more quickly and get back into the work force. The problem is that these so called unnecessary components are actually often needed. A common complaint about private career college graduates is that they don’t have the solid foundation that graduates from community colleges have. Often the students can’t write a paragraph, let alone think critically. The courses also have often lowered the amount of required work placement to the bare minimum. This means that students arriving with a private career college are often not ready to work; especially compared to the students they are competing with who have gone to the superior community college. The employers know this, and guess who they hire.
The argument Trillium College uses to refute the idea that their students are not as ready as students from community colleges is that 90% of their graduates find jobs. The thing they don’t tell you is that this statistic includes all colleges. Community colleges also use this statistic. Which one do you think is telling the truth? The truth is that the employment rate for graduates from private career colleges is much lower, and from Trillium College, a private career college with a pretty poor reputation, even lower still.
The other statistic that I was quoted when I met with a registrar at the Oshawa campus was that 84% of those who enter the course graduate. I have a university degree, but when I said I that I had no idea where by paper degree was, the registrar said I could also just write their entrance exam to get in. I did this, and the test took 12 minutes. 12 minutes to write a very easy assessment and I was considered ready to go. Then the guy expected me to sign a contract. When I pointed out that the entrance test was a joke, the registrar pointed out that 84% of the students graduate. Either the statistic is a lie, or you pretty much have to be brain dead to fail out of a course. Yet another reason employers don’t hire Trillium College graduates. I should also point out that I found out later that the registrars at Trillium work on commission. If they get you to sign up, they get $$. More the approach of a used car lot than a college.
The Ministry of Colleges and Universities that oversees all colleges needs to do a better job and set better standards, but right now they aren’t. Trillium College and other private career colleges know how much they can get away with and are willing to sacrifice quality for profit. If you can’t go to a real college, then make sure you meet the instructor and ask detailed questions about their work and teaching background. The teacher is the only friend you will have at Trillium College or at most other private career colleges. If you have any other choice for getting an education, take it. Do not trust Trillium College.
I signed up for a course at Trillium College in St Catharine’s to take a course in Care of Elderly in nursing facility.
Early in the course I mentioned nutrition and supplements as a way to help the patients and was immediately put down and ridiculed for this comment. The teacher was part of the ridiculing and encourages the class to do likewise. This resulted in name calling and bullying for the duration of the course.
I was ridiculed because of my European accent, soft voice also ridiculed because of my age, and nationality. They called me gypsy, of whom I am not; I am a white Caucasian person.
I was harassed by the fellow students continually and when I went to the director, but she did nothing.
Some students came in and they were displaying substance abuse which was obvious to all. The teacher treated me disrespect the entire term of the course, even though I had a grade average 95 %. This high grade caused the class to further ridicule me since only one other had high marks.
This harassment and intimidation continued the entire length of the course and I was in no position to quit since I wanted this course in order to work and they had already taken my $8000.00 being the price of this training.
During the practical exam in the nursing home the instructor Sharon created an atmosphere of hovering over me 100% of the time making me nervous and causing me a great deal of anxiety with her condescending comments and behavior. This caused me to be very nervous and caused me to miss a safety belt on one patient. Sharon the instructor even indicated that I was finished the procedure even though the belt had not been applied.
She was in such a close proximity constantly distracted me with senseless chatter, causing me great anxiety where I should have been calm and able to do my work.
As a result she failed me because I missed the safety belt. Subsequently the Collage demanding that I had to the course again where I only should do the practical.
She was watching me constantly but none of the other students, during this test the some of the other students harassed me and Sharon did nothing and not one of them failed.
I want the private collage to reimburse the cost of this useless course. Further more I wish compensation for pain and suffering.
I enclose the list of the student complain take from the Collage complain website.
This constant harassment and intimidation caused me nervous anxiety as well as additional mental stress resulting in lack of sleep, lost of apatite and over all well being diminishing quality of life.
Violet Talabar
https://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/postsecondary/schoolprgrams/pcc/
At bottom of page at #4 is a form any student can complete and submit if not satisfied with a course or program at the Private Career College to document your issue and even try to have it resolved.
Ask questions before enrolling in any career college. What is the placement rate? Get names of employers, graduates and talk to existing students. Some schools take advantage of you when you are at a low point and vulnerable. Check the web for other reviews…beware if a pattern of complaints emerges.
Education is not something you can “fast track”. This isn’t fast food, this is your livelyhood, money and future that’s on the line. Take the time to enroll into a real school. You might even have time to get in for January intake, September is out for sure. – Unless the program has a low demand, then you might be able to make it in.
Take it from someone who went to a private college in the hopes of bettering himself. – I went through absolute hell at Westervelt College, and the dean of students and college director actually condoned it! Teacher made up lies about me and did everything possible to get me out of the school. I’m not back doing what I was before, and even more miserable than ever.
I live in the Niagara region, and after meeting with the monotone registrar i just thought it had to be a scam,(too good to be true) never the less i stupidly signed up for the program.
AFTER doing my own research into the careers you can choose after getting this diploma, all 10 of the places i called (Niagara region community services, Ontario works, subsity, project share, BISH, and community living.and more…) NONE of them will accept the TRILLIUM college fake diploma (NONE!!) and told me the only one accepted was at Niagara college SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER COURSE.
EVEN the monotone registrar told me one example, so i called, and the HR lady nicely told me that their experience with trillium college was terrible, and they would never hire anyone from there.
DO NOT waste 12 thousand dollars on this course, its like one of those “get rich, quick” scams….
it seams good, and your not going to get anything at the end of it.
LOOK into all of your options before you sign up. whats the point of spending 12 thousand dollars and a year of your life, if you cant get hired after anywhere.
Have fun trying to get ANYTHING out of these people, worse then pulling teeth.
They promise small class sizes, but welcome ANYONE who wants to join at anytime, full well knowing it will cause problems. Some people end their programs with Orietation (tour of the campus LOL). Some people start midway, and others are lucky and actually start with the first module they are supose to. One class size actually reached 1 instructor and 38 people!!!!!!! Seems like some good teacher to student ratio to me…NOT. No one has a CLUE what is going on, what module is next, what class they will teach next. I have yet to see anything top my list of disorganization because this school is by FAR the least organized i have ever seen any BUSINESS. You should probably wear a t-shirt and bring a sweater everyday because its never nice, its either a sauna, or the north pole in the building. Sometimes you cant get into your classroom ….because the doors are locked, and apparently it is a good idea for ONE person to have a key in the entire place.
The Campus Manager is nice, but her sole purpose is to make everyone happy and not realize this school is a SCAM, which it is. We used tiny crappy acer laptops, you could barely see the screen let alone type well. Nothing is ergonomically set up. They hire instructors who are incapable of doing their job. I can honestly not think of one good thing to say about this school, please save your money, i wish i did.
Unless you think that we have fallen off the turnip truck…..then your pathetic excuse for a registrar with his office full of inappropriate photos of himself and his wife (including her in a bikini and himself with no shirt on showing off his tattoos) and unprofessional language and attitude is a disgrace!!! This is NOT a school…this is a carefully orchestrated CON and a business with commissions that doesn`t give a hoot about education!!!!