Career Networks Institute

When I first saw all the negative reviews I was hesitant about applying here but I went against my gut and applied. This place will suck you dry of money even before you have a seat in a program and then will ghost you. Patty acts like she cares and she is great at her job FAKING it but the minute you are no longer valuable to their pockets SILENCE, no responses. Save your money and go elsewhere. Wait for the community college programs. Like many of you who are applying for the nursing program you were probably like me, tired of waiting lists and denials even with high TEAS and Excellent GPA. But believe me, do not put your future in these money hungry peoples hands. Wait another year and get into a program where the people care and want you to succeed. If you want to dump your money somewhere, do it at West Coast or American Career College, anywhere but here.

I saved almost 120k by NOT going here. Waiting for a CC program which was paid for 100% by financial aid.

I signed up for the Pharmacy Technician program in October and right from the beginning, there were a lot of issues. I was referred by a graduate from the school and spoke to a rep Patty at CNI who is definitely an asset to CNI College - without her, I would have probably went somewhere else due to the continue frustration from the Financial Dept.

When I went to the school to take the initial tests and passed, the financial rep introduced herself but didn't even have any eye contact with and was clearly focused on some other matter. Then I received a quote which was difficult to read since the Financial rep used a bolded font that was too large to make out clearly then when I did, her calculations were incorrect. Patty referred me to the Director of Finance who took my concerns through one ear and out the other. Attempting to justify the $14k difference between the costs of CNI & Santa Ana College, they made it very difficult to make the decision but when I signed up I did meet several incredible classmates which I have stayed in contact with.

The director of the program would continuously use bad judgment when voicing her opinion about other students, staff and the other schools the owners provide by basically throwing the under the bus each time. The Director of Education of the school had 3 different people in 9 months and the last being the worse in my opinion. Both directors would ask for suggestions of improvement and when you provided them, they would take it personal and didn't mention that they would consider the matter to be valid when clearly it was.

For example, in my case, according to the state's requirements, I completed the number of hours to submit my license's application in February but the school didn't submit it until April. To date, I have graduated and I still don't have my license which has made it extremely difficult to seek employment. My fellow classmates are in the same predicament and the students we've had to compete with at other schools have their licenses.

Both directors act as if they have done a favor by sending in the applications prior to completion as stated in the paperwork in the beginning and have not indicated ever that they would correct their procedure that clearly sabotage their students rather than help them so I would definitely think twice before signing up for CNI since there were additional issues with the school that I can go more detailed with so feel free to inquire if you so desire.

In all fairness, there were some helpful people and some good resources but overall, I would never recommend anyone to attend CNI - in fact, I would definitely strongly advise against it entirely!!!

Luckily, I was able to find employment on my own since the career center was extremely ineffective especially since they were provided the info that I had a job then followed up with me months later to "help" me and since they have a high turnover at the school and there's definitely a lack of communication, I was contacted like I need their help - NOT!!!

I attended this school for 11 months in the personal trainer program. I was there in 2012 and in that time not a single person passed there final exam. There was only 2 teachers and it was all power point teaching and then you get to go do what you want in the gym for the 2nd half of the day. I feel the program was EXTREMLY over priced for what I recieved. I could have got the same training for under $1,000 and that cost $17,000. How so? They also dont have a direct veterans affairs counslor so I had many problems starting my post 9/11 GI Bill there with the lack of information on the part of CNI. Veterans beware!!!