I have no idea why this specific Fortis location isn't on Yelp. I've seen other Fortis locations…read morelisted, but they have different addresses, so to be clear, this review is for the Fortis Institute located at 450 N Sam Houston Pkwy E, Ste 200, Houston, TX 77060. I attended this school for the Medical Assistant program to work toward becoming a CCMA (Certified Clinical Medical Assistant). At the beginning, my experience was okay and I didn't have many issues with my classes or instructors. However, as I got further into the program, my experience started to change. There were three staff members in particular that I had issues with. 1. Ms. Marin: I later found out that she would talk about me and my friends, and there were times when she would call us out in front of the entire class in a way that made us feel singled out or less than everyone else. I don't think students should be made to feel embarrassed in front of their classmates, especially by an instructor. 2. Ms. Nun: Whenever I had class with her, I felt like we barely learned anything. I specifically remember my friends and I asking if we could go through the skills list and practice different things to see what we still remembered and what we needed more help with. We were trying to make sure we were actually prepared, but our request was basically ignored and we barely practiced anything. 3. Ms. Moxcley: Toward the end of the program, we were told that we would receive assistance with finding employment. I remember reaching out to her multiple times about finding a job, but I would either receive no response or very little communication. Because I wasn't getting anywhere, I recently contacted Ms. Goss for help finding an MA position. I explained that I'm specifically interested in working as a Medical Assistant in an OB/GYN clinic. She told me she would call me. When she called, I happened to be busy and missed it, but I returned her call shortly afterward. She didn't answer, so I sent her a message letting her know I had called back and was available. This happened Tuesday. By Friday, I still had not received a response to any of the messages I sent afterward. I finally sent another message, and she responded saying she would call me "momentarily." I waited about two hours and still did not receive a call. That is what finally pushed me to leave this review. One of the things students are told is that Fortis will help them with employment after completing the program. In my experience, once you're finished with the school, getting that help has been extremely frustrating. Messages go unanswered, communication is inconsistent, and the employment assistance I was told I would receive has not been what I expected. I also don't understand the point of asking students what area they want to specialize in as an MA if the positions they are being directed toward aren't related to what they said they were interested in. I understand that nobody can guarantee you a specific job, but there is a difference between not being able to guarantee employment and simply not communicating with a former student who is actively asking for assistance. I completed my program and I'm genuinely trying to start my career and put my education to use. I'm not asking anyone to hand me a job. I'm asking for the career assistance and communication that we were told would be available to us. Unfortunately, my experience trying to receive that assistance has been extremely disappointing.

My name is Tamika, and I am a recent graduate and a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant(CCMA) from…read moreFortis Institute North Campus. And I wanted to take this time to recognize these two ladies, Tammy Buster and Vivian Goss, who work in the Career Services Dept at the Fortis Institute North Campus. They are so amazing, ladies, and they helped me in getting the remote current job that I just started a week ago. From the bottom of my heart, words can't express how much they mean to me, and I know at times I would get on their nerves with the many text messages and emails, but they truly were able to see how driven and eager I was to work in a rewarding career. They saw how passionate I was in helping people and making a difference in my patients' lives and healthcare as a whole. Thanks to these two ladies, I am now able to begin my healthcare journey and one day become an RN and then a Doctor!

Honestly disappointed with this campus. I know it's peak…read moreseason and they're busy. But I've emailed them so many times this week and they've probably only answered 2 emails. I've sent a lot and I feel at this point they're ignoring me the calls as well. They just put me on hold for longer than 40 minutes. Or just answer the phone and put it on hold without saying anything. I simply just need them to add me into a class that's already started that the professor gave me access to enroll. And student services are the only ones that can do it. So I'm quite disappointed. I've already gone to campus also redo this week as well.

First off, let me just say trying to log onto to get onto your student email that's hanging up on…read more Microsoft is a hassle. I have called and throated five emails to admissions. Department very rude. They Boyd was very rude yelled at me even though my professor changed the course times and the schedule that overlapped with my current course for which was Texas history why do we have to take Texas history? It's just a waste of them making more money which in fact he had no right hit the panic button. Let's call the campus police because he's yelling at me and once Man forces me to take a course it overlaps and says it meets in 30 minutes on their screen, and I have the paperwork that printed it otherwise this university can't get their act together to save their life you have you have the admissions clerks that don't know what they're doing the registrar as well as the professor changes their students the first day of class rooms and rosters. I wasn't even on the roster for biology which I had to drop which I'm getting my money back. It's just a mess on the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing and people just do whatever they want their departments at the cost of the Student stay away from this college. You're better off going and getting your education from a foyer institution all they want to do is take your money and not give you the tools to succeed. I have decided to just register myself. It's not worth the effort to waste gas to go down there and wait for two hours knowing full well your course will overlap. I am going to warm up my voter registration card and change because our educational system is failing.

The campus is clean with plentiful parking spaces and an overall nice design. There are a total of…read morethree buildings if you include the central plant, and there's a good amount of landscape and trees on the campus and in the surrounding areas. There is a nice welcoming signage with floral beds out in the entrance that's great for pictures!

Horrible school. They promise the teaching will be interactive, full of discussions from the…read moreteacher and the students, informative, and beneficial, however, it's not. The teachers never interacted with the students. Heck, I only heard from them at the beginning and end of the class. The class consisted of "read these pages and answers these questions" for a computer science course! This was a hands on course and the learning was where? The financial aid office has no clue what they are doing. Check and double check your loans and grants! Make sure they are not messing yours up! They sure did mine. Worst of all, when you need to get ahold of people in the dean's office, they will not answer you. They either throw your messages away or just don't bother responding to messages and emails. Avoid at all costs.

Our Lady of the Lake University took a chance on me when I began work there prior to obtaining my…read moredegree. As a transfer student myself, I whole-heartedly understood the transfer process, which contributed to the success I found in recruiting students at The Lake. OLLU is a small campus, and its size is one of the many things I love! I have studied at other accredited institutions and found that I learned best in an environment where the class size was small. Additionally, I was able to work in small groups, which I really enjoyed during the end of my business degree. I also had the opportunity to take online classes through the main campus. Not all my classes were face-to-face or 8-weeks long, but I enjoyed the length of some of my 8-week classes less than some of the other courses where I had more time to complete my work, reading, and assignments. During all my time as a student, and all the places I was fortunate to study, some of my favorite professors taught at Ollu. All professors at Ollu have experience, are qualified, and care about their students. Most adjunct at other accredited institutions, too. Ollu allowed me the opportunity to continue working, providing for my family, and finishing my degree part-time. Although Ollu has received some feedback that is not great in the past, overall, I find it a wonderful opportunity for students who are interested in going back to school while they work. If you are committed to your completing your degree and are willing to take responsibility for your education like I did, Ollu is great! I used all the services that were available to me in the end. I was patient, and I did not rush the completion of my degree. The financial aid office at Ollu helped me get my financial aid back on track so I could finish, too. I think Ollu Houston deserves between 3 and 4 stars, so I will round up and give them 4 stars. I am very grateful for my degree and have met many students, past and present who are very grateful to Ollu, too. The current director has overcome many obstacles along the way and has been there for at least five years now, even though there is still a slightly higher turnover, which is unfortunate. Many students, myself included, are grateful to her, as well.

Please avoid attending this university for a graduate degree in the MBA program . The staff is very…read moreunorganized and unprofessional. The leaders of the graduate department do not assist you towards success. The academic advisors are incompetent and will consistently give you misleading information.    I'm sure that the low cost of tuition will appeal to you, but it's not worth it if you have to constantly deal with unprofessional people.  The MBA program once had potential.  I believe that it's really important that the university reevaluates it's staff and hires people who truly have a passion to assist scholars on their path to success. I am truly in disbelief that there are coordinators and advisors that are easily confused and present themselves to be frustrated. Several people need to be retrained on phone etiquette and how to appropriately respond to emails. I believe that it's not appropriate to portray poor mannerisms, gestures, and behaviors.   I graduated from this university as an electrical engineer and recruited thousands of students to attend PVAMU. I am truly disappointed and in disbelief that the business program does not have professional people helping you towards your future success. I believe that this university should no longer operate as a "university." I do believe that the Northwest campus would be a good college instead of a university.

Pretty nice campus with friendly staff, but I was only here to vote! The lines were really really…read morelong so I went to the Fairfield Hotel on Gessner right before Beltway 8 and voted. I was in and out under 10 minutes!

Nice and clean campus! The building is fully brick and it feels comfortable inside. It is on the…read moresmaller side got a university but that is because it is focused on online education. The employees are really friendly and helpful. If they have the classes that I need, I wouldn't mind taking classes from them because they are all about helping you succeed in your educational goals.

I applied and they tried to charge me tuition! Never signup for classes and never went to school…read more Extremely shady.

I attended this school to sit for a certification test. The facility was easy to find, clean, and…read morethe testing room was perfect. I would use this location again for testing.

The staff is very helpful which is hard to find in schools. I would highly recommend this school…read morebecause I've learned so much here than the last schools I've gone to.

To whom it may concern:…read more February 23, 2015 I am a student at Everest Houston Greenspoint enrolled in the Information Technology Program. I first met with the admissions manager on or about the 1-20-15 and again on 1-27-15 when I decided to enroll. I choose Everest because I was led to believe it was well run, with an easy to understand but challenging IT program taught by a highly educated professor with a reputation for being a good instructor. I was led to believe that I would be enrolling in a program that would get me ready to enter the workforce with the right knowledge and certifications that employers are looking for. I began a day late on the 28th of February 2015. I did not receive orientation. I did received a syllabus, reading material, a backpack, IT tool kit and shirts. I also did not receive my computer until February 2nd or my external hard drive (WD My Passport) until the 5th. Since the beginning of school to the present date 2-23-15 many red flags have gone up. 1)There was only one instructor for two classes happening simultaneously; which forced both classes to share part of our 4 hrs 2)The class was not geared towards beginners, as my admissions manager had said. She said "The instructor shows you everything from how to turn on the computer all the way up" My first and only class was over Linux and Mac (two separate operating systems) 3)The internet speed is inadequate to conduct classes that rely on computers to produce work and learn. I have 11 speed tests done over 6 days at various times to prove this. 4)There were no lectures or step by step demonstration done by the instructor; with exception of 2 YouTube videos. 5)The syllabus was not followed. There was a test given before it appeared on the syllabus and out of the 4 weeks I attended we only got through week 1 of the syllabus. 6)The work that was done was not able to be turned in. The instructor would not accept it until he finished his portal; which wasn't ready until 2-16-15 and to date has not been graded. This allows no way for students know if what we had completed and studied to be correct or not. 7)February 20th there was nothing for students who were done with their work to do since there were no Week 2 handouts or labs given to us but there was a due date for the work of February 23rd at 11:59pm. (We did not receive them that day or over the weekend) 8)February 23rd I arrived at school to find out from 3 of my classmates that the Professor would not be coming back to class. He had called or texted those students to deliver the news. We sat without an instructor the entire day. As of today, February 24th, I have withdrawn from this school. I have asked to not be billed beyond materials used and 10 days of instruction time. The Director of Education and the Finance Department informed me that only the Campus President could make adjustments to the billing and he declined to meet with me. This situation, as everything thus far, has been handled poorly. It is my experience that the statements made by admissions are misleading and all together incorrect. The Instructors are spread too thin and lack the organization necessary to effectively lead a classroom. The school is not set up to properly to run high speed internet to support an Information Technology program and the campus President shifts blame on what has transpired to the students instead of taking responsibility and agreeing to meet with students who have been so profoundly affected. I only hope that this and the other reviews I have posted save future students of being robbed of their time and money by an institute that is not qualified to run an IT program.

From the owner: We know you only want to learn what you need. And you want to learn it fast. We get that. Here are…read more10 ways Everest prepares students for real-world success: 1. Hands-On Training: You'll learn by doing, using professional techniques and tools. 2. Small Work Teams: You'll get personal, one-on-one training to make sure you understand each skill. 3. Flexible Class Scheduling: Day and evening classes let you work full time. Programs and schedules vary by campus. 4. Experienced Professionals: Your classes are led by instructors with real-world experience. They'll give you the inside knowledge to help you be successful in your career. 5. Student Finance Planners: We'll help you identify ways to make school more affordable. 6. Modern Equipment: You'll get trained on the kind of tools and equipment that professionals use. 7. Career Services Assistance: Our full-time placement staff is dedicated to helping you put together winning resumes, getting ready for interviews and finding full-time employment opportunities. 8. Timely Program Offerings: You'll get trained in programs that are designed to prepare you for employment in careers that are hiring now. 9. Learning Centers: You can get extra help from instructors to help you keep up or to get on the fast track. 10. Online Courses: For your convenience, we offer several courses online. Check individual campuses for details. Not all programs are available online or in all states.