New York City College of Technology

Like another reviewer, I too despise this school due to its competence. I am also a transfer from Kingsborough with Kingsborough’s full communication design degree. Going to City Tech, they are supposed to accept all credits and the degree. They did, except they missed a few courses so it said my associate degree was incomplete on degree audit; it claimed my work was incomplete for months.
First time coming here to register for classes, I waited on three lines for a total of 1.5 days worth of hours. I could’ve went to Cancun and back with all this time. The general advisor I had an appointment with did not know how to work with my classes because my degree audit did not recognize a lot of courses. He added a course that eventually decided to be dropped as a requirement for my degree (in the middle of the semester), so I basically wasted my time taking it. At the same time, I saw an actual COMD (Communication Design) advisor who dropped one of my psychology courses claiming it’s not a requirement but it actually was.
He also claimed that my unrecognized courses on my Degree Audit will «fix» after he emails this specific person. When I asked him a few weeks later when this problem will be solved, he told me to be patient and that «things don’t just happen, it takes time». Due to this broke degree audit, I wasn’t able to register for the right courses in the next semester, so I took extra time out of my schedule to come back here and speak to an advisor who wasn’t even supposed to help me. She worked to do registration for Veteran students only. She told me that this degree audit issue would NOT have fixed had I left it alone and didn’t bother coming to her.
After that was «fixed», I registered for courses but now half the COMD courses were not available to me because they all claimed pre-​requisites that don’t even exist anymore! When I try to get this new problem fixed with an advisor, he told me he input me to take this specific course and that it should be approved either «today» or the day after. It was not approved and the courses all closed after.
No one in the COMD department wants to help at all. I had to speak to one person specifically and after stalking her on my free time (paying and traveling 1.5 hours to this college and back for multiple days), she always has some excuse. She never answers phone calls or emails. just like the rest of the COMD department never does either.
People in this school don’t care about how hard you try to get your class in and going. They don’t care if you wasted your time taking a course they decided wasn’t required anymore. If I didn’t need actual help from these people, I wouldn’t even bother. But this was a problem that only the staff could override for me.
Other than that, this college is alright. It’s in a decent location. The cafeteria food choices are poor, there’s only black and white printing. no COLOR printing at all in any part of the college, and the fact I had to walk down a floor and to the next building to use the restroom is ridiculous. The wifi in this place is terrible beyond belief, can never access it.
If you’re like me and you’ve been rejected by FIT due to their stank pretentious overview of «we will purposely reject you to make our university look more prestigious», and can’t afford Parsons or Pratt, then this is the place you’re probably going to end up in. It’s affordable and some of my COMD professors actually do push you hard to design, but how can I experience all this stuff when they can’t fix my damn degree audit and approve the courses I could take?!
The fact that every single time I try to get help, the faculty always wants you to come in person, even if it’s something that takes them 5 minutes to do on the computer. I wasted countless hours and days traveling back and forth to this school just to «fix» things and only to have those things unfixed or have a different problem. No one in this COMD department (or maybe the institution in general) truly values in helping you succeed.
We are all adults. We know responsibility. The attendance rule is just plain stupid. I could tolerate having only two absences. But I can’t stand the fact that for 3+ hour NIGHT courses, a professor forces you to stay to the last minute even though they aren’t lecturing. If you leave in the middle or even 5 minutes early, you’re going to be penalized. I would’ve liked to leave early to avoid the dangers of commuting in public transportation at night, and just do my projects at home, but apparently that’s not allowed. like we’re 5^th grade kids or something. Terrible.

Studying here for already 3 years. Now at the Dental hygiene program. I like the stuff, but program overall is hard. A lot of days per week, day section starts very early, and you have to find your own patients. Overall faculty are very friendly and well educated!

Save your time and money and go to a technical/​trade school if you’re attending citytech for something other than culinary art, design related field, nursing, art, and English. City tech seems like nothing more but a stepping stone made out of bodies from a graveyard full of your average Joe/​Jane. This stepping stone was specifically created for your A+ students and staffs. The fact that people like Vladimir Boyko are teaching there just proves of how much of a joke this institution is. Mostly every staff member in there will have little sympathy for you and will give you that tough luck you’re an adult attitude.
Hey professor, can you speak up?
tough luck you’re an adult
I cant understand a thing you’re saying
tough luck you’re an adult
I’m paying a $ 1000 for this class
tough luck you’re an adult
Out of my own pocket from my blood, sweat, and tears
tough luck you’re an adult
You’re really not doing anything but reciting what’s stated on the book page by page
tough luck you’re an adult
Hey buscar
tough luck you’re an adult
Hey registrar
tough luck you’re an adult
hey so and so department
tough luck you’re an adult
…
tough luck you’re an adult
If you want to see tom smykowski’s 9 – 5 experience from the movie Office Space just go to citytech and look at the staff. Let me know if you saw a smile. Ironically they’re building some sort of fancy gym to attract more students that will then act as fertilizer for the top 1%.
If I didn’t have that «I started something, I must finish it» mentality then I wouldn’t have wasted two years of my life in this institution. I can finally see why a majority are transferring out after getting their AAS even when city tech is also offering a BS in the same program.
Glad I’m done with this over glorified high school where most staff members will belittle their students/​customers.

Graduated from this school 3 years ago & am still trying to figure out if this place is a college or high school.
I would advise any new comers to take a tour of this school (on you’re own) & just see how they operate (students, facility & administration).
There are a good amount of professors that do care & are willing to help if you put in the time & effort but that’s only the 15%.
Horrible experience, school is horrible looking in terms of bathrooms, cafeteria, classrooms, out of service elevators, neighborhood.
Don’t go

I am currently as transfer student from Kingsborough to City Tech. The school’s Registrar office staff members and procedures are what makes me want to take away two stars from this review. The college’s help desk is useless when you call them about something, anything, because all they can do is nothing besides telling you to come in in person to do what you need help with. When I asked during my call to the help desk, first of all it took me many tries and different days but eventually I got a hold of them, the guy that answered gave me the wrong room number to go to. I went in before school started and was directed to go to another room instead which can «better» assist me. In the end I needed to get an ID card for this school to be helped because I couldn’t ask them to help me access my information without confirming that I was student here and that I am who I said I am. So I went to the room to apply for my ID but it was after 5 and it had closed.
The orientation I attended left me more disoriented than before I came in for it. They showed us a video of graduating students dancing and making announcements for 45 minutes from youtube. Such a boring waste of my time. None of the information they provided during the orientation answered any questions. The only thing that helped was that they got all the students in the orientation to line up to get to talk to a academic adviser. She was nice and didn’t mind spending a little extra time on me unlike the rest of the staff members that help students out with technical stuff.
I have never used the elevators except when classes were over and it was time to go home because despite that they had 6 big elevators, there’s always a line. There’s even a person there to manage the line.
I feel like I’m going to have to take the path of many Unilocalers here who attend this school as well, which is going around the failed system in trying to get to where I need, and that would be graduating and getting the hell outta here.
I’ve heard a lot of mixed opinions about the food in City Tech’s cafeteria but no doubt it’s expensive food. Some people say it’s really good and that I should give it a try sometime. Also that it would be worth the money. Some people complain it’s terrible and cannot believe that the school is charging that much for their food. Also I’ve had students swear they have gotten sick from the food and it was food poisoning. So far, I haven’t tried the food yet. A student in which I met from playing a game also goes to City Tech and he showed me to the «gaming area» in the cafeteria of City Tech. So there’s that.
KBCC V.S. City Tech
This college feels more like a real adult school than Kingsborough which felt like I was still going to high school. The fact that KBCC baby sat me could be one of the reasons why I can’t navigate around a real college but that doesn’t explain the carelessness and the rudeness of the registrar office people, help desk, or anyone you can reach out for for help. They always act like they can’t wait to get home and hate the unending line of students who need help. Maybe if the system was more capable of actually helping us out than sending us around then there’ll be less students lining up for their «help».
If you’re going for evening classes, everything is closed.
The ID cards actually function to let you into the school unlike Kingsborough’s ID cards which only needed to access your info and get through security checks which happen from time to time.
Kingsborough has pretty good wi-​fi. You can even play league almost smoothly on it. There’s NO wi-​fi or at least none that I know of in City Tech. Why is this? I wouldn’t have a clue.
Anyways, the professor are what I give my 3 remaining stars to after the rest of the staff help lose 2. Very professional and inspiring for students. I haven’t been in a huge lecture hall yet if there is classes like that here, but in a 30 – 40 student classroom (yep, classrooms are big, or at least the amount of students allowed in each course section is) there’s a lot of help and communication between professor and students and a timely fashion. The professors are also extremely passionate about the topics they are teaching which helps inspire me in classes that I am taking as just a prerequisite. I actually can enjoy classes that I don’t think I would need in my major or my future career but a credit is a credit. Unlike Kingsborough which professors act more like teachers in high school and is just trying to get through the teaching schedules they have and get off track many times by talking about things unrelated to the class just to try to make the class more fun.
Also I felt like in KBCC there was more small homeworks more often that counted and was collected. In City Tech, more big homeworks like small projects and they give you more time for it and sometimes it’s just «homework» for you to just refresh your memory or practice. Nothing more and wasn’t counted to your grade.

This is the most difficult school to register for and its pathetic how unorganized their administration is. Be prepared to wait hours for what other schools can help you get done online.

Dear CityTech,
I will keep this brief. Please train your Administrative Staff, particularly in the Registrar Office. I do not appreciate snarky emails. I should not have to point out inaccuracies from your website via email. If I point out that a recently revised policy was not made known to me, especially one that effects my readmitting to the school, I should not receive a snarky email in response to my inquires (and If you’re going to snark, get the dates right). Your employees are supposed to be professional at ALL TIMES, and in ALL COMMUNICATION. I have already reported my displeasure to someone (a woman– I was not given a name) in Registrar. I have also voiced my displeasure via social media. I want an apology (either in person or via phone– I want to hear a voice). There is no need for rudeness.
Jean Gentry

I taught here as an adjunct for a semester (and can directly compare this experience to other schools where I’ve taught). The problem with City Tech is that, as a school, they don’t invest in — or believe in — their students. While the instructors generally seem passionate and willing to help, the school’s administration is too ineffective to provide the resources a class needs to be successful. The environment is like a grown up high school: missing chalk, mandatory attendance policies, tons of bureaucracy and change aversion, computers that don’t work, an internet connection that doesn’t work, an email system that doesn’t work. Oh, and most of the software on the systems here is pirated — I would not be surprised to find malware present as well. Everyone does their best to create an environment of learning in spite of this, but these restrictions significantly and needlessly handicap both students and instructors.
In the end, I spent a lot of effort working around the school’s failing systems. I provisioned some cloud servers out of my own pocket, students brought their own devices in, I used an off-​campus email address because they never activated my on-​campus one, I resorted to chalk during our regular projector failures, and started to pantomime when we ran out of chalk. None of this should have been necessary.
Evening classes are also perpetually shafted. I was never given a key to my office (the environment of mistrust extends to the faculty as well) and they locked it up several hours before my class began. As a result, we held our office hours in the hallway. I should add that the school doesn’t mandate (or compensate) adjunct office hours, so we’re technically under no obligation whatsoever to answer students’ questions outside of the class period. So either the students suffer or the adjuncts have to make an extra trip and do free work to ensure that students get the attention they need to be successful.
Until the school makes a basic investment in its infrastructure — and changes its culture — I can never see this becoming a world-​class or even average institution of learning.

Some departments are the best ones in the country. The new building will done in a few years then it will be even better.

This is a great CUNY school if you are a determined student and willing to work for your degree. All these negative reviews are most likely from incoming freshman or lazy individuals who expect to be spoon fed passing grades. A lot of these students giving 1 star reviews end up dropping out to complete their degrees in community college anyway (what a waste of the city’s money). I have both my associates degree and bachelors degree from this school which has really helped me accomplish a lot of my personal goals. The majority of the professors here are excellent and take pride in what they teach (just use ratemyprofessors to make sure you dont end up with a bad one). Given the demanding cost for college credits and supplies now a days this CUNY school is certainly a great choice because they are affordable compared to others. I would also definitely recommend this school if you are intrested in going into dental hygiene or nursing.

Great school and great professors. I’m studying in this school and I am happy with the results, it has a very good program.

I came, I saw, I left and I came back.
I really don’t know what people expect from a CUNY for those giving it 1 star and ranting like an idiot. I also don’t know how much of their reviews are based on their own laziness or simple failure to read a sign. Considering I’ve seen kids here fail at the concept of using an elevator, I’d take any low review with a grain of salt.
Administration is what it is. Some are nice and some look like they’re pissed they’re not at home living it up on welfare. But if you’re nice to them, they’re nice to you. Plain and simple.
Does it take ten years or so to get anything accomplished? Sure. But again it’s a CUNY. You’re going to bitch again and again at any other school.
Why did they lose stars?
–Of course the slow administration and constant screw ups that could be prevented by a five year old.
–The endless construction. I went here briefly in 2006. Left and came back at 2013. How are they STILL under construction?!
–Completely unavailable and biased to anyone who goes to school there outside of the 9 – 5 time frame.
–Outdated ID Card system and Wifi. Horribly embarrassing for a technology college. There’s really no reason for this.
–The use of CUNYFIRST I blame the entire CUNY system for this. Thanks for keeping a user friendly interface in mind for your students.
–The fact they dropped my financial aid as punishment for withdrawing from the school seven years ago and not having a «good reason» to fight the decision.
Beyond the above mentioned, it’s not a bad school. At least for the art degrees. The department is friendly and helpful from what I’ve seen as well. Considering what SVA and Pratt charge for the same education, how can I complain?
Overall it’s a love hate relationship but I’ll deal with, do my time and that’s it.

The worst school!!! These departments NEVER pick up their phone and all the people work there have attitudes! THE WORST. THE END

Never, ever go to this school unless as a last and final, desperate resort.
The teacher breakdown is similar to most school-​some are good, some are ok in terms of connecting with individual learning styles. Pleas note, rhis review is not about the professors but about the administration. The administration is a mess. No one person will tell you the same as another. You will waste HOURS on a regular basis. I waited 5 hours just to sign up for a single class and then had to go through a whole other process and many other trips to the school to register for the rest of them. Later, when I tried to transfer to a different math teacher, I was denied even though I was within the transfer time deadline and it was only the second class because «all the other teacher teach similarly» and that I would have the same difficulty understanding another professor. I also spend several hours over the course of several days running around to different offices trying to flag down different department heads to sign another form to transfer another class only to be denied the request by the final person that inputs them into the computer because it was too late and I didn’t have a legitimate reason even though it was approved that same day by all the other parts of that department.
To summarize, basically every experience I have had with this school has been similar (these are only a few examples of MANY more that I have had with this school over the past few months)-no one knows what is really happening, nor do they care and you will waste significant amounts of emotional and physical time and effort trying to do what you are suppose to do to get what you need done, typically to find it in vain or to have to do it several different times because each monkey on the chain tells you something different from the one before.
But hey, if you still want to go for it and you work full time such as myself, I recommend taking 1 week off for you to register and another week for off if you later find you want to transfer classes. If you don’t work, then good, because navigating through this school’s ridiculously unorganized system will give you a nice side job in addiction to your schoolwork.
Best of luck!

For dental needs, this place is the find of the century. For only $ 10 I got the most comprehensive, thorough teeth cleaning I’ve probably ever had.
Just a 25 minute ride into Brooklyn on the 2 or 3 train from Lincoln Center, the school is very easily accessible. All work is done by advanced students from the NYCCT School of Dental Hygiene who are nearing graduation and is meticulously supervised and checked by their expert, demanding professors.
The hygienist at my regular dentist’s office always does a pretty wimpy job in getting the ‘ol pearly yellows gleaming. As an alternative, I thought that if I went to NYCCT for my cleanings the students would be more than thorough, wanting to obtain a good grade. I was most certainly right. Melissa, the student who worked on me did such an amazing job she could probably TEACH most working hygienists! She was extremely nice and personable too.
She first examined and mapped each tooth in my mouth, noting the particular details of each one. Then her professor, the eagle-​eyed Dr. Brennan came in, examined each tooth and had Melissa recite back her findings on each one. Melissa didn’t miss one thing and actually even erred on the side of caution when observing what might be potential problems. Better safe than sorry, I always say.
After that, the scaling and polishing began. Besides being aggressive and comprehensive in the cleaning as I begged her to be (it had been a while since my last one), Melissa’s touch was so gentle and sensitive that the scaling and polishing actually felt good! A true natural artist. She even managed to remove some stubborn stains that in prior cleanings other hygienists had just given up on. These folks really care.
Now my teeth look and feel better than they have in years. The process takes a while because the professor has to do a lot of checking before each step can proceed to the next, but boy is it ever worth the time! My advice to you all would be to make an
appointment, take an afternoon off work and go get your teeth cleaned! They also do X-​rays and whitening at extremely reduced prices. I already have a follow up cleaning scheduled for November. From now on, this is my place!

Do yourself a favor and just burn the money you were going to spend on an «education» here.
Calling this school bad would be an affront to bad schools. I spent two semesters at city tech and in those two semesters got an idea of why the American education system is such a mess. Nobody cares. From the guy that made me wait in line 5 times to prove I was a new Yorker (each time telling me something new i needed even though i asked him if doing this last thing would be enough) to the racist speech teacher (who the hell says «I know your friends will make fun of you for talking white but you’re going to have to talk white in my class») to the students that answer their phone in class (and most of my professors ignored that they were doing it), to the filthy halls, to the bathrooms than never got cleaned, to absurd stuff like allowing jack hammering during placement tests and the test proctor chatting on the phone during placement tests. I could write a novel of a review with the incompetences of this school, it’s a sad depressing place and will disappoint you at every turn.
Just to ice the cake, they’ll auto cancel your classes for nonpayment of a 30 dollar bill you paid 2 months before the auto cancellation deadline and totally screw up your financial aid for the classes they cram you into so you’ll then owe them a few grand. «oh you can’t just pay online like that, you’ve got to tell us you paid» was the response I got from the bursars office.
That said, I had two fantastic professors that I hope to god are paid really well because for the life of me I can’t comprehend why in the name of Christ they wouldn’t find a better place to teach.
You can do better than city tech.

Feels like high school all over again…

Do check out the Gravesend Inn Haunted Hotel going on now until Halloween day, I believe!
The entertainment technology students do put alot of time and effort in creating this for the public.
It is very inexpensive, like about 5 – 6 dollars I believe. I went last year, and this year I will be going again.
The wait can get long depending on what days you go, but it is totally worth it.
Go and see how hard the students work towards their degrees and for putting on a perfect event for all of us as well.

I had a TERRIBLE experience at the NYC College of Technology. I was BUTCHERED. It was as if I were in an old Nine Inch Nails music video. All I wanted was a cleaning. It was fine the first few minutes; the student was nice, hip, and talked on and on about Rubulad as she picked away at my gums. Thing is, much of my gum line is receding so many of my nerve endings are directly exposed. When her picking got to this area, she didn’t seem to notice the recession and just kept scraping, picking, and knifing at the exposed nerves. I jumped and flinched from the pain several times (think ice-​on-​cavity kind of pain…), but I figured she was just making few mistakes. But it didn’t stop.
I politely told her I’m having pain; please lay off a bit. She said she had to clean the entire area as her professor was grading her on this — just sit tight — she’ll make it quick. I was more than mildly bleeding at this point. She kept hacking. I pleaded again; I got the same response. After about 15 minutes of extreme pain (and about 40 minutes into the cleaning — only half my teeth had been cleaned), tears began to well up in my eyes and I knew I had to make a scene to stop this. I jumped out of the chair and ran to the restroom saying I was going to get sick from the pain and the blood (not far from the truth!). The sight in the restroom mirror was grotesque; my entire gum line was dark red from exposed roots. I took the back door out of that building and will never see a student for any discount service again.
I spoke to my former [professional] dentist back home about and he said that a receding gum cleaning costs a lot more than a regular cleaning and, of course, REQUIRES LOCAL ANESTHESIA.
This little girl went far, far above and beyond. I certainly will never forget her.

ADDENDUM:
This was such a hellish experience, I saved my money and paid for dental work out of pocket as my roommate’s dentist said that dental schools might have to re-​take x-​rays – eek!
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Oh God. So fitting for my 100^th Unilocal review.
The dreaded Unilocal dental outing, just me and Norah, one of the suckiest dental days of my life. Never do a Unilocal event without alcohol.
This is the punishment God has given me for being a freelance artist, well one of them anyway, is not to have dental insurance.
Norah is also a free spirit, aka, insurance-​free, and we practically shook and held hands in the DMV-​esque front office. I didn’t want to leave her. I didn’t want to go in there, but my student dental hygienist Sirina was SOOOOO nice. That’s the entrance to hell, flanked by smiling beautiful women who tell you that everything is going to be alright and can I get you a glass of water?
HA! the entrance fee to hell was only $ 10 and they used primitive wire spiky things to scrape and dremmel my teeth. I was there for almost 5 HOURS because they had to wait for the sadistic professor to check their work.
OMG. The professor didn’t introduce herself. She shoved my face into her huge Germanesque busom and really dug into my tooth, I couldn’t escape from the scraping noise of metal against tooth enamel because it vibrated in my skull. No matter how loud they played Michael Jackson, it was inescapable.
She really put her weight into it, unlike Sirena. «You see this! REALLY get a good angle on it and don’t be afraid to really dig in. Do it again. I’ll be back in ten minutes»
My beautiful angel of pain hovered over my inverted body and shrugged her shoulders. «Oh well, 10 more minutes!» and smiled.
Oh God. I won’t be having any nightmares for years, because quite frankly, nothing can top this experience as a nightmare. I’m going back in a few weeks for x-​rays. ode to joy.