Money making scam aside, I also feel that I learned nearly nothing here. All the instructors do is assign work out of books. Many are not even qualified to be teaching what they're teaching. They had a business teacher teaching a CompTIA Network+ class. I feel that if one does not have the certification themselves they certainly should not be teaching a class on it! If I knew that was all it was going to be I could have just bought the books and learned on my own without wasting money on tuition. The few non-book assignments were done on obsolete hardware 5-7 years old. I never saw a Cisco switch or router once at the school, everything was done "virtually" in Cisco PacketTracer. Again, I could have just learned with PacketTracer on my own! They also have no integration for you to get the Cisco certifications as part of going to the college, you have to go spends hundreds of dollars on your own at a third party testing center to get your Cisco Certifications. Basically most of the classes are certification-prep classes for certifications you have to go get on your own so you might as well just buy the books and learn it on your own then go take the certification tests and save a ton of money! Classes covered certification preps of Cisco Certified Network Associate, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Security+, and several Microsoft Certifications and I received none of them because you have to get them on your own and the cost for all of these would be well over $1,000!!!

So in summery:
1. Scammed out of a degree due to their deceptive trade practices of constantly changing degree plans and classes offered to keep students longer.
2. Scammed out of getting certifications due to them not integrating them requiring you to have your own CASH to get them on your own. (I've heard there is a system in place where a school can purchase test vouchers and add the costs to your tuition so you can essentially use financial aid to pay for your certifications, TSTC chooses not to do this! Probably because there is no money in it for them.) TSTC could not care less about their students' futures, TSTC is only out to make money!!!

I explained all of this to them and they refused to do anything to help me leave TSTC with a degree so I asked them for a refund of my tuition and they refused and then referred me to their legal counsel! Statistically, more often than not it is guilty parties that refer people to their legal counsel!

So I sent a certified demand letter to their legal counsel and received a certified letter back containing a rather "canned" response.

I have been unable to find a lawyer willing to take this case on a contingency basis and I do not have the funds needed to pay a retainer fee so at this point I am stuck with no degree, useless credits that won't transfer anywhere, and a $72,296.91 outstanding student loan balance that has payments of over $700 a month so I am unable to continue my education elsewhere.