Is the art institute of salt lake a scam?

im plannin on enrolling at the art institute of salt lake in july but i want to know if im makin a right choice or is it another scam? Ive looked up sites and been getting mixed results some people have no problems wit them others have dropped out cuz of them. i dont want to make the wrong choice and fall into debit wit them....any suggestions?Is the art institute of salt lake a scam?
If its one of the Art Institutes run by EDMC (all of them that use the

AI logo), avoid them like a plague. They're not an art school

employers take seriously. They're open enrollment, they take ANYONE.

They just want the financial aid.



If you ask me, they're an elaborate corporate scam to funnel as many

Government Pell grants and guaranteed loans out of students as they

can and leave the students with the bill.



They're like McDonald's of Art "Colleges". They're a chain that is

popping up everywhere. They buy out dying schools, rename them, keep

the accreditation.



They may seem like they would be good, but it is all smoke and

mirrors. Pretty building with pretty computers. Meanwhile, it will

just ruin your life.



The market demand they say they're meeting is not the demand of the

Job market, its the demand of the students. Students that graduated AI

are struggling to get jobs and have over more than $50,000+ or

$90,000+ in debt depending on what degree they went for. Degrees that

are worthless in the job market.



Basically, AI is a degree mill. They use bloated success stats and

circle logic to back them up.



They count students working at Toys R Us as in the field. Avoid them

if you want to actually have a decent future.



If you really want to pursue your passion, go to a community college,

study fine art, and then transfer into a state school. It will be

cheaper and the money you save you can buy your own equipment and

STILL have money left over for a better future.



Their job leads are bogus, they go to Monster, Craigslist, and career

builder just like everyone else. Their top employer is HOME DEPOT

(Check their own website) and I guarantee none of those are art jobs.



Don't make the same mistake my friends and I did. We'll be paying for

it for the rest of our lives.



If you go with AI you'll be folding clothes at Target or hawking video

games at Toys R Us for $8.25 an hour and struggling to pay $90,000+

with bill collectors haunting your every waking moment for the REST OF

YOUR LIFE with no way to stop them because there is no bankruptcy

protection on Student loans.

Please please please make sure you check out these news articles and

accounts from students who got burned by AI. They're destroying more

lives than helping. The government is TRYING to cut the For-profit

colleges off the aid because the students are getting burned but these

schools are throwing around their money to pretend they're making

things better.
I would look around. No there not a scam but they are not the best either. It is like one of those art schools you get into for drawing the turtle and sending it back to them? Everyone can be an artist to them.





If you really want to go to school and don't want to go into MONSTER debt. Try a community college. It is cheap, they usually have a great art department. You can get a two year degree and transfer to a major college after graduation. You will learn traditional and modern techniques on the community level. Just make sure you major is ART not Liberal Arts. Liberal Arts is for the kids who don't know what they want to do Fine Art is well, Fine Art.





Good Luck!!Is the art institute of salt lake a scam?
yes