Eastern College — University in West End Halifax

Reviews of Eastern College

• Kennedy

  Added 2016.07.19

  AVOID THIS SCAM - AT ALL COSTS.
• Joseph

  Added 2016.07.14

  I went to Eastern College when it was in Dartmouth. We had to make due what we had to work with. Dodi made everything so easy. I took the CCA program and Dodi was my main instructor. We was the first class she had. Ryan was the dean at the college. I'm so glad I choose Eastern Collage. Dodi was the best !! So good that all of us passed. I highly recommend this place. Wouldn't think twice. I got a job before I was even finished. I did my research before the course.
• Logan

  Added 2016.06.29

  Great school, with amazing teachers. Start dates year round, so no waiting
• Eleanor

  Added 2016.05.06

  - Downloading a 14 year old exam, not editing it, and presenting it as an assignment even though it's using a program we were told to never use and includes instructions that are, literally speaking, not possible.
• Parker

  Added 2016.03.16

  I have complained through the province and CBC did an investigation. TriOS are criminals but the province won’t prosecute!!! Tax-Payer funder fraud factory.
• William

  Added 2015.11.23

  - While I was temporarily in two other classes, the rest of my class was finishing up the A+ section and doing an exam for it. Almost everyone dramatically failed that exam, to the point that it would have failed almost the entire class. So he just bumped up the participation score to not fail most of the students.
• Austin

  Added 2015.06.05

  All this place does is get your provincial loan money and waste your time.
• Austin

  Added 2015.02.23

  You will default on that loan because you cannot get job !!! why ??? - The diploma is not worth the paper it is printed on.
• Kennedy

  Added 2015.01.13

  A horrible place and nothing more than a provincial loan money-laundering factory.
• Aria

  Added 2014.08.07

  - Your Windows 10 book will have command-line information in it. Almost all of them have the incorrect syntax and don't work at all. Meaning no one edited any of them. This is incredibly common throughout the materials you'll receive. We also received a "cheat sheet" because of this problem - which was unchecked by anyone and also full of mistakes. I had to correct a fair portion of it before deciding it really wasn't my responsibility to fix the courseware. Expect this problem to be consistently present throughout your education here.
• Isla

  Added 2014.05.29

  - Enforced "assemblies" you have to go to, or be marked absent, even on an exam day.
• Eliana

  Added 2014.05.17

  Every other thing that EC does has mistakes or no effort put into it:
• Nora

  Added 2014.03.28

  - Our phone numbers were taken "only for emergencies". They immediately began to send us spam links for surveys and contests, and began to call our cellphones when we were absent. I'll repeat that: if you were absent, they called your cellphone and asked where you were. My answer was usually "You're not providing me with any instruction today (again, instructor only present for 5/6 months) and I have actual work to do".
• Joshua

  Added 2013.12.04

  I got a adequate education at Eastern college in their massage therapy program and feel the need to clear its name a little here.
• Xavier

  Added 2013.11.17

  In closing I would like to say the school is not perfect, but they never are. I can only speak of the courses I took, but I thought the school prepared me thoroughly for my desire field.
• Asher

  Added 2013.07.09

  I am in the IT NSS program currently, and the only reason I'm remaining in the school at all is that I have two months left before a work placement that I created myself, and consider having the diploma to be expensive insurance and little else at this point. I had a meeting with the campus director about this, and he asked me to send him a list of the negative experiences I'd had in my six months at the school. I stopped at three pages because I didn't feel like continuing. I had several other students sign off on it, because this class is not full of smiling people. Every other thing that the school does, decides, or hands out to you is broken, disorganized, or outright incorrect. When I say that the over TriOS staff puts in bare minimum effort, I completely mean it. My teacher George was excellent, and the computers were fine, but most of the materials were incomplete, ridden with mistakes, unchecked before being presented to us, or totally broken. George has been absent from class due to illness for almost a month at this point, and Eastern College does nothing to fix the value proposition of this. At the end of the day, Eastern College takes your money and gives very little in return. In fact, if they withhold value, they're not willing to do anything to replace it. Teacher missing for 1/6 months? Tough luck.
• Hannah

  Added 2013.06.25

  I can go on and on. I'd just paste my email if I had the space. Eastern College is here for Eastern College, not for it's students. My average is currently 96% and I can tell you with certainty that if you come here, you're not getting the value out of your money.
• Penelope

  Added 2013.06.08

  Just like all schools EC offers courses where you are not going to get a job upon completion. This is not a knock against their course, it's just not a strong job market. I for instance had a job waiting for me when I graduated because I researched the job and knew the market was strong. It's not a schools fault if you can't get a job in a weak market. Make sure you research your desired fields people before spending your time in money to join them.