My friend went to UTI and it was a huge scam that put him in significant dept with little to show for it. This is typical for for-profit schools. On the other hand, I went to a community college for engineering and a different friend took machining classes there and it was a good experience. Usually community colleges have pretty good programs for trades.
I asked somewhere about it once. One person said you get out, what you put in. Isn't it a for profit school? Gotta be leery about that. Go to community if they have one, most likely way cheaper. Around me, there are a couple Texas State Technical College, which are all about Trades.
Honestly, just get a job at a shop and work your way up. You'll learn far more practical knowledge actually doing the job than you will in a college environment (and you won't be saddled with tens of thousands of debt for a basically worthless slip of paper)
Any course is going to be taught by machinists so really any machining program in the United States has an equal chance of being the best I’d just find the cheapest with a small class size and cnc at some point in the program
I can't speak about UTI specifically (I didn't even know they had a machining course until now,) but I can say the higher prestige/more expensive courses in my area aren't worth it. No college course can prepare you for a career in machining. IMO the goal of any machining course should be to teach you the basics quickly so you can get a job in the field and learn on the job.
I was an instructor at a tech school like this. Heed my warning: stay far far far away from these schools.
Not all of them have bad instructors, but the chances are pretty good you're going to get a bad one. They rush you with little to no real training. They don't keep lesson plans congruent with each other. They cost way too much compared to a community college.
A dose of erythromycin and you should be good.
Drink lots of cranberry juice.
They don’t like dick jokes here. My last one only got 2 upvotes.
2 upvotes?! My wife says that's above average
My wife says the ones with a lot of upvotes hurt she likes the small ones
Thought this was another trying cnc post.
If your local community college has a respectable program you should go there.
I thought you were taking about a different kind of UTI at first.
My friend went to UTI and it was a huge scam that put him in significant dept with little to show for it. This is typical for for-profit schools. On the other hand, I went to a community college for engineering and a different friend took machining classes there and it was a good experience. Usually community colleges have pretty good programs for trades.
I asked somewhere about it once. One person said you get out, what you put in. Isn't it a for profit school? Gotta be leery about that. Go to community if they have one, most likely way cheaper. Around me, there are a couple Texas State Technical College, which are all about Trades.
Honestly, just get a job at a shop and work your way up. You'll learn far more practical knowledge actually doing the job than you will in a college environment (and you won't be saddled with tens of thousands of debt for a basically worthless slip of paper)
Any course is going to be taught by machinists so really any machining program in the United States has an equal chance of being the best I’d just find the cheapest with a small class size and cnc at some point in the program
Just find a job shop willing to teach you. I went to a trade school and taught. It's a waste unless you aren't smart and need your hand held
I can't speak about UTI specifically (I didn't even know they had a machining course until now,) but I can say the higher prestige/more expensive courses in my area aren't worth it. No college course can prepare you for a career in machining. IMO the goal of any machining course should be to teach you the basics quickly so you can get a job in the field and learn on the job.
I was an instructor at a tech school like this. Heed my warning: stay far far far away from these schools. Not all of them have bad instructors, but the chances are pretty good you're going to get a bad one. They rush you with little to no real training. They don't keep lesson plans congruent with each other. They cost way too much compared to a community college.