Milwaukee Career College

"The instructor wasn’t the best. I luckily got in a great extern site at Aurora. I got hired on there for being a great medical assistant student. I thankfully am like a sponge. I did not learn anything about specialities. So when I went on my extern it was in Dermatology. I had to learn everything there. I will say you have to be a good student to expect good results. I can’t remember any terrible issues here. Just wasn’t a great experience overall. I wanted to go into the surgical tech program instead. But they closed it the year I enrolled so I picked the MA program. Would I recommend? Probably not. You can find FREE MA program with PAID training. Don’t waste your money on a “certification” because you don’t really “need” to have CMA/RMA to work in clinic."

"I completed the dental assistant program at Milwaukee Career College. It is a very hands on, fast paced program, that prepares you for a job in the dental field right after completing the program. The program chair, Mrs. Maria, is very knowledgeable and knows everything you need to know about the dental field. She is a very helpful resource and instructor that is always there to answer any questions you might have about anything and is always there to help you out with things you might not understand. Career Services also a very good resource, they assist you in writing your resume and prepare you for interviews. Milwaukee Career College really sets you up for success upon finishing the program."

"I decided to attend this school because I was interested in becoming a dental assistant. Everything sounded great and promising but in reality its not. If I have known that in the state of Wisconsin that you don't need to be certified or go to school to become a dental assistant I would have never done so. I have come across many assistants and NONE of them have been to school for the position. During my 8 months at this school, we were buckled down with LOTS of HOMEWORK!! The program should really FOCUS on hands on CLINICAL PROCEDURES vs book work because DOCTORS ONLY CARE ABOUT EXPERIENCE not book work. My externship site was really nice compared to my fellow classmates sites but I feel like I over achieved for absolutely nothing. They did not hire me on and decided to go behind my back to hire someone that fit their "mold" (polish, blond hair& blue eyes) of a dental assistant .and guess what, that person no longer works for them smh. I could not find a job as a dental assistant because everybody wanted someone with more experience and they thought that it was suspicious that my externship did not hire me. So 3 months later, I had to resort to working for a shady dental office that hires ANYBODY just to gain this so called experience. Problem is I'm not a real dental assistant just a body that takes X-rays all day. I'm trying to find work at small dental offices but they want people with actual skills. I am screwed!! I want to go back to school but feel like it's a waste of time and my CREDITS from this school WILL NOT TRANSFER over to other schools. My advice to you is to do your research. Find out if you need to go to school for the career your interested in. I wasted so much time, energy, and hope for this program for nothing."

"At first things were great and I thought I found the perfect school all of my instructor seemed nice, but did that make school worth it? NO, the problems didn't start until externship and boy was it a struggle. Now I can't say what goes on with the dental, veterinary or the new surgical tech programs, but I will say the Medical assistant program for the most part throws students wherever, they give you a sheet to fill out to say where you'd like to do externship adding that there is NO guarantee that you will get the site you wanted which can happen, BUT they don't even attempt to find a good site they just find a spot they've used before and said "here's your site" which is usually a place that nobody wants to work at and can only get students and recent grad with nobody else wanting to hire them it was like the school was saying F*** YOU Students!. I asked for Aurora, St Mary's, or children's and my first site was a run down, dump of a cardiology clinic with a bad preceptor who threw me out due to my attitude (you can imagine Why)and my second site was marginally better but it had rude staff and treated me like a slave rather than an extern. I gets worse the instructor who was responsible for the externs didn't make things any better because instead of getting a good second site, she just gave me another crummy site that was slightly better and only 2 or 3 people in my class liked their sites everyone else was saying things like it is too busy, its too quiet, the staff is rude, the specialty isn't for me, it's just not great. One student got the pro care on Lincoln ave and the instructor said the site was bad from her experience there with her daughter, yah here's my question if you thought it was bad with your kid as a patient there, WHY ARE YOU SENDING STUDENTS THERE? I mean shouldn't you try and avoid sending students there? and the worst part of all I NEVER found a job nobody wanted to hire me so bye bye $12,000, self esteem, and free time, soon I will be attending MATC for phlebotomy because I learned very little phlebotomy to the point where if I applied for phlebotomy jobs now, id look like an idiot THANKS FOR NOTHING MCC"

"My experience here was ridiculous. For the first day we wasted the entire 4 hours but I thought ya know it's just the first day. Well that continued for the entire week. We were scheduled to have study skills for 3 hours and math for 1 hour. Instead my teacher (who was racist and rude) completely skipped the entire study skills unit and if anything she would give us 1 hour to do our study skills homework but not lecture or do any activities for it. Then we were given a take home final exam. 1- how are you going to give a final exam for a class you didn't ever teach. 2- what university would ever give student a final exam thats take home. Extremely unprofessional. Above I mentioned my teacher was racist, to specify she was not racist towards me but made rude racial related comments about the president of the school. The president of the school has a very heavy asian accent but he is very understandable if you're listening to what he's saying. He came into our class one day to make an announcement and then left. After leaving my teacher said "did any of you understand what he just said!?" "I'll tell you what he said because I speak english!" So rude and I know I wasn't the only person in class who was upset about this comment she made. Furthermore, the math is insulting. I tried to understand that they need to cater to all types of students but for the price of this school ($16,000 for vet asst. $17,000 for vet tech) you should be able to test out of that.. Why should I be paying that type of money to learn adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. No I'm not kidding thats what we spent the entire first week doing. I learned that in the third grade. They also have this thing in the syllabus that's professional points for the day. I'm not sure how they can expect their students to act with professionalism when they don't! I live in Illinois and this school is in Milwaukee so I moved to Wisconsin to attend this school so I didn't have to drive over an hour every day. The financial aid department was fully aware of this but called me to say I hadn't signed the paperwork for paying for school the day before the deadline. I told her I wouldn't sign anything without my parents looking over it first and she told me she would extend the deadline until Monday so I could take the paperwork home over the weekend. I go to her office on Friday when she told me to come pick it up (11:50 am) and she had left for the day! Without leaving the paperwork with the secretary. How frustrating!! Then I asked the secretary if my advisor was there and she informed me it was her last day working there. From the time I came to visit this school on July 28th to the time of me starting school Sept 21st I'd met with 2 separate advisors who both quit. Within 2 months! The whole feeling of the school is very shady. I dropped from the program right away without paying for a thing. I know I would've regret wasting over $30,000 on this program and I advise anyone looking into it to ask a ton of questions before committing. It may be a good fit for some but definitely not me!"