CDI College Reviews

I had a amazing experience I worked hard and had awesome support from my teachers and college was very helpful in the application and with student loan process. This college has made it possible for me to have a career and instructors helped us and taught us everything to help us be successful in the field.

I'm glad I choose CDI college and I would recommend anyone who wants go back to school to come to this college. They also teach you one course at a time so the pace is good. I want to thank Sanjay HCA instructor for helping me believe in my self and for being a great instructor and giving me all the skills I need for this Health care assistant career.

CDI helped me change my life....And give me a lifelong career

From the moment I came into CDI surrey campus I felt excited to learn and felt supported to do so. Sanjay was my instructor for the Health Care Assistant Program and he was extremely thorough and structured throughout the duration of the program. He pushed for excellence and the theory and practical lessons were taught in a way that was educational and fun.

I would like to thank Sanjay for believing in my potential before I knew I had it and the CDI staff for making it easy to enroll in the program. I am considering going into the PN program in the next five years and I will return to CDI for this.

Why I'm thrilled with my Surrey CDI physiotherapist / occupational assistant experience...

My college experience at Surrey CDI has been a positive one. I am happy that I received a comprehensive, affordable, quality education. My teachers kept the learning curve challenging, fun and memorable, and the skills practical.

I found all of CDI's instructors to be capable, helpful, professional, and had real world, hands on experience in the areas that they were teaching. My classmates made learning awesome. I found the administrative staff friendly and very capable in their various capacities.

I now have a rewarding job as an occupational therapist assistant because CDI college gave me the skills that my employer was looking for. Thanks CDI! I highly recommend CDI to anyone who values a quality education.

Brent Ellis. OTA

If you are seriously thinking about it, I urge you to read this, though it may be long.

1 star because I couldn't rate it any lower. This is pertaining to the Richmond, British Columbia campus.

I was going through some stuff in my life and started to research various options. I have been wanting to enter a trade for a while and I came across their Construction Electrician Foundations course. I had a couple of meetings with their advisers, Artika and later Mae. Honestly, they were nice and seemed helpful, though I'm sure they were just trying to sell me the program and get on with it. Well they succeeded because I signed up for it. I was actually excited for it.

I should have read all their reviews before hand because from the moment I signed up and paid the $250 application fee (there are top tier universities with lower application fees), things started to be a hassle.

First thing was payment. I ended up having to give them $6,077 (50% of tuition) in cash because they would not accept my credit card and cheques took weeks to clear through them. That was fine though, it got done.

From then on, it took me making a call every day and about a weeks time to get a letter of enrollment and proof that I had actually been signed up for the program, something I assumed to be instant after payment.

I signed up around November 15th, 2014, for a course starting on January 19th, 2015. On January 15th I received a text message from Mae (the adviser) letting me know that the program was delayed until January 26th. Not a big deal I thought. Two days later, I get another text message almost congratulating me because they have decided to take off $2,000 from our class' tuition. Why? Well because they program would not only be delayed another week until February 2nd, but that the times would be changed from the original 1-6 PM to 5-10 PM.

Two days before my program was supposed to start I get a text message telling me that all the scheduling and planning that I've prepared for the next 7 months of my life are now irrelevant, but I get $2,000 for 'my troubles'.

Turns out those times wouldn't work. Long story short, they seemed to be trying to accommodate me (by now I've actually gone in to sit down with them because I found the whole texting a bit unprofessional) but to no avail. I ended up deciding to drop out of the program after they agreed to refund my $6,077 (everything I paid minus the $250 application fee, which at the time I was not willing to argue with these people over.)

As soon as I get there to sign my "cancellation" papers I was smart enough to ask about my refund. I told them I would not sign anything until I got my money back, since the letter they tried to get me to sign was me acknowledging that I had received my refund. They told me it would be about 4 weeks to get my refund. I was not having it so I sat down with the finances guy, Raymond, and had him call the headquarters (in Toronto I believe) and expedite the process. I gave him until Friday under threat of making this a legal matter. We'll see how that goes.

15 minutes after I left I get a call from a lady whom I never had the 'pleasure' of meeting. She tells me that she will be calling the Canadian immigration services to let them know I would not be attending and that I would lose my visas. To me it sounded like a threat, so I told her she could do whatever she wanted, once I get my refund. Turns out I no longer require a Visa to begin with so it didn't bother me, but it is something to watch out for from these people for any international that might sadly come across this college.

TL:DR - CID sucks, they are a hassle to deal with and they are everything but professional. Wish I had read these reviews before I made my choice, now I'm dealing with the consequences. STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

George

The do care more about the staff than the students. Everything's is lead by their image and see by yourself how perfect CDI College pretend to be in their phony students comments, "At CDI my instructor help me a lot and took a great deal of time for me, my classroom mate were so funny and it was great to be at CDI College" etc, etc, etc.

The fact is that they do seems to care as long as you pay them, but once the money is in the bank, some of the peoples are out of there. This is a company lead by money. They pretend to be the ones who are right while the student are always wrong as long as they say what they want hear. .

I began investigating the addiction/community service worker course at CDI in Ajax,decided to put it off for a while and Geoffrey the salesman from said "college" pursued me with many promises of future employment opportunities. I had explained to him several times that I wanted to work in a treatment centre and be an addictions worker, he reassured me as did the placement officer that my diploma would get me the job I wanted. Thank God I started looking for placement opportunities after only 1 month. I called every drug/ alcohol treatment centre across Toronto and not ONE of them will recognize this diploma... Please Please take my advise and speak with the companies that you want to work for first before giving CDI any of your $

Good luck , oh and btw my "teacher" is an underemployed social worker who has absolutely no knowledge regarding drug addiction , relied on students for information , and admitted to taking this job as he couldn't find any other!

I've been a full-time student for six years, and graduated into the media/communications field, which unfortunately has little job security and a lot of transition. I'm more interested in maintaining full-time, steady employment, so enrolled at CDI to get a one-off piece of paper to help get my foot in the door with employers like real estate companies, government agencies, and the like.

After signing up and paying the 15% (thanks student loans) I'm sitting in a classroom with a teacher (professor is far too generous a term) that pronounces "indictable" as in-dick-table, not "in-dite-able". Tip of the iceberg. She walks in 5-10 minutes late for class consistently (if this was a regular occurance in "the real world" the person being paid to show up would be canned). We are failed when we can't take dictation, even though she doesn't speak English at all well, it's not a native language for her (ordinarily I find nothing wrong with a difficulty with ESL challenges, but in a course where accuracy and understanding are paramount, and the ENTIRE CLASS fails for such a difficulty , it's inexcusable.

I voiced these concerns and was basically told by the administration tough luck, despite well-reasoned arguments, and received a thinly veiled accusation of discrimination.

I'm withdrawing this afternoon, and urge people thinking of attending CDI in Victoria, B.C., to instead go to Camosun College if they offer a similar program (which they will). My years at that college were the best in my life, and they had the best teachers one could ask for.

I'm lucky because I have fall-back employment and contracts which I love. I feel for the 18 and 19-year old classmates with little to no professional work experience that wander into a law office pronouncing it "in-dick-table." They don't stand a chance.

At CDI I think it depends on what program you take.

I took up a program in Cardiology Technology,completed the program

Did the board exams and I now work for a hospital in Ontario.

As they promised I didn't have to pay the whole loan.

I am happy that I took up a career with CDI.

I was lured to this school with a promise of job placement.....nothing they

said was true...I finished the school for some years now but no job, I was heart broken to see CDI college graduates doing survival jobs to make ends meet after paying so much in school to get a diploma that worth nothing....

How can a developed country like Canada allow this kind of scam called school to operate in Canada, rubbing meanly immigrants their hard earned money and subjecting them to student loan they had to buy through their nose?

Its so sad!!!!!

Hello,

I attended CDI college west (WHAT A JOKE). I was told that if I kept good grades half of my student loan would be forgiven...LIE!...None of the teachers are certified, you cant't get a quality job after graduation. You probably have a better chance of getting a career with a diploma from the school of hard knocks. Before anyone jumps on this post about applying yourself and all the bull, please know that I graduated with full honors! Do not go to this school go to NAIT, Grant MacEwan or the U of A. Don't be another sucker like me!

sorry my first language is french so ill do my best !!!!

im studying in informatic accounting

Don't go to cdi college evrybody who attempt to the class will PASS !!!!! I'm on facebook evryday.. i don't listen ... and i pass

to push my luck further i have wrote a big wtf in a "bilan" which is like the summary of some accountive s***t , in my final exam !! and i tstill got 72% in my examen !!!

they never clean up the school i have put on the ground purposly chip crumps a month ago and they are still there !!!!

the classes temperature is always upper then 28 degree

the teacher are nice but they make evry body pass

all your module will be evaluate like this

30% first exam

25 team project

40% final exam

5% participation

u will need more then 50% AT URE FINAL EXAM and 60% total to pass ure module but ....

guess what ..(again we did it on purpose to test)

i had 14/30 in my first exam 46%

i had 21/40 in my final exam 51.2%

i did nothing in the team work and my partner did nothing too !!!

we had 23/25 ... 92%

and since i show up in most of my class they gave me 4/5

so 14+21+23+4=62% !!! i pass

don't go to cdi collège you will just waste 11 800 $ and you will not have a good job at the end .... you will probably work at h&r block as a consoller !!! 14-16$ an hour ....

don't go to cdi college !!!

I attended CDI and loved the experience. Part of graduating is taking ones own initiative - pound the payment harder than a Hooker and you'll get a.

Attitude is everything. Think it sucks and it will suck. Work hard at being a success and you'll be one.

But yeah - CDI was a great experience.

Unfortunately, I went to CDI and If I can tell somebody who is planning to enroll there, Don't do it. I took the course of Medical Office Assistant and I haven't been able to find a job is very hard for me because I don't have any canadian experience in anything but the worse is thta I thought if i go to a college and get a diploma I could do better .And that has no be the case .Now I am unemployed and with a debt of 10000 dollars . when u go to talk to the advisor they basically make u sigh the papers and because there has been people that have sued them in the past they make u sign a paper saying they don't promise you they will find u job. I called them today to see if they can help me to find a job or if they have any office to support graduates and whatever and they said that they don't have anybody that do that. when i was doing my practicum I didn't like it whe they sent me so I let the coordinator know i wasnt gonna go back there and because the idiot was quitting she did not bother to let them know so when i had to go back for the hours i have done in that first practicum , they saw me like the irresponsible. I was so mad . overall my learning With some of the teachers the core was good.she had knowledge and the computer teacher as well but that was in 2011. I just wish i could go back in time and not have enrolled because now I

am screwed and in debt . I know some other people have had luck and get jobs but unfortunately that nos my case.