CDI College Reviews

I am currently in the MOA program. I started at the end of January. The first couple months were great. I could work at my own pace in the learning center. I understood it. It was nice. Then my core class started. My teacher everyday is late. She has an attitude of not wanting to be there. She insults to our faces and behind our backs. She doesn't even really teach us. At this point I am paying $16,000 for school and another $600 in gas a month. Multiple students have expressed themselves to the dean and he has done nothing. I have found no contact info for the main offic either. I enrolled at this school as my sister stated and loved it. I was so excited that I passed the entrance exam that I didn't even think about researching the school. I was just excited to start college to make mine and my fiance's life better. That was my big mistake. I am not dropping out as I have to pay the money anyways so I might as well finish school. But I am exhausted with all the energy I have to spend to just try and keep up with the stress my teacher deals out. Today she called me an irresponsible student to my face because my assignment check list confused her. Her attitude she deals out, I am pretty much paying $16,000 to teach myself. I work as hard as I can, but when my teacher shuts me out and the class has to work together and teach each ither to just understand the material, that is just ridiculous. I am very disappointed that I went to this school and I wish I could take it all back. After my class today, I feel like I just want to give up.

I attended the pharmacy technician program at CDI and it was a complete and utter joke. The instructor wasn't a certified teacher just some random woman who worked in a pharmacy. We'd ask questions only to never get answers. After being removed from the program for getting a 69% on the math final (minimum being 70%) the director of the college immediately tried to push me into a different program that would have costed me an additional 16000 dollars! And when I was first looking into the program the person who signed me up basically pressured me into agreeing to go and wouldn't take no for an answer. I just went 14,000 dollars into debt for a job it turns out I didn't even need to go to school for!

Every one here is correct, the staff are not qualified, and instructed by the higher ups to not be concernd about student needs just how to make the student stay for a certain amount of time so the student loan is given to the school. The councilers or whateve ru want to cal them are sales reps, they have targets and are told under whatever circumstance to get enrollments or they will be fired.they are told to make at least 3 calls to the "lead" a day, even by blocking your number. I know this because i worked for 3 differnt cdi campuses in BC. Please do not go to this school, you will not get what you are being promised

Hey I just have one question. I attend the CDI Mississauga campus in the social worker course. I am about to finish this course and I have started to look for my co-op placemant which is mandatory for graduation the placement has to be 300 hours. To my surprise I have started calling different agencies and have been told that they will not offer me any placement becasue I go to CDI College, Some very good places like YMCA or CAMH are very good. Specially CAMH (Centre for mental health and addiction) only take students from colleges that offer a 2 or 3 year social worker course diploma and do not recognize CDI College. Colleges in Ontario like Humber, George Brown or Centennial college also they offer placement for students that attend good universities like U of T of Ryerson. Here are some examples below.

http://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/careers_and_volunteers/student_placements/CAMH_care_providers_overview/Pages/careprovider_childyouthwork.aspx

http://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/careers_and_volunteers/student_placements/CAMH_care_providers_overview/Pages/careproviders_addictiontherapy.aspx

The best thing is that I have been told that CDI provides the placement for you now they are telling me to find it myself and if I don't finsh it in a certain time frame right after my graduation I will have isues with OSAP. Now if all these agencies don't take CDI students how the hell I will ever find a placement and finish it on time. I am not talking about finding a job I am just talking about finishing this school and get the hell out of there. Here are some things you should read on the CDI wep page and how they lie to students.

http://www.cdicollege.ca/community/student-services/

http://www.cdicollege.ca/about-cdi/why-we-re-better/

all of this is jusr BS. I have been in this school for 9 months and the campus in Mississauga i new it has been open for about 17 months and check this. There have been quite a few people that have graduated but so far there was no grad party nobody got a chance to even get whole graduation costume and I have been told that they are goe do it later when more students graduate well I wanna see that.

CDI is NOT Canadas leading college well maybe if you count it from backwards lol.

The curriculum has NOT been developed by any experts and I know that for a fact.

CDI does NOT serve as practicum hosts.

CDI does NOT motivate you all they want is your money that is their only motivation.

ONe of the students at CDI was told by an employee at CDI that she should sell her car if she does not have money and enroll in the course I mean how fed uo is that WOW.

CDI career services.

http://www.cdicollege.ca/community/career-services/

CDI does NOT really offer workshops for resume writing or job searching at my campus there were 2 workshops related to that and thats it they only did that just to fill a gap or something, They were really BS anyway.

I do not believe that employers are looking for CDI graduates becasue that college is a total joke. Your paying $15,000 $20,000 $30,000 for what? a piece of paper.

Have a nice day people.

Please people....do research before throwing your hard-earned money and precious time away on this 'school'. It IS a business, no matter what the "Admissions Professional" tells you. They are high pressure sales people with cut throat attitudes only after your cash. They make promises of quick and easy answers to sell you on their abridged version of what learning really is.

Their cost is three times as much as any reputable school and when you ask questions regarding key topics like, 'how is this course sustainable and going to get me a great job after? How do you vary from online courses? Tell me about your instructors,' you are given answers that are only intended to cover the truth and keep you from walking out with your dollars.

This 'school' is deceitful, pumps out as many 'skilled workers' as it can while making a substantial amount of money in the process. I wanted to participate in the Rehabilitation Assistant course. They wanted $21,536.00. It's a year course with a three month practicum. I could get a degree for that.

When I decided to do more research on CDI, I found not a positive comment except on their very own website. When I pulled out of this decision, I was treated the complete opposite compared to when my interest was piqued. Whose interest wouldn't be sparked? What with all the confirmation you receive from the staff who smile and nod and pour poisonous distraction in your ear while pocketing your wallet.

The guarantees are not so. Merely sales techniques to make you feel comfortable while you go twenty grand in debt. Do not go to this place.

Okay... so DO NOT EVER attend CDI College first of all you will be ripped off, second of all good luck finding a job as most companies will not even look at your certificate being legit.

Please explain to me how a year long office administration course cost you $17,000 ???? When you can attend NAIT an accredited school very recognized by all business with teachers who are qualified to teach and it will cost you in around $6,000.

Can someone please explain to me how in the world that works???

Look for your education at an accredited school and your schooling unless attending a very high end university should only cost you in around $3,000 a semester (depending on courses).

They are horrid. I am not sure how this school got its licence returned. They likely paid off someone to operate in Ontario. Shady people licensed by very shady regulators.

CDI College is a fraud, a scam, and a total joke. The diplomas obtained there are worthless, and are not recognized by any employer. Any money spent at CDI college is totally wasted. Avoid the fraud known as CDI College at all cost.

CDI College SCAM -

I need your Big Help. Please advice , what are my options.

My wife got admission in CDI college a month ago, she is immigrant and was excited to get admission in CDI College, after getting rejected to get admmision from university for not having pre requisite, , CDI did all the paperwork and got her loan approved for $18000, same course in university cost only $8000.

Anyway, they made her sign a lot of documents which she signed without reading, in which one page say, if she withdrawn or terminated, while 1 to 10% of course, she pay 25 % of fee which is $6000, if she complete 10% to 50% of course, she pay 60% which is about $12000, and over 50% completion u pay full $18000, So after a month she came home and told me that CDI ask her to leave because she failed twice and there was a claw that if you fail twice, you cannot continue the program.

She is 2 day more than 10% so she is at 10.2 % so she comes in 60% category and have to pay $12000 to the govt as govt student loan already paid the CDI. I MEAN WOW.

So now we are in debt of $12000 of govt student for going to CDI for 30 days...and not getting any diploma or any good education.

1 teacher was teching all the courses..She had 5 exams and 15 quizzes in a month in which she failed 2, and they kicked her out and kept all the money and now we have to pay $12000 to govt student loan.

Please advice what i can do in this situation.

I scheduled an interview with CDI but after reading reviews online decided not to go. I called them to cancel and they kept calling me every few days until I threatened to call the police and finally stopped. :/

What a scam... not only do they try to lure you in under false pretense (NO JOB FOR YOU AFTER GRADUATION) but all they want to do is take your money. During an interview, they don’t give you a tour of their campus, you sit in a small 4x4 office, pressured to sign a paper burdening you to a debt of 41,000$ dollars or more. Most of the of the conversation revolved around financial support i.e. can you get a loan, how much of a loan can YOU get, if you don’t get a full loan how much will it cost you per month.

Several red flags came up: I was applying for networking course, a subject I was already somewhat knowledgeable about, I asked the "councilor" (MORE LIKE A SALES REP) some questions, she seemed lost and confused and kept coming back to the financial situation. Her answers didn’t quite make sense and seemed very vague, as if only giving the minimal amount of information. After a while of picking at her brain, for my entertainment purposes of course LOL, I told her I needed to think about it.

To my astonishment, she called me over 20 times in the next few days. She EVEN called my emergency contact number (my parents) to see if I was with them. Not only did she rape call me, but she EVEN texted me from a different area code number. Oh yeah, and she also called me private caller a couple of times!

WTF! Harassment?? Are they that desperate for people to attend their "fake" school and draw them into their vicious fraudulent cycle? Hmmmmmm, if I were you I would think twice about even applying...