Lincoln Technical Institute
Reviews and Complaints

I took a course 3 years ago with ideas 💡 being this would help me open up medical field to me but it hasn't nobody has ever hired me yet I've done endless interviews over the years. I actually gave up after frustration and sadness because nobody would hire me and career services sent countless of leads some would call and interview and others would not. I just want to you know I'm currently unemployed and frustrated you think I want to pay you anymore money for anything that didn't lead to a job or education of dead ends. I just wish I could went to school as LPN like I wanted to do. Porter and Chester said they give a chance at their LPN course I guess I picked the wrong school to go too.

Ok. Be very vigilant when you come to Lincoln Tech. Ask all of the questions before you sign any paper. Now lets get to it. This school is a joke and is just stealing my money. I will be dropping out soon and go somewhere else. I expected better and more hands on labs, but you just get lecture through slide shows. The teachers are out to get you in anything stupid you can think about. Also you will feel like you back in high school. They tell you what to wear and how. You as a student have no saying in it. You are about to spend 20, 000 dollars for education that you can do on your own if you buy the books. All we do is waste time most of the day. They do not have substitute teachers, so at times you have a teacher running 3 classes. Its really hard to believe, but its true. This is happening at the Edison Campus. Two weeks ago I complained to the Director of Education and nothing was done. there is not student counsel to watch over your business. My teacher had an emergency and had to leave, I understand an emergency. The teacher next door watched over the class and his own class, plus a third class of students, all in different mod. This happened around 12 noon. We had to take a quiz. The teacher made us wait an hour to take the quiz and I had to stay in class doing nothing after the quiz was done. You will have a lot of work on your own like 75% of the time. Think twicw before joining Lincoln Tech.

Hello to all the persons out there. Please use your best judgement when deciding on getting an education. These schools offer nothing but garbage and they will ruin your credit. These online schools like ITT, university of Phoenix.Everest, Colorado Institute are all garbage and the diploma is worth less then a roll of toilet paper! Its real sad that they actually get away with ripping people off and deceiving them with there commercials. If you really want an Education attend your Local Community College. The credits that these schools offer are not transferable to a college or university. what a joke! Lincoln Tech and Pennco Tech are clown schools ripping youngster off. Beware don't let them suck you into that vicious cycle of deception ..

I went to LTI [protected] with the promise of a career in the auto industry making a good salary at graduation as well as reasonable loans and state of the art training. Through the time I was there none of the training aids were ever in working condition. A good amount of instructors were not only uninterested in teaching but showed up to class drunk - or would just have us sign out and go home for full credit. I'm not in high school, I'm an adult paying out of my own pocket for this education, driving an hour each way 4 days a week after working 8.5 hours not to sign out and go home. Dont get me wrong there were some very good instructors. BUT nothing they promised happened, no jobs available for placement, no state of the art equipment to learn on and ALOT of loans! Its a complete waste. The recruiters are salesman

I started my surgical technician course at lincoln tech on july 7, 2009. The weekly test given in the a&p course was a joke. On mondays we were given all the test questions on an "exercise" sheet, answered them as a group and were told to study them for the test. Basically, you memorized every answer you got an a.
Then I started the actual surgical tech class which was supposed to be from 8am to 1:15 monday thru thursday, always out by 12pm and many cigarette breaks cut our learning time in half.
Then 2 of my classmates and me were sent out for our externship. Our teacher warned us that men were more respected as surgical techs than women which should have sent up red flags for us. We were sent to a hospital that had a slow surgical unit. For the first week, the director of the surgical unit left us 3 standing in the hallway, wouldn’t answer any questions or give us any type of direction on what to do and they wouldn't let us into surgery.
It took a month and a half to get into my first surgery. After that, I spent most of my time pulling cases because no one wanted to let us scrub any cases. Mind you, to graduate you need 150 surgeries as first scrub.
All 3 of us complained to the teacher and to the director in charge of externship that we weren't getting any cases and were being ignored. We expressed concern that with out the required amount of cases how would we graduate? We were told not to worry about it.
At the end of my 4 month externship, I had less than 20 surgeries as second scrub, 0 as first scrub. The school graduated me anyway on june 16, 2010 and on my paperwork for my certification my teacher put that I had completed 159 surgeries as first scrub, 9 being neurosurgery which wasn't even done at the hospital I was interning at. This school has no concern that they're sending under educated people into operating rooms, would you want me helping in surgery if it was you or a loved one on the table? I wouldn't.
I have been unable to find employment. When potential employers hear I went to lincoln technical institute, they snicker and I don't get a call back.
I'm currently seeking legal representation to sue for my tuition and the interest it's accrued. Hospitals keep records of everyone in every surgery and the duties performed so it'll be a piece of cake to prove I was only in about 20 surgeries, not the 159 stated on my graduation papers.
Do not waste your time or money on this school. What they're doing is illegal, unethical and will probably kill some unsuspecting patient someday.
Oh, I forgot to mention how violent the students on campus are. Teachers getting threatened by students, students getting threatened by other students and a general sense of race separation among student the body. High school wasn’t this bad.