Illinois Center For Broadcasting SCAM SCAM SCAM! BEWARE! Lombard Illinois

Then I would encourage every student that had a complain to submit it to accsc.org/Student-Corner/Complaints.aspx They will investigate each complaint at the school and keep a record of violations. 

As an actual former graduate of the Illinois Center for Broadcasting, I was hired by a radio station a couple of weeks prior to my graduation thanks to my internship of several months wherein I showed the staff and general manager what I was capable of thanks to the skills I learned at ICB and my own internal drive.

Broadcasting is not an industry where you twiddle your thumbs -- you have to be proactive rather than reactive. You have to be the solution to an employer's problems and stand out from the crowd of other job applicants.

As of the 2012 Annual Report to ACCSC, the job placement rate was 71%. I believe it is slightly higher now in 2014. I have no idea where the complainant got a 94% number from other than thin air. Placement depends a great deal on the student and, unfortunately, not all students are willing and ready to succeed no matter how much or how well you teach them. 

It is also a requirement of employment that all ICB instructors be currently employed in the broadcasting industry and, iirc, have at least 3 years of hands-on experience. No exceptions.

Eight years later, I am now also an instructor at ICB and not only is the curriculum more detailed, longer, and in-depth but the equipment, number of rooms to work in, and number/quality of instructors is better than ever. And the slight price change between then and now in all those years is an inflationary blip. Students are getting far more for their money every year.

At my campus, I have never seen a class larger than 25 students and have seen and taught a class as small as 7 students. The complainant's claim of a class of 40 seems highly implausible.

The bottom line is that if you love radio and/or television, have some amount of innate skill, can readily absorb new skills, and have the drive and desire to succeed, you absolutely can get a gig in the industry and ICB can train you better and help get you into a job far quicker than the unfocused curriculum of a community college with zero ties to the industry. 

You don't have to take my word for it though. Go to the school. Schedule a tour. Sit in on a class. Talk to the students and faculty. Find out for yourself.

This "student" never attended the school here.  He registered for class and never started. 

All the claims that he is making are false.  Frank "Nitti" even knows grads who are working in the industry and he is Facebook friends with them.

Obviously, Frank "Nitti" is upset and angry about life or something personal and he's taking it out on the program that he never ever attended. 

If I am incorrect, and he is a graduate of the program - he is more than welcome to come back, learn some new technology, update his resume and demo and meet with our placement department to assist him in his broadcasting career search.

Sadly, however, I am 99% sure who this is, and sadly, this is not even a real issue. 

Wow, such a shame that you have to start name calling because your butt hurt someone disagrees with you.

Brain dead? I graduated high school 2 years before my class. You also don't know me so calling me anything would make you pretty ignorant huh?

I'm sorry you failed to provide a good demo to get hired somewhere. That's not ICB's fault. your product = your success or failures. In this case, your failures.

I don't care what the OCB reports say, because I, nor you went there. The stories written actually do have some similar traits to icb, as far as the equipment goes.

No you actually won't be seeing me back here blaming others for my success or failure, because unlike you, I have a sense of accountability.

Have a great day,

From someone who doesn't give a d**n : )

I don't care what they told your class, notice what I said they told MY class, you effing nitwit!?! Go look at the rip-off reports of what they told the classes at the Ohio Center for Broadcasting. Coincidence that it's the exact same thing that I said here? No, it's not a coincidence because they lie! Youre an idiot and I'm not going to rebut everything you said.

I am a student who attends ICB. It's definatley NOT a rip off. First of all, they don't claim 94% success rate. 2ndly, they never ever say that they can garuntee you a job. They DO have a placement assistance program. Your career is YOUR responsibility, NOT theirs. I'm full aware the broadcasting industry is hard to get into, hence internships of 14 months in some cases. If you came there thinking they'd place you at a job after graduation then no wonder your left without a job and in debt. no offense.