Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology - Riverside Campus

★★☆☆☆ 2 out of 5 a year ago

Most projects we are working on uses equipment this is old (obsolete) broken equipment that is missing multiple components. Instructors are however VERY knowledgeable and make up for the trainings shortcomings. When we do work on projects taking apart plane parts, majority of the components are missing as well. We work primarily off of the website canvas. Exercises are majority a waste of time and towards the end of my term here, it got so messed up scheduling wise, we had 1 quiz for the whole week (usually 2-3) and the instructor just gave us the answers to the test because it was over materials that we haven't even covered yet. Very overpriced for the lack of resources as well. It is faster than attending a 2 year course, but a waste of time if you are not able to pass the licensing tests at the end of it. UPDATE: Graduated and received my Powerplant license and working towards airframe. When I graduated throughout that time, majority of the more knowledgeable and available to work with instructors were fired/left so I can attest to the competence of the new staff as of now. To be honest, be prepared to do majority of the learning and research on you own, and on your own time. There is likely nothing the instructors can tell you that you can't find in a book or on you tube. We still have access to the PowerPoints, however for each subject, it is not condensed into one PowerPoint. Meaning that you will likely have to download 10+ PowerPoints just to learn about 1 subject.

Kristen Lechner

★☆☆☆☆ 1 out of 5 a year ago

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME! This school is very greedy and promises many things that NEVER COME TRUE! There were 2 good teachers. The rest of the instructors and staff are unqualified. While I was there, I did get my certificate, but it was mostly a SELF-TAUGHT PROGRAM @ $55,000. The school politics are so crazy and unorganized. Not to mention the internet and power constantly go out for days, meaning you have to make up days on your own off time. This goes for riverside campus, and I'm assuming the others as well. Hope this reaches people and heeds the warning. DO NOT ATTEND Spartan College.

Grant Atkinson

★☆☆☆☆ 1 out of 5 a year ago

Instructors are great, the rest of the program not so much. Checklist for the surveys on things that should be fixed: 1.) Instructors: Their knowledge and experience in requesting equipment for us students are ignored and fall on deaf ears. 2.) Malfunctioning Equipment: Equipment does not work properly or is out of service, and leading back to the previous point the instructors are ignored when there is a request for new equipment, more equipment for the students, or even new study materials for the students. 3.) Canvas: Leading back to point 1, Canvas is a disaster right now. Whomever is changing Canvas' materials does not listen to the instructors in their requests to have things fixed. For example in one of the courses, an instructor was simply asking for some name changes of files and for more power points be added in for the students to download and review, but instead everything got replaced for a previous, already completed course, and then when said instructor asked to get it fixed by the campus director, he said to just use the previous course materials which skips everything the students were going to learn about. 4.) O&P Preparation: There is hardly any preparation for the Oral and Practical test. The projects are supposedly to help prepare us for them but there are at minimum two projects that have been skipped due to the issues with Canvas. One project for the a course our class is currently on, and another from a previous course due to the fact that there was not enough equipment, and there was even an instructor who requested more equipment so students can complete the project but was largely ignored by the higher ups. 5.) Prepware Focus: While focusing on Prepware for the written is convenient, other than the project, there is no focus on practicing for the Oral and Practical. There is a lot of focus on theory and history of what we are learning about, but half of that time can be used to prepware students for the Oral and Practical along with the allotted amount of time that is given to us for the written test.

Alexander Pantaleo

★★★★★ 5 out of 5 5 years ago

I graduated Spartan College in November 2019. My experience there was excellent. The instructors were knowledgeable and helpful as well as the staff. The Riverside campus was conveniently located and more than adequate for instruction and training. The whole program sets you up for success in obtaining an A&P license certification and I highly recommend this school.

Elias

★★★★★ 5 out of 5 5 years ago

I am a Graduate at Spartan College of Aeronautics & Tech of Riverside and just recently got my A&P certificate. The instructors know there stuff! they have seasoned instructors that knows what they are doing and will never steer you in the wrong direction. I even had some instructors that I personally didn’t have would have taken the time out of their schedule to help me out if I needed it. They have also expanded and built a new hanger for there students which is awesome! I personally would give this campus a 10/10! Go get your A&P here!!!

Daniel Cardenas