Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Good luck trying to communicate with anyone at this school. I had to contact 4 different people and still never recieved a straight answer or help in any way.

I honestly don’t know how SAIT reputation is so well known. For what exactly? I’ve been here for the past year and I can say that I am very disappointed with my experience here, as an international student I am grateful for the opportunity of studying here but at the same time the international fees are absurdly high and for paying so much the least a student would expect is to have amazing professional instructors, but every time I start a new term here I get frustrated with the lack of options of instructors for my course, some courses would literally just give you one option for instructor and if the instructor is bad(like mostly are), well good luck, you are basically forced to stick with that until the end of your term. In addition, escalators and water fountains always broken, some staff are very rude and impatient when trying to help you out. I also love swimming and I was hoping to do this when I got here but the pool has been “in maintenance” since I started school, about a year ago. I honestly would like to know where all my money is going to. Yes, I had some amazing instructors, like Alisson, Roxanne, Lisa Mckay, but getting a good instructor here rarely happens so I definitely wouldn’t recommend this institute to anyone.

Gouging students for money. Making them pay for tests, then deeming them not mandatory and not giving refunds. Fees on top of fee's. $50 for n95 fitments when Bow Valley is free. They lie about job availability and placement. Sold a friend of mine on the medical reprocessing technician course which is essentially defunct in the industry. These guys are crooks.

I am unsure what has happened to SAIT, I believe their trade's programs are still quite renowned however, their Advanced Digital Technology school is not only full of completely misleading programs, though also ran by shady, unqualified and ultimately completely unprofessional administration. The amount of money wasted by SAIT on administration is shameful. Is it any wonder that the cost of higher education has gone through the roof with the number of useless highly paid administrators now on university payrolls. Student Aid, and the NSLSC need to be auditing where the loan funding is going as it is lining the pockets of people that are literally sitting around doing NOTHING.If you want to see yourself going into IT or working within software design/ dev. Steer far away from SAIT, most the programs offered in the SADT will leave you high and dry on exorbitant student loan gouging with a useless diploma or certificate. Emphasis on useless as SAIT has now pushed out all long-term qualified instructors and replaced them with contract 'instructors' (Jolanta Warpechowska-Gruca specifically) that have zero clue what they are doing and are unprofessional and discriminatory on top of it all; purposely failing students out of out programs and SAIT could care less properly investigating this. Attrition rates at the SADT are record breaking for a reason, SAIT needs to have an immediate rehaul of the Advanced Digital Technology school as it is leading false promise, and affecting the goals of those who just want to have a better career or advance their current career(s). Where is the money going SAIT?! This is a serious concern that is continually ignored by students!

Parking is a mess, classes you take are taught in a different language as professors can barely speak English. Also it’s embarrassing being a tech school but not having working escalators.

Very neat and tidy campus. Proper traffic rules are obeyed even inside the campus. As far as the education is concerned then I am quite impressed. The teachers treat every student equally irrespective of their background or country. The fellow students are also very friendly. The infrastructure is in good condition. Labs and classrooms are well equipped with latest technology. The fees is also very genuine.

SAIT has a horrible unprofessional graduation procedure.They lied about being able to bring 4 people (already limited) and then changed it to 2 people last minute. This has ruined many plans family/friends had taken for the day. Families have scheduled flights and vacation for this milestone day to support their loved ones, and now they are told late they cannot attend.Instead of feeling happy and accomplished now graduates are stressed out and sad being forced to decide which 2 people can come while others cannot. Also they are using a ticket system as well, which means families that can attend are unable to even sit together for the ceremony.It is evident SAIT does not care about their students or celebrating their success. Pay your tuition, get your degree then get out the door. Clearly showing how the administration puts money over their students. This is no way to treat your soon to be alumni.This may seem trivial to some, but it illustrates an extreme level of unprofessionalism from this institution. Not only does this sour the schools image for the students, but also for the thousands of family/friends that now see the lack of care from the administration. Whenever I hear about a degree from SAIT now I will be thinking how little the administration cares and how they are perfectly fine with lying to their students.Unfortunately it may be too late for this years graduating class, but I hope in the future SAIT shows more care regarding the graduation of their students.I have lost an extreme amount of respect for SAIT.

The organization of sait is a joke. The website is filled with dead links. There is no communication to students about upcoming academic dates. Academic chairs don't even know what programs are running or not running. Office of the registrar is filled with rude and insulting staff who regularly berate and lie to students. Entire course sections deleted or forgotten until students question why they don't have classes. Teaching staff with little to no real world experience in their field. Abandoned campuses that were touted as the next big thing.Sait has it all folks.

Not recommend international student come to study in here. The college not serve internation student even though the majority revenue is from international student. For example, without instructor at first week of course Microeconomy. They even have not finished hiring process before semester start. And in order to save money, college hire many contract instructors. So, many of them just read the PPT in the class time, because they know they won't work in here after this contract. They don't care of the student's feeling. Many student go to work instead of study in the classroom. Becuase they can study by read PPT by themselves. But, what's the value that I paid 1800 dollars for this course???

Are you guys just passing the problems of international students to the regarding department or even checking if that department has solved problems........ people were complaining 8-10 months ago and i can see nothing is solved yet .....I do now feel like you are just doing reply here to show off here that you care but it looks like it's a joke to you .....nothing changes......If you keep doing like this i feel like the day are not far when international students will stop taking admission in this college ...... Be respectful and take charge to change things not just talk.....