Spartan Terrace - Elgin

This school blatantly takes advantage of its black and brown students. Multiple semesters of instructors that down right refuse to answer you. No wonder they are firing a huge number of them- A little too late if you ask me. This school should be investigated because they run just like a for profit college. Save your money and go to a trade school because you sure as hell won't get an education here.

Thank you so much for hosting us and doing great job ?? and thank again to the students

The food is excellent, 5 star dining at half the price. This all while supporting the culinary, hospitality and pasty student's in completing their degree.

The only thing I like about this college is the art program. The teachers for art classes are super nice and supportive of students ambitions. Aside from that, it is awful. Everything is so unorganized and confusing. The staff at the testing center, the bookstore, and registration are all so rude!! They are not helpful what do ever. Also, never try and ask the counselors for anything! The few counselors I've met with are all super rude and impatient. They don't really answer your questions and just want to get rid of you. And good luck reaching anyone by email or phone, no one ever answers or gets back to you. Freshman orientation is a waste of time, all they teach you is how to work the online portal, they don't give you a very thorough tour and they try and do ice breakers as if you were at camp. It's not a very welcoming intro to being an adult in college. It's so difficult at first to figure out what classes you need and which ones will transfer, and trying to get answers about it is impossible with the staff there. Basically the whole time I was here, most teachers and staff made me feel discouraged and unmotivated to even do any good with my education and future.

Took me 4 years to graduate with my Associate 's degree. I think it 's worth pointing out a lot of these positive reviews here are not from people who actually attended the school, but rather people who were here for an event . As a school, this place sucks. There is little to no unity or school spirit or sense of community. Sure, I saved some money by going here but at what cost? It took me longer than it should 've to get my degree, the teachers don 't make themselves readily available to help students and have strange and inconvenient office hours, I 'm pretty sure this place contributed to my clinical depression. The teachers don 't care or put in a lot of effort and as a result, the students don 't care. Classes feel dead and dreary. You can try to make friends but the reality is, most people see this school as a bump in the road rather than a final destination so to speak. You might make friends but you 'll be transferring out in 1-2 years so there 's really no point.Oh, and the cafeteria food is NOT affordable. $7 for mozzarella sticks is ludicrous. There 's only 5 sticks in there too. I would have to leave school sometimes and eat fast food bc I couldn 't afford cafeteria food. One nice thing I will say is the Spartan Pantry, but the only food in there is granola bars and canned soup! You 'll have to vending machines or bring your own lunch if you 're on a budget.