Vaughn College

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David Eee

25 Apr 2019

My son had gone to this school for two years.
In his second year, he was called by a major airline with a job opportunity. He jumped at the opportunity. Unfortunately, he had to drop out because of his schedule. He was a week late cancelling the classes, and for the past few years, I’ve been getting bills for over 7,000.00 that was due. He explained it to them, and basically said “too bad, you were past the deadline”.
I paid them over 40K, plus the student loan money they received.
Fast forward to 2019, and my son’s employer is offering classes for his bachelor’s degree and a greatly reduced discount.
Vaughn is holding his transcripts hostage, and won’t provide him with an unofficial copy.
I could well understand if, he went for a full semester, and then didn’t pay but, being a few days late past the deadline, is just ridiculous.
It’s all about the money with these people.
Be a bit flexible and do the right thing.

AP

Andrew P

9 May 2018

As a former Vaughn student I can honestly tell you that their Aircraft Operations major is a scam. If you do not have all of your licenses and ratings, you will not be able to graduate even though you've taken all of your classes!
The licenses cost over 88k with only 200 flight hours. Don't forget that in order to fly as a commercial pilot, you must have 1,500 flight hours.

I fell for it. If you choose continue with that major, you will find out that the tuition and the flying lessons are two separate bills! I found out the hard way. Vaughn College rarely provides scholarships or any forms of financial assistance to low income students. My first semester tuition bill was over $13,000 and this was with my scholarships and government funds.

I withdrew from Vaughn after just one semester due to the ridiculous amount of money I had to pay.
Even though I left after one week of the Spring Semester of 2018, I was still liable for 75% of the tuition, $3,788.75 and for labs that I never attended which are a separate price.
I suggest that you avoid taking out loans, the people who work in the financial aid office are down right rude. Instead of helping you out or finding ways to pay your bills they simply tell you to - take out a Parent-Plus Student loan.

I do not recommend attending Vaughn College, they will suck you dry from every dollar you have.

JP

Jevaughn Porter Local Guide

9 Dec 2016

I initially saw myself in the aviation field and decided to go here, but that changed soon once I realized that they did not want to give me the scholarships they promised. The class sizes are good and everyone around you becomes family because the school is so small. However, campus and residential life becomes really boring because you end us seeing the same people every single day and the location is between LGA and a large residential area, so with no other campuses or entertainment nearby without hopping on a bus - it gets very lonely. I gave this school a 5 star review when I started, but now three years later after transferring to another school in NYC, I have to give Vaughn a 1 star review because they treated me terrible. I'm very disappointed especially because this is a private school.