Please don't waste your money on this school do your research first before considering attending this school. I attended some years back and I regret it.

While the staff and all the instructors were really nice, I have to be honest for the money they charged you could have received a college degree. You are better off attending CCC or BCC and earn real credits that can be transferred. BCC offers many of the same programs that this school offers but much cheaper. I learned the hard way and went back to school and now I'm working on my masters in chemical engineering.

I took the time out to write this review because I was contacted by them to do a "where are they now" review. By no means did I want them to think they had been instrumental in success but that was the purpose of me being contacted. So I decided to do my own review. The purpose of this review is not to say they are a bad school but is to say that there are many other cheaper options out there. That goes for pretty much all technical schools including the ridiculously over priced prism.

The faculty were terrific. They helped me through some classes that were very hard. They care about their students. I have read some reviews and it is obvious that after attendiong myself, the negative comments are ridiculous. Good school-

I just couldn't continue reading without making a comment...Although i value everyones opinions and understand that in many cases a few folks will have a bad experience while others have positive ones, I wanted to point out one of the most basic and simple ways for people reading these reviews to sift through most of the bullcrap i've read so far.

I'm not sure how many people who have gone to Harris realize this, but Harris, just like Prism, Star, and so many other technical institutes can't and don't enroll people just for the sake of getting that 10-15k in tuition. The reason is simple...These schools are held up to far higher standards than say, a cumminity college or any college for that matter. They are required by the state in order to keep their accreditation, to place 70% of their graduates. That means that nomatter how many people they enroll, 7 out of 10 must be placed by the schools placement services in a job. If they don't, they lost their state accreditation.

So while everyone insists they enroll mass amounts of students without a care in the world, and in some cases i'm sure people do get neglected, they can't and won't allow anyone to enroll who has 13k in their pocket because part of the enrollment process for these schools is determining whether or not they'll be able to reasonably find this student a job once they've completed the course.

For every one person i've heard bash Harris, i've talked to 10 either in class or outside of it who love the school and were placed locally as either an intern after they graduated or at a full time job. People need to grow up...If like the one guy said, you have nothing better to bitch about other than the cafeteria not being large enough you better get a clue. You should be lucky they have the facilities at all to provide a cafeteria to begin with, and there's no reason why you can't sit in your car or spend 20 minutes grabbing a quick bite to eat and sitting down at a deli.

I found a website, here it is http://www.business-training-schools.com/harris-school-of-business.html. This is a pretty good description on what Harris is all about, what it offers and what it doesn’t. They seem pretty ‘up-front’ about things.

For 'Run for the Hills' these are the 'rules' for AAPC – or were you even aware? From: American Academy of Professional Coder's website: - Certified Professional Coder (CPC) - To be eligible to sit for the Certified Professional Coder exam, "you must have worked as a medical coder for a minimum of two years." Furthermore, once you are certified, you are required to renew your certification annually.

Be real people. All I have read here is nothing but a bunch of excuses for your own failures. The ‘blame game’ of ‘you’ Americans. Blame everyone, everything, but yourself. It’s obvious a lot of you didn’t do your ‘own homework’ and now are now blaming the school for your disappointment, lack of common sense, lack of researching for ‘yourselves’ and ‘whatever else’ you are lacking or ‘not doing’… lacking responsibility maybe?

Here are some of your irresponsible excuses I quoted:

Following from: Overall experience--poor and threatening School not recommended by Susan on December 19, 2010 Source: http://www.guidetohealthcareschools.com/healthcare-school-reviews/harris-school-of-business#ixzz1IcqbyRYG “I was disabled prior to being admission to Harris” (this somehow is the schools fault?); “and have become an advocate to put a stop to this greedy process”.- (What have you done exactly?); “I failed a clinical” (isn’t this a Major part of a Medical Job?) - (but, you want a “Pass” because): “never mind I allowed students to draw blood from my arm over and over again, assisted classmates with their studies because I already had taken courses in A&P.”; ( sounds like you ‘failed’ that course too?) ” that grabs up applicantss by bullying them if they decide not to sign up” (No one can ‘bully’ you into signing ‘anything’ if you don’t want to. That is just silly.)

Following from: 'Run For the Hills' School not recommended by SJC on November 30, 2010 Source: http://www.guidetohealthcareschools.com/healthcare-school-reviews/harris-school-of-business#ixzz1IcrTQ5ax “Most hospitals and psyhician offices require that you have a CPC, CPC-H, or CPC-P cert which Harris DOES NOT offer.” (that’s because these are ‘Separate Exams‘ you take. There are testing facilities where you can take these exams, didn’t you ask this prior to signing on the dotted line for thousands of dollars?)

In conclusion, I cannot say if I recommend this school or not. I can say that it is up to the individual and how they do their 'own' research, what questions they ask and what they expect from the education. But, to say someone ‘bullied’ you into signing a loan for thousands of dollars is absurd.

Pick yourselves up, dust yourselves off and move on. Maybe this isn’t the ‘career’ for you or you were not that interested to begin with. Besides, I just blew a lot of your lame excuses right out of the water…

I know none of this is what anyone here 'wants' to hear. But it needs to be said because the excuses are so obvious. And, if they were 'that' bad a school, I would suspect they would be out of business by now. And, they would not be able to keep their accreditation.

I am glad a lot you dropped out or whatever because I would hate to wind up being your employer or worse your patient!