CDI College Reviews

I really want to thank CDI College Brampton, their instructors and staff, for being a support through all my courses, building up my career. I want to give a special THANKS from the deepest of my heart to: Kavanagh, Rosaleen; Kaur, Loveneet; Al-Qawasmi, Mousa; Qawasmi, Younis; Kalsi, Yash; Sohail, Mahwish (In sequence order of classes I have taken so far) YOU ALL ARE THE BEST! Also I am very grateful that I have an excellent person as an Assistant Director of Admissions for CDI: Nidhi Vats, she help so much through all my path.I repeat again how grateful I am with my beloved teachers YOUNIS, YASH, AND LOVENEET, your are the best!!! Thanks so much for all your time and help!!!!! Stay the way you are and keep the passion you have!!!

I started CDI college in April of 2021 from the start it was a joke I paid 22 grand to take the addiction support worker... for a price of 2200 books you don't actually get a book in your hand you get the books from the computer... I finished my online training in March then it was time for my practicum for 300 hrs that you yourself have to basically find on your own... please let me tell you most places I contacted will not accept CDI college students.

Please do you're research on CDI college and the lawsuits and lack of help and proper education. I finally found a beautiful place of practicum at Emma's house where I worked my butt off for my practicum I got a raving review and was missing some hours due to 2 deaths and covid. Not once did CDI college check on me or ask how I was making out. I asked for my ID 5 times with no response. The amount of

turn over of staff tells you how atrocious that place is I believe I had 4 practicum coordinators while I was there. So I finished my practicum when I was done Emma's house called CDI and they accepted my hours twice. I got a email by the way 3 weeks ago asking if I even started my practicum that's how smart they are? I call and ask when I would receive my diploma the practicum coordinator reassured me I was good.

Then on Friday May 26th 2022 I get an email from the practicum coordinator that they won't accept my hours stating I only had 70 hrs? And they told me to go find another institution to finish my hours I already have after saying 3 times they accepted my hours. He couldn't even call me he emailed that too me... stating his boss said no...

In the meantime it's been a month since I finished and got a full time job with nothing to do with CDI as no one accepts CDI students they once again never contacted me for a month... I am reaching out for people to be aware of CDI college Calgary south campus... Please do your homework on that school... All I can say is shame on them...please help me.

I am overwhelmed with all the bad reviews! In fact I am so disappointed with CDI they do not care about their students. They only care ABOUT THE MONEY! How did the Canadian Government approve this? I'm currently a student . We're left behind with out a teacher online for a course. Nobody's dared to inform us (student). The last teacher we got was replaced the last minute. The school asked us to download 2019 version of a software and gave us 2021 data files to work with? We're left in the dark and with no teacher online how are we suppose to survive??? Can anyone help and bring this case to the attention of the authorities to take a look and investigate this college?

If I could give 0 stars I would. This school has ruined my life. I don't have the energy to even go into my list of complaints because I've been fighting for over a year now. Let's just say that the only thing I have achieved from CDI is a useless diploma (which I don't actually ever get to see or show employers) huge student debt, a bad credit score, no employment and daily thoughts of suicide. Don't do it!!

The law course is poorly presented and formatted. Instructing is minimal. Although I received good marks, there was zero feedback.

Two thirds of the way through, I was told that I was not funded to the end and they wanted another $2,000+. A month later they wanted an extra $7,000+. I told them no.

The school is so bad I can't even give it a star rating I wouldn't even give it a one star.

They are disorganized most of the time the online courses are not completely available on the first couple of days you're supposed to be working on the course.

When you try to get help or support there is none. trust me I've made many phone calls to the student resources and I use that term lightly and been put on hold or told that's not their Department to deal with and moved on to another department and not gotten answers.

Some of the teachers are good but a lot of the times trying to get a hold of them is almost impossible. Do yourself a favor go somewhere else.

This is the worst college I have worked in. They are so disorganized. Their education is not up to the mark. And, their management treat teachers as if they are their servants and they are sweet to you when they want favors from you but they are disrespectful to their employees.

Students should not join this college. It is very disorganized and the education is very poor. They just want your money.

I contacted CDI to take business administration, and all they tried to do was sell me on a course I didn't want and even after I said no they put me in that course anyway, than it took three months to sort out, and by the time was in the course I was supposed to be in I was so far behind I ended just dropping out.

IT IS A SCAM, don't enroll here! They are completely unhelpful, incompetent, and don't care, and this huge mistake of going to cdi will have to be paid off your years.

I went to Winnipeg branch of CDI in 2021, Medical office assistant program. The teacher was not polite, sometimes mean and had racial biases. The teacher's comments were inappropriate. It was a sad and traumatic experience. This place is not good, especially for racial minorities.

This is by far the furthest thing from a college. It is a place that sucks you in with false promises, dead dreams and frustration out of this planet. The teachers do try their best but the tools they are given are far and few between & unfortunately the teachers do not last long.

The class I am reviewing is about 5 months in and currently on its 4th teacher. They had to merge the night and daytime class teachers into both to pick up the gaps where there was no available teacher. The admin staff have also switched roles or left in some cases and the only thing this place is quick at is collecting money for books that aren't even the same as others in the same class.

I strongly recommend you google this place and read every single review... They are not accredited and there is a good chance you will not be able to get a job after completing your course. They are much more expensive than other places that can offer you much more. Stay away from this place no matter what... Trust me it may be the best decision of your life.

Hopefully this place gets shut down before the screw over many more individuals just trying to better their lives.

You have to study by yourself all day and all night they don't care. The real problem is their Diploma or any Certificate they give you doesn't work in Canada. They don't have any training with any company or industrial too. YOU ARE on YOUR own to STUDY.

IF anyone has gone to CDI and has a negative response to their college please email me kandikay8 (at) hotmail.com so we can discuss as I attend and am not impressed with how wrong this school is, they do not teach you properly or have qualified teachers.

Do not go to CDI or any of the other colleges owned by Peter Chung. He does not hire qualified instructors, computers and other equipment is not up to date, his staff don't receive raises, and you basically teach yourself. He also doesn't issue student refunds required by law unless forced to. He recently bought a $42M house in Point Grey in Vancouver for CASH. This is where your money goes...into his pocket.

Hi, so basically im Legally blind. I was promised accessibility and there isn't any. Teachers didn't even know i was blind, despite i did all the paperwork. I failed cyber security due to it, and the fact i was told a Chrome book was good enough to pass the course. 

The dean at CDI Surrey told me i could choose an easier course. So i went back to Burnaby to talk to my rep who said that I could change campuses for graphic design. The dean didn't like that and stated i had to stay in the same Campus. And was told its stay at the Campus or lose my student loan. So I'm forced to be in a class, that i need accessibility in. 

The class has both IT techs and web and mobile design development from different stages. The teacher often ridicules me, often rude, compares me to other expectations from within the class. She won't even allow me to use a larger font or my own screen reader, or its disruptive. Applications that are used, she doesn't help to set it up for accessibility until 3 days before a course ends.

And tells me to download apps that has no accessibility in it. Within the Web and Mobile course, Photoshop and illustrator software are not provided by the school, so we need to use free trials to do our course work with. Content for homework, and exams have massive spelling errors and hard to read. In CA-PTQRS, the progress checks, i can't hand in on the portal. There is no spot for it, so i have to email the content. She doesn't even mark my work in a timely manner. 

I even asked yesterday how do you do the coding for keypad letters for my assignment, only to be met with, oh its not needed. Its easy to do so, just forget about doing it. I wanted to know how for future references as in Java, i need to make another ATM machine. 

This sums up some of the issues, that im having.

CDI college Scarborough staff are very friendly, kind and helpful for my enrollment, academic assessment, and my OSAP application. the instructor is very knowledgeable and very patient to answer our questions.

I can not tell yo enough that cdi college set me up for failure!!!I went to cdi in Burnaby Vancouver British Columbia . I was learning dental reception and the teacher that was teaching us had problems with me the way I was dressed even though it was appropriate.

She would show up in a mini dress with see through tops that I can clearly see her purple thong and laced bra and would complain about me. Not only that she was very uneducated the student and other dental teachers had to teach her everything .

She didn't know jack!! She was a hostess at restaurant and dental assistant then she came to teach a Dr class. She teaches us a course and all the students failed because she didn't know anything she taught.

Not only that I didn't finish my practicum because my host was on a maternity leave so I tried calling cdi over 10 times I swear they wrote me an email saying the cdi will get back at me in a couple of days . They never called or emailed back. I tried calling again and they said the practicum coordinator don't set work in the office anymore and they will get back at me.

Nobody ever contacted me back!!! I'm getting money pulled out of my account every month from student loans I owe 10,000 I now don't have a job and they set me up for my life biggest failure.

Do not attend this College...They are only accredited by Alberta Student Aid as you will be approved for a Student Loan BUT and its a big BUTT...They are not recognized in the Business Community or other Education Institute. The courses are not transferable.

The teachers are great but the Administrative staff are lacking and have a high turn over. Go the SAIT, Mount Royal or Bow Valley College...also CDI is an affiliate of Reeves College.

I’m currently going now I’ve told them straight up they don’t seem legit I’ll like to transfer. They’re response was osap will take back the money and I’ll owe personally ohhh this after a teacher showed how racist he is telling my class we are to go back to our countries.

They hired person to teach that have never teached before with no plan on how the class was going to go every night she had to make her own notes until the school provides her with an outline, she didn’t even have a school email so there was no way of getting to her if we had a problem. I told one teach I’ll be late to class this week due to work he choose to tell me the week after that he has been marking me absent because I was late and in that failed me of his class

You're better off going to a public school, not only will they have up to date material and be cheaper but it'll also be accredited. So far the place has been a mistake and will be looking for ways to get rid of this debt as the course I'm in is useless and out of date by a good decade or more once I'm done. Don't get me started on the constant lies and laziness.

As long as you can do a grade 10 Math, Science and English exam you can get into the majority of public colleges out there and you'll be glad you did trust me. Just have $10 or so to get your school information to give to the college you want to go to so they can find the best way for you to enter. You may not even need to do any tests.

CDI is a "Trump university". It is not a Canada-accredited college, so no businesses accepts your scam certificate. There is no help with academics during courses, there are no employment advisors or career fairs, and professors are not available to help. CDI takes your money, gives easy tests, then shuts the door on you. You will never find a job with your certificate. You return to the job you were doing before... minimum wage.