Former for-profit technical institute that operated 130+ campuses before closing in 2016.
ITT Tech offered associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees (business-only, online) across 49 education programs as of December 2015. The institute used a four 12-week quarter system, allowing students to complete associate degrees in 7–8 quarters, bachelor's degrees in 14–15 quarters, and master's degrees in 17 quarters. Classes were available during day and evening hours, with significant practical lab components. The school was nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), though 31 campuses and over 400 programs failed to meet ACICS retention standards by 2015.
ITT Tech characterized its students as older learners balancing family obligations with underemployment. The majority worked at least part-time during their studies. Programs employed traditional, applied, and adult-learning pedagogies delivered through traditional, accelerated, and distance methodologies in a learner-centered environment.
ITT Tech charged among the highest tuition fees in the industry—between $45,000 and $85,000 in 2014—and had the industry's highest rate of loans defaulting within two years of attendance. In 2014, Time magazine ranked ITT Tech No. 2 on its list of colleges leaving students most crippled by debt. Among 2011 graduates with loans, 22% had defaulted by 2014, compared to a 13.7% national average. The institute faced decades of legal challenges including recruitment fraud allegations (1998), grade inflation investigations (2004–2011), and predatory lending lawsuits (2014–2016). In August 2016, the U.S. Department of Education barred ITT Tech from enrolling students using federal loans, leading to immediate closure on September 6, 2016.
ITT Educational Services filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation on September 16, 2016. In 2018, a class-action settlement tentatively wiped out student loans for attendees from 2006–2016. By 2021, the US Department of Education allocated $1.1 billion in loan relief to 115,000 former ITT Tech students. In 2022, ITT Tech was included in a settlement for student loan cancellation due to alleged fraud, with the Supreme Court upholding the settlement in April 2023.