National Institute of Technology (United States)

National Institute of Technology (NIT) is now Everest Institute*, a system of for-profit colleges offering career training across several program areas.

'* The Long Beach, California campus is now WyoTech, a for-profit college offering education within the automotive, HVAC, and plumbing industries.

The schools are owned by Corinthian Colleges, Inc.

Controversy

In July 2007, the California Attorney General threatened to file suit against Corinthian Colleges, corporate parent of National Institute of Technology, unless it settled allegations that it has misrepresented its placement statistics; the school had been under investigation by the state attorney general's office for over 18 months.., Los Angeles Times, Henry Weinstein, July 3, 2007 According to a case filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Corinthian Colleges "engaged in a persistent pattern of unlawful conduct" by overstating the percentage of those who obtained employment from its courses, inflated information on starting salaries and made misleading or false statements about which programs it was authorized to offer and which were approved by the California Department of Education.Henry Weinstein, , Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2007 The suit stated that Corinthian's "own records show that a substantial percentage of students do not complete the programs and, of those who complete the program, a large majority do not successfully......
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