Platt College San Diego

Hostel: Platt College - San Diego does not offer on-campus hostels or dormitory facility. The college does not assist students with housing and the student must be willing to find their own residence. However, a large number of housing options are easily available to students, as the area is known as College District. Platt offers accommodation for students with disabilities. However, the students are encouraged to notify the instructor and contact Platt College’s Dean of Education early in the semester to request for the same.

Infrastructure: Consisting of approximately 16,700 square feet (Sq. ft.) area, Platt College San Diego has a library, an administrative block, classrooms and compute libraries. Equipment and software available to the students is regularly and consistently updated to match with high-end industries within the professional realms of the courses offered at Platt College. The central library maintains reference materials for courses of relevance to the university. Online computer use is available in the library as well as the classrooms. Special care has been taken to make the campus accessible to physically challenged students with elevators and designated parking spots.

Faculty: Platt College - San Diego has an abundance of well experienced learned professors who are experts in their own fields. They are professional moguls in the subjects that they pursue as teachers and are well informed and abreast with developments in those fields. This gives the students an inside edge into the industry where they wish to pursue their careers. The faculty of Platt College manages to combine the academic knowledge of viable importance with practical techniques that will further help students apply the knowledge gained to verify and perfect the outcome. This makes them both technically and professionally sounds. As the subjects being taught here are creative subjects, the faculty helps students explore their individualistic creativity and incorporate it into their work. The faculty aims to emphasis on education that includes comprehensive knowledge along with critical skills and practical know-how. Web Design, Graphic Design, Digital Video Production and 3D Animation are the fields of specialization of Platt College. Platt College has dedicated and individual faculty for each of these fields. Faculty for 3D Animation includes visualization specialist, David C. Bittorf, Steve Schultz and after effects animator from Nickelodeon, Otto Lai and other such renowned names.

Accreditation: The College has been accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC). This is a national accreditation agency and thus Platt is a nationally accredited college without regional accreditation. In the United States the accreditation process is a little different than what is followed in the other countries of the world. Instead of a government body giving the accreditation, quality assurance of education in done by the independent private players who are in membership with the government of United States from time to time. Accreditation is necessary for every educational institution since it guarantees quality education being provided. It developed in the early 20th century in the United States.

Platt College - San Diego is a private for-profit institution. Proprietary education or also known by the name of Education Services Industry is the formal name for the Universities that call themselves – For-Profit Institutions of education. These for-profit educational institutions are run by the private players of the market for seeking profits and make education a profit making business. Platt College is one of the Universities out of the many in the United States which is a for-profit education institution. Under these for-profit educational institutions there can be two major branches of such. One of them are called as educational management organizations or EMOs. These educational management organizations are the ones that impart the primary and secondary education through running of primary along with secondary educational institutions. These educational management institutions use the public funds as a way to finance their operations in the school districts, local schools or the charter schools. The major sector of the for-profit educational institutions those are present in the United States in the K-12 sector run in the same way as the education management organizations or EMOs. Such types of EMOs have grown in large quantities in the 2000s. The other major part of the for-profit educational institutions which do not use the public funds for their operations are the ones that provide post-secondary education. These types of educational institutions run their businesses by collecting fees from each and every student that they enroll in their college.....Reading in short