I graduated from ITT Tech in 04, associates , computer network systems technology. REALLY expensive. Best advice is to make friends with the instructors and learn from them, not just the book. Had one class that was WAY boring, we dropped the book and spent three weeks learning to hack. Learned to use hacking tools, read hashes, etc. I wasn't very good at it, but it is good stuff to know. You get a wide range of subject matter too. The linux class was lame though. I was hoping to get into Apache, but we spent only one class on it. Oh, and save your books, you may need them when you DO get a job. Took me two years to get a quality gig. And don't lose any of the disks you save your work to, those come in handy later too. Especially the ones with "borrowed" programs on them that were stashed on the server buried 5 layers deep in an instructor's folder. Nice http cracker...oops, wasn't supposed to see that...