Riverside County Office of Education, School of Career Education – Riverside

Dominique Wilson Google

Sep 08, 2025

Horrible registration process and they do not communicate with you like a school that wants you to succeed or enroll they really just fill up whatever they can they get paid for free I feel …

Denise “Honey” Levesque Google

Feb 27, 2025

Another great experience. Took our 2 teen grandsons for a great lunch with outstanding service at a price less than fast food!

Rafi Gutierrez Google

Dec 28, 2024

Zero stars. I went to their welding program when it cost $750. I had welding experience before and just never got certified and I will admit I was rusty and haven’t had time under the hood for a couple years. Well now this program costs about $1350. And it is not worth it at all. 3 or 4 hours of training 2 days a week for 9 weeks. You’re robbing yourself blind. Idk which welding instructor runs it but back then it was Mr. G (he’s an older black dude) and he berated every student saying he was the best and you aren’t. He made a fool of a handful of students including myself. It’s been a while since I welded and he gave me a rod that I wasn’t use to and it was basically a trick question that was hands on. Long story short I did the class for literally a day and the very next day after class I went to request a refund. They lead me on saying I just needed to talk to some white lady in the office and they would approve it from there. She asked me questions why I didn’t want to continue and why I wanted a refund and it fell on deaf ears. She said since I consumed materials in that one day in class I couldn’t get a refund. Not even the vast portion of it that’s rightfully mine. Just because I consumed maybe 5 rusted and contaminated rods and some thin gauge sheet metal. The cost would probably be maybe 10$ in total for materials not counting the energy being consumed by machines and maybe the cost of that instructor that was a total D. Long story short the white lady laughed me out of her office with a smirk on her face. I continued to work warehouse jobs and I stumbled across CET in Colton. Their tuition is 10k (back in 2021) and I got my welding cert for stick welding. Since I graduated there I can come back and practice and recertify or get different welding certs since I finished schooling. They have a curriculum there and they have it down in segments. It’s up to you if you wanna give yourself the short end of the stick and be like the other guy that got shafted by these people. The program is 9 months long at CET.. don’t give these people your money just bc they’re part of the county doesn’t mean they have your best interest if you want to be a welder. For the lady that screwed me out of my money thank you for doing that. I would’ve never gotten my welding cert if I hadn’t gave CET a try. I am now an Infantryman in the U.S. Army so thanks for putting me on this path I got to see so many countries that you wish you could.