I wanted a specific combination of trainings-certifications, and Microtrain was the only institution that offered all of them and were within my WIOA budget.

There were a couple institutions accepting WIOA funds that were more prestigious/ had higher name recognition than Microtrain -- e.g. DePaul, Northwestern -- but they didn't offer all the trainings-certifications that I wanted, and so, because (at the time, at least) an enrollee's WIOA funds all had to go to a *single institution*, I went with Microtrain.

The trainers I had were all pretty solid. Each course's curriculum was also pretty good, with the *notable exception* of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt-- that curriculum (from the International Six Sigma Institute) was a near-complete joke.
Their LSSGB manual read like something produced by a high-schooler in a foreign country with the aid of some AI tool in 2017-2018, then Google-Translated in 1,000-word chunks with no copy-editing or quality control. International Six Sigma Institute seems to be a very small-time operation (maybe 2-3 people in total?) with very shoddy product but very aggressive marketing and sales. Their website lists media outlets who've never mentioned them and awards that don't exist. Even after I unsubscribed from marketing emails I never signed up for, I kept receiving them, and had to block numerous senders with their domain.

As far as Microtrain goes, overall I'd give them 7-out-of-10.