BrainStation
BrainStation is a global digital skills training and workforce transformation provider that offers bootcamps and courses in data, design, development, digital marketing, product, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and leadership both online and at state-of-the-art campuses in New York, London, Miami, Toronto, and Vancouver. Established in 2012, BrainStation has worked with over 500 instructors from the most innovative brands to develop cutting-edge, real-world digital education. Whether students are looking for career transformation or professional development, BrainStation has a learning option, with full-time diploma programs, part-time certificate courses, and specialized skills training.
BrainStation’s courses and bootcamps offer a collaborative, project-based learning experience, with regularly updated curriculum to ensure professionals gain the most relevant skills in their field. The class structure combines engaging, live instruction with interactive sessions and a hands-on, project-based curriculum. BrainStation also provides a variety of flexible learning options, including a proprietary online classroom and learning environment. This environment lets students attend live lectures, collaborate with fellow professionals, and receive immediate, real-time feedback from instructors – from anywhere in the world.
BrainStation has trained more than 30,000 alumni in over 100 countries across the world. BrainStation’s bootcamps offer personalized career services, including career coaching to help learners meet their career goals. Networking and career-oriented events are also available at BrainStation.
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AnonymousGraduate • Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode • MiamiSep 06, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceHappy I went, still didn't learn enough to be confident as a designer or developer
For those newly in development, Wyncode helps support people to launch into new careers, especially if you're a south florida local. It was definitely a fun and memorable experience! Still though a price tag that costs an arm and a leg of $10,000 which was SOOOO MUCHH for me, I would probably expect similar education for $5K or something... in terms of actual content, didn't feel like a full-on developer or designer and so much to learn still so a bit bummed out for that but maybe I had to...
For those newly in development, Wyncode helps support people to launch into new careers, especially if you're a south florida local. It was definitely a fun and memorable experience! Still though a price tag that costs an arm and a leg of $10,000 which was SOOOO MUCHH for me, I would probably expect similar education for $5K or something... in terms of actual content, didn't feel like a full-on developer or designer and so much to learn still so a bit bummed out for that but maybe I had too high expectations and yeah wyncode did help me jumpstart everything still and yeah am happy I still got access to the network and for learning about the power and elegance of Ruby on Rails. Pitch day won't be forgotten! Nothing is perfect but take the leap if you're ready :) And if you're not or can't afford it..it will be difficult but you can pull through with right mentorship so yeah keep the hustle going and find local guides to help steer the way! Anything is possible for those committed!
- AnonymousDigital Marketing • TorontoAug 30, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Expensive & Disappointing
For the amount of money paid for this course, the quality of teaching was really underwhelming. Industry experts are awesome but that doesn't make them good educators. Brainstation needs to do a better job of training and equipping the industry experts to teach an effective class. I walked away feeling very disappointed and without a goog grasp of Digital Marketing, and I know many/most in my class felt the same. For the final presentations reps from the companies we were presenting on wer...
For the amount of money paid for this course, the quality of teaching was really underwhelming. Industry experts are awesome but that doesn't make them good educators. Brainstation needs to do a better job of training and equipping the industry experts to teach an effective class. I walked away feeling very disappointed and without a goog grasp of Digital Marketing, and I know many/most in my class felt the same. For the final presentations reps from the companies we were presenting on were supposed to be there but only 1 showed up. They announced a winner but didn't explain why the rest of us didn't win which would have been an idea learning opportunity that was missed. There's a lot of potential here but Braintstation really needs to step up it's game if it wants to be a leader in this space. There aren't really any substantial perks for alumni who have spent thousands of dollars for these courses. I definitely wouldn't recommend to a friend.
BrainStation of BrainStation
Student Experience Team
Dec 11, 2018
Hi there,
We appreciate your feedback.
The reason that all of our instructors are industry professionals working in the field they are teaching is to ensure that our students are gaining the most relevant skills and real-world insights possible. All instructors are vetted and go through an extensive hiring process to ensure that they are the right fit for the subject matter and can bring a unique industry perspective to the classroom.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to contact@brainstation.io so that a member of our team can try to improve what appears to be a negative experience with our course. - AnonymousAcademic Operations & Digital Media Manager • Graduate • Product Management • TorontoAug 22, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Thinking Outside of the Box with Product Management
As someone who has just recently stepped into the world of product management, BrainStation's 10-week long part-time course kicked things into high gear for me. Starting from the basic fundamentals of what it is to work in the industry, I found very quickly that so much of what I had done and have been doing in my role as Academic Operations & Digital Media Manager at an e-learning start up was translatable.
The course content is well put together, practical and current with ...
As someone who has just recently stepped into the world of product management, BrainStation's 10-week long part-time course kicked things into high gear for me. Starting from the basic fundamentals of what it is to work in the industry, I found very quickly that so much of what I had done and have been doing in my role as Academic Operations & Digital Media Manager at an e-learning start up was translatable.
The course content is well put together, practical and current with a hands-on approach in mind. I'm holding these class resources dearly now as I venture into new projects at work, searching for ways to apply the material. For me, this was the best part of the entire 10-week course; the fact that I could turn around and use what I had been learning in the class the next day at work. The course covers a lot of ground and touches on all aspects of being a product manager from market research to user experience to pricing.
The instructors in the course were fantastic as well. Industry professionals who have the experience and stories to make the material incredibly relatable and contextual for the class. Their feedback, never-ending patience, and passion for the industry made the 10 weeks fly by!
- AnonymousMarketing Manager • Student • Product Management • TorontoAug 16, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Product Management - Summer 2016
The product management course at BrainStation is a must-take for anyone looking to transition into a more product-focused role. The small class size makes it easy for students to dive deeper into the material and have meaningful discussions with each other. I really appreciate how the students all come from diverse industries as well. The instructor is super approachable and spends time answering your questions, while providing relevant anectotes from his experience as a product manager.
The product management course at BrainStation is a must-take for anyone looking to transition into a more product-focused role. The small class size makes it easy for students to dive deeper into the material and have meaningful discussions with each other. I really appreciate how the students all come from diverse industries as well. The instructor is super approachable and spends time answering your questions, while providing relevant anectotes from his experience as a product manager.
The course content is also really impressive, although I wish we had more than 10 weeks to go over it all. There's a lot to absorb, so I recommend that after class, you take the time to review and really understand the concepts. The material touches upon all aspects of product management, and explains how different business functions interact with each another. As a marketer at a tech startup, it was crucial for me to understand how product marketing fits in the product manegement discipline.
Lastly, the final project allows students to build their own product from start to finish. Thinking critically about the features you're building and the problems you're solving for really trains you to think like a product manager. I'd recommend this class to anyone. - AnonymousGraduate • Full-Time Web Development Program • TorontoJun 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Web Development Immersive
The curriculum is a work in progress. Things we were supposed to learn were never covered and not replaced by anything else. We were promised files containing the solutions to many of the challenges, but many were never delivered. The deployment lessons we were promised near the end of the course still haven’t been added to the online portal.
Some of the challenges used starter code provided by other people from Konrad Group which didn’t work and actually prevented us from c...
The curriculum is a work in progress. Things we were supposed to learn were never covered and not replaced by anything else. We were promised files containing the solutions to many of the challenges, but many were never delivered. The deployment lessons we were promised near the end of the course still haven’t been added to the online portal.
Some of the challenges used starter code provided by other people from Konrad Group which didn’t work and actually prevented us from completing the challenges. Even the code written by our lead instructor Rares was frequently wrong because he didn’t take the time to check his work before giving it to us to work with. This is not the right way to teach! Spending hours trying to figure out where I went wrong only to eventually find out it was the source code (which we weren’t supposed to touch) that was wrong, was a colossal waste of time and incredibly discouraging. Rares just shrugs this off like the quality of the information we are given shouldn’t matter.
The lead instructor was mainly unavailable, across the street working for the parent company, taking meetings, or even teaching a different class while we did without. That’s double-dipping, and Brainstation should know better.
The TAs tried to be helpful, but it wasn’t enough. One had the attention span of a gnat, one was too busy babysitting the girls who were flirting with him (for hours on end), and the third didn’t have the training to be able to answer even the most basic questions. The teacher was rarely in the mood to answer questions. Waiting for 45mins+ for someone to be available to answer a question was the usual.
The pacing of the course is uneven. We raced through HTML, CSS and Javascript, then pretty much stopped dead while the teacher was teaching the other class. Each lesson was dictated at lighting speed so most of the students didn’t even try to keep up. We just had to teach ourselves via Google after our teacher or TA stopped talking. They have no presentation skills.
Most weeks there is a “guest speaker”. I put that in quotes because every single speaker worked for Konrad Group, so they weren’t really guests. One week they brought a female developer all the way from the Costa Rica office to talk about being a woman in tech. They couldn’t find a female developer in Toronto? Hmm. The single freelancing talk was taught by our lead instructor who told us he only worked freelance long enough to build up a portfolio and get a job. The company doesn’t know anyone who actually chooses to work freelance?
The website used to brag about the classroom being in the midst of industry professionals. It isn’t. It’s across the street in an old building they haven’t finished repairing yet. There is no heat, the floor shakes like the building is falling down, the plumbing isn’t hooked up right, and the brick walls are held up by wooden shims. But the design has won awards! LOL
There is zero job search support. Only a couple job ads were posted on the Slack channel before it became a ghost town. These were not for companies that Brainstation has any connection with, but just ads somebody saw. The interview preparation consisted of a slide deck prepared by Konrad Group for their own hiring purposes. We were promised a copy but never got it. There were mock interviews conducted by Konrad Group which consisted of, “Show me your project,” and “What is…” (simple questions of general programming knowledge which we hadn’t actually been taught). Useless.
Konrad Group/Brainstation exists in a bubble. They don’t bring in other companies to speak, they talk about themselves exclusively, and they don’t care if we get hired by anyone other than them (as TAs or interns, never as web devs).
The consensus among the grads from my cohort is that we were ripped off. An immersive course is better than nothing, and better than studying on your own, but for $8000, we did not get our money’s worth.
BrainStation of BrainStation
Student Experience Team
Dec 11, 2018
Hi there,
We appreciate your feedback. There have been changes made to our full-time programs over the years. We are constantly iterating and improving content with the help of some of the most innovative organizations in the world, and our full-time Web Development program is now a designated diploma program designed to give students the real-world programming and development skills they need to be successful in the field.Our full-time diploma programs are immersive, challenging, and fast-paced to replicate the experience of working in a professional web development setting. Our educators and TA’s are there to offer support, extra help, guidance, and real-world insights to students - ultimately preparing them for a career in development.
The full-time programs do bring in guest speakers, but they come from a range of organizations–just last week there were three guest speakers brought in from IBM. The full-time programs try to bring in professionals from innovative technology companies, and many of these organizations host tech tours for the students as well.
Our career support program is a chance for full-time students to get help with resumes, cover letters, attend networking events, present their projects to hiring partners, and participate in mock-interviews. Career support is ongoing, so don’t hesitate to reach out to our student experience team at contact@brainstation.io to see how we can offer continued support. We would also like to hear from you to talk more about your experience and to help improve it. - PioGraduate • Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode • MiamiOct 20, 2018Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Incredible Experience
I started Wyncode in early August of this year. I can honestly say I've never learned so much from a school in such a short amount of time. Before starting the course, I had never had any programming experience. My background is in music and I was skeptical about how much could really be taught about a subject in just 10 weeks. This school is doing a great service by teaching these skills, and the instructors they have on staff are so articulate and thorough that they make the material eas...
I started Wyncode in early August of this year. I can honestly say I've never learned so much from a school in such a short amount of time. Before starting the course, I had never had any programming experience. My background is in music and I was skeptical about how much could really be taught about a subject in just 10 weeks. This school is doing a great service by teaching these skills, and the instructors they have on staff are so articulate and thorough that they make the material easy to learn. I would highly recommend that anyone who is interested in learning to code look into Wyncode and reach out to some of the staff, students, and alumni!
- Amy CData Science • New York CityJun 19, 2018Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Great experience
I enrolled in BrainStation Data Science part time course to learn Python. It was a great experience. Instructor Colin and Ahmed were very resourceful and helpful.
Course material covers a broad area of Python. I found the first three classes are a bit challenging since I had no expericence in Programming, and most of my classmates had some computer science background. After some crushing learning time by my own, I was more comfortable in the next couple of classes.
The pr...
I enrolled in BrainStation Data Science part time course to learn Python. It was a great experience. Instructor Colin and Ahmed were very resourceful and helpful.
Course material covers a broad area of Python. I found the first three classes are a bit challenging since I had no expericence in Programming, and most of my classmates had some computer science background. After some crushing learning time by my own, I was more comfortable in the next couple of classes.
The pratices are beyond the course mateirals, which will encourage the students to learn by themselves during their spare time. It could be hard in the beginning, but if you are motivated, and keep learning, it should be ok in the end.
I'm a bit older than most of my classmates, who were in their early 20s, which on positive side gave me a lot of energy.
I would suggest this course to someone who has some degree of programming knowledge.
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How much does BrainStation cost?
BrainStation costs around $16,500. On the lower end, some BrainStation courses like Social Media Marketing Course cost $2,450.
What courses does BrainStation teach?
BrainStation offers courses like Artificial Intelligence Course Online, Cybersecurity Bootcamp Online, Cybersecurity Course Online, Data Analytics Course and 29 more.
Where does BrainStation have campuses?
BrainStation has in-person campuses in London, Miami, New York City, Toronto, and Vancouver. BrainStation also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is BrainStation worth it?
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Does BrainStation offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
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PBSS - New York, United States, CIE - Florida, United States, PCC - Ontario, Canada, PTIB - British Columbia, Canada