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.
2,281 BrainStation Reviews
Juanita LeeEducator • Student • Digital Marketing • TorontoVerified by LinkedInSep 07, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/ADigital Marketing
If you want exposure to industry leaders in Toronto or Vancouver - BrainStation is the place to go. The campus is not only an exciting place to learn about industry knowledge but also a place to expand your interest.
The course is fast paced but it has a lot to offer for those with basic industry knowledge or no industry knowledge. Acess to the dashboards allows you to review material at any time and they cover a wide selection of marketing tools, strategies, and success stories...
If you want exposure to industry leaders in Toronto or Vancouver - BrainStation is the place to go. The campus is not only an exciting place to learn about industry knowledge but also a place to expand your interest.
The course is fast paced but it has a lot to offer for those with basic industry knowledge or no industry knowledge. Acess to the dashboards allows you to review material at any time and they cover a wide selection of marketing tools, strategies, and success stories.
The project allows you to work with others and build a team that you can rely on since you can count that everyone is there to learn.
- Artie PolancoProduct Release Manager • Graduate • Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode • MiamiVerified by GitHubAug 29, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Opens up an entire world of possibilities
I like to start out by saying that my experience at Wyncode was wonderful. The school environment empowers the students and the faculty to be successful.
The reason for the title of this review is because once you graduate from a course like this, you have a unique set of tools at your disposal. This combined with the lifetime backup/support from the faculty and the graduates really sets you apart in the digital space. Another thing to add is that the network of companies that W...
I like to start out by saying that my experience at Wyncode was wonderful. The school environment empowers the students and the faculty to be successful.
The reason for the title of this review is because once you graduate from a course like this, you have a unique set of tools at your disposal. This combined with the lifetime backup/support from the faculty and the graduates really sets you apart in the digital space. Another thing to add is that the network of companies that Wyncode has partnered with, will guarantee that you are at least considered for relevant positions. My story is proof of this.
I left the Marine Corps in February 2017 after serving 12 years. Being the first coding academy in Florida to accept the G.I. Bill, allowed me to attend the Web Immersive Course painlessly. I graduated Wyncode and within a month I had a job at a great company as a PHP developer. PHP being a language that isn’t taught at Wyncode. After working there for 2 weeks I was offered my current position at Royal Caribbean. That being said, my work does not include web development, it’s strictly IOS and Android development. This goes to show that just learning the fundamentals of coding, testing and agile practices from Wyncode will set you on the right path. I’m positive that I wouldn’t have been considered for this position were it not for Wyncode.
I absolutely recommend Wyncode. It will only serve to enhance your skills and expand your possibilities of obtaining a sweet job in the tech space.
Shout out to Auston Bunsen (Head Instructor) for being an amazing instructor and Miguel Cruz (Director of Hiring Partnerships) for the Jedi like guidance during the job hunt.
- Andrew BilakConsultant • Digital Marketing • TorontoVerified by LinkedInAug 04, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Social Media Strategy Workshop - Highly Recommended
I attended the Social Media Strategy Workshop and it was packed with valuable content. The content was useful and up to date, the lecturer was someone in the field with great experience, and the group break-out sessions were a great way to put the day's workshop learnings to use.I
would highly recommend this to anyone looking to brush up on their social media strategy skills, along with adding valuable insights to their already well tailored social media strategy arsenal.
- JonathanProject Manager, Full Stack Developer • Graduate • Full-Time Web Development Program • TorontoVerified by GitHubJul 01, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Web Dev Full Time
This course gives you the tools to hit the ground running and succeed in your journey as a developer. This is achieved through new and popular technologies and frameworks being covered, as well as making sure each student actually knows how to program and why you would use a particular technology to solve a problem.
BrainStation provides a fantastic learning ecosystem. Lectures were well delivered and supplemented throughout the course to deliver key and new concepts to ensure s...
This course gives you the tools to hit the ground running and succeed in your journey as a developer. This is achieved through new and popular technologies and frameworks being covered, as well as making sure each student actually knows how to program and why you would use a particular technology to solve a problem.
BrainStation provides a fantastic learning ecosystem. Lectures were well delivered and supplemented throughout the course to deliver key and new concepts to ensure students came away with a solid understanding and were confident in going off on their own to continue learning after the course. Teachers and TA's were available and approachable to provide great guidance when necessary to help get you looking in the right direction to make sure you were learning to code and not just learning an answer.
- Edward ChenStudent • Product Management • TorontoVerified by LinkedInJun 11, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Product Management Workshop Review
Great workshop - content was highly digestible and the instructors are highly effective and supportive. Would definitely recommend if product management even crosses your mind.
- Owen LeckyGraduate • Digital Marketing • New York CityVerified by LinkedInMay 25, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Great experience with Brainstation
I am approaching my final weeks for my digital marketing course at Brainstation that I have enjoyed thoroughly. It is a great atmosphere for likeminded creative individuals looking to gain tech skills or get a jumpstart in their decided career path. The Brainstation staff as well as the teachers are very welcoming and provide their insights in the constant changing job market as well great views in the tech industry. Every week content has offers great topics and indepth details of how to ...
I am approaching my final weeks for my digital marketing course at Brainstation that I have enjoyed thoroughly. It is a great atmosphere for likeminded creative individuals looking to gain tech skills or get a jumpstart in their decided career path. The Brainstation staff as well as the teachers are very welcoming and provide their insights in the constant changing job market as well great views in the tech industry. Every week content has offers great topics and indepth details of how to best utilize new skills to help you get the most out of every class.
- Steve KruegerFounder • Student • SEO/SEM & Analytics • New York CityVerified by LinkedInMay 24, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
SEM/SEO Course
Had a great time at the part-time SEM/SEO Analytics course this past semester in Vancouver. The teachers had a tonne of industry experience. I personally learn by applying my knowledge, so it was great to have hands on experience during class as well as help on hand, when needed. We also had a very diverse class with varying degrees of experience: from realtors, to individuals working in agencies, to people looking to retrain and get into the industry.
My only caveat would be tha...
Had a great time at the part-time SEM/SEO Analytics course this past semester in Vancouver. The teachers had a tonne of industry experience. I personally learn by applying my knowledge, so it was great to have hands on experience during class as well as help on hand, when needed. We also had a very diverse class with varying degrees of experience: from realtors, to individuals working in agencies, to people looking to retrain and get into the industry.
My only caveat would be that the first few classes were fairly basic, as I had previous industry experience, though i learnt a tonne in the tail end of the course. Would recommend it, highly!
- Connie HackettStudent • SEO/SEM & Analytics • New York CityVerified by LinkedInMay 20, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
SEO/SEM & Analytics
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the SEO/SEM & Analytics course at Brainstation! Working in Social Media, SEO has always been something I knew I should know about but I had a hard time finding the right course. I find that I learn better from hands on learning and this course is all about that. I feel confident that I can take the skills I’ve learned from this course out into the world!
- VivianGraduate • Web Development • New York CityVerified by LinkedInMay 19, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Part time web-development course
I absolutely enjoyed my part time web development class! Having only limited knowledge in web development to start with and working in a field that is completely unrelated, I was very surprised by my own progress throughout the program. We started off with the building basic HTML schematics in week 1, and had progressed into building a website from a markup just a few weeks after.
The class incorporated hands-on projects each class to help us practice, which were incredibly h...I absolutely enjoyed my part time web development class! Having only limited knowledge in web development to start with and working in a field that is completely unrelated, I was very surprised by my own progress throughout the program. We started off with the building basic HTML schematics in week 1, and had progressed into building a website from a markup just a few weeks after.
The class incorporated hands-on projects each class to help us practice, which were incredibly helpful as we were able to reiterate our learning from previous lessons and apply them to the challenges. This was key in helping me cement the new knowledge -- it is a lot to take in at once! The two instructors are very knowledgeable and shared with us tips and best practices they've picked up from their time working in industry. Not only do they show us their solution, but they also walk through how they found the issue and what their thought process was for debugging/setting up the code. I found that the most valuable as that is the piece you cannot learn on your own. I would recommend the course to anyone who needs brushing up in their skills or anyone who has no background and is learning web development for the first time. - Daniel SchellNaval Architect • Student • Web Development • New York CityVerified by LinkedInMay 17, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Wed Development (Part Time)
I had heard about BrainStation through some friends who had taken their courses in Toronto, and after doing some research and talking to their recruiment team, decided to give their part-time Web Development course a try. I could not be happier that I did.
The cirriculum is designed to take anyone from essentially zero experience to being able to develop their own website, and with 2 instructors always around to help and answer questions they are able to easily meet that goal. Bo...
I had heard about BrainStation through some friends who had taken their courses in Toronto, and after doing some research and talking to their recruiment team, decided to give their part-time Web Development course a try. I could not be happier that I did.
The cirriculum is designed to take anyone from essentially zero experience to being able to develop their own website, and with 2 instructors always around to help and answer questions they are able to easily meet that goal. Both instructors work within the industry and bring their own unique personalities and styles to teaching, which means that they're able to teach to a wide variety of students. And with a Slack channel dedicated to the class, you can ask questions outside of the standard time slot.
The space itself is clean and tailored for getting work done before class (if that's your thing), and promotes discussion and cooperation between the students, with everyone helping everyone else out. They in the process of building a new campus downtown (which I unfortunately won't get to use) but from what I can tell it will continue with their design goal of creating a work and learning environment that promotes education.
I would definitely consider taking more courses from them, and happily recommend this course to anyone who is interested.
- MRphp develope • Graduate • Full Stack Web Development - Wyncode • MiamiVerified by GitHubMay 17, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Experts in their craft / Awesome community
I am writing this review after completing the course and being currently employed as a fulltime PHP developer in Miami. I first heard of Wyncode when one of my close friends had told me that he was enrolling in a full-time web development course, at the time I was employed in a different city and was very interested in changing my career and becoming a software developer, however I felt that in my current situation that was only a far fetched dream. Some months later an opportunity present...
I am writing this review after completing the course and being currently employed as a fulltime PHP developer in Miami. I first heard of Wyncode when one of my close friends had told me that he was enrolling in a full-time web development course, at the time I was employed in a different city and was very interested in changing my career and becoming a software developer, however I felt that in my current situation that was only a far fetched dream. Some months later an opportunity presented itself and after researching some schools and seeing firsthand how this school had changed the life of some of my friends I decided to enroll into their immersive full-stack web immersive course.
Initially, I spoke with Matt Campbell and Bianca Monaco the school's directors, this was 3 months before starting the course, we spoke on multiple conversations regarding the school and what it entails, they advised me to complete the prework to see if this was something that I would really be interested in doing. Soon after I would be devoting several hours of my day to learning and studying the intricacies of software development.
Fast forward to January 2017 I had relocated to Miami and had begun the 3-month cohort, the first day of class I met many of the team members, the awesome staff, my classmates and the head instructor Ed Toro. Everybody was extremely welcoming and very thorough in explaining how the next 3 months would pan out, how the school works and what I could expect out of the program.
The school day is usually broken up in the following format, first thing in the morning you have the morning announcements, usually this will let you know what the agenda for the week and the agenda for the day, this is very important since its very easy to lose track or what is going on, usually the morning announcements will also give you some insight into any events the Miami Tech community may be having. These events usually involve hackathons, talks, and community forums, sometimes there will be the occasional breakout, this when they will host a study group regarding a specific subject. These community gatherings are very key in the success of the students as one of the factors in the success or starting a new career is meeting the influential people in the tech community. I personally went to various events, they were all very well put together, the people were super friendly and engaging, I was able to make many friends this way and make many connections that eventually could have possibly led to a job.
During the course we did a mix of lecture-based classes and live coding, homework and projects, and 'one on ones ' (these are extremely important as they show the instructors how you are doing) the days are very long, and it is encouraged that you spend as much time as you can learning the material and practicing, usually once the lecture is over you have the rest of the space to work, not only that but you also have the help of the staff , the teacher assistants usually come after a certain time and they can help you out if you ever need help with a specific part of the homework or with your projects, they are available in person and in slack for you at all times.
Part of the coursework focuses on sharpening your people skills, for example, some the skills involve learning about email etiquette, how to approach potential employers and how to be successful at interviews, all of these lessons were extremely helpful at the end of the cohort. While learning all about how to make an awesome application is only part of the puzzle of being able to be hired afterward. I believe that this point is where the team truly shines the most, the whole cohort is geared so well to get you hired, finding a job afterwards was one of my greatest fears during the course, but I trusted the team, listened to their advice and sure enough I was one of the first ones hired out of my cohort.
The next most important part of the experience is working and presenting your applications. Now you end up making lots of apps during your time in class and outside, but there are two that you actually present to the outside world. Both of these experiences really test your skills and push you to the next level, as you will be using all the resources that you have learned throughout your time there. Once your app is complete you work on your presentations, further cementing your knowledge on the material, since you will be explaining what you have created, how it works and what you used to build it. The first time you present this to your friends and family, so it relatively relaxed, the second time around you present a more refined application to not only your friends and family but also leaders of the Miami tech community, judges, and potential employers.
So once you graduate and present your app you are done, right? No sir, that's just when the real battle begins, and the Wyncode team knows this. I believe that this is probably one of the hardest parts of this whole ordeal, programming, in general, is a practice, 10 weeks of coding 12 hours a day will kick start your programming career, but unless you keep it up and continue to code, whether on your own or as your day job, it may all be for naught. So it imperative that afterwards you continue to code , so once you are done you are invited to go to Wynwork, in this phase you are placed with director of hiring partnerships Miguel Cruz , he was super inspiring and gave some accurate advice on how to get hired and make it in the industry,and sure enough everything he said was true and I was hired within a month from my graduation date.
A couple of caveats regarding the school that I must say is that while it is extremely tough to learn to code in a short stressful time, the staff really does their very best to get you through it. Teacher assistants stay late throughout the night working with you, even through slack and even the head instructors will help you out even late at night if you are in a pickle, and after the course if you have any problems. However you have to have the drive to want to learn the material, and be able to work hard and 'hustle the extra mile' as they say, they will never give up on you and they will always treat you like family.
Currently, now that I have finished the coursework and now that I am working full time as a developer I am planning on working part time in the school as a teacher assistant. So that's my story, I went on a limb, took some chances and they paid off, at times I felt the existential dread set in, but in the end, it was all ok and everything went according to plan, which is exactly what I was looking for. Big thank you to Jo, Juha, Bianca, Matt, Jose, Don, Tim, Izzy Angel, Miguel, Miguel, Maddie, Victoria, Joe, Nick, Nick, Auston and of course Ed, you guys changed my life.
- DanyaStudent • Digital Marketing • New York CityVerified by LinkedInMay 15, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Digital Marketing
This course has been extremely informative. It is also super awesome that our instructors are apart of the industry - currently working in it. Also always avaliable to chat if you need to. Brainstation gives you all the tools you need to succeed. You really have to take away what you want from the program. Overall, this has been a very educational class! It also makes things better when you're not stuck in a stale classroom. Brainstations space is beautiful and bright, making it easy and c...
This course has been extremely informative. It is also super awesome that our instructors are apart of the industry - currently working in it. Also always avaliable to chat if you need to. Brainstation gives you all the tools you need to succeed. You really have to take away what you want from the program. Overall, this has been a very educational class! It also makes things better when you're not stuck in a stale classroom. Brainstations space is beautiful and bright, making it easy and comfortable to learn.
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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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PBSS - New York, United States, CIE - Florida, United States, PCC - Ontario, Canada, PTIB - British Columbia, Canada