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BrainStation

Average Rating 4.66
2,339 Reviews 20 Courses

BrainStation is a global digital skills provider empowering teams and professionals with industry-recognized certifications and world-class instruction across AI, Product Management, Product Design, Data, and Digital Marketing. We specialize in in-person learning experiences and corporate training programs, trusted by everyone from Fortune 500 companies to high-growth emerging companies. 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 offers a range of learning options, including full-time and part-time diploma programs, part-time certificate courses, and specialized skills training.

BrainStation’s courses and bootcamps offer a collaborative, project-based learning experience, with a 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. 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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2,339 alumni reviews of BrainStation

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    Anonymous
    Data Science Applicant · Data Science Course Online · December 2022

    Learning, Intensity, Stress, Community

    Having just completed the course, I can't speak to the job assistance portion of the bootcamp yet, but for everything else about the bootcamp, I would highly recommend it to SPECIFIC people. To start, I would highly recommend that anyone consider...
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Full-Time Data Science Bootcamp Online · December 2022

    Challenging, Rewarding, Worth It

    After completing the 3.5 month bootcamp at BrainStation, I can safely say that I walked away with a wealth of knowledge and new skills that will prepare me for a career pivot into tech. The course itself is intensive to say the least since it will...
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Full-Time Data Science Bootcamp Online · December 2022

    Impactful Bootcamp!

    The Bootcamp was highly impactful! It was an eye-opener to industry standard, what industry partners are looking for, the right skills to get into the Industry of your choice. I definitely recommend BrainStation to people who are willing to change...
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Full-Time Data Science Bootcamp Online · December 2022

    Data Science Bootcamp

    It was a really amazing experience, I can't believe I learned so many subjects in such a short period of time. The feedbacks on the assignments and projects were great. The instructors and HAs were very helpful and responsive. They have multiple work...
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Full-Time User Experience Design Bootcamp Online · December 2022

    Compelling, Awesome, intense

    This UX design bootcamp is the best education experience I have had so far in my life, everyone is very supportive, especially the educators, strongly recommend Brad as the instructor, he is very inspiring and nice. 
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Product Management Course · December 2022

    Product Management Course

    Just finished my Product Management course with BrainStation and couldn’t be more happy with its quality! The content is great but the instructor’s expertise and support is what make the money worth. Recommend it 10/10.
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Digital Marketing Course Online · December 2022

    Amazing

    Amazing course that goes in-depth into digital marketing with individuals who work in the industry and our up to date on the latest trends. This course has been amazing experience go to meet some cool classmates too that have similar interests. our...
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    5.0
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    Anonymous
    Student · Part-Time User Experience Design Bootcamp Online · December 2022

    Challenging and rewarding experience

    It was a great experience going through the UX design bootcamp. The course covered a wide range of topics, from user research to prototyping and UI. I appreciated the hands-on approach to learning, which allowed me to put my newfound knowledge into...
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    5.0
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    Anonymous
    Student · Digital Marketing Course Online · December 2022

    Digital Marketing

    The digital marketing course with BrainStation is a good all round course covering all aspects of digital marketing. The course only skims through social media paid advertising, but gives a good in-depth look at Google Ads. If you want to know more...
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    4.0
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    Anonymous
    Product Manager · User Experience Design Course · December 2022

    UX Design Bootcamp

    This course is a great foundation for those wanting to break into the Product Design world. It covers a wide range of topics to help students get a deep understanding of the end-to-end design process. Each class is live and interactive, providing many...
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    Anonymous
    Student · User Experience Design Course Online · December 2022

    Great jumpstart into UX Design

    This class was awesome for dipping your toes into all things UX Design in the course of 10 weeks! It is not great at deep diving into each individual subject matter within the course but I thoroughly enjoyed learning a little about all of the different...
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Data Science Bootcamp · December 2022

    Challenging but exciting!

    I'm so happy being a Data Science student in BrainStation bootcamp. There is a friendly and supportive atmosphere. A special thanks to my highly professional educators for practical lectures and useful insights. I couldn't imagine that with my business...
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    Anonymous
    Technical Support · Data Analytics Course · December 2022

    Great experience - Missing some detail

    BrainStation was recommended to me by a friend. I found the course to be informative and to the point. We were taught what was current and given tips for advanced Data Analyst reports.

    I found some details to be missing and I had to do a lot of...
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    Anonymous
    Student · Data Analytics Course · December 2022

    AMAZING Data Analytics Crash Course

    I took the Data Analytics crash course for 10 weeks at Brainstation. I learned alot about Tableau, SQL and more tips/tricks about Microsoft Excel in order to harness more skills for myself. Very excited to have gone on this journey and excited to...
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    Anonymous
    Student · Data Science Bootcamp · December 2022

    intensive, knowledgable and helpful

    It's a very intensive 3 months. A grasp of all the necessary knowledge about DataScience. My classmates are all smart and hardworking. I enjoy staying with them everyday. This cohort's hackathon is a disaster. Instructors are helpful and knowledgable....
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    Anonymous
    Student · Data Science Bootcamp · December 2022

    Enjoyed every minute at the BrainStation Data Science Bootcamp!!!

    I enjoyed very much the Data Science Bootcamp, have learned sooo much from Data Analysis basic tools, such as SQL, Tableau, Python(Pandas, Numpy), as well as the basic statistics(Hypothesis Testing, Linear/Logistic Regression) needed for Data Science....
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    Anonymous
    Graduate · Data Science Bootcamp · December 2022

    Amazing

    It has been a good journey for me in BS DS bootcamp. I learned a lot of stuff in 3 months which I could have learned in 1 year. The instructors are good, I learned a lot from them. Borna has been amazing as well as Arti and Fallyn. 
    The only thing I...
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    Anonymous
    Sr. Customer Support Specialist · Product Management Course · December 2022

    A high level introduction to Product Management

    Thanks to the Product Management course I was able to familiarize myself with the concepts used by the Product Team at my organization.  I would definitely recommend for people that are completely new to the world of Product or would like to learn more...
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    Anonymous
    Student · Product Management Course · December 2022

    Great environment + Knowledgable instructors

    my experience with the Brainstation product management course was fantastic and I had a great time being introduced to the tech industry and specifically product management. The instructors, Andrea Karrys and Giuliano Delfinis were extremely well...
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    Anonymous
    Student · Product Management Course · December 2022

    BrainStation - Product Management Certificate

    Really good experience! The instructors are very qualified and the campus is amazing. I met some great people in class too. Not sure about the job assistance after the program. I know that that's a major part of their boot camps but not the...
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News

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Rachel Meltzer
Rachel Meltzer
Updated April 21, 2021
Before you dive into a digital marketing bootcamp, you might be wondering, “Who hires digital marketing bootcamp graduates anyway?” The quick answer is: plenty of companies! Many companies rely on bootcamper talent for their cutting edge marketing know-how and real world experience. We’ve rounded up some of the best companies to work for after your digital marketing program. These companies h...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated August 22, 2022
Product leadership has quickly become a sought-after skill in today’s tech-savvy workforce. We caught up with Jason Field, BrainStation’s Founder and CEO to hear more about BrainStation’s part-time Product Leadership professional certificate course, what learners can expect from the curriculum, and how it imbues students to stay curious and continue learning. Jason breaks down how to get the ...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated July 19, 2021
Cybersecurity professionals are in demand, but how can cybersecurity skills be helpful for professionals not in the cybersecurity field? The experts at BrainStation share how cybersecurity skills can be an asset to software engineers, product managers, computer support specialists, IT technicians, and business analysts. Plus, can cybersecurity be learned in a course? We take a peek into Brai...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated February 01, 2021
Course Report · January 2021 Coding Bootcamp News 2021 began with $118M in coding bootcamp fundraises, plus some major acquisitions in the bootcamp space. Despite the overall loss in the U.S. job market, December’s job numbers showed tech adding plenty of new positions. In this roundup, we’re also highlighting the new workforce development programs now available to career changers, and the...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated January 13, 2021
Ilias, a graduate of BrainStation’s digital marketing bootcamp wrote a Verified review of his bootcamp experience and won our latest sweepstakes competition! Over 1,200 tech bootcamp graduates wrote a Verified review for their school on Course Report and went into the draw to win a $500 Amazon gift card! We caught up with Ilias to hear about their bootcamp experience! Want to win $500 in our ...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated January 12, 2021
Which tech skills will get you noticed by employers in 2021 and how can you quickly add them to your skills toolbox? We caught up with three experts from BrainStation to hear their predictions of the 4 top tech trends to expect in 2021 and which tech skills to focus on in order to stay relevant next year. Plus, BrainStation shares how anyone can acquire a new skill set in 2021 even while work...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated November 17, 2020
Working in the fashion industry sparked Deveshree Shinde’s interest in digital marketing. When Deveshree decided to pursue a career-change, she chose BrainStation for their hands-on, comprehensive, and project-based bootcamp model. Her bootcamp experience became the catalyst to career opportunities she hadn’t imagined! Deveshree shares how her BrainStation portfolio helped her land a Digital ...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated February 14, 2025
Career centers and workforce development grants are a key resource for unemployed/underemployed workers looking to re-skill. Around 12 million people have contacted their local career centers this year, which is 8.5 million more than in 2019. Federal programs like WIOA (the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act), the CARES act, and even initiatives run by your city or state can make it pos...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated October 21, 2020
Laura Brennan worked in a variety of administrative jobs (including running her own bar in France!), but she yearned for a career that would fuel her ambitions to be a creative problem-solver. Laura listened to the advice of her supportive family and enrolled in BrainStation’s Web Development Bootcamp. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, learn how Laura quickly landed a job as a Technical...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated February 08, 2021
  Course Report · September 2020 Coding Bootcamp News It’s a new school year, but with COVID-19 ever-present, we read more interesting articles about Gap Year opportunities for college students. There was plenty of buzz around workforce development in September, from who’s leading the charge with new initiatives to how best support the nearly 20 million unemployed workers in the U.S. ...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated May 30, 2024
This summer, BrainStation hosted their first Stay at Home Hackathon in partnership with Microsoft. We caught up with two members of the winning team, Data Science alum Nick Mahon and UX Design alum Jung Oh, so they could walk us through their app FocusBuddy. Plus, Jung and Nick share what it was like to work remotely with UX designers and data scientists, and how the BrainStation bootcamps p...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated August 04, 2020
  In “normal” times, 79% of bootcampers are employed after graduating from a coding bootcamp. But the question we hear most often in 2022? Will I get a job if I go to a coding bootcamp during the COVID pandemic? Should I “wait and see” or should I take advantage of this time to change careers? Companies like ServiceNow continue to hire bootcampers as developers because demand for their ...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated September 24, 2020
  One trademark of a coding bootcamp is the project-based curriculum, which means students build many smaller projects throughout the bootcamp and one final capstone project, graduating with a full portfolio of web applications and mobile apps. Coding bootcamps prioritize teaching what the tech industry actually uses on the job today, so it’s no surprise that Full Stack JavaScript is the...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated May 29, 2020
When John Ray Martinez immigrated to Canada from the Philippines, he was already years into an IT diploma but found that his credits didn’t transfer. While completing a computer science diploma program in Toronto, John Ray came across BrainStation’s full-time Web Development bootcamp and decided to enroll. His cohort was 10 weeks into their program when COVID-19 transitioned the in-person b...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated April 08, 2020
BrainStation just launched more than 70 new online courses in design, web development, data science, and marketing. We sat down with Julia Osmar, the VP of Education Experience at BrainStation, to learn tips for how to collaborate online, why it’s important that the courses are instructor-led, and how to set yourself up for success in BrainStation’s online courses. Plus, is this the right t...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated December 26, 2023
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Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated March 03, 2020
Josie Altare combined her research skills with on-the-job training to transition into UX design. The UX designers she worked with recommended BrainStation, and Josie enrolled in the part-time UX Design Certificate Course and the part-time UI Design Certificate Course. Throughout those courses, Josie built the UI for a fitness tracker app and shares her Sketch and InDesign project with us! T...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated September 30, 2024
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Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated January 07, 2020
BrainStation has been teaching digital marketing classes for years and recently launched an intensive, career-changing Digital Marketing Diploma program. Julia Osmar, the VP of Education Experience at BrainStation, tells us all about the new Digital Marketing Diploma – including who should apply (and who the diploma course is not right for), the admissions and interview process, and what th...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated January 08, 2021
  Dallas Kwok is a full-time Product Designer at Ritual and teaches UX design at BrainStation’s Part-Time UX Design Bootcamp. We caught up with Dallas to find out how he brings that real-world experience to his students at BrainStation, what makes the “ideal” UX designer, and how he’s inspiring the next generation of UX designers. Plus, Dallas answers the question we hear most: “Do I ne...
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Is BrainStation worth it?

BrainStation hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 2,339 BrainStation alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed BrainStation on Course Report - you should start there!

How much does BrainStation cost?

BrainStation costs around $3,950. On the lower end, some BrainStation courses like Python Programmer Certification (PPC™) (Online) cost $2,950.

Where does BrainStation have campuses?

BrainStation has in-person campuses in London, New York City, and Toronto. BrainStation also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.

Does BrainStation offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?

Right now, it doesn't look like BrainStation offers scholarships or accepts the GI Bill. We're always adding to the list of schools that do offer Exclusive Course Report Scholarships and a list of the bootcamps that accept the GI Bill.

Is BrainStation legit?

We let alumni answer that question. 2,339 BrainStation alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed BrainStation and rate their overall experience a 4.66 out of 5.

Can I read BrainStation reviews?

You can read 2,339 reviews of BrainStation on Course Report! BrainStation alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed BrainStation and rate their overall experience a 4.66 out of 5.

Is BrainStation accredited?

While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. BrainStation doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.

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