BrainStation
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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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Y CProduct Manager • Graduate • Data Analytics Course Online • OnlineJun 24, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceData Analytics - Review
Thrilled to have completed their intensive Data Analytics course. I’m now much more confident in my SQL skills and have experienced Tableau’s power.
How does this course add value to professionals?
Very impressed by the calibre, competency, and professionalism of their instructors. You also get free student access to Tableau which is a major plus as well as help setting up MySQL and Tableau which can be a pain if you try to do it on your own.
As well, there is a stud...Thrilled to have completed their intensive Data Analytics course. I’m now much more confident in my SQL skills and have experienced Tableau’s power.
How does this course add value to professionals?
Very impressed by the calibre, competency, and professionalism of their instructors. You also get free student access to Tableau which is a major plus as well as help setting up MySQL and Tableau which can be a pain if you try to do it on your own.
As well, there is a student Slack channel where you can post questions which are answered within 8-12hours - super valuable if you are a working professional and don't have time to go digging in Stackoverflow, google, etc. for answers, troubleshooting, and techniques.
After spending 2 days of my own time researching, investigating, and detective work trying to sove a problem, my instructor solved it in just 5min – that is the true power and value add of instructor led training.- Buthaina MahmoudSoftware Engineer • StudentJun 22, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Product Management Online Course Review
I chose to do the full-time online Product Management course to better understand and communicate with the different stakeholders about new ideas and software products at my work.
I was really impressed by the amount of knowledge the course offered, the way it was all organized and most importantly, the way it was delivered. The instructors were very knowledgeable and experienced in the field and had a ton of useful insights and real-world examples to offer on every subject covered. T...I chose to do the full-time online Product Management course to better understand and communicate with the different stakeholders about new ideas and software products at my work.
I was really impressed by the amount of knowledge the course offered, the way it was all organized and most importantly, the way it was delivered. The instructors were very knowledgeable and experienced in the field and had a ton of useful insights and real-world examples to offer on every subject covered. The class environment was great and truly engaging, with a lot of active discussions and a lot of group activities. The assignments and final project really helped turn those key concepts into practice and was also a good opportunity to work with a group of outstanding students from different industries.
This was my second course at BrainStation and would totally go back for more. - Catherine ChenStudent • Social Media Marketing • New York CityJun 21, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Brain Station Search Engine Marketing
Review for: Brain Station Search Engine Marketing Course (10 Weeks - Zoom)
This is my second course at Brain Station, and I had another great experience. To anyone who has not taken a course at Brain Station, I would highly recommend it. The culture is completely different from a regular academic experience. The courses are laid-back, relevant, and designed for the real world. The instructors are working in the industry, which is important for digital skill-sets where the field is...Review for: Brain Station Search Engine Marketing Course (10 Weeks - Zoom)
This is my second course at Brain Station, and I had another great experience. To anyone who has not taken a course at Brain Station, I would highly recommend it. The culture is completely different from a regular academic experience. The courses are laid-back, relevant, and designed for the real world. The instructors are working in the industry, which is important for digital skill-sets where the field is continually changing, and the latest and greatest of yesterday, can be out of date today.
Our weekly Thursday evening classes, shared the likeness of jumping on a zoom call with some of your best friends; and with one of those friends just happening to be a passionate SEM expert, wanting to share their insider tips and tricks with the group.
The course is also designed perfectly for working professionals. There is a final project, but more than enough time is provided to complete this during the course in class; so there is no worries about needing to carve out extra time for home work.
Would highly recommend Brain Station to anyone! - Shane HarbourDriver • Graduate • User Experience Design Course • New York CityJun 21, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
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User Experience Design course
Saturday May23 to June20th - Merissa SinghGraduate • OnlineJun 20, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Data Analytics
I took the Data Analytics Online Live course at BrainStation for 10 weeks. In this course you get to learn Excel formats, SQL and Tableau. If you’re more of an advanced user of SQL then this may not be the best suited course for you. This course is geared towards those with little to know experience with SQL or Tableau. I found the course to be a really great intro to these tools, but it would’ve been great to maybe have some more classes focused on SQL. Still I great course though, and ...I took the Data Analytics Online Live course at BrainStation for 10 weeks. In this course you get to learn Excel formats, SQL and Tableau. If you’re more of an advanced user of SQL then this may not be the best suited course for you. This course is geared towards those with little to know experience with SQL or Tableau. I found the course to be a really great intro to these tools, but it would’ve been great to maybe have some more classes focused on SQL. Still I great course though, and I do recommend it. - JerodSenior Sales Associate • Social Media Marketing • OnlineJun 18, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Great Supplement to Digital Marketing Course
I just finished the Social Media Marketing course. I previously took Brainstation's Digital Marketing course and this was a great supplement. We took a deeper dive into the relevant platforms of today (FB, IG, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest) and even touched on the newcomers like Tik Tok. My instructor Yuraimi was awesome and very flexible with time outside of scheduled office hours. I definitely feel like I have the tools to hit the ground running in the social media marketing space. I hi...I just finished the Social Media Marketing course. I previously took Brainstation's Digital Marketing course and this was a great supplement. We took a deeper dive into the relevant platforms of today (FB, IG, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest) and even touched on the newcomers like Tik Tok. My instructor Yuraimi was awesome and very flexible with time outside of scheduled office hours. I definitely feel like I have the tools to hit the ground running in the social media marketing space. I highly recommend both courses. - Tanja ZelkoHead of Digital Marketing • User Experience Design Course Online • OnlineJun 15, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
A great experience packed in 10 weeks!
As a digital marketer a user’s experience has always been important to me. I have always worked closely with designers and developers, but decided to formalize my knowledge and understanding of UX.
Brainstation’s UX Design course is a comprehensive, hands-on look into the User Experience process. In ten weeks, you take a project from theory, to research, planning, testing and designing a solution including functional prototypes. Because you are taken through the various steps, yo...As a digital marketer a user’s experience has always been important to me. I have always worked closely with designers and developers, but decided to formalize my knowledge and understanding of UX.
Brainstation’s UX Design course is a comprehensive, hands-on look into the User Experience process. In ten weeks, you take a project from theory, to research, planning, testing and designing a solution including functional prototypes. Because you are taken through the various steps, you can also experience and determine which part of UX Design excites you most - is it the research phase? design? testing? - which will help you decide which direction to take your career in.
Alternatively, for those already working with UX Design teams, it provides you with the skills to better understand the process and places you in a better position to work with those teams collaboratively going forward.
The instructors themselves work in the field and have hands on experience as UX Designers. In my class, we had two instructors - one working at a start-up who is responsible for the entire UX process including research, the other working at a large corporation who works with a team of designers and focused on the design aspect only. They shared real-life examples and experiences, and also suggestions of how to prepare a portfolio and interviews. They were collaborative and took the time to work with each student to brainstorm and work through design solutions to ensure what the student is creating is the best user experience.
This course provides you with all the tools needed to take a project from beginning to end, and then work on your own after the course to repeat the cycle and develop a portfolio.
Your fellow students come from all backgrounds, experiences and career levels and you create a whole new network of people to tap into. - T.Student • Digital Marketing Course Online • OnlineJun 12, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Digital Marketing Course
I took this remote digital marketing course at Brainstation. For the amount of money that I have paid (3.5k CAD) I don't believe this course was worth it. A lot of the information just scratched the surface and was too basic - I have known a lot of it from my university and internet already. The course didn't give as much practical and real life application knowledge as I hoped. - MikeData Analytics Professional • Student • Data Science Course Online • OnlineJun 12, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Data Science
This course covered a topics dealing with building predictive models through data. Throughout the classes, we were given a syllabus of jupityer notebooks that covered topics of data cleansing, statistical modeling, and model validations. The notebooks were well detailed and provided great documentation when implementing a final project. I personally found these to be more beneficial when studying and applying concepts outside of the classroom then during class. The instructors had great...This course covered a topics dealing with building predictive models through data. Throughout the classes, we were given a syllabus of jupityer notebooks that covered topics of data cleansing, statistical modeling, and model validations. The notebooks were well detailed and provided great documentation when implementing a final project. I personally found these to be more beneficial when studying and applying concepts outside of the classroom then during class. The instructors had great industry and technical knowledge to the topics but was difficult to get answers to questions outside of classroom. This should not be considered a strong deterrent to the course as self learning is my personal preference. They paved the way to get us started and with my interest in the class I managed to complete the final project and learned a variety of new topics when it came to coding and statistics. In conclusion, the overall class experience was pleasant and was able to learn a handful of real application to my career and even current job. - SerenaGraduate • User Experience Design Course Online • OnlineJun 12, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
UX Design Online - 5 weeks
I completed the five week intense UX design course. It was 7 hour webinars, 9:30-4:30 US time but 2:30-9:30pm for me in the U.K.
Saturday classes were great for my schedule; I have a busy job so evenings don’t work for me, and I complete a professional qualification as well so I needed something I could complete quickly before moving on to those assignments.
I loved the experience of being paired with a partner - I learned a lot more because I had a sounding board and someo...I completed the five week intense UX design course. It was 7 hour webinars, 9:30-4:30 US time but 2:30-9:30pm for me in the U.K.
Saturday classes were great for my schedule; I have a busy job so evenings don’t work for me, and I complete a professional qualification as well so I needed something I could complete quickly before moving on to those assignments.
I loved the experience of being paired with a partner - I learned a lot more because I had a sounding board and someone else to learn from. They also kept me on track! The class provided plentiful opportunity for feedback from the tutor and from the other classmates. There was a good mix of practical exercises and theory - I learn by doing but it was good to know WHY I was doing stuff.
I am not interested in UX as a career but there was a portion of a session dedicated to getting into the space professionally. Overall, I learned a new skill quickly and I was very proud of my final project. Some of the concepts I am adapting for the project management side of my every day role, so it has taught me transferable skills too.
Some of the thinking I knew already, like the iterative ideas, and agile working, but that’s because I use it day to day anyway. However I think it’s good that it starts from the basics as it means you can do this course with any knowledge base.
My only comment would be that some of the classes could have been a bit more structured in terms of breaks so I had a better idea of when to make dinner! I ended up eating during class time rather than the breaks a lot, which felt a bit rude of me when I was on camera. - Zachary SEngineer • Graduate • User Experience Design Course Online • OnlineJun 12, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
UX Design Course
Coming from a non-design background, I found this course extremely helpful to gain a broad understanding of the field of UX design and learn new skills outside of my current day-to-day field of work. I found the principles of UX Design easily transferable to my work as an engineer as it taught me a number of key skills including how to get to the core of a problem and how to consider the end user needs in solving any problem. The instructors were extremely helpful and would answer any q...Coming from a non-design background, I found this course extremely helpful to gain a broad understanding of the field of UX design and learn new skills outside of my current day-to-day field of work. I found the principles of UX Design easily transferable to my work as an engineer as it taught me a number of key skills including how to get to the core of a problem and how to consider the end user needs in solving any problem. The instructors were extremely helpful and would answer any question I had the next day. I was impressed with how engaged they were with the cohort. - Aaron Cecchini-ButlerProduct Designer • Graduate • iOS Development Online • OnlineMay 10, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
iOS Development: I Learned a LOT but Beginners Beware
iOS Development is the 3rd course I’ve taken at BrainStation. First of all, their online live learning platform is very well done. The lessons, assignments, and other material are well organized and useful. Their courses are designed to be doable while working full-time - so the hours are generally at night or on the weekends. Of my three courses, two were 6-9 PM on a weekday and one was 9:30-4:30 on Sundays. I found the Sunday course to be challenging, personally, as it made...iOS Development is the 3rd course I’ve taken at BrainStation. First of all, their online live learning platform is very well done. The lessons, assignments, and other material are well organized and useful. Their courses are designed to be doable while working full-time - so the hours are generally at night or on the weekends. Of my three courses, two were 6-9 PM on a weekday and one was 9:30-4:30 on Sundays. I found the Sunday course to be challenging, personally, as it made me feel like I was working 6-day weeks. For five weeks this was doable but by the end I was definitely worn down and starting to not look forward to the course. This is not a reflection on the quality of the course, just a friendly warning in regards to scheduling!
I took iOS Development because I work as a product designer and wanted to improve my ability to communicate with developers. This course accomplished that but in ways that I did not expect. The course is very accelerated, and I can’t recommend it to beginners unless they have a lot of time to work on the material and do a lot of outside self-learning. However, with some coding background (or with a lot of time) this course does a great job of establishing the fundamentals of Swift. One complex problem that this course (along with many other courses) faces is the speed of updates in the dev world. Swift was updated prior to the course and so some materials were dated - which led to some confusing times. However, maintaining the material would be extremely difficult considering the speed of changes. Additionally, learning to debug is half the battle when it comes to coding. My instructor was extremely helpful and was available to help on Slack all week. He was very good at giving help that wasn’t the answer but was the educational piece I needed to figure something out myself.
By the end of the course, I had a strong understanding of a lot of the vocabulary developers use and I understood more about which UI elements are built in and the complexities surrounding customizing some of them. More importantly, I now know how to investigate a lot of these things myself using Xcode.
With the help of some external tutorials I was able to complete a final project, an app that serves as a to do list, and spend my final class working on styling it.
I recommend this course to people with a coding background. I don’t think this is the best course for people focused on styling (designers) and I think that beginners should stay away unless they are prepared to invest a solid 20+ hours a week outside of class to work on their own.
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Based on 2,000+ BrainStation alumni reviews on Course Report, students often highlight the quality of the curriculum, experienced instructors, and effective career support services. Particularly, the Full-Time Software Engineering and Data Science Bootcamps are frequently commended. One reviewer says, "The program was challenging but extremely rewarding, offering real-world projects that truly enhanced my skills." However, some students noted the high cost of courses as a consideration.
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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?
BrainStation hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 2,285 BrainStation alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed BrainStation on Course Report - you should start there!
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You can read 2,285 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.
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