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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- Lucy CaoProduct Designer • Graduate • User Experience Design Course • VancouverVerified by LinkedInMar 31, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
A valuable learning experience
I took the 3 months long, full-time boot camp at Brainstation. I really enjoyed my experience, learning a lot about UX design and working with other designers as well as developers. A lot of the course materials fit modern industry standards. If you are looking to jumpstart your UX design career, I highly recommend you take this bootcamp! - Dakota NortonGraduate • User Experience Design Bootcamp • VancouverVerified by LinkedInMar 31, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Fast track your career change
This course provided me with the knowledge to build my UX skills and the career guidance to land an internship with a great company after graduation. My instructors were fantastic, and I was able to book time to go over anything I needed extra help with.
If you're anything like me, this course will be your whole life for 3 months and you might pull a few all-nighters, but it's very worth it! - AlfredoStudent • Full-Time Data Science Bootcamp Online • OnlineVerified by LinkedInMar 28, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Amazing experience!
I was part of the Data Science program at BrainStation from Feb-April 2022. The 12 week program gave me the skills I needed to change careers and furthermore helped me when looking for a job as a new Data Scientist with their Career Acceleration Program. I really did my research prior to joining the school, looking at the different options available to me and I can say with 100% confidence that I'm happy with my decision to join the BrainStation team. - Maria SanchezMarketing Manager • Graduate • User Experience Design Course Online • OnlineVerified by LinkedInMar 23, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UX Design Certificate
I learned so much from my instructors and classmates. The instructors have impressive experience and we put into practice all the concepts learned at the lectures. I really recommend it if you want to learn about UX design or if you want to hone your skills. - AishwaryaStudent • Product Management Course Online • OnlineVerified by LinkedInMar 23, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Product Management Course was amazing!
Had a great time learning the core concepts for Product Management from Siddharth and Giuliano!! They broke down an incredible amount of information into well-organized lessons with real life examples, in-class group activities and two group presentations. Working in groups helped add more perspective to the concepts and the feedback we received from the instructors was very valuable. This was an online course but the class structure enabled lots of interaction. - Martin LeeUI/UX designer at cH • Graduate • User Experience Design Bootcamp • TorontoVerified by LinkedInMar 20, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Martin Lee
Program: User Experience Design Bootcamp
Start: Nov 1, 2021
End: Feb 01, 2022.
3 months in length.
Class Size: 14 people.
Background: Medicine, Registered Nurse. Family Medicine, Oncology. Psychology & Mental Health @ UofT.
No specific background in UX, however, I did take User Experience Design from Google Coursera the month leading up to the start of the Bootcamp at BrainStati...Program: User Experience Design Bootcamp
Start: Nov 1, 2021
End: Feb 01, 2022.
3 months in length.
Class Size: 14 people.
Background: Medicine, Registered Nurse. Family Medicine, Oncology. Psychology & Mental Health @ UofT.
No specific background in UX, however, I did take User Experience Design from Google Coursera the month leading up to the start of the Bootcamp at BrainStation, a 6mo program that I finished in 2 weeks.
BrainStation Program taught by Joel Macleod (lead instructor). Lily Da Huang (associate instructor) Sherin George (TA & Mentor), who are absolutely great UX leaders and compliment each other. Look at where they came from and the companies they worked for, and you'll realize they're for real, especially when you try and apply to those companies which isn't easy to get in.
I got hired on March 7.
Program isn't easy, but anything good in life doesn't come easy! $15000, but worth it to be honest. I've seen people WITH a heavy background in graphics and design, but disappear into other cohorts because they didn't take it seriously because the program requires your 150% focus and dedication. Sometimes, people with experience have too much ego. On the other hand, people that start off weak IMPROVE over time and produce great content and designs because they don't sleep until 5am just to get it right!
BrainStation does NOT guarantee a job, which may sound "discouraging."
1. However, if you look at it logically, there are bound to be people who doesn't produce industry level content, which isn't BrainStation's fault. That is why a passing grade at BrainStation is 70%. Joel and Lily and Sherin do not give free lunches. They grade HARD to make sure you are at par with the industry standard. (I suspect other BrainStation instructors are the same). Our cohort of people had people who didn't have design BG and had people who did have design BG. In the end, they nail things and have a strong grasp of DESIGN THINKING. (the double diamond)
2. Some people aren't actually looking for UX jobs after they graduate. They take vacations to recover from the program, so that may delay ultimate job procurement.
3. People aren't putting in the effort to create portfolios, to pump out resumes, to socialize on LinkedIn and etc.
Curriculum: If you can glean 70% of the content on the first go. You're not human. That is why the content will be available for you after 6 months I THINK.
Job Assistance: MAKE SURE your portfolio is good enough....before you go asking for help from the BrainStation team. Make sure you have no regrets about your portfolio.
Add me on LinkedIn. I'm down to talk.
Deepak AgarwalWeb Development Bootcamp • TorontoVerified by GitHubMar 05, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceLearned a lot!
My overall experience is phenomenal.
My instructors were knowledgeable, experienced, humble, and motivating.
The Teaching Assistants were super helpful and knowledgeable too.
I still remember my instructors and TA's sometimes providing the student with extra time in debugging their coding issues after a long day of class.
The good thing about their curriculum, is they keep on updating it as per the industrial demand, which is really important to become job-ready. Ther...My overall experience is phenomenal.
My instructors were knowledgeable, experienced, humble, and motivating.
The Teaching Assistants were super helpful and knowledgeable too.
I still remember my instructors and TA's sometimes providing the student with extra time in debugging their coding issues after a long day of class.
The good thing about their curriculum, is they keep on updating it as per the industrial demand, which is really important to become job-ready. There were group projects, which were really important for hands-on experience.
The career specialist department is excellent in their work. They have career success sessions that helped me in grooming my resumes and LinkedIn profiles. We also had webinars with recruiters from good companies to know their perspectives when they go through the candidate's profile, such webinars are really useful to know about the recruiter's perspective. The team is always there to support you to prepare with interview practice or any job search questions.
The classroom environment was nice. It is good to learn with like-minded people.
But the getting a job is completely up to you. There is no job guarantee. The team will provide you with the tools that may help you get the job but ultimately you have to search for jobs on your own, which may take less or more time.
To be honest, there is no boot camp in Canada that provides with job guarantee on paper and there is no boot camp with a 100 percent placement record.
There are both kinds of students who land jobs and who doesn't got a job after the bootcamp.
- Matt EGraduate • Digital Marketing Bootcamp Online • OnlineVerified by LinkedInFeb 24, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Digital Marketing Bootcamp is a ripoff
(I’ve grown frustrated with answering questions from people who have found me on LinkedIn, so here’s a general rundown of my thoughts about BrainStation and their Digital Marketing Bootcamp.)
Fifteen thousand dollars. FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! That is so much money, dramatically more than other bootcamps. Is it worth it? Absolutely not. I deeply regret my decision to participate in this program, and I encourage you to think long and hard about your decision befor...(I’ve grown frustrated with answering questions from people who have found me on LinkedIn, so here’s a general rundown of my thoughts about BrainStation and their Digital Marketing Bootcamp.)
Fifteen thousand dollars. FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! That is so much money, dramatically more than other bootcamps. Is it worth it? Absolutely not. I deeply regret my decision to participate in this program, and I encourage you to think long and hard about your decision before signing up.
In my recent cohort, almost 70% of students dropped out after realizing that what the program offered was far short of what they had been promised. And BrainStation, seemingly knowing that they hadn’t lived up to their end of the bargain, gave each of the former students 100% refunds. This is completely contrary to their stated policy on program withdrawal. Reputable programs simply don’t lose 70% of their students. And they also don’t offer full refunds to those who make allegations such as plagiarism and gross incompetence.
Specific issues I had with the bootcamp:- Even though you are paying $15,000 for the course, they provide you with essentially no tools. Instead, they’ll tell you to create numerous email accounts so that you can repeatedly sign up for demo versions of the tools you’ll be using. Also, you’re putting your own credit card down on those demos, so you better not forget to cancel and switch to a new email, or else you may be paying hundreds of dollars for a subscription you don’t want.
- You will spend a ridiculous number of hours searching for benchmark data that could otherwise easily be accessed if the school were to actually spend some of their revenue on student tools. But they won’t, so you’ll spend hours sifting through questionable websites with questionable data, trying to find something you can work with. It's an inefficient use of time, considering how demanding they keep their schedule.
- For certain units, their tool choice is questionable at best. Why are you building websites on Mailchimp? It’s certainly not because it’s the best, most useful, easiest, or most highly-adopted industry tool. To myself and other students, it felt that maybe this was due to some sort of undisclosed Mailchimp partnership rather than the best interest of the students.
- The lecture slides are quite often lifted wholesale from other websites. You can do a google search of key phrases and see where the content is just lifted from others. How they at all think this is appropriate just boggles the mind. They are also littered with spelling and grammatical errors, which isn't just embarrassing but also hypocritical as the instructors will constantly remind you that those same errors in your work are unprofessional and will result in lower grades.
- Speaking of the lectures, there are simply better places to learn this information more efficiently. At the end of the bootcamp, they’ll tell you that you need to go out and get a bunch of online certifications. When you do seek out those certifications you’ll discover that you’ll need to take their study courses anyhow, and that the information is presented more intuitively than it ever was at BrainsStation. Not to mention at a dramatically lower price.
- The posted curriculum and schedule can’t be trusted. The entire reason I stuck with the full program was because I wanted to learn about marketing budgets, which was part of the final unit. Once we got to that unit, they cut the marketing budget lectures and project because they had run out of time. They literally said that was the reason. Cut for time.
- If you’re an American, their career services are pretty useless. I knew it was a Canadian school, but considering they had offices in NYC and Miami, I anticipated more opportunities for Americans. But overwhelmingly the job opportunities are based in Canada and not available to US citizens.
- Unless you are incredibly early in your career, their career success department is irrelevant. I certainly didn’t need to be instructed on how to dress for an interview, and they literally had us practice small talk. It was embarrassing. For somebody like me who is mid-career and simply wanted to upskill, there was absolutely zero value in these services.
Honestly, I could go on and on. I just know that every month when I get $500+ automatically deducted from my bank account, I feel this anger in the pit of my stomach, knowing I’ve been ripped off.
I will say that it’s possible that BrainStation is a quality bootcamp for the other disciplines. Coding and WebDev just more naturally lend themselves to a bootcamp format. But for digital marketing, this just isn’t a good investment. - Lam DinhData Analyst • Data Science Course • VancouverVerified by LinkedInFeb 20, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Data Science Certificate
Personally, I found this course really useful for my career and the analytics work that I do on a daily basis. The data science certificate course I took was the 10-weeks long one where we met online weekly for 3 hours. Overall, the course does cover the essential skills you need to become a data scientist (python, statistical modeling, and ML). It does feel a tiny bit intense, which makes sense as it's a Bootcamp. There is a lot of information in each session but they all were very help...Personally, I found this course really useful for my career and the analytics work that I do on a daily basis. The data science certificate course I took was the 10-weeks long one where we met online weekly for 3 hours. Overall, the course does cover the essential skills you need to become a data scientist (python, statistical modeling, and ML). It does feel a tiny bit intense, which makes sense as it's a Bootcamp. There is a lot of information in each session but they all were very helpful and organized nicely, A few things that stand out for me during this course:
- Flexible schedule: the schedule works out pretty well for me, and people who have a full-time job as you have options to meet in the evening or during the weekend.
- Helpful instructors: My instructor and TA are experienced industry people who gave a lot of great advice and the course content feels very relevant to the real world.
- Fast-paced environment: We learned something brand new every time we met, so in order to keep up, there are lots of self-learning to do. My advice is to find relevant real-world projects to apply what you learned in class. This course does require you to already have some knowledge of python and data analytics.
To summarize, it was a very nice learning experience and I enjoyed it a lot. Would definitely recommend this course for someone who is already in the analytics fields (data analyst, marketing analyst, business analyst, BI analyst, etc) and would want to advance their career to break into data science. - Makafui Kwabla BokorProgrammer • Graduate • Python • TorontoVerified by LinkedInFeb 16, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Graduate
Python programming Certification: An intensive five weeks later, I have finally completed the BrainStation Python program Certification with Saif Abid ! This course makes me a Python Developer, meaning I can develop websites, applications, build solutions, and more. I can work with Data Scientists, using Python programming to pull or generate large amounts of data from multiple databases and libraries. - Saida HuseynGraduate • Data Analytics Course • TorontoVerified by LinkedInFeb 15, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
I recommend this course
The course is very helpful, especially if you are new to the field. SQL part covers almost all you need to learn by yourself further. I'm glad I took that course. I got confidence in what I want, and I plan to move forward with Data Science Bootcamp. Overall experience is very positive; instructors are knowledgeable and helpful. They respond at any time, during and out of the class. The final project is a perfect challenge to apply all we have learnt—good practice-theory balance. - Sumit Kumar UzirPlatform Implementation Specialist • Graduate • Product Management Course Online • OnlineVerified by LinkedInFeb 13, 2022Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Absolutely must PM course for any Product Manager
The PM course led by Ekta and Khaled was excellent. I've learned a lot in these sessions; Real world examples were killers, thank you! I would recommend this course to any beginner to intermediate PMs; Very Focussed Learning Experience; we had an on-the-job-like learning experience. Khaled and Ekta also provided valuable feedback to the teams.
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BrainStation Alumni Reviews Summary
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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4.5
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FAQs
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. 2,286 BrainStation alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed BrainStation on Course Report - you should start there!
Is BrainStation legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 2,286 BrainStation alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed BrainStation and rate their overall experience a 4.66 out of 5.
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.
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You can read 2,286 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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PBSS - New York, United States, CIE - Florida, United States, PCC - Ontario, Canada, PTIB - British Columbia, Canada