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I took the UX full-time course at BrainStation at the Toronto campus, graduating in March 2018. Looking to pivot my career from accounting to UX/UI design, I felt that this course is what I needed for a solid kickstart. It provided that foundational knowledge needed, with lectures on UX/UI design principles, technical tool skills, and general career advice. The lead instructors were personalble, experienced, and knowledgable. The TAs were also very helpful, as they had both taken the course before. Everyone in the class was super supportive and collaborative. Sure, you can learn UX/UI through online articles and individual learning, but the oppotunity to fully immerse yourself for 10 straight weeks is invaluable. Also, you have the opportunity to build your network in the field, b...

I just finished my full time web development bootcamp and BrainStation and I don’t regret a thing about it.

I participated in the program to get more practice and work on new projects. Throughout the course, I built many projects that I am proud of and became more confident to start my career as a developer.

The BrainStation’s staff has always been really helpful with any questions or problems that students had. They know how important it was to remain focused during the program and gave us as much support as possible.

I find Jonathan a really smart and enthusiastic teacher. He always stayed up to date with the newest technology and always pushed us to research more about the topics he introduced in class. He provided us with a lot of guidance and materials that enhanced our kn...

BrainStation's Full Time Full Stack Web Development Program was an incredible experience that helped my skills as a developer grow exponentially.

Prior to attending this course, I had spent eight months self-teaching myself basic web development skills. I decided to take the full stack web development course to build a stronger foundation in web development and increase my confidence in my skills. After having finished this course, I can honestly say that I have achieved these goals and so much more. I learned more from the 10 weeks I had spent attending this course than I did from months of self-teaching. I attribute this success to Jonathan, the lead instructor and the two teach assistants Nic and Anthony.

Jonathan is an incredibly motivating and inspiring educator that brings...

Attended this course with no prior knowledge or experience with tech or programming at all and was swept away at what I got out of it at the end of 10 weeks. Firstly, it was comforting that BrainStation interviewed every candidate to find out about their potential intentions of joining the course. For me, I wanted a career change and knew that web development was the path I wanted to pursue, and was lucky enough to be put in a cohort with 13 others, each with very diverse backgrounds and intentions. The course is designed to equip individuals with the relevant skills required to start a career as a junior web developer, which means to train your brain to function as a programmer, to be comfortable finding answers when in doubt instead of asking and getting what you want all the time - a...

I took the UI design course at BrainStation Vancouver (10 week evening course) and it was such a great experience! As a graphic designer, I wanted to expand my skillset and knowledge more into the realms of digital design and the course was perfect for this. The course content was engaging and so informative. All of this was made even better by a fantastic tutor, Kelsey, with her in-depth advice and real life examples of UI design in industry. I have learned to use new programmes like Sketch and InVision for prototyping and have a wider knowledge on UI design concepts and ways of thinking. The final project for the course offers you a great opportunity to apply your learnings but also get important feedback from industry professionals and your fellow classmates. You finish the 10 weeks ...

I took the UX design course at BrainStation this spring. The course helped me focus on building a finished portfolio piece - the final project was the user experience design of an app, including UI design, prototyping, user interviews and personas, and information architecture design. We learned how to compile all these parts of the project into a single final product.

I found the course material to be informative and engaging, but it was made far better by the industry professionals leading the course. They were able to expand on the material provided by BrainStation and offer their own insights and anecdotes on UX and what it means to be a designer.

Overall I found the course to be engaging and very informative, and I am happy with my finished portfolio piece. I would recommend ...

I took the full-time web development course and I have had a very bad experience for various reasons:

1) the teacher is generally ill-prepared for class, and he rushes through concepts without clearly explaining them

2) When you ask for help, instead of giving a clear answer, the teacher will give you 10% of the answer, tell you to go off and figure it out yourself, and then punish you or asking him a question in your assignment grade which is demoralizing

3) There are not very many resources available for students to self-study

4) This course has been a huge waste of money and time

Great place to learn and improve skills! I completed the Product Management course at Brainstation Vancouver during the fall and it was great. The content of the course gave me a complete view of the Product Management lifecycle; we went over the different areas for PdM, as well as some valuable tools & techniques: product canvas, personas, mvp, mkt analysis, pricing, risks, roadmap, and many more. If you are new to PdM or want to get some PdM technical training, then this is the place to go.

Also, after taking this course I did a CSPO training and I can say that Brainstation's course was very very valuable for the CSPO training too! So, if you're thinking about CSPO certification, then I'd also recommend doing Brainstation's PdM course, as it will prepare you deep in the PdM field.
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I've had a great experience with BrainStation. The environment is great, and the staff are very helpful.
I took Product Management, each saturday for 5 weeks. The course content was well structured and relevant, and the teacher was amazing. He really cared about what he was teaching, and tried to inspire us along the way. I would definitely recommend!

I just finished the Data Science course at the Vancouver campus. I really enjoyed the foundation of Python this course provided me. Each week we focused on a different topic of Python coding, and with 3 hours per class, we were really able to develop our skills for the specific topics. I feel as though I can use my newfound knowledge in my current and any future work that I do.

I enrolled with the part-time course in Product Management with BrainStation to have a more holistic view of the role of a product manager. This course has helped me to further understand how to manage the lifecycle of a product, has provided me with powerful management resources, and industry-standard structural tools to keep going. This course has helped me feel more prepared to pursue my career goals. Thanks to the academy for the great atmosphere, and to my teachers (Stewart and Kia) for their great job.

I took Product Management with Brainstation and found it to be a highly engaging course. It clearly differentiated the difference between product and project management and used real life work examples to set the stage for what it would be like to join the work force as a potential product manager. Prior to this course I had limited knowledge in this field of study, but found the material to be interchangeable across different fields of study. Overall, I would highly recommend this course and would encourage anyone who is interested or is already in the field of product management to expand their breath of knowledge.

I was impressed by the organization of the school, the atmosphere and the classroom learning portal. Brainstation has really nailed student communication + has an incredible student portal where all of the class content lives, acting as a great resource to continue learning outside of the classroom or contributing to your day job.

The instructors and staff were very welcoming, and it's clear they are dedicated to providing a great student experience both in and out of the classroom.

We were aware of the full course curriculum from day 1, and each week we dove more into each area of digital marketing along with students who had similar interests. It was great to learn from industry professionals and learn about the work in action on the job.

I would highly recommend this class ...

I almost signed up for BrainStation a few times before I actually fully converted. My boyfriend took it the semester before me and he really sold me on it. Overall I'm really happy I took this course. It is a great introduction to digital marketing and gives you a taste of the different careers paths you can go. Each class doesn't get too in depth into each sub category, but the content and slides are set up great for individual review after class. For someone with an extremely busy life (commuting to work) and after hour commitments, it was a perfect amount of time spent in class. Only 3 hours per week for 10 weeks! The information was really laid out well, I think that is the best part. The teachers are great and they all had some helpful hints from their own work to share with us. Gr...

Taking the UI Design Program at BrainStation is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. User Interface is a great way to get started in the digital design industry. In the beginning, I had very little to no knowledge about designing websites, but by the end of it all, I have come to putting together robust, high-fidelity webpages and prototypes from scratch. A few classes into the cohort, I learned how to use applications like ‘Sketch’ professionally and efficiently, which by the way, is a heaven-sent application used by web designers all over the world! I also learned a handful of techniques to effectively create wire frames, which is one of many processes to starting digital projects!

The User Interface educator, Kelsey Bowman, is nothing short of amazing. Kelsey engages all of ...

The part-time Web Development course has been a great introduction to the world of .html, .css, and bootstrap. I joined with no previous knowledge and now feel confident reading and writing code. The instructors are there to help and, within reason, the students pick the pace of the class. If you have an interest in learning basic coding skills, this course could be your ticket.

Great intro to all aspects of digital marketing. I especially liked the setup having different instructors, all with practical work backgrounds, who taught specific lessons based on their area of expertise. I would've liked a greater emphasis on the hands-on component, but overall it was a great course! I would certainly recommend this to beginners who are looking to kick start a career in digital marketing.

I took the Digital Marketing class to improve my marketing skills and to keep up with the digital industry. The course is a big commitment since you have to build a full marketing plan for a company as a team project so be ready to meet outside of class.

The instructors are great, it is really inspiring to have people from the industry teaching you. Their real-life examples help a lot with understanding the content.

The campus is amazing, a lot of space to work and be creative and the staff is truly awesome. Always there to help you if needed.

Would recommend!

I completed the course of User Interface Design a couple of weeks ago and I can truly say it was a terrific experience. This not only taught me fundamental design principles and best practices but also how to use some of the best tools of the industry.
I particularly liked the educator who had a user-centered design thinking as well as a results-minded focus. Great campus located very conveniently in Vancouver, and some very interesting folks met as part of the student community.
Would definitely recommend this course to get knowledgeable and hands-on digital design wise.

The course was packed with valuable content and the instructor was knowledgeable and approachable. Coming from the professional field, with many years of experience, he made sure all the students were left with a solid understanding of ios programming, and were confident in setting out on their own. The school itself is a wonderful environment, from the administrative staff to the TAs. I highly recommend it!

I took the Digital Marketing course in Vancouver and it was an excellent crash course in digital marketing. A lot of content was covered in the 10 weeks, so if you don’t keep up you will miss out on some valuable information. The entire course is group project based and evaluated on a final presentation. A lot of work is put in by every member and a lot of higher level learning/application will take place outside of class, so be prepared for the commitment.
The educators and guest speakers are really great, and are available to answer questions on Slack outside of class. The students all come from diverse backgrounds, which offers a range of experience to the projects. The campus is a great, modern space, but it would be nice to have more flexible hours to work on projects without...

As a recent graduate from an Arts program at UBC, I began looking into coding schools in hopes of gaining more hard skills that could help me with regards to employment opportunities as well as personal projects. I was drawn to Brainstation because of it's -relatively- inexpensive cost, flexible schedule and because the school's intro web development course was advertised as being perfect for even those with 0 coding experience.

I decided to take the Intro to Web Development course, which consisted of 10 weeks of 3 hour courses once a week. I arrived early before the first course and was able to speak with one of my instructors, which gave us a chance to speak about what we wanted to get out of the course. This was encouraging because I was able to safely reiterate that I was very ...

This was one of the best decisions that I have made this summer so far. I attended the UX part-time course at Brainstation Vancouver and I had a blast. The environment was perfect for learning something new, the teachers, the students and everyone was so focused on developing their skills. It was a fun class to be apart of but more importantly it definitely showed me how to take what I learned in class and apply it to a career path. After the class I actually got hired to be a junior UX designer, and I am so excited. It is a completely new field and so far i'm loving it. Thank you Kenan and Irina for being inspirational, motivating and supportive. Loved it! The new space is great as well, lot's of space to hangout before class and to do your work. I would definitely recommend this to a ...

Overall I have had an amazing experience with BrainStation. Right from the first info session all the way to selecting the appropriate course that suited my goals, the team was accommodating from the beginning. After nine-weeks into the course, my educators have done an excellent job of teaching us with real life experiences and a very useful content for me was their step by step guidance on launching a product from concept to completion. The student community was very welcoming, and the campus has everything you would expect from a modern, top of the line tech environment.

I considered attending BrainStation for months until I came to a point in my career where I knew that amping up my skills was not a choice anymore if I wanted to remain competitive. I ended up deciding for the SEM course, which is great if you want to dive straight into SEO and PPC. When I completed my university degree in marketing over 10 years ago, Google was still fairly new, and all the components that now entail digital marketing were practically non-existent. Taking this course meant a lot for me in terms of becoming a well-rounded digital marketer.

My class was small too (about 10 of us), which allowed me to interact frequently with the teachers.Having instructors that are well-known in the industry and pack years of experience was a huge plus for me. The course was part...

I really enjoyed the Digital Marketing course I took over the summer from BrainStation. The weekly lessons were engaging and provided us with many resources to take with us into our current and future roles outside of the class. The instructors were really knowledgeable and had plenty of experience in the areas they taught us which made the lessons interesting. The campus was clean and modern and overall an excellent place to come each week to learn. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone looking to learn more about digital marketing, or to improve your understanding of it.

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 ...

I just finished my Data Analytics course at Brainstation and found it immensely valuable for my career. The educators were enthusiastic, and helped to make a somewhat dry course more exciting. Working at a tech company on the marketing team, it was hard for me to understand some of the logic that went into databases, pulling queries and our reporting documents. Now, I have noticed that I'm able to engage deeper in conversations with the developers at my company and can "speak their language" more or less. I can say without a doubt that I have learned what I was hoping to by taking the Data Analytics course and have made myself way more valuable within my company!

Great workshop! Instructor did a good job of articulating un-common concepts like Agile and design thinking, and the hands-on activities were a lot of fun.

The workshops are highly effective in the sense that the content is easily digestible. Even if you have no experience in the topic at hand, the instructors do a really great job in breakdown the essential contents. They also provide great resources if you want to continue to pursue a career in PM