Brown College (Minnesota)

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Brown College

Established: 1946
Type: Private, For Profit
Location: Mendota Heights, MN,, USA
Campus: Urban
Website: www.browncollege.edu

Brown College is a for-profit school and is a subsidiary of Career Education Corporation. It is located in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, near Minneapolis/St. Paul. It offers programs in the areas of Broadcasting, Design, Technology, Business Management and Criminal Justice.

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[edit] History

The school was originally established in 1946 as the American Institute of the Air by Richard and Helen Brown. The college occupied a seven-building campus on East Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1954, the school changed its name to Brown Institute and then in 2001, it became Brown College. Richard and Helen retired in 1978 but were active participants in Brown events until their deaths in 1994. In July 1986, the school moved to Lake Street and Hiawatha Avenue. In 1998, it relocated again to a Mendota Heights. Brown College further expanded in October 2001 when it opened its Brooklyn Center, a second campus in a suburb of the northwestern Twin Cities.

In April of 2003, Career Education Corporation canceled the Electronics Technology program at Brown College. Electronics was one of the first programs established after the Broadcasting program, and was one of the programs that built Brown's reputation nation-wide.

Career Education Corporation formed a partnership with Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, in January 1999. Brown was the first college in North America to include a Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Program. In January 2005, Le Cordon Bleu began operating as a separate entity.

[edit] Accreditation

Brown College is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT). Brown College does not have regional accreditation thus many regionally accredited schools are reluctant to accept their credits in transfer or recognize their degrees for entry into graduate programs.[1][2][3][4]

[edit] Academics

Brown College has three schools offers Bachelor’s and Associate’s degrees in the following areas:

[edit] Campus

Brown College is located in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, with a branch campus in Brooklyn Center.

Brown’s campus in Mendota Heights occupies an 18-acre site and includes a Learning Resource Center with computers, study space, laptops and printers.

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