Is Dunwoody College of Technology a good college? (Minneapolis, St. Paul: credit, how much) - Minneapolis - St. Paul - Minnesota (MN) -Twin Cities - City-Data Forum

fenrisx · 07-19-2008, 03:05 AM

I live in Georgia now, but I'm going to be moving to Minneapolis soon to be with my girlfriend who lives there.

I was going to attend a technical college here and get a diploma in technology. However, plans have changed. I'm going to be moving there soon, and will be attending college there instead.

While doing a Google search I pulled up a few colleges, and noticed Dunwoody had a technology program.

Is there a good school? Does anyone know of any other colleges in the MPLS area that offers some sort of technology program? Being on a bus route isn't a problem since I have transportation.

Thanks

silverjet · 07-19-2008, 01:29 PM

Dunwoody seems to be a good place to go to school; I haven't heard anything bad about it, but it's a private college and I'm assuming it is more expensive than many other places you could go to. I looked on Dunwoody's website and couldn't find any tuition information, so I couldn't really tell you how much it would be. I find it suspicious that they have deliberately left off this information on their website.

I don't know what sort of "technology" you are interested in learning, but you can probably learn the same thing elsewhere at a lower cost and still get a good education. I'm enrolled in a certificate program at Saint Paul College and I am generally happy with it. You may want to look into that. I also suggest checking out Minneapolis Community and Technical College as well. Good luck.

fenrisx · 07-19-2008, 02:05 PM

Oh thanks for pointing out that they're a private college. I didn't realize that on my first glance over the site. Something not expensive would be ideal.. I'm going to use the Pell grant to pay for as much as possible.

I'm mainly looking into electronics technology. I was going to take a diploma program here for electronics focusing on telecommunications, and then take a few more classes to get the focus on computer electronics as well. The telecommunications part was just to try and get a decent job when I'm done. So something along those lines there would be good.

Camden Northsider · 07-20-2008, 12:07 PM

I can't imagine that Dunwoody would be too expensive, and I'm sure they offer a lot of financial aid to their students either way. To respond to your original post, however, they are considered a very good technical school.

K-Luv · 07-20-2008, 12:39 PM

Dunwoody is private in the sense that it does not have ties to the state; i.e. it is essentially a vocational school that offers two year degrees, but unlike other vocational schools it is not a community college. Hence, why it is private. Dunwoody has a good reputation nationally and the few people that I know that went there really liked it.

StPaulEastSider · 04-16-2009, 11:50 AM

Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis is a Private School - but it is also NON-PROFIT - it has a LONG history [nearly a century] of providing the BEST in technical trainiing in Minnesota. Generous Financial Aid Programs are provided by loyal alumni and trust funding. The school has a high level of integrity. It is regionally accredited, which is the type of accredidation you should look for in any school you attend.

That being said, for a technology degree, Century College - a two-year private college and technical school - offers state-of-the art technology training and is well respected amongst employers. Stay away from the for-profit private schools, and from public schools where technology is not their stand-out program.

Make sure the latest best practices are being taught in this quickly changing field - I attended St. Paul College for one semester, taking I.T. courses, and was appalled to figure out what we were required to learn was outdated by at least 2 years and, consequently, not relavent to the current market place.

moving123456 · 04-16-2009, 12:24 PM

Just avoid Brown College.

Camden Northsider · 04-16-2009, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by StPaulEastSider

Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis is a Private School - but it is also NON-PROFIT - it has a LONG history [nearly a century] of providing the BEST in technical trainiing in Minnesota. Generous Financial Aid Programs are provided by loyal alumni and trust funding. The school has a high level of integrity. It is regionally accredited, which is the type of accredidation you should look for in any school you attend.

That being said, for a technology degree, Century College - a two-year private college and technical school - offers state-of-the art technology training and is well respected amongst employers. Stay away from the for-profit private schools, and from public schools where technology is not their stand-out program.

Make sure the latest best practices are being taught in this quickly changing field - I attended St. Paul College for one semester, taking I.T. courses, and was appalled to figure out what we were required to learn was outdated by at least 2 years and, consequently, not relavent to the current market place.

I agree with everything said in this post- although I don't think Century's a private college(?). I'm pretty sure they're part of the MNSCU system which should make them public (and I should know, a while back I earned several healthcare-related certificates from Century but all were employer-paid and taken offsite so there wasn't too much interaction with the college itself).

Ghengis · 04-17-2009, 02:28 PM

Check out Hennepin Technical College, it has been around quite awhile and has a campus in the Southern and Northern metro. It has many degree programs and has a great reputation at least within my initial field of HVAC/Commercial Facilities Maintenance. In that same field, my impression from some of my business contacts and graduates is that Dunwoody is slow to keep pace with the newer technologies. Some of these contacts have attended both schools. In "general" if I had two right-out-of-school candidates before me for the same position with similar attributes, I would hire the HTC candidate.

Minneapolis Guy · 04-18-2009, 07:58 AM

Dunwoody is very expensive. Family member of mine owes over $30,000 for a two year degree. Same degree would have cost under $10,000 at Hennepin and Anoka technical college. But he would have to wait two years to get into those programs since it was when construction was still hot. Once you get into the union as an electrician, it doesnt matter where you went to school, so yea he thinks it was a big waste of money.