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Saint Paul College is a open access public community college in Saint Paul, Minnesota.It is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System.The college enrolls about 11,000 students in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, and it also employs 126 full-time faculty, 116 part-time faculty, 233 staff members, and 18 administrative members.
Dakota County Technical College (DCTC) is a public technical college in Rosemount, Minnesota, United States. It is located in Dakota County inside the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. DCTC belongs to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System and is one of five stand-alone technical colleges in the state.
St. Cloud Technical and Community College: St. Cloud: Public Associate's college: 3,466 1948 [31] Saint Paul College: St. Paul: Public Associate's college: 5,365 1910 [42] South Central College: North Mankato, Faribault: Public Associate's college: 2,602 1946 [43] Southwest Minnesota State University: Marshall: Public Master's university: 6,930 ...
Newgate School was created in the early 1970s in partnership with the University of Minnesota.In 1975 it was incorporated as a separate non-profit school. In 1979, assisted by the Northwest Area Foundation, Newgate purchased a mechanics garage at 90 North Dale St in St Paul and established the Auto Body Training Center, serving young adults who had dropped out of school.
Construction on two campuses began in 1970, and the Suburban Hennepin County Area Vocational-Technical Centers in Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie opened at temporary sites in 1972. A site in Medina for a third campus was later sold. [5] They became known as the Hennepin Technical Centers in 1978, and then Hennepin Technical Institute in 1987.
The Minnesota State Legislature renamed all technical institutes, technical colleges on July 1, 1989. Southwestern Technical College was a member institution of the former Minnesota Technical College System and on July 1, 1995, became one of 32 member institutions of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.
Vocational schools in the United States are traditionally two-year colleges which prepare students to enter the workforce after they receive an Associate degree.Students may also use courses as credit transferable to four-year universities.
Minneapolis College was founded as the Girls Vocational School in 1914 by its first principal, Miss Elizabeth Fish. When a new building at 1101 Third Avenue South was completed in 1932 it was renamed Mary Miller Vocational School, after the teacher credited with opening the first school in Minneapolis in 1852.