TechSkills is a nationally recognized career training school, specializing in skills and certification training for careers in

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

Healthcare Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

Service Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a pu ...

s and

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. It is a private, for-profit provider of career training for adult learners. The company operates 18 campuses in 13 states in the

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History

TechSkills was founded in 1996 as AmeriTrain by John Poland. Its first

campus A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a college campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centers or dining halls, and park-like se ...

opened in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1996. In 1999, the company was renamed TechSkills. Five new campuses were opened in 1999, with 12 campuses added in 2000, nine campuses in 2001, and one campus in 2002. TechSkills’ corporate headquarters was relocated to

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in 2001. Beginning in 2010, TechSkills LLC campuses began to see dramatic decline and began closing multiple campuses and selling other(s) to TechSkills of California (Las Vegas). More campus closures are expected throughout 2011-2012 respectively. More than 40,000 students have graduated from their programs.

Campus locations

Accreditation

The following TechSkills campuses are nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET):{{cite web , url=http://www.accet.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=4 , title=Archived copy , accessdate=2009-04-24 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312073250/http://accet.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=4 , archivedate=2009-03-12 Brookfield, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Columbus, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Sacramento, and San Jose.

Courses of study

TechSkills offers career education programs in Information Technology, Allied Health Services, Accounting & Bookkeeping, and Project Management. TechSkills students may pursue industry certification through Information Technology vendors including Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, CompTIA, Prosoft, and (ISC)2; and through Health Services associations including the National Healthcareer Association and the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. Information Technology graduates may enter careers in IT engineering,

network design Network planning and design is an iterative process, encompassing topological design, network-synthesis, and network-realization, and is aimed at ensuring that a new telecommunications network or service meets the needs of the subscriber and op ...

software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invol ...

, database administration,

IT security Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

, web design or

computer hardware Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the computer case, case, central processing unit (CPU), Random-access memory, random access memory (RAM), Computer monitor, monitor, Computer mouse, mouse, Computer keyboard, ...

. Health Services graduates may enter careers in medical coding, medical billing,

medical transcription Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. Medical reports can be vo ...

, medical office administration or pharmacy.

Learning model

TechSkills utilizes

blended learning Blended learning, also known as technology-mediated instruction, web-enhanced instruction, or mixed-mode instruction, is an approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online with physical pla ...

to deliver its education programs, and emphasizes flexibility and preparation for employment.

References

External links

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