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One of the most difficult decisions to make regarding a Westwood College education is whether to attend classes at one of their seventeen campuses, or to take them online. This dilemma is a fairly new phenomenon, unique to 21st Century students.

The most important factor to consider is your own availability. If you have a highly variable work schedule that can be out of your control, or your commute time to get to a campus for class would be too long, the flexibility of an online program may be much better suited to your needs. Still other students find the traditional classroom environment the easiest to work in, and if they live within commuting distance of any of the 17 Westwood campuses throughout the nation, this is a very good learning option.

Westwood College’s core focus is career focused degree programs, and part of this is the fundamental understanding that many of their students are working professionals at the time of enrollment, and will remain employed full time throughout their studies. This understanding has lead Westwood College to offer a large selection of evening courses in a variety of courses of study at their campus locations. Visit Westwood College’s site to find out what specific programs are offered in your particular area.

If you cannot locate the particular program of interest at a regional campus, Westwood Online offers a large selection of degree programs that can be taken from the comfort of home, even a Master’s in Business Administration!

Whatever your field of interest, financial situation, or geography, Westwood College has an option for you. Take a look at the available educational options, or call an admissions agent at 866-234-4934 and see why Westwood College was ranked in the top ten professional colleges.

Founded in 1953 in Denver, CO as the Denver Institute of Technology, Westwood College has expanded into 19 campuses across the US and over 12,000 students.

Westwood College of Colorado has three campuses in Colorado – Denver North, Denver South, and Redstone College: Denver.

The Westwood College – Denver North campus is located in Westminster, a suburb of North Denver. Just minutes away from major professional sporting events and Denver’s great nightlife there is never a lack of social opportunities. And with the mountains a stone’s throw away there are always fun outdoor recreational activities to participate in. Westwood College – Denver North campus has a very diverse range of degree programs to cater to the wide array of students attending. The School of Design, School of Technology, School of Business, School of Justice, School of Healthcare and School of Industrial Services provide students with 26 different degree programs ranging from Animation to Interior Design to Business Administration and Automotive Technology.

Westwood College – Denver South campus is located in the southwest side of Denver, and is a great location for students in Denver, Lakewood, Englewood, Littleton, Aurora, Parker and other suburbs of Denver. Denver South campus also has a wide range of degree programs including School of Design, School of Technology, School of Business, School of Justice and School of Healthcare. With three student lounges on campus, internet labs, and the wide range of social events, students attending the Denver South campus will receive a well rounded, career focused education.

Redstone College – Denver campus was founded in 1965 to give students Airframe, Powerplant, Avionics, Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning/Refrigeration and Construction Management training. Redstone College offers lifetime alumni retraining which includes auditing a class previously taken, attending updated courses, and learning about new industry related equipment and software. Redstone’s Career Development department offers lifetime job placement assistance. Students attending Redstone College – Denver not only get an excellent education, but help in finding a job and assistance through the rest of their career. Located in Broomfield, students are situated close to the mountains and to Downtown Denver, which provides countless social activities.

Attending Westwood College of Colorado provides students with countless career opportunities in some of Colorado’s finest cities. With their dedication to providing students with career necessities and life lessons, the educational track at Westwood is top notch.

Westwood College is continually going above and beyond to create an ideal learning environment for their students, and their recent launch of a new student powered online magazine is yet another example of how Westwood is doing this.

Westwood recently announced that they have created a magazine designed and produced by Westwood Online students and faculty within each program of Westwood’s School of Design: Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Web Design & Multimedia, Animation, Game Arts, and Interior Design – one of the first Design Education magazines of its kind.

This magazine is a great opportunity for prospective students to see work that graduates have completed and where the degree from Westwood College can lead them. Written by students that graduated in March or May of 2008 and earned a grade point average of 3.0 or higher, Westwood’s Admissions Department can use this magazine to give prospective students a sneak peek into what they can expect and learn a bit more about the other departments at Westwood. If students are worried about what their professors will be like, have no fear – with a section on outstanding faculty members, they can learn all about them before they even step into the classroom.

Westwood College is a nationwide educational institution, focusing on providing a quality education to working professionals in pursuit of their first college degree, or secondary degrees in areas of professional interest. Westwood offers two types of learning environments; online courses and campus based courses.
For many working professionals, on campus programs provide the ideal educational environment, with convenient proximity to the downtown business districts in six major metropolitan areas in the US. Within each of these major markets, Westwood has anywhere from two to four campuses. The Los Angeles area boasts four urban campuses, as does Chicago. Texas has one each in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, while Denver, Atlanta, and the Washington DC area each have two.

Westwood focuses their programs of study on specific career paths, a divergence from traditional liberal arts universities, but one which time-constrained working professionals appreciate. A typical student at Westwood can earn their bachelor’s degree in less than 3 years, as opposed to the more typical 4 year program at a traditional university. Westwood offers 28 individual programs through six schools, the school of business, the school of design, the school of industrial services, the school of justice, the school of technology, and the school of healthcare. Areas of focus are business management, computer animation and graphics, interior design, automotive technology, surveying, criminal justice, information systems and technologies, medical assisting and many more. Additionally, Westwood offers a master of business administration (MBA) degree through online courses.

Complimenting Westwood College’s programs geared towards business professionals, Westwood also operates two campuses focused on trade-specific education. The campuses are run under the Redstone College brand, and cater to three distinct areas of education: aircraft and avionic technologies, construction management, and industrial service technologies. These Redstone College campuses are located in Los Angeles near the Los Angeles International Airport, and in Denver adjacent to the Jefferson County Airport to capitalize on the real world environments important to student achievement.
For students whose schedules or geographic locations don’t allow attendance at one of the nineteen Westwood or Redstone campuses, Westwood offers an online university option. Taking classes online offers students a chance to earn degrees not otherwise offered in their region, while choosing a course schedule that fits in with their professional and personal obligations.
Westwood College is in the top tier of online, professionally oriented universities, counting among its main competition colleges such as University of Phoenix, Devry, and ITT Tech. In the competition for students, Westwood relies principally on mass media outreach to attract interested students, and to answer their questions about the university’s programs or specific campuses. Westwood employs broadcast media methods with both radio and television advertisements, generally just prior to a heavy enrollment period. Westwood also has heavily invested in online advertising, first developing a robust and informative website with detailed information on programs, campuses, and the online programs, followed by an extensive pay per click (PPC) marketing program designed to find prospective students who have been actively seeking out information on college education. Westwood also has ramped up its efforts in online display, or banner, advertising, placing both image, flash, and video ads on sites frequented by their most likely future students.
Westwood College’s efforts in both creating an exemplary career oriented university, and aggressively expanding into new markets has been extremely successful, and the University was recently ranked in the top ten online universities by the Online Education Database. While this is quite an accomplishment, Westwood’s prospects are even more promising. As one of the most well known universities both online and in major metro areas, Westwood College is starting the 21st century ideally poised to take advantage of the evolving role of education in our new information based millennium.

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