Cogswell College
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Cogswell Polytechnical College is a private college
located in Sunnyvale, California
. It holds accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
(WASC). Cogswell had a small student body of approximately 250 full-time and 80 part-time students in 2011.
Programs at the Cogswell range from Digital Media to Engineering and the newly founded Entrepreneurship program.
. The college opened in August 1888 as a high school
offering technical classes for boys and business classes for girls. It changed its status to technical college on June 30, 1930.
The original campus building, located in the Mission District
in San Francisco, was occupied in 1888. When the 1906 earthquake partially destroyed the campus, the College relocated across the street to an existing home on the property. After the City of San Francisco purchased some of the land by eminent domain in 1917, a new building was constructed at Folsom and 26th Streets to house the school. In 1974, having outgrown the existing campus, the College moved to a location at Stockton and California Streets. In 1985, the College moved to Cupertino
, where it remained until 1994 (its old San Francisco building became a Ritz Carlton hotel). The College purchased its present Sunnyvale campus in 1993.
Among the college's current programs are animation and video game development.
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
located in Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...
. It holds accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. The Western Association of...
(WASC). Cogswell had a small student body of approximately 250 full-time and 80 part-time students in 2011.
Programs at the Cogswell range from Digital Media to Engineering and the newly founded Entrepreneurship program.
History
Cogswell College was founded as Cogswell Polytechnical College on March 19, 1887 by Dr. and Mrs. Henry CogswellHenry D. Cogswell
Dr. Henry Daniel Cogswell was a dentist and a crusader in the temperance movement. He and his wife Caroline also founded Cogswell College in San Francisco, California. Another campus in Everett, Washington was later dedicated in his honor.-Life:Born in Tolland, Connecticut, as a youth, he worked...
. The college opened in August 1888 as a high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
offering technical classes for boys and business classes for girls. It changed its status to technical college on June 30, 1930.
The original campus building, located in the Mission District
Mission District, San Francisco, California
The Mission District, also commonly called "The Mission", is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA, originally known as "the Mission lands" meaning the lands belonging to the sixth Alta California mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis...
in San Francisco, was occupied in 1888. When the 1906 earthquake partially destroyed the campus, the College relocated across the street to an existing home on the property. After the City of San Francisco purchased some of the land by eminent domain in 1917, a new building was constructed at Folsom and 26th Streets to house the school. In 1974, having outgrown the existing campus, the College moved to a location at Stockton and California Streets. In 1985, the College moved to Cupertino
Cupertino, California
Cupertino is an affluent suburban city in Santa Clara County, California in the U.S., directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 58,302 at the time of the 2010 census. Forbes...
, where it remained until 1994 (its old San Francisco building became a Ritz Carlton hotel). The College purchased its present Sunnyvale campus in 1993.
Among the college's current programs are animation and video game development.
Facts
- About 24% of the student population are women.
- The student to faculty ratio is for Fall 2010 was 7:1
- Cogswell currently offers the following degrees:
- B.A. Digital Art and Animation
- B.S. Digital Audio Technology
- B.A. Entrepreneurship
- B.S. Computer Engineering
- B.S. Software Engineering
- B.S. Digital Arts Engineering
- B.S. Fire Science
- In November 2007 Cogswell announced the addition of a minor in business management.
- Cogswell students won first place in the 2007 SIGGRAPHSIGGRAPHSIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals...
SPACE-TIME Student Animation competition in the category of Storytelling/Narrative - A Cogswell student won for “Best Editing” at Columbia University'sColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
National Undergraduate Film Festival. - In January 2011 Cogswell started its Entrepreneurship program.