Founded in 1972, Hennepin Technical College is a public technical school, with two campuses in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal rated the school as one of the state's top 10 colleges in their July 2009 edition.

Academics

The college awards A.A.S. degrees, diplomas and certificates in the follow general areas of study

• Construction and Building
• Floral and Landscape
• Health
• Manufacturing & Engineering Technology
• Media and Communications
• Public Safety and Service
• Transportation

Customized training

Hennepin Technical College also works closely with community partners to provide customized training in areas such as culinary arts and fire protection

Fire protection

Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of fires. It involves the study of the behaviour, compartmentalisation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as well as the research and development, production, testing and application of...

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Campus Life

Several student clubs and organizations are active and sponsored by Hennepin Technical College, including Phi Theta Kappa

Phi Theta Kappa

Phi Theta Kappa, also ΦΘΚ or sometimes PTK , is the international honor society of two-year colleges and academic programs, particularly community colleges and junior colleges. It also includes Associate's degree-granting programs offered by four-year colleges...

, Pangea Multicultural

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...

 Club, Student Life Board, Hammerhead Social Network, SkillsUSA

SkillsUSA

SkillsUSA is a United States career and technical student organization serving more than 320,000 high school and college students and professional members enrolled in training programs in technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations. Since 2010, SkillsUSA has had Thomas...

, Veteran Student Club and the HTC Student Senate.

External links

Official Website of Hennepin Technical College