Friday, March 13, 2015

Rasmussen College is a  commercial  private college and Public  Profit  Corporation that provides   associate's and  bachelor's  degrees at about 24 campuses in Minnesota,  North Dakota, Illinois, Florida, Kansas and Wisconsin .  It was founded in the year 1900, it 's headquarter lies  in Bloomington, Minnesota.It also has the facility of  Online division.

Rasmussen provides on online and  campus   classes guiding to Bachelor of Science (BS), Associate of Science (AS)  and  Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degrees in career-focused areas. Rasmussen College also provides  different  Diplomas  and Certificates  in the field of education.


Rasmussen school  was opened as the Rasmussen Practical School of Business  by Walter Rasmussen    in  the year 1900, situated in Stillwater, Minnesota. Rasmussen realized  that  the need  for skilled experts  by the local business community was not being matched.

In the year 1900 , the first classes  of Rasmussen school were held in the month of September. In the year 1920, women's were given the right to vote according to  the passage of the 19th Amendment, after that the  registration of  female  began to increase in the schools. In  the year 1945 ,Walter Rasmussen got retired and  Walter Nemitz was made the director of the college. Nemitz had been involved  with the college since the year 1934 and as director ,he organized a number of regulation  upgrades. By the year 1950, more than 22,400 students  from the school had  been graduated .

In the year 1961,the  sons of Walter Nemitz  Robert  and  Wilbur   both  took the  proprietorship of the school.[14] In the year 1974, Rasmussen College  got the ownership of the St. Cloud Business College, and in the year 1979 it  got the ownership of  Northern Technical School of Business. In the year 1983, Rasmussen school opened it's own  campus in Mankato, Minnesota.After that, More campuses were opened in Eagan,  Minnesota (1997), Rockford, Illinois (2006), Minnesota (1989) and St. Cloud,  Minnesota, Eden Prairie, Lake Elmo, Minnesota, Blaine, Minnesota (2010), Overland Park, Kansas (2013) ,  Topeka, Kansas (2013)  and Green Bay, Wisconsin (all 2007),Wausau, Wisconsin (2010) and  Mokena-Tinley Park, Illinois (2010) .

Rasmussen school also opened it's own  online campus in the year 2002. The school  got the ownership of Aakers College in North Dakota  along with  the Webster College in Florida and brought together the schools into Rasmussen's management. Presently, the school got about 100,000 graduates.

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