Misplaced Pages

Minnesota School of Cosmetology

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Minnesota School of Cosmetology" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Minnesota School of Cosmetology" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Minnesota School of Cosmetology is a for-profit cosmetology school with one location in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro, The campus is located in Woodbury, Minnesota. The school offers a complete 1550-hour course in cosmetology, a 600-hour course in esthiology, a 500-hour course in massage therapy, and a 38-hour instructor course. A secondary location was located in Plymouth, Minnesota from 2012 to 2020.

History

Minnesota Cosmetology Education Center was established in 1950, in a residential home that was converted to a school setting. In 1988, new owners purchased the school, and revamped the curriculum to focus on the salon industry; taking on the education of the business side of cosmetology. Curriculum focuses on cosmetology, sales training, communication, fashion, and technical ability.

In 2003, Minnesota Cosmetology Education Center was acquired by Terry L. Myhre and Kaye Myhre, who renamed the institution Minnesota School of Cosmetology, and moved the facility from South Saint Paul to a location in Oakdale, a suburb of St. Paul Minnesota. The campus has since moved to the nearby suburb of Woodbury, Minnesota. In 2012, an additional campus opened in the suburb of Plymouth, Minnesota. Due to financial strain in part brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Plymouth campus closed on December, 30th, 2020.

Accreditation

The Minnesota School of Cosmetology is nationally accredited by National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts and Sciences (NACCAS).

NACCAS is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a national accrediting agency for cosmetology schools.

The state agency that licenses the institution is the Minnesota Board of Cosmetology. And is also recognized by the BBB of Minnesota receiving an A.

Affiliations

The Minnesota School of Cosmetology currently lists its educational affiliates on their website as:

They are part of the Broadview Education Consortium which is owned by Terry Myhre and his family, who had previously owned the Globe Education Network:

Categories: