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Summit Academy Opportunities Industrialization Center

Minneapolis, Minnesota Private nonprofit Less than 2-year Large city

Overview

Summit Academy Opportunities Industrialization Center is a private nonprofit career and technical school based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The campus sits in a large city. It enrolled 360 students in fall 2024.

Summit Academy Opportunities Industrialization Center offers certificates across 6 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Construction Trades, General, Electrician, and Computer and Information Sciences, General. It awarded 525 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

The school has an open admission policy. The student-to-faculty ratio is 8 to 1.

Key figures

Open
Admission policy
360
Students enrolled
525
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
6
Programs and majors
8:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

CampusHybrid

Program levels

Certificate

Programs and majors offered 6

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Construction Trades 2
Computer and Information Sciences 1
Health Professions 2
Business, Management and Marketing 1

Admissions

Admission policy
Open admission

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

Student-to-faculty ratio
8:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Certificates under 1 year
525

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
360
Undergraduates, fall 2024
360
Full-time, fall 2024
100%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
667
Full-time, 2024-25
100%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
26%
Men
74%
White
10%
Hispanic or Latino
13%
Black or African American
44%
Asian
8%
Two or more races
6%
American Indian or Alaska Native
1%
Race or ethnicity unknown
19%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Students studying fully online
1%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Large city
Academic calendar
Continuous
President
Leroy West
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling, Student employment services, Job placement for graduates
For veterans and service members
Dedicated veterans contact

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