Cogswell Polytechnical College

Cogswell Polytechnical College is a private college located in San Jose, California. It holds accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Cogswell had a student body of 315 full-time and 148 part-time students in 2013.Programs at Cogswell range from Digital Media to Engineering, with emphasis on digital animation and video game design. Cogswell Polytechnical College was the first technical training institution in the West.

Cogswell College was founded as a high school on March 19, 1887, by Dr. and Mrs. Henry Cogswell in San Francisco. It opened in August 1888, offering technical classes for boys and business classes for girls. On June 30, 1930, it became a technical college. It was the first technical training institution in the West.

About 24% of the student population are women. The student to faculty ratio for Fall 2010 was 7:1.

Cogswell offers the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), and Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees.

Cogswell specializes in digital animation and video game design. Its computer graphics degree program is the longest-running in the Bay Area. It includes Project X, an invitation-only animated film production course that approximates the experience of interning in the industry.

Ryan Page, a Cogswell student, won first place in the 2007 SIGGRAPH SPACE-TIME Student Animation competition in the category of Storytelling/Narrative with his film MacGuffin's Night Out.

Anton Delfino, a Cogswell student, won for “Best Editing” for his film Cereal Monogamy at Columbia University's National Undergraduate Film Festival in 2007.