About Normandale Community College

Normandale Community College is a public community studious in Bloomington, Minnesota. The university serves primarily the communities of the southwestern allowance of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. Established in 1968 as Normandale State Junior College with an initial enrollment of 1,358 students; today Normandale annually enrolls higher than 14,000 students. Normandale is a fanatic of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

Bloomington is the fifth largest city, as of 2018 estimates, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is located in Hennepin County on the north bank of the Minnesota River, above its confluence as soon as the Mississippi River. Bloomington lies 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Minneapolis. As of the 2010 census the city’s population was 82,893, and in 2019 the estimated population was 84,943.

Established as a post–World War II housing boom suburb joined to the urban street grid of Minneapolis and serviced by two major freeways, Interstate 35W and Interstate 494, Bloomington’s residential areas adjoin upper-tier households in the western Bush Lake Place and traditional middle-class families in its rows of single-family homes in the central to eastern portions. Large-scale personal ad development is concentrated along the Interstate 494 corridor. Besides an extensive city park system, with on height of 1,000 square feet (93 m2) of parkland per capita, Bloomington is also home to Hyland Lake Park Reserve in the west and Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge in the southeast.

Bloomington has more jobs per capita than either Minneapolis or Saint Paul, due in allocation to the United States’ largest enclosed shopping center, Mall of America. The headquarters of Ceridian, Donaldson Company, HealthPartners, and Toro, and major operations of Pearson, General Dynamics, Seagate Technologies, Express Scripts and Wells Fargo Bank are also based in the city.

The city was named after Bloomington, Illinois.