Advanced fiber optics are available to junior and senior high students. The movement west in growth has challenged the Waukee district, and many resources have been focused on the schools' physical plant and land acquisition for future school sites. Instructing more than 200 West Des Moines students, Waukee offers a smaller student body with quality, staff, courses and standards. This unique program offers an accelerated format for students having formerly completed two or more years of college. Students can earn a bachelor of arts in business degree in less than two years while attending class one night a week.
Programs also exist for students with little or no college background.
The program provides timely, high-quality, skills for highly technical training. The purpose of the program is to implement strategies which will increase the employees' productivity, effectiveness and meet licensure requirements. Drake West, a division of Drake University, is an ultra-modern educational facility featuring business programs designed to enhance a student's productivity. The curriculum includes subjects such as principle-centered leadership, ethics in the workplace, computer skills, entrepreneurship, critical tools for today's business, business English, marketing tools and effective business writing. A distinctively entrepreneurial university, Upper Iowa meets the needs of an international student body.