Does anyone have experience with Code Camps? I’ve been doing some research for this as opposed to Bachelors. I was worried because my friend got a Bachelors in CS and doesn’t know how to do any coding or programming. So I noticed there is ISA and Deferred Tuition, which doesn’t require any upfront costs in most situations. Also, in some circumstances, no money would be required if a job isn’t found within a year. I know all schools are different.
Here’s some I’ve found online.
- App Academy
App Academy is an intensive program that prepares you to become an entry level Ruby on Rails developer. Interested applicants should expect to submit an application, complete a coding challenge, potentially complete a second coding challenge, complete an interview, and then receive an admission decision.
Location: San Francisco, CA. New York, NY.
Program Length:12 weeks
Cost Details: App Academy offers a number of deferred payment plans:
Pay $17,000 upfront before the course
Pay a $9000 down payment before the course, then when you have found a job, pay $14,000 according to a flexible payment schedule for one year ($23,000 total)
Pay a $5000 deposit, then when you have found a job, pay $23,000 according to a flexible payment schedule for one year ($28,000 total)
- Flatiron School Access Labs
Access Labs, powered by Flatiron School and WeWork, is a full-time, 15-week software engineering program, aimed at students who can’t afford upfront tuition, who earn $35,000 or less per year. It uses the same full-stack curriculum as the Flatiron School. covering Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Program Length: 15 weeks
Cost Details: Deferred Tuition
The total tuition is $15,000 to be paid back once a graduate finds a job.
Graduates pay back 10% of their income until it’s paid back in full ($15,000 cap).
If a student takes part in all career services commitments and does not find a job within 6 months, tuition will be waived.
- Function Camp
Function Camp is an online, flexible, full-time, full stack web and mobile development course based in the United Kingdom. The program covers JavaScript, JQuery, and React, and students have daily check-ins with mentors and one-on-one support.
Location: Online (for UK residents only)
Program Length: 6 months or less (flexible)
Cost Details: Function Camp offers a number of payment plans, including deferred tuition
Students can pay the full tuition of £15,000 upfront
OR, students can pay nothing upfront, and then three months after graduating pay back the tuition via 10% of their salary per month until the £15,000 is repaid
Repayments will adjust for inflation, so students may end up paying slightly more than £15,000 by the end of the repayment period
The repayments are handled by EdAid
The debt will not get written off if a graduate does not find a job.
- Hackbright Academy
Hackbright Academy is a software engineering school for women in San Francisco which offers full-time and part-time programs covering computer science fundamentals and modern web development. Both programs teach Python and JavaScript, along with other essential technologies.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Program Length: 12 weeks (full time), 24 weeks (part time)
Cost Details: Hackbright offers a number of payment plans:
Students can pay the full tuition of $16,895 (full time) or $19,295 (part time)
Students can pay $2899 upon enrollment, then when they land a job, they pay $16,895 tuition spread across multiple payments
The Skills Fund Deferred Loan allows students to start paying back the tuition + 9%-11% interest 2 months after graduating
- LearningFuze
LearningFuze offers full-time and part-time web development bootcamps in Irvine and Orange County, CA, covering full stack JavaScript and the LAMP stack.
Location: Orange County & Irvine, CA
Program Length: 12 weeks (full time)
Cost Details: LearningFuze offers a number of payment plans for the full time immersion bootcamp:
Students can pay the full tuition of $13,995
Eligible students can use LearningFuze Deferred Tuition Scholarship which includes:
$4000 deposit at the start of the course
Students only pay once they find employment (no minimum salary)
Students can either pay the balance in full 2 months after securing employment, or choose a 12 month payment plan for the balance that begins the month employment is secured
Students will only pay the balance of the tuition (no interest)
6. The Grace Hopper Program & The Grace Hopper Track
The Grace Hopper Program is an immersive software engineering program for women in New York City with no upfront tuition cost in a women-only environment. The Grace Hopper Track is a deferred tuition option for women at Fullstack Academy’s co-ed Chicago campus where women learn alongside men, and take part in women-only community-building opportunities off and on campus. Named for pioneer computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, these offerings are driven by three values: education, opportunity, and mentorship. By employing a deferred tuition model (students only pay tuition once they secure a job after graduation), the barrier to entry is lowered and qualified candidates who cannot afford the upfront cost can attend a coding bootcamp.
Location: New York City and Chicago
Program Length: 17 weeks
Cost Details: Deferred tuition:
Students pay a $3000 deposit upon enrollment
Once graduates land a job, they pay the remaining tuition of $16,910 (New York City) or $14,910 (Chicago) in installments over 9 months.
If graduates do not find work within one year of their graduation date, their deposits will be refunded
Which Bootcamps offer Income Sharing Agreements?
- C4Q
C4Q’s Access Code program offers programs focusing on Full Stack Web Development, Android, and iOS, with the aim of preparing students for software engineering roles, and a salary increase. The school strives to provide coding education to a diverse and inclusive community, as well as people with low-income backgrounds.
Location: Queens, NY
Program Length: 10 months (6 months tuition + 4 months career prep)
Cost Details: No upfront costs. Income Sharing Agreement:
Participants pay the school 12% of their earnings for two years once they find a job earning $60,000 or more.
Only participants who have found tech jobs will be expected to pay.
- General Assembly
General Assembly offers training in coding, data science, design, and digital marketing on campuses around the world, and online. GA aims to help close the global skills gap to help individuals and companies complete in a technological economy. GA has partnered with Opportunity@Work to offer a program called Learn and Earn which allows students to take GA’s flagship Web Development Immersive course at no upfront cost.
Location: Washington, DC, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Seattle, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago (Deferred Loan Eligible). Other campuses are Dallas, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore, Melbourne, London, and Online.
Program Length: 10-12 weeks
Cost Details: $14,950 upfront, or Income Sharing Agreement, Deferred Loan or installments
Income Sharing Agreement (full details here)
For all immersive programs – Web Development Immersive, User Experience Design Immersive, and Data Science Immersive at all US Campuses except NYC
$250 deposit
Participants pay 10% of their income for 48 months. No payments are due if participants make less than $40,000 annually or if a forbearance or payment deferral has been granted.
1.5x cap on the ISA, so a student will only ever pay 1.5x the tuition amount
We interviewed two GA team members all about the ISA
Deferred Loan
For immersive programs in data science, UX design and web development at US campuses only
GA partners with Meritize to offer a deferred loan repayment option for students
Students can defer principal loan payments for 6 months
Or the full tuition of $13,950-$15,950 (depending on course) can be paid upfront or in 2-4 installments
- Holberton
Holberton School is a two-year software engineering school based in San Francisco that trains individuals to become full stack engineers. Named for Betty Holberton, who worked on the ENIAC Programmers Project (the first programmable computer), the school’s mission is to train the next generation of software developers through 100% hands-on learning. The curriculum adopts a project-based, peer learning approach. In lieu of formal classes, students solve increasingly complicated programming challenges with minimal instruction.
Location: San Francisco
Program Length: 2 years, consisting of a 9-month learning phase, a 6-month internship, and another 9-month learning phase.
Cost Details: Income Sharing Agreement.
No upfront cost
17% of your internship earnings and 17% of your salary over 3 years once you find a job.
- Lambda School
Lambda School is a fully online, synchronous coding bootcamp where students learn from 9am to 6pm for six months. The program focuses on teaching JavaScript and C++, and has an emphasis on computer science concepts. Lambda School also has a bias-blind admissions process.
Location: Online
Program Length: 6 months
Cost Details: $20,000 upfront, or Income Sharing Agreement:
Once graduates land a job paying over $50,000 per year, they pay 17% of their salary for 2 years.
- Launch School
Launch School is an online coding program that takes 1-2+ years to complete. Once students have completed the entire Launch School Core Curriculum, they can apply for a 3-6 month Capstone Mentoring program. Launch School employs mastery-based learning to teach full-stack software engineering.
Location:Online
Program Length: 1-2+ years
Cost Details: Income Share Agreement
Launch School collects a percentage of your first year’s salary when you accept your job offer.
Requirements:
You must be legally able to work in the United States (US citizen or Permanent Resident).
You must reside in the United States.
You must be able to conduct the Career Search process in either New York City or San Francisco/Bay Area.
You must have completed and mastered all the fundamental materials in the Launch School Core Curriculum.
You must be available full-time for the entire duration of Capstone, including the Career Search phase.
You must have passed all assessments within the last 12 months. If completion of an assessment has been over 12 months, then you have to retake that assessment.
FYI: Launch School can issue no-interest loans up to $10,000 to participants who need it while going through Capstone.
- Mayden Academy
Mayden Academy is a 16-week, full-time full-stack coding bootcamp focused on attracting students with a strong work ethic and enthusiasm. Mayden Academy’s bootcamp curriculum is designed to prepare students for a junior developer role with the option of allowing students to also take individual modules at their own pace.
Location: Bath, England
Program Length: 16 weeks
Cost Details: Income Sharing Agreement or £8,000 per student.
Students have an option to pay no upfront tuition, and then pay back monthly 10% their income, with 0% interest until the full tuition amount is paid.
Some graduates may prefer to repay their tuition quicker or slower, and Mayden Academy is happy to be flexible with repayment terms.
7. MissionU
MissionU is a data analytics and business intelligence experience which aims to prepare students for 21st century careers. It’s a hybrid online/in-person program where students spend 80% of the time learning remotely, and 20% in class working in teams to build relevant projects. The program also includes six weeks of career guidance and training.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Program Length: 1 year
Cost Details: Income Sharing Agreement:
$0 upfront tuition.
When graduates get a job paying $50,000 or more, they will pay MissionU 15% of their salary for 3 years.
If a graduate doesn’t get a job paying $50,000 within 7 years of completing the program, they do not have to pay any tuition. More info here.
- New York Code + Design Academy
New York Code + Design Academy’s full-time Software Engineering Intensive covers JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, and encourages teamwork, and immersion in the tech community. Students also receive career support and advice. NYCDA also offers part-time courses in Front-End Development, and UX/UI, but these are not eligible for deferred tuition.
Location: Philadelphia, New York City, Washington DC
Program Length: 12 weeks
Cost Details: Income Sharing Agreement.
Once graduates find a job earning at least $40,000 per year, they pay 8% of their monthly income for 48 months or until they hit a maximum payment cap (whichever comes first).
Or upfront tuition is $15,000
- Product College (Make School)
Product College is a 2-year app development program offered by Make School in San Francisco. The program covers web development and iOS, and students also work on building apps using other up-and-coming technologies. Students have the summers off and are encouraged to get an internship over that time. The founders intend for the program to be equivalent to a college education.
Location: San Francisco
Program Length: 2 years
Cost Details: Income Sharing Agreement. Product College’s ISA has a number of options:
$60,000 upfront (paid in quarterly installments over two years of the program)
$34,500 upfront (paid in quarterly installments over the two years of the program) + 25% of salary for 18 months (~$70,000 total)
$16,500 upfront (paid in quarterly installments over the two years of the program) + 25% of salary for 30 months (~$80,000 total)
$0 upfront + 25% of salary for 42 months (~$90,000 total)
- Thinkful
Thinkful’s Engineering Immersion is a full-time, online, synchronous coding bootcamp where you learn alongside instructors, other students, and a dedicated mentor. The program covers full-stack JavaScript, React, Node, JQuery and more. Thinkful also offers flexible part-time coding bootcamps and data science bootcamps, but those are not eligible for the income sharing agreement.
Location: Online
Program Lengths: 5 months (full time)
Cost Details: $14,000 up front, or Income Sharing Agreement (Full Terms & Conditions). How it works:
Pay $1000 deposit one week before course starts
Once graduates find any job earning $40,000 per year, they will pay 15% of their income for 3 years
There is a repayment cap of $28,000
You can pause your repayments while you are between jobs for up to 24 months
Only US citizens aged 21 or older living within commuting distance to specific US cities are eligible for the Income Share Agreement.
- Turing School
Turing School runs full-time 7-month programs in Back End Engineering and Front End Engineering. The programs focus on Ruby, JavaScript, JQuery and more. Turing is partnering with Opportunity@Work to offer financing to eligible underrepresented students through an income sharing agreement.
Location: Denver, Colorado
Program Length: 7 months
Cost Details: $20,000 upfront, or an Income Sharing Agreement
Students pay $0 upfront
Once students find a job earning $35,000 or more, they pay 7.75% of their income for 5 years
There is a repayment cap of 1.75x of the upfront tuition ($35,000)
- Viking Code School
Viking Code School offers a 12-week remote immersive program teaching full-stack JavaScript. Students work in teams and build projects which simulate an agile engineering workflow. Students receive career support including mock technical interviews and negotiation support.
Location: Online
Program Length: 12 weeks
Cost Details: $12,800 upfront, or an Income Sharing Agreement:
$2000 deposit + 20% of your first year’s salary
Graduates with salaries under $30,000 are exempt from paying, while graduates earning between $30,000-$50,000 pay a prorated amount
If you are unable to find a job within 180 days of graduation, you will receive a refund of your deposit
Only students who are eligible to work in the US and live in certain US metro areas can use the income sharing payment plan.
- V School
V School is a coding bootcamp in Utah with online and in-person, full-time and part-time programs, focused on JavaScript, Python/Django, and front end web development. Only the full-time, in-person courses are eligible for the Income Sharing Agreement.
Location: Provo and Salt Lake City (ISA Eligible); Online
Program Length: 12 weeks full time
Cost Details: Income Sharing Agreement
$500 deposit + 20% of your salary for 2 years, or 15% of your salary for 3 years
Grads only make repayments once they have found a job earning at least $40,000 salary
$30,000 cap on repayments