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Alex Walz was making $48,500 at an edtech company when he saw a Facebook ad for the University of Utah's coding boot camp. He ...

More than ever, people are using coding boot camps — intensive short-term programming courses — to quickly pivot careers and find a new job in tech. Insider recently spoke with a 33-year-old ...

Twenty-six-year-old Blisha Magar is one of 20 refugees working away in a classroom during a free computer coding boot camp called Refcode. The program, led by software engineers, teaches refugees tech ...

Tech coding boot camps typically provide a shorter route than taking full-time college courses. The average employment rate for boot camp grads at five of the biggest tech companies was around 6%. A ...

Programming boot camps seem to make an impossible claim. Instead of spending four years in university, they say, you can learn how to be a software engineer in a three-month program. On the face of it ...

Between 2011 and 2018, the number of undergraduates enrolled in college declined by 1.8 million, according to U.S. Census data. Since then, this downward trend has continued. With the pressures of the ...

Andrea Graziosi, who lives in California’s East Bay area, was one of 167 students enrolled in a Dominican University-Make School partnership when Make School closed suddenly in July 2021. Credit: ...

Attending coding bootcamp isn't for the faint of heart, especially for people already working full time and looking to change course. But for those eyeing a tech career, learning to code can be a fast ...

It seemed like a match made in heaven. Dominican University of California needed something fresh. The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming ...

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It’s a technologist’s market out there. Even during a period of economic turbulence, software and IT roles continue to be some of the most sought for employers to fill. After all, we’re online and ...