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About General Assembly

Location: Online, NYC

General Assembly is a global community of almost 100K individuals from all walks of life but share one common mission: being passionate about a career in coding or data or ux design that they love and also loves them back!

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The General Assembly bootcamps are beginner-friendly programs with no little or no prerequisites. By completing a General Assembly bootcamp you will be ready to meet the needs of tech hiring managers by showing your portfolio of individual and team based projects and even incorporating AI tools into your workflows.

General Assembly offers a variety of different financing options, including installment plans, student loans, income share loans and tuition discounts so you can focus on what counts — your education. As of Sep 2023 General Assembly launched a new financing plan for Bootcamp students in the US with no payments for 12 months from course start date, followed by 36 payments of $443 USD at a 0% interest rate and it requires an initial deposit of $500 USD.

Your next move? Schedule a call with an admissions specialist who can help you: find which GA bootcamp is a fit for your career goals, share about the GA learning experience, explore the best financing plan for your needs and help you make a plan to start a career in tech that you love and also loves you back.

Courses

Data Science Bootcamp (Full-Time)

Cost: $16,450
Duration: 12 weeks
Locations: Online, NYC
In-person Available Online
Course Description:

General Assembly’s Data Science Immersive is a transformative course designed for you to get the necessary skills for a data scientist role in three months. The Data Science bootcamp is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field, supported by career coaches that work with you since day one and enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.

As a graduate, you will be ready to succeed in a variety of data science and advanced analytics roles, creating predictive models that drive decision-making and strategy throughout organizations of all kinds. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:
- Collect, extract, query, clean, and aggregate data for analysis.
- Gather, store and organize data using SQL and Git.
- Perform visual and statistical analysis on data using Python and its associated libraries and tools.
- Craft and share compelling narratives through data visualization.
- Build and implement appropriate machine learning models and algorithms to evaluate data science problems spanning finance, public policy, and more.
- Compile clear stakeholder reports to communicate the nuances of your analyses.
- Apply question, modeling, and validation problem-solving processes to data sets from various industries to provide insight into real-world problems and solutions.
- Prepare for the world of work, compiling a professional-grade portfolio of solo, group, and client projects.

Your next step? Talk to the GA Admissions team to see if this bootcamp is a fit for your career goals.

Data Science (Short Course)

Cost: $4,500
Duration: 10 weeks
Locations: Online, NYC
In-person Available Online
Course Description:

Get the skills needed to advance your career in Data Science, in as little as ten weeks. There are some prerequisites: being comfortable with programming fundamentals, core Python syntax and basic statistics. General Assembly’s Data Science part-time course is a practical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of data science and machine learning, which lies at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and business. You will learn to use the Python programming language to acquire, parse, and model data for informing business strategy. This is a fast-paced course with some prerequisites. Students should be comfortable with programming fundamentals, core Python syntax, and basic statistics. There is an option to complete up to 25 hours of online preparatory lessons.

What you'll accomplish
- A significant portion of the course is a hands- on approach to fundamental modeling techniques and machine learning algorithms. You’ll also practice communicating your results and insights by compiling technical documentation and a stakeholder presentation. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:
- Perform exploratory data analysis with Python.
- Build and refine machine learning models to predict patterns
from data sets.
- Communicate data-driven insights to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Apply what you’ve learned to create a portfolio project: a predictive model that addresses a real-world data problem.

Your next step? Talk to the GA Admissions team to see if this bootcamp is a fit for your career goals.

Subjects:
Data Science

Python Programming (Short Course)

Cost: $4,500
Duration: 10 weeks
Locations: Online, NYC
In-person Available Online
Course Description:

"Gain fluency in Python — the world’s fastest-growing major programming language — and start leveraging its versatile capabilities to build web and data science applications. Whether you have coded before or are brand new to the world of programming, this course will put you on the fast track to building confidence with this intuitive, object- oriented language. Learn programming fundamentals and build a custom application. Graduate with the ability to start applying Python within high-growth fields like analytics, data science, and web development.

This is a beginner-friendly program with no prerequisites, although some students may have coded previously. First-time programmers will have access to pre-course preparatory lessons and additional resources to boost their confidence with key concepts and set up their development environments. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:
- Learn object-oriented programming fundamentals and Python basics that get you coding from day one.
- Build a Python program and add on increased complexity throughout the course.
- Troubleshoot Python code and practice common debugging techniques.
- Push your skills to the next level by adding scripting, modules, and APIs to your Python toolkit.
- Explore introductory data science and web development as potential career directions for Python programmers.
- Demonstrate your Python skills by creating apps that pull in data with Pandas or integrate functionality from APIs with Flask.

Your next step? Talk to the GA Admissions team to see if this bootcamp is a fit for your career goals."

React Development (Short Course)

Cost: $4,500
Duration: 10 weeks
Locations: Online, NYC
In-person Available Online
Course Description:

Learn to leverage React’s power in this hands- on, project-based course. Build your own web application and compile a professional project portfolio to showcase your new skills. Start building maintainable JavaScript applications that can handle constantly changing data at scale. Discover not only how to create JavaScript-powered React applications, but how and why they work. This course dives deep into the tools and techniques you need to create custom web applications. Explore the essentials, including components, JSX, props, and state, build multi-page apps with React Router, and incorporate functionality from third-party APIs. Then, host the result with Heroku.

Incoming students should have a familiarity with HTML and the Document Object Model (DOM), along with a working knowledge of JavaScript programming and functions, objects, arrays, and classes.. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:
- Explore the essentials of programming with React, including components, JSX, props, and state.
- Push your knowledge to the next level by learning not only how to create React applications, but how and why they work.
- Build multi page web applications using the popular React Router package.
- Call upon an application programming interface (API) in a React application.
- Host a React application on Heroku to share with the world.
- Apply what you’ve learned to build a custom React application.

Your next step? Talk to the GA Admissions team to see if this bootcamp is a fit for your career goals.

Data Analytics Bootcamp (Full-Time)

Cost: $16,450
Duration: 12 weeks
Locations: Online, NYC
In-person Available Online
Course Description:

General Assembly’s Data Analytics Immersive is a transformative course designed for you to get the necessary skills for a data analyst role in three months. The Data Analytics bootcamp is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field, supported by career coaches that work with you since day one and enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.

As a graduate, you’ll have a portfolio of projects that show your knowledge of data analytics skills, as well as experience with visualization tools and frameworks that employers demand. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:
- Acquire, analyze, and visualize data sets in real time.
- Master industry-standard tools like SQL, Excel, Tableau, PowerBI, and Python.
- Turn data into stories that can influence and inform important decisions.
- Ask the right questions and answer them with data-informed insights.
- Demonstrate what you’ve learned with a solid professional portfolio.

Your next step? Talk to the GA Admissions team to see if this bootcamp is a fit for your career goals.

General Assembly Reviews

Average Ratings (All Programs)

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4.27/5 (1001 reviews)

Anonymous
Frontend Software Engineer | Graduated: 2021

2/19/2021

Course
Software Engineering Immersive

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"General Assembly: You get out what you put in."

*** What background in coding did you have prior to the course? *** I came into my course having already coded a decent amount in my life. It was all hobby-based, but I felt pretty comfortable with HTML and CSS, as well as the basics of JavaScript. At... Read More

jimena lain
designer | Graduated: 2021

2/19/2021

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"Transformed my CV and skillset completely"

Great program for beginners in particular, however need to have passion in the UX field. GA also has high prestige in the design world. Learnt so much and developed many skills would highly recommend. The part-time is perfect if you are working alongside... Read More

Anonymous
Graduated: 2017

2/18/2021

Course
Digital Marketing

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"Good Instructors"

I have mixed feelings about General Assembly. Below is a list of the pros and cons of when I attended pre-plague. Pros: 1. This is one of the few places left where you can get actual, in-person instruction. If you're one who can't stick to learning on... Read More

Anonymous
Technical Writer | Graduated: 2019

2/17/2021

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Software Engineering Immersive

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"Great Experience, Just Not For Me"

I was a little disappointed on day one when I learned that it was a connected-classroom setting which means four different classes of 20 or so students are connected through Zoom for one instructor. That detail was probably mentioned during the initial... Read More

Vincent L
Graduated: 2020

2/17/2021

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Software Engineering Immersive

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"Expensive, But Informative Experience"

As someone with no prior coding experience, I definitely learned a lot while attending General Assembly's software engineering program. Would I consider myself job ready the day I graduated? No. They do provide job support during and post course which... Read More

Marc A Louis-Charles
Graduated: 2021

2/16/2021

Course
Product Management

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"Product Management at General Assembly"

I had a great experience at General Assembly taking the product management course. I'm an aspiring product manager, so I found this course very helpful. Most topics in the class were discussed at a high level and some went in detail. The homework assignments... Read More

Michael Marquez
Sr. Marketing Analyst | Graduated: 2015

2/16/2021

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Digital Marketing

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"Best decision I made for my career"

This was a great program to get started and it really help me help me pivot my career for anybody who’s wanting to make a change in their current career path and to move into digital marketing I believe this is a great start I was able to four times my... Read More

Anonymous
Graduated: 2020

2/16/2021

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User Experience Design Immersive

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"GA was a life-changing experience"

GA was a life-changing experience for me. I took the UX Design immersive and because of the instructors I had (JC & Samantha Lane) and wonderful cohort, I can say it was worth the sacrifice and money. I learned a lot under the direction of the two instructors,... Read More

Rowan Schaefer
Student | Graduated: 2020

2/16/2021

Course
Data Analytics

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"GA Part Time Analytics helps you learn on your schedule"

I took this course remotely. I was very impressed by both the content and the pacing of this course. I was thankfully able to take the course due to a local scholarship, and I found it to be very practical while balancing a work schedule. The content... Read More

Anonymous
Graduated: 2021

2/16/2021

Course
User Experience Design Immersive

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"Nice experience"

If you already have a background in design this bootcamp might be repetitive. I already knew more than 60% of the information. I wish we had more practice and less slides, also less time with Figma tutorials. This is something you can learn on your own.... Read More

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Frequently Asked Questions

What financing options are offered by General Assembly?

General Assembly offers many financing options, such as Income Share Loan (ISL), in-house installment plans, interest-free loans, upfront payment discounts and tuition discounts.

As of Sep 2023 General Assembly launched a new financing plan for Bootcamp students in the US with no payments for 12 months from course start date, followed by 36 payments of $443 USD at a 0% interest rate and it requires an initial deposit of $500 USD.

What courses are offered at General Assembly?

General Assembly offers career change bootcamps on Coding, Data Analytics, Data Science and UX Design for individuals with little or no previous experience.

General Assembly also offers short courses on Data Analytics, Data Science, Python, Front-End Web Development, JavaScript Development, React Development,User Experience Design, Visual Design, Product Management and Digital Marketing.

What types of programs are offered at General Assembly?

There are three type of programs offered at General Assembly

Bootcamps are delivered live online with expert instructors and support from career change coaches. The commitment is full-time for three months. The Software Engineering offers a part-time modality. The bootcamps are designed for anyone who wants to start a career in coding or data or ux design.

The short courses are delivered live online with expert instructors. The commitment is ten weeks part-time with the flexibility to work and study. These courses are designed for anyone who wants to advance their current tech career.

The free workshops are two hours live online, designed for you to have a hands on experience with what the day to day of a tech role looks like, by completing a live exercise with an instructor who is an expert in their field.

What are the job outcomes for General Assembly?

Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time & part time courses. The 2021 Outcomes report shows that 95.7% of graduates from the full-time programs who used the GA career services found a job.

General Assembly alumni work at various tech companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Visa, L'Oréal, and more.

What is the application process at General Assembly like?

The General Assembly Admissions process is designed to help you answer if a tech career is the right fit for your career goals.

After submitting your online application you’ll schedule a call with an Admissions Specialist to talk about your career goals. Next, you will complete an online assessment to confirm your interest in your new tech role (coding or data or ux design). After the assessment you’ll schedule an interview to review about your assessment. If you’re accepted, you will then work with your Admissions Specialist to choose: a start date, a financing option and complete any prep work needed.

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