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General Assembly

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General Assembly is a technical education provider that teaches students the skills, career advice and networking opportunities needed to make a career change into a tech role, in as little as three months. General Assembly offers part-time and full-time bootcamps and short courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science, and more. The bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field. Students should expect to build a solid portfolio of real-life projects. Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time and part time bootcamp.

To enroll at General Assembly, applicants should submit an online application to connect with a GA Admissions team member who will work with them to decide if a tech bootcamps is the right fit. The GA Admissions staff are also prepared to speak with applicants about the best tech role for them, learning styles at GA, expected outcomes after the bootcamp, options to finance the bootcamp, career services offered by GA, and more.

To help students land their first job in a tech role, General Assembly students are supported by career coaches from day one. The program is enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs. 

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  • Lola
    Lola
    Student • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • New York City
    Aug 24, 2021
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    User Experience Design Immersive

    This program was both challenging and rewarding as well as a great first push in the right direction for my career switch. Also, I was very fortunate to have an amazing and dedicated coach Anna K. that helped me land my first role post bootcamp.
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  • Mehran Gazeroon Shiri
    Mehran Gazeroon Shiri
    Graduate • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • New York City
    Aug 20, 2021
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    User Experience Design Immersive program

    I could have not asked for a better program. I have learned so much in the past 12 weeks
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  • Raina Yan
    Raina Yan
    Graduate • Data Analytics (Short Course) • Sydney
    Jun 23, 2021
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    Data Analytics Course Review

    The instructors are professional and supportive, I took 10 weeks data analytics course which is intensive, but is also informative and well organized. The course is suitable for full time workers who have interests in data analysis and want to acquire  Excel, SQL, and Tableau skills.
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  • Catherine
    Catherine
    Designer UX UI • Graduate • User Experience Design (Accelerated 1 Week) • Sydney
    Jun 22, 2021
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    Provides a solid foundation to build on

    The course at GA was well structured and jam packed with relevant and easy to follow concepts. The support staff were very professional and supportive. The teacher was very generous with her time and extremely knowledgable. The curriculum is a good mix of class time, activities and practice time. The online class experience was very easy and collaborative. I would recommend this course to anybody who wants to get into the UX field.
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  • Andri Rafti
    Andri Rafti
    Graduate • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) • Online
    May 22, 2021
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    Incredible

    I learned so much in such a short period of time, GA has taken me from knowing basic HTML, CSS, JS to being a full stack developer. After graduating I managed to add another 2 full stack applications to my portfolio, which goes to show you don’t even need your teachers afterwards to get stuff done since they teach you everything properly  so it sticks! 
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  • Vyacheslav Starkov
    Vyacheslav Starkov
    Graduate • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) • New York City
    May 14, 2021
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    Great opportunity for growth

    I took an on-campus Software Engineering Immersive course at General Assembly in Manhattan and I had a great experience. The on campus atmosphere was nice and friendly and conductive to learning. The professors and TA's were available for help and excellent at teaching technical skills as well as explaining what is relevant in the industry. The outcomes team and career coach were super helpful in explaining what the field is like as far as job seeking and getting through interviews in th...
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  • Nicholas Pretel
    Nicholas Pretel
    Technical Success Manager • Graduate • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) • Online
    May 13, 2021
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    Software Engineering Immersive

    Enrolled in General Assembly's 480+ hour Software Engineering Immersive program, covering HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, ReactJS (router, hook, context, Jest), Node, MongoDB/Mongoose, Express (mocha, chai, supertest), SQL, Python, and Django. Covers a broad range of subjects at a fast pace.
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  • Zain
    Zain
    Graduate • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) • New York City
    May 13, 2021
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    GA Immersive Software Engineering Bootcamp

    Trying to crack into the tech field without the resources/network/knowledge is a tall order but through the GA SEI Bootcamp, I was able to launch into a career despite having little development/coding experience before joining GA. This doesn't mean that it will be easy, the months spent in the course were some of the longest/hardest times but the instructors/TA's & your fellow classmates truly help propel you to the finish line. While there are definitely some things that could be im...
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  • Nicole
    Nicole
    Graduate • User Experience Design Immersive - Remote • Online
    May 06, 2021
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    Intense but Valuable

    Bootcamps are not for the faint of heart. GA made sure to let me know this, from the interview process to enroll, to the pre-course work, inclusive subscription to a wellness coach via Ginger app, your on-call course Student Success Specialist (mine was Lo - they were super supportive!), scheduled teacher check-ins, the built-in supportive channels on the GA Slack network, and the STRONG suggestion to treat this as a full-time job from day on top of recommendations to schedule in self-ca...
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  • Hanna B
    Hanna B
    Graduate • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) • Online
    May 06, 2021
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    Hard Work Pays Off

    I attended General Assembly's Software Engineering Immersive remote program in January of 2021. Overall, it was a very positive experience for me! 
    Even though it was remote, my cohort was "New York-based" so we operated on Eastern Time and most of the instructors were from the East coast. I was told that the New York cohorts are unique because they use a different instructor for each of the 4 units. Other cohorts apparently usually have 2 co-instructors that swi...
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  • Aleksei
    Aleksei
    Graduate • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) • Online
    May 04, 2021
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    Software Engineer Immersive Remote

    I graduated from General Assembly Software Engineer Immersive Program in January 2021. It was a wild ride and I loved every second of it. I didn’t have any prior programming experience, so I got to make an extra effort in order to catch up with the cohort. 
    I am extremely grateful for our amazing instructional team and all of the collaboration with my fellow classmates. GA provides after-hours support, short one-on-one sessions on Saturday’s and a bunc...
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  • Marcello Pozzoni
    Marcello Pozzoni
    Apr 30, 2021
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    Data Science

    Part time course for Data science and Machine learning 
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  • Jane
    Jane
    Product Manager • Graduate • Product Management Immersive • Sydney
    Apr 29, 2021
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    PM intensive was great

    The course provides a really good foundation for what Product Management is, and how it varies in organisations of different sizes and stages of growth.  It explains the basics of complex frameworks, and gives you the opportunity to put them into practice in your own mock product discovery project- all in a whirlwind 5 days
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  • Kellene
    Kellene
    Graduate • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • Online
    Apr 28, 2021
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    Best experience

    For a long time, I tittered on whether or not to go back to school to pursue UX Design. During my research for which schools, I spoke with a few UX designers and product managers that said they typically hire from General Assembly and have always been pleased with their hire. Once I started, the curriculum was so clear and the instructors were amazing--truly cared about our success. Furthermore, our cohort had access to a career coach who through it all helped us gear up for our career c...
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  • Abby Tresalus
    Abby Tresalus
    UX Designer • Graduate • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • Austin
    Apr 27, 2021
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    UX & Product Designer

     I took the GA UX Design Immersive course to pivot into UX from healthcare. From someone that didn't know what to expect when investing (yes, because it is an investment) in the course, I felt as if I left the program with a good foundation of what UX was and enough skills to feel confident in continuing my stride to get my foot in the door at an Austin based company.  At the time I thought the curriculum was okay. Over a year later, I now work for GA and I have see...
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  • DaiJea Fuller
    DaiJea Fuller
    3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • Online
    Apr 26, 2021
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    So glad I did this!

    I took the User Experience Design immersive course (Remote) in 2020. The course overall was a great introduction to what UX/UI meant and how to apply it in the workforce. As someone that did not come from a tech or design background, this was very helpful and I never personally found myself blocked or falling behind because of my lack of experience. It really is an entry point! The instructional staff was always there to answer questions, provide examples or review my work. There is an O...
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  • Jennifer Houlihan
    Jennifer Houlihan
    UX Designer • Graduate • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • Austin
    Apr 22, 2021
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    Life changing

    It took me a long time to decide on a bootcamp. I was over 40 and had been out of school for a while, and wanted to make a major career change. It was going to be a major investment of time and money and I needed to be confident in my choice. The UXDI program at General Assembly delivered on all of its promises and more. The application process and pre-work really helped me shift into a growth mindset and set me up well fr success in the classroom after years away. I also benefitted from...
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  • Wendy Reid
    Wendy Reid
    Graduate • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • Online
    Apr 06, 2021
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    UX Design

    The GA team worked together to give me all the support I needed to learn. I could not have (would not have) done this on my own.
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  • Penny Jungreis
    Penny Jungreis
    Junior Software Engineer • Graduate • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) • London
    Mar 15, 2021
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    GA changed my life!

    For several years, I had been feeling like I was wasting my potential in my job when I got the idea to try some online coding classes. I practiced first on Codecademy for free, before enrolling on General Assembly's online front-end web development course. My instructors in Sydney were fantastic and I was so sad when it ended that I signed up right away for a full-time, three-month bootcamp in London to learn full-stack Software Engineering. This was a huge financial risk because I had t...
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  • N Flaherty
    N Flaherty
    Analytics Manager • Graduate • 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time) • San Francisco
    Mar 04, 2021
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    Data Science Immersive

    Thirteen-week full-time instructor-led course covering the coding (Python-based) and statistics and probability foundations for exploratory data analysis, visualization, feature engineering/selection, and model building.  The course covers models ranging from linear and logistic regression, to time-series forecasting, natural language processing, neural networks, and Bayesian systems.  In addition to interactive lectures and two substantial homework assignments each week, students comple...
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General Assembly Alumni Outcomes

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Employment Rate
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Of the students who enroll at General Assembly, 82% graduated. 72% of graduates were job-seeking and N/A of job-seeking graduates found in-field employment after 180 days and report a median income of . Below is the 180 Day Employment Breakdown for 3148 graduates included in this report:
180 Day Employment Breakdown
DescriptionPercentage
Full Time, In-Field EmployeeN/A
Full-time apprenticeship, internship or contract positionN/A
Short-term contract, part-time position, freelanceN/A
Employed out-of-fieldN/A
Notes and Caveats
Download the GA 2021 Outcomes report here: https://ga.co/outcomes-report
* These outcomes are not audited by Course Report. In some cases, data is audited by a third party.

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General Assembly Alumni Reviews Summary

Overall Experience
4.3
Instructors
4.4
Curriculum
4.3
Job Assistance
3.9
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FAQs

How much does General Assembly cost?

General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Visual Design (Short Course) cost $3,500.

Where does General Assembly have campuses?

General Assembly has in-person campuses in London, New York City, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney. General Assembly also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.

Is General Assembly worth it?

The data says yes! General Assembly reports a 84% graduation rate, and 95% of General Assembly alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2021, General Assembly reported a 82% graduation rate, a median salary of , and N/A of General Assembly alumni are employed.

Is General Assembly legit?

We let alumni answer that question. 712 General Assembly alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed General Assembly and rate their overall experience a 4.31 out of 5.

Does General Assembly offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?

Yes, General Assembly accepts the GI Bill!

Can I read General Assembly reviews?

You can read 712 reviews of General Assembly on Course Report! General Assembly alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed General Assembly and rate their overall experience a 4.31 out of 5.

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