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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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  • Cody
    Cody
    Software UI Design Engineer • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • Seattle
    Aug 10, 2015
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    WDI program changed my life

    I went to GA Seattle WDI (Web Development Immersive) course. It changed my life. Within 1 1/2 months of graduation, I was offered a great job at a company that's considered one of the top 5 to work for in the pacific NW. Starting next week I'll be a Software Engineer making more than twice what I made in my previous career, and I enjoy the work much more. I can't heap enough praise onto the General Assembly Web Development program. Like I said, it's changed my life in ways ...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York City
    Jun 05, 2015
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    Can be so good and not so good

    The WDI experience varies from class to class largely depending on the teachers. There is no standard curriculum across WDI classes, they are put together by the teachers of that class. So people from one WDI class learn things a person from another WDI might not not. There is also no standard pre-work, this too is put together by the teachers for their class. Seeing how this varies from classes in one location, I can only imagine the difference compared to several locations.

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  • Courtney
    Courtney
    Marketing • Graduate • San Francisco
    May 28, 2015
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    FEWD Course

    I took to the nighttime FEWD course at GA's SF campus. I thought the first 2 curriculum sections (HTML and CSS) were good. The teachers explained the concepts well and had us apply new concepts to projects. However, the last section covering JS was very difficult and the curriculum was not in depth, leaving the majority of the students lost in the last 3rd of the course. GA should have realized that JS was a much more difficult concept to grasp and created more material ...

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  • sean
    sean
    May 22, 2015
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    Online GA Circuit Course review

    GA scaled too quickly.. it seems to me that instructors are overworked.. use poorly designed courses, in many cases the code challenge had some bugs in it.. and wasn't the most useful.. the videos weren't the best at explaining things.. 

    I only learned something mostly in the live lectures where you could ask quesitons.. doing it through email was difficult to get a response I could understand. 

    expensive for what you get..

     

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  • Anonymous
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    Apr 08, 2015
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    General Assembly Melbourne - Visual Design

    I didn't have a great experience.  I was really pressured to sign up and was assured multiple times that I did not need Adobe CC experience - which for this class was just not the case.  I think if I had some level of comfort with Photoshop and Illustrator, I would have enjoyed the class more. 

    I thought the business strategy was basic - and my instructor was pretty terrible.  He has lots of skill and experience, but those two things combined do not always...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • San Francisco
    Mar 18, 2015
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    Analytics (1 day course) & Digital Marketing

    I took a one day course to get a review, which wasn't that great. A few students left before the class ended with hours to spare. I think the guy was very knowledgeable about Analytics but couldn't teach worth a dime. 

    I looked into their digi marketing program and was considering that but declinced to move forward after speaking to a couple of reps. The first was very wishy-washy in her statements and contradictory. I spoke to another rep upon request. She...

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  • Anonymous
    San Francisco
    Jan 27, 2015
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    Strange procedures - they *screen* in order to attend an informational session!

    Maybe it was the particular representative who forgot to attend charm school, but this place really rubbed me the wrong way.

    Here I was, all set to attend an informational session and ready to shell out big bucks for continuing education.  And then, prior to the informational session, I get a phone call from the head of admissions demanding to *screen* me and know about my profession before letting me attend the informational session, even though this information s...

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  • Quincy Iheme
    Quincy Iheme
    Software Development Engineer • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York City
    Nov 13, 2014
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    From Zero to Hero, The Journey of a n00b Programmer

    It's definitely a difficult path...but rewarding if you put in the time and effort. General Assembly fosters a community that thrives off of on another and also pushes young programmers towards a job that they will treasure. I had literally the best group of instructors in the school's history, not to mention being put amognst a brilliant crop of students. The 9-5 12 week schedule is rough, but there are some days off in between. We learn Ruby, SQL with Postgres, Testing with Rspec...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York City
    Nov 13, 2014
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    General Assembly WDI Review

    I think back fondly of my time at GA and my classmates and instructors altho I found the experience stressful and physically taxing at the time.  I would say peoples experiance during the course varies very widly depending on the insturctors, you really don't know what you are going to get coming in.  Some of them are better with code, some of them are better with teaching, some of them are better with dealing with people.  Different groups of students have dif...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Web Development Immersive • San Francisco
    Nov 12, 2014
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    Sold High - Performed Low

    For validty and Gravitas I need to mention that I have a background in teaching the STEM sciences. That being said, the experience at General Assembly was far below SUB STANDARD and HERE is why:
         1. The course producers had/have no experience in teaching, curriculum design, or coding....Let me reiterate....the people designing the courses have no prior experience, education, or training.  My original course producer I saw only once in 3 months.  Ano...

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  • Julia Lovett
    Julia Lovett
    Product Manager, Framebridge • Graduate
    Sep 15, 2014
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    Julia Lovett General Assembly Review

    I just finished the January cohort of General Assembly's Web Development Immersive in New York last week, and am pleased to share that the quality of my instructors, the curriculum, and my classmates all exceeded my expectations! We started with a strong foundation in Ruby and then built upon that foundation by learning SQL, PostgreSQL, Rails, and basic HTML. We combined all of those tools to build our first independent projects (basic CRUD application utilizing an API with user authorizat...
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  • Celeste Chua
    Anonymous
    Graduate • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) • Singapore
    Oct 14, 2024
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    Satisfied my hunger for learning

    GA has helped me gain a better understanding of UX Design in general.  However, there were aspects that we were not taught (properly) and those are a little regretful for me. Overall, the instructors were useful and the opportunity to work with a real client was most significant for me.  
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General Assembly Alumni Outcomes

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Employment Rate
82%
Graduation Rate
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Median Salary
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.

General Assembly Scholarships

$1500 Diversity Tuition Discount

Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive diversity discount for $1500 off tuition at General Assembly! To be eligible to receive $1,500 USD* toward your tuition for a full-time immersive course by General Assembly, you must meet the following criteria:

  • You’re 18 or older.
  • You self-identify as a woman, transgender person, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, or nonbinary person.
  • Your current income is less than $40,000 USD (£28,000 GBP,  30,000€ EUR, $40,000 AUD, $40,000 SGD, or $40,000 CAD) per year.
  • You’ve been admitted to one of the following courses: Software Engineering Immersive, Data Analytics Immersive, Data Science Immersive or UX Design Immersive.
  • Ineligible for NY residents.
  • Tuition discount can not be used in conjunction with any other General Assembly tuition discount or offer.

*$1,500 USD, £1,500 GBP, 1,500€ EUR, $1,500 AUD, $1,500 SGD, or $1,500 CAD

Eligibility

This scholarship cannot be combined with other offers.

Qualifying Courses

  • 4. Data Analytics Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)

$1595 Military Tuition Discount

Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive military discount for $1595 off tuition at General Assembly! To be eligible to receive $1,595 USD* toward your tuition of a full-time immersive course by General Assembly, you must meet the following criteria:

  • You’re 18 or older.
  • You’ve been admitted to one of the following courses: Software Engineering Immersive, Data Analytics Immersive, Data Science Immersive or UX Design Immersive
  • You are an active military member or veteran, or partner of a military member or partner of a veteran.
  • Ineligible for NY residents.
  • Tuition discount can not be used in conjunction with any other tuition discount.

*$1,595 USD, £1,500 GBP, 1,500€ EUR, $1,500 AUD or $1,500 CAD

Eligibility

This scholarship cannot be combined with other offers.

Qualifying Courses

  • 4. Data Analytics Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)

$1000 Merit Tuition Discount

Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive merit discount for $1000 off tuition at General Assembly! To be eligible to receive up to $1,000 USD toward your tuition of a full-time immersive course by General Assembly, you must meet the following criteria:

  • You’re 18 or older.
  • You’ve been admitted to one of the following courses: Software Engineering Immersive, Data Analytics Immersive, UX Design Immersive or Data Science Immersive.
  • You have completed a course on coding or data analytics or data science or ux design in the recent 12 months. These courses can be GA workshops.
  • Your course start date is between August 1, 2023 and November 15, 2023
  • Ineligible for NY residents.
  • Tuition discount can not be used in conjunction with any other tuition discount.

*$1,000 USD, £1,000 GBP, 1,000€ EUR, $1,000 AUD, $1,000 SGD, or $1,000 CAD

Eligibility

This scholarship cannot be combined with other offers.

Qualifying Courses

  • 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)
  • 4. Data Analytics Bootcamp (Full Time) (Online)

Recent General Assembly News

Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated November 04, 2024
Xavier Chambers was a self-taught graphic designer when his employer offered the opportunity to take a short course at General Assembly. Eager to expand his knowledge, Xavier eagerly chose the UX Design Short Course, a 10-week online part-time course with live instruction and an up-to-date curriculum with the latest tools. Xavier shares how his General Assembly short course experience leveled...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated October 02, 2024
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Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated September 23, 2024
2024 has been a rollercoaster of a year in tech hiring! We sat down with four career experts from Springboard, Flatiron School, General Assembly, and Tech Elevator to find out which industries are hiring bootcamp graduates today and how to stand out in a competitive job market. Listen in the conversation or read the transcript as we dig into effective methods for using generative AI in your j...
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Updated July 31, 2024
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Updated October 21, 2024
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Updated May 30, 2024
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Updated May 20, 2024
User Experience (UX) design is where creativity meets technology, and with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), UX designers are discovering new tools to revolutionize how they craft digital experiences. From image and prompt generators to enhancing wireframing and collaboration, learn about the seven, most commonly used AI tools in UX design today. Plus, we’re weighing the benefits and ...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated September 30, 2024
This just in: General Assembly is launching a new, part-time software engineering bootcamp! Packed with the same expert instruction, curriculum, and community support as the full-time immersive, the eight-month, part-time bootcamp is aimed at those who need more flexibility. We talked with Beatrice Partain (Senior Product Manager) and Lauren Perez (Software Engineering Instructor) to find out...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated April 01, 2024
This March, AI literacy, skills-based hiring, and apprenticeships continued to be top of mind in the coding bootcamp space. Three reports released this month detailed the rising importance of upskilling the current workforce on the use of AI. The federal government issued an executive order on creating more apprenticeship opportunities, and skills-based hiring saw a boost in overall job listi...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated May 17, 2024
Curious about what you’ll learn in General Assembly’s Product Management course? Alum-turned-instructor, Britni Jackson and Senior Admissions Specialist, Tony Navetta, share what it’s like to learn from a short course at General Assembly. The course includes instruction from industry-leading professionals, interactive and engaging online discussions, and collaborative learning environments, p...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated August 28, 2024
It’s 2024 and the average bootcamp tuition is still ~$14,000 — the same as it’s been for the last decade. So why does it feel harder to pay for a bootcamp these days? In this Live Q&A, admissions representatives from four coding bootcamps – Springboard, General Assembly, Flatiron School, and Tech Elevator – offer their expert insights on creative ways to pay for a coding bootcamp. They’r...
Jess Feldman
Jess Feldman
Updated June 28, 2024
Jobs in AI are in high demand across many industries, and the responsibilities for these exciting technical roles only continue to evolve. Even with the turbulent tech job market of 2023, LinkedIn's chief economist points to a 21x increase in AI job postings! If you’re interested in the artificial intelligence career path, we’ve rounded up the top 10 AI and machine learning jobs that hiring m...

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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. 705 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, Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive diversity discount for $1500 off tuition at General Assembly! To be eligible to receive $1,500 USD* toward your tuition for a full-time immersive course by General Assembly, you must meet the following criteria: You’re 18 or older. You self-identify as a woman, transgender person, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, or nonbinary person. Your current income is less than $40,000 USD (£28,000 GBP,  30,000€ EUR, $40,000 AUD, $40,000 SGD, or $40,000 CAD) per year. You’ve been admitted to one of the following courses: Software Engineering Immersive, Data Analytics Immersive, Data Science Immersive or UX Design Immersive. Ineligible for NY residents. Tuition discount can not be used in conjunction with any other General Assembly tuition discount or offer. *$1,500 USD, £1,500 GBP, 1,500€ EUR, $1,500 AUD, $1,500 SGD, or $1,500 CAD Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive military discount for $1595 off tuition at General Assembly! To be eligible to receive $1,595 USD* toward your tuition of a full-time immersive course by General Assembly, you must meet the following criteria: You’re 18 or older. You’ve been admitted to one of the following courses: Software Engineering Immersive, Data Analytics Immersive, Data Science Immersive or UX Design Immersive You are an active military member or veteran, or partner of a military member or partner of a veteran. Ineligible for NY residents. Tuition discount can not be used in conjunction with any other tuition discount. *$1,595 USD, £1,500 GBP, 1,500€ EUR, $1,500 AUD or $1,500 CAD Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive merit discount for $1000 off tuition at General Assembly! To be eligible to receive up to $1,000 USD toward your tuition of a full-time immersive course by General Assembly, you must meet the following criteria: You’re 18 or older. You’ve been admitted to one of the following courses: Software Engineering Immersive, Data Analytics Immersive, UX Design Immersive or Data Science Immersive. You have completed a course on coding or data analytics or data science or ux design in the recent 12 months. These courses can be GA workshops. Your course start date is between August 1, 2023 and November 15, 2023 Ineligible for NY residents. Tuition discount can not be used in conjunction with any other tuition discount. *$1,000 USD, £1,000 GBP, 1,000€ EUR, $1,000 AUD, $1,000 SGD, or $1,000 CAD General Assembly accepts the GI Bill!

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You can read 705 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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All of General Assembly's regulatory information can be found here: https://generalassemb.ly/regulatory-information

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