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Springboard is an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s most in-demand careers with comprehensive, mentor-led online programs in software engineering, data science, UI/UX design, cybersecurity, tech sales, and more. All Springboard courses are 100% online, remote, and self-paced throughout an average of 6-9 months. Springboard acts as a support system, coach, and cheerleader for working professionals who are ready to level-up or make a major career shift. Students have access to a unique community of industry mentors, thought leaders, and alumni, who are on hand to offer insights, networking opportunities, and support throughout the program and well past graduation. Every Springboard student is matched with a personal student advisor and industry mentor who guides them throughout the program through regular video calls.

To apply, applicants fill out an online form, take an aptitude test, then talk with a school representative about their background and motivations. For the data science career track a background in statistics and/or programming is required. For the UX career track, students should have academic or professional background in user design or development-oriented fields.

Before graduation, Springboard’s career services team supports students in their job search, helping prepare them for interviews and networking, and facilitates their transition into the tech industry. Springboard's programs are backed with a job guarantee.

Springboard’s support does not end when students graduate. All graduates benefit from an extensive support network encompassing career services, 1:1 career coaching, networking tips, resume assistance, interview prep, and salary negotiation. Since Springboard was founded in 2013, 94% of eligible graduates secured a job within one year, earning an average salary increase of $26,000.

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  • Gautham
    Student • Data Science Career Track • Online
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    Jun 13, 2020
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    Springboard India Datascience career track honest review

    I am an alum of Springboard DSC, I have gone through the course content and to be frank it was really disappointing.The course content is completely available free on YouTube and datacamp.It is not springboard's own material! 
    The 1:1 mentorship that I had was horrible.My mentor was neither assisting with the project work nor helping to understand concepts well.I dont think it was worth the money I paid.
    Onto the career coaching section: Career coaches copy job posts from linked in...
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  • Genevieve Smith
    Graduate • UX Career Track • Online
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    Jun 13, 2020
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    UX Career Track

    I had an awesome experience with Springboard! My mentor always gave me constructive feedback, during our meetings and also via email. The career coaches also did a good job of helping me redesign my resume and gave me important tips regarding the job search. I especially enjoyed working on the IDP (industry design project) because you get real experience working with an existing company, so to me this helped me the most in preparation for a role in UX.
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  • Sasi Kumar Sreenadhu
    Student • Data Science Career Track • Online
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    Jun 13, 2020
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    "Springboard India Data Science Career Track - Worst Online learning Experience"

    Trapping People into Joining: I joined Springboard DSC with lot of hopes to make a transition from my current role. There were very less reviews of Springboard India when I joined, now I realized that Springboard team deletes all the negative reviews for trapping people into this horrible course. I was misguided by the multiple promises made by the admission team during my enrollment.
    Course Content: Springboard charges Rs.1, 75,000 for the course. T...
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    Jun 23, 2020

    Hi Sasi,

    Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.

    We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.

    Curriculum
    Thank you for your feedback on our curriculum. We are constantly looking for ways to improve it, and we value feedback like this from our students.

    Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.

    We strongly encourage you to do as much as you can to actively participate in the curriculum and learn from the industry experts who have put it together. We believe this is the best way to get real-world experience—particularly in an industry as competitive as the one you’ve chosen.

    Mentorship hours
    We are sorry to hear our mentorship hours did not work for you. However, we are always happy to discuss workarounds and talk with our students to make sure they are able to speak to their course mentors at a mutually suitable time. We know how much value our students derive from these conversations, and we do everything we can to make sure both students and mentors are happy.

    From our records, we see that you have consistently rated your mentor and career coaching calls highly. We have also spoken to your mentor, who said they are more than happy and willing to provide you with extra time should you need it.

    Career services
    Our teaching assistants are mapped to courses. We have listened to student feedback and have increased the number of teaching assistants. According to our records, our team helped facilitate a pause in your curriculum for personal reasons and provided you with a free extension so that your learning journey and the subsequent career transition could continue smoothly. This means you will now have a further six months of your job guarantee period after completion of the curriculum.

    We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Sasi!

  • Priyesh Mulani
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    Jun 13, 2020
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    SPRINGBOARD - FRAUD

    Hi guys
    Today I am here to review my experience with Springboard as a alumni of its Data science Career Track
    Just one sentence - Don't take it. Company is Fraud.
    I pursued this course because of  their title of Job guarantee and wondered that if they are so sure about job guarantee then they must have content worthy and detailed enough to land me a job. But after completing it about 50% I realised that none of their content is original. It's just scrambled from internet and pi...
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    Jun 23, 2020

    Hi Priyesh,

    Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.

    We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.

    Curriculum
    Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.

    In your feedback to us, you stated that you would have preferred live sessions. As soon as we launched our online program, we invited you to participate but did not hear back. 

    Mentorship hours and calls
    We are sorry to hear our mentorship hours did not work for you. However, we are always happy to discuss workarounds and talk with our students to make sure they are able to speak to their course mentors at a mutually suitable time. We know how much value our students derive from these conversations, and we do everything we can to make sure both students and mentors are happy.

    Our mentorship calls usually last for 30 minutes—and often extend beyond that at mentors and students’ discretion. We are surprised to hear that your calls lasted only 5 minutes. We have also spoken to your mentor, who said they are more than happy and willing to provide you with extra time should you need it. Our team has also been trying to reach out to you to better understand what happened.

    Job guarantee
    We are upfront in all our communication that our job guarantee is designed to help graduates make the career transition of their choice through personalized mentoring and career coaching that is tailored to each student’s needs. 

    We are upfront that we are not a placement provider. 
    We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Priyesh!

  • Vishwam Singh(Springboard Student)
    Data Science Career Track • Online
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    Jun 13, 2020
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    "***My Experience or Journey with Springboard***#SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD"

     Cons: Course-Fee-17,5000/-
    #SAY NO TO SPRINGBOARD
    1.Joined Springboard with a aspiration of becoming of data scientist but got totally fooled when i saw the curriculm and the way they are just taking materials from other Ed-tech websites and just serving us.
    2.Job gurantee and mentorship is totally very unorganised and very falsely implemented and not at all good .
    3.There are lot of false promises and many students who are completing the course are not at all sat...
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    Jun 23, 2020

    Hi Vishwam,

    Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.

    We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your mentor. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.

    Curriculum
    Our records show that you are enrolled in the data science prep program but that you have not yet submitted any assignments. 

    The prep program was designed to get you skill-ready for our data science program. Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.

    We strongly encourage you to do as much as you can to actively participate in the curriculum and learn from the industry experts who have put it together. We believe this is the best way to get real-world experience—particularly in an industry as competitive as data science. 

    Job guarantee
    Unfortunately, participants in our data science prep program are not yet eligible for the Springboard job guarantee. 

    However, our Data Science Career Track, which you can gain access to once you have completed and graduated from the data science prep course, has a six-month job guarantee. 

    Mentorship hours
    We are sorry to hear our mentorship hours did not work for you. However, we are always happy to discuss workarounds and talk with our students to make sure they are able to speak to their course mentors at a mutually suitable time. We know how much value our students derive from these conversations, and we do everything we can to make sure both students and mentors are happy.

    We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Vishwam!

  • Jacob Wojcik
    Student • Data Science Career Track Prep • Online
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    Jun 11, 2020
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    Data Science Career Track Prep

    Joined the data science career track prep program in May 2020, and I'm currently in the full data science career track program. There are a lot of good things to say about the program.  The Next.tech platform was really useful and helped me a lot through the program. The final portfolio project really helped me get a taste of what a Data Scientist does on a day to day basis. If you complete the technical  skills survey you'll have a good idea if you have what it takes to enroll in the fu...
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  • Venkat Chadalavada
    Graduate • Data Science Career Track • Online
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    Jun 11, 2020
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    "My Experience with Spring board India Data Science Career Track"

     ·       If you accept starting with Springboard be ready for 
     -- No job assistance(You will have to find job yourself)
     -- 6 months job guarantee is a liar.
     -- There are lots of unemployment Spring board alumni.
     -- 30 min mentor time once a week is not sufficient and satisfying.  ·       it’s not worth at all, simply i can say waste of your hard-earned money and waste of time as well. So called mentors will be not available as per the sche...
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    Jun 18, 2020

    Hi Venkat,

    Thank you for your recent feedback. We’re sorry to hear you feel that way about your Springboard experience. Our goal is to help our students realize their full potential, and if we have failed you in this regard, we apologize.

    We’ve had the time to carefully review your feedback and speak to your individual mentor about your course. We wanted to take this opportunity to go over a number of things highlighted in your recent review of Springboard and share our perspective in the hope of clearing up any misunderstandings.

    In your review, you highlighted three primary main areas of concern. Below you will find our responses to each of these.

    Curriculum
    Our curriculum comprises curated study material, hands-on exercises, and a combination of mini and capstone projects. This material is either created in-house or curated from external sources and organized to ensure clarity and coherence.

    Your feedback on the Springboard curriculum—which was received at the sub-unit level on 50 instances during your time in the program—was 5/5 without exception. To our knowledge, you did not raise any concerns about the curriculum at any point during the course. If we had received any feedback from you during the course, rest assured we would have done everything in our power to help get you back on track and ensure you had a positive experience.

    Mentorship program
    In your review, you mentioned that the weekly 30-minute mentor calls were not enough, and that your mentor did not commit time beyond this 30 minutes per week. We spoke to your mentor and he assured us that he did try and commit additional time to you. We also tried to provide you with extra mentor calls when Springboard extended your original six-month program at no additional cost.

    Career services
    According to our records, you were issued the completion certificate for your Springboard course one week before you left this review. We also noticed that you applied for a refund request on the same day you received your completion certificate.

    On the refund request, you mentioned that you were not able to find enough job opportunities. Transitioning into a data science career is not easy. Trust us, we get it. This is why we do our best to help our graduates through extensive career services in our courses, which we offer for a period of up to six months after course completion. We also offer solid job training, such as mock interviews, to help our graduates better prepare for the job search ahead.

    We know changing careers is a daunting time for many of our graduates. That’s why we always strive to listen to our students’ feedback and improve where we can to help make this process as smooth and painless as possible. We want to thank you again for taking the time to write this review, and we hope you’ll get in touch with us directly to discuss the specifics of your course and how we could have better managed the transition. Thanks again, Venkat!

  • Connor Proctor
    Graduate • UX Career Track • Online
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    Jun 10, 2020
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    UX Career Track

    Springboard is amazing! The curriculum is well-curated - most of it is just resources and articles from the internet, however the way they walk you through each topic and assign projects applicable to each section really helps reinforce the content and ensure that you take away the necessary skills. On top of that, the one-on-one mentor sessions are a huge advantage and really help when working through more complex topics or projects. My mentor was an industry veteran working for an A li...
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  • Jun Yin
    Graduate • Data Science Career Track • Online
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    Jun 09, 2020
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    Data Science Career Track

     I was struggling to find a way to switch my career, until I noticed one of my friend with the similar background as mine, switched career successfully after completing career track with Springboard. Very intensive curriculum for zero background person, but in-depth knowledge and insights you will gain in the end. 
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  • Tosin Adebayo
    Financial Analyst • Graduate • Data Analytics Career Track • Online
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    Jun 08, 2020
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    Worth Trying

    I wanted something more technical and hands-on to add to my career development goal. I found Springboard's Data Analytics Career Track to fit that goal and I did not regret enrolling. The payment plan, flexibility of learning and paired mentorship make it all engaging at your own pace and learning curve.
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  • Aaron Wang
    Product Designer • Graduate • UI / UX Design Career Track • Online
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    Jun 04, 2020
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    Finished in 4.5

    Compared to other options, I think Springboard was the best choice to enter the field for me. The 1:1 Mentorship and structure of the course ended up being the biggest benefits, as well as the continued career support. The price vs. quality was attractive as well since they have always been completely remote.

    I would definitely recommend Springboard to anyone who is serious about their career change and plans not to look back. It's not easy and it has been difficult and fulfilling...
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  • Jerry Lee
    Graduate • Data Analytics Career Track • Online
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    Jun 04, 2020
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    Data Analytics Career Track

    This program was broken down in sections, which does not seem overwhelming to complete within 6 months.  At first, this was a refresher for SQL, Python, Excel, and Power BI.  But, what I really wanted to learn and get out of this course was to learn Tableau, and this course helped me understand and learn the tools I need to help me at work.  The weekly one-on-one mentor was tremendously helpful.  He was very detailed and well organized prior to meeting with him for that day.  He did not ...
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FAQs

How much does Springboard cost?

Springboard costs around $11,900. On the lower end, some Springboard courses like Introduction to Design cost $349.

What courses does Springboard teach?

Springboard offers courses like Cyber Security Career Track, Data Analytics Career Track, Data Science Career Track, Data Science Career Track Prep and 7 more.

Where does Springboard have campuses?

Springboard teaches students Online in a remote classroom.

Is Springboard worth it?

Springboard hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 1,667 Springboard alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Springboard on Course Report - you should start there!

Is Springboard legit?

We let alumni answer that question. 1,667 Springboard alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Springboard and rate their overall experience a 4.62 out of 5.

Does Springboard offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?

Yes, Course Report readers can take $1500 off Springboard tuition with an exclusive scholarship! Be sure to enter CR1500SB in the Promo Code field of your application so Springboard can extend the discount to you upon acceptance. 

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You can read 1,667 reviews of Springboard on Course Report! Springboard alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Springboard and rate their overall experience a 4.62 out of 5.

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While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. Springboard doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.

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