<p>Tuition for the 34-week program is $16,500. After acceptance to the program, you can secure your spot with a $1,000 deposit. Remaining tuition is due during Week 2 of the program.</p><p>Tuition can be financed through Ascent, which offers deferred tuition payments three months after graduation and monthly tuition payments thereafter based on either a three or five year plan. You can learn more about whether Ascent is a good fit for you by visiting their website here and selecting “Full Stack Software Development: Part Time Virtual Program” from the Programs list.<br>https://partner.ascentfunding.com/launchacademy/</p>

<p>Launch Academy is a longstanding member of the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting ("CIRR") which provides transparent standards accounting for 100% of students, allowing straightforward outcome comparisons with other skill schools who prioritize transparency of student outcomes. CIRR requires us to report twice per year based on specific calculations for outcomes including placement rate, median annual base salary, graduate job titles and more on the basis of 90 days and 180 days after graduation. Our outcomes are audited annually by an unbiased third party as determined by CIRR. During the audit, all graduates are contacted to confirm reported data. As of yet, our first part-time online program has not concluded, so we do not have data on placement rates. However, our online program uniquely positions our graduates for success in the job market by having a Java focused curriculum that few bootcamps have taught. This means that students will have one of the most established programming languages in their portfolio, allowing them to apply more competitively for jobs with major organizations that use Java technologies. Launch Academy is not like college and not everyone graduates. We believe the rigor of the program sets our graduates apart and provides them with a strong starting point to a successful career in software engineering.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Regardless of where you are, the online program is structured to allow students to study at Launch Academy while also maintaining a full-time job. All of the curriculum and lectures will be available virtually, and you will join a cohort of fellow students from states across the country.</p><p>Twice a week, virtual classes will begin at 6:00pm EST, which will include lectures, exercises and collaborative pair-programming where you discuss implementations and build applications with the help of teachers and your peers. Classes are 3 hours long, but your support and access to staff continue throughout the week via Slack and Zoom. You’ll also be assigned lessons in the form of readings, videos, how-tos and challenging exercises and assessments to build your web development skills.</p><p>Module 1 is focused on JavaScript and web development fundamentals, where you will develop skills in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.</p><p>In Module 2, you’ll learn object oriented design in Java, which will later serve as the backbone of your web applications throughout the program. You’ll design interactive programs and discuss important design principles such as abstraction, encapsulation, the single responsibility principle, inheritance and much more.</p><p>In Module 3, you’ll build your first dynamic web applications with Java technologies such as a JSP, Java Servlets and Thymeleaf. You’ll also learn how to connect to scalable databases with SQL and Postgres to store important data. You’ll also extend your backend programming skills with Java Spring.</p><p>Module 4 is centered around real full-stack web development. You’ll begin by learning the powerful React JS client-side framework, and integrating your responsive frontend applications with the Java apps you’ve learned in the previous module.</p><p>Module 5 is focused on building web applications at a much more robust scale by creating your own internal API endpoints and learning about core software development methodologies. Extend your apps to use Java and JavaScript open source technologies, integrate data-rich APIs with real world data, and organize your development process using Agile methodologies and Git workflows that are crucial for the job. At the end of this phase, you’ll have developed a capstone web application designed in concert with staff that will be featured in your job portfolio.</p><p>Once you have completed the core program, you’ll enter the Flight module, where you will receive extensive post-grad support, curriculum and coaching. Whether you need help applying to jobs, integrating yourself into the tech community, or identifying what side project to start working on, Launch Academy has your back. By completing the Post-Grad Curriculum, you gain the support of our Career Services team for life.<br>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Launch Academy exists in order to help people get jobs as software engineers. At the heart of that mission is our dedicated Career Services team.</p><p>We’ll sit down with you at the beginning of the program to discuss your career objectives and align your digital assets towards those goals. We’ll begin to craft and refine your Github profile, LinkedIn account, resume and cover letters to optimize each of these assets based on historical hiring pattern feedback. As the program progresses, we will put increased emphasis on job readiness resources to prepare you for interviews, the job search and continued study to ensure that each day you work in post-grad you are a more competitive candidate for the roles you are applying for.</p><p>During the Post Graduate Support phase, we’ll also help support and guide you through the job search. We’ll assist with scheduling job interviews, networking, application processes and prepare you prior to interviews based on our knowledge of a certain company’s job interview format. We’re here to serve you as your personal technical career coach and nothing makes us happier than alumni landing jobs!<br>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Launch Academy exists in order to help people get jobs as software engineers. At the heart of that mission is our dedicated Career Services team.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We’ll sit down with you at the beginning of the program to discuss your career objectives and align your digital assets towards those goals. We’ll begin to craft and refine your Github profile, LinkedIn account, resume and cover letters to optimize each of these assets based on historical hiring pattern feedback. As the program progresses, we will put increased emphasis on job readiness resources to prepare you for interviews, the job search and continued study to ensure that each day you work in post-grad you are a more competitive candidate for the roles you are applying for.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>During the Post Graduate Support phase, we’ll also help support and guide you through the job search. We’ll assist with scheduling job interviews, networking, application processes and prepare you prior to interviews based on our knowledge of a certain company’s job interview format. We’re here to serve you as your personal technical career coach and nothing makes us happier than alumni landing jobs!</p>

<p>Launch Academy employs a project-based approach to learning where you learn by building and writing software on a daily basis. Our non-traditional approach favors a learn-by-doing approach over that of a more traditional lecture series. You’ll submit weekly projects throughout the program as a result, so that you can get feedback on each implementation.</p><p>Breakable Toy projects, aka Capstone Projects, occur in the last month of the program. This is when you will build your own large, fully functional app from the ground up. People come to Launch Academy with ideas on what they want to build and it's our responsibility to help you scope these ideas into a project you can present to companies following the program. Your project may cover a nagging problem you’ve been trying to solve for your personal or professional life or perhaps an app that friends or family have been wishing for. At this stage of the program, you have now acquired the necessary skills to bring these ideas to life! We can’t wait to see the wonderful things you build.<br>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Our teachers are also engineers that maintain the web applications that Launch Academy runs on, and consult with real world companies that Launch consults with. Further, we meet with various companies and ask them what skills they are seeking in people they are looking to hire onto their software engineering teams in the coming months. As such, all of your curriculum is representative of the practices and technologies used in the actual industry, and is constantly evolving and being iterated over.</p><p>Core to our pedagogical philosophy is the polyglot mentality, which states that people who are proficient in two or more technologies can more easily learn additional technologies thereafter. This is important because following the program, many students work at companies whose technology stack differs from that of the one we teach. By attending Launch Academy, you are essentially learning how to learn to code. This offers you the ability to quickly learn new technologies at companies on the job. Software engineering is a lifelong learning process. We want to equip you to be successful long after you land your first job.</p><p>Launch Academy's Software Engineering program equips aspiring software developers with what they need to succeed as professionals in today's technology companies. While you'll learn in-demand technologies through this course, &nbsp;the core objective of the program is to teach you the fundamentals and best practices of programming. This makes our graduates well positioned to adapt and grow with the fast-paced industry of web development.</p><p>During the program you will learn programming foundations with JavaScript, Java, web foundations with SQL, HTML, CSS and the DOM, advanced object oriented programming and dynamic web applications including test driven development, front-end development with JavaScript and ReactJS, databases and full stack web applications with Java Spring, agile methodologies including iterative development and daily standups, integration of third party API's, and how to deploy a full-stack application built with ReactJS and Java.</p><p>You can learn more about the technical aspects of the program by downloading our syllabus below.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Launch Academy is a zero-to-sixty program with no prior coding experience required. That said, we do recommend people validate their interest in coding by learning basic JavaScript. For those who apply to the program and are accepted, we’ll provide you with free resources prior to the start of the program so that you can begin obtaining an overview of the fundamentals.</p>

Successful students are committed to learning and have built discipline into their daily lives to ensure they have prioritized learning in order to set themselves up for success during the program. Common traits leading to success include a passion towards collaborative learning, an interest in hands-on learning, a willingness to think differently about how to best learn a new skill, fortitude to fight through the struggle of learning and a trust in those who have learned in a similar paradigm so that you can stand on the shoulders of giants as you achieve your goal of loving what you do for work.

<p>We are naturally biased on this one so we always recommend prospective students reach out to graduates of any program you are considering via LinkedIn or other mediums. Ask them about their experiences to gauge and gain confidence in the program you are considering. That being said, here are the structural differences between Launch Academy and other programs in the Metro Boston region:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Full time software engineering instructors resulting in continuity, commitment to teaching and empathizing with the needs of students on a daily basis through relationship building.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Iterative nature of our curriculum. We update our curriculum up to 20% per quarter (per cohort) based on feedback from our hiring partners around what are the specific skills they are seeking in people they are going to hire in the next hiring cycle in 90 days. The result is graduates with in demand skills at the time of job interviews.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In addition, the online program’s curriculum teaches Java and React JS, which, despite being some of the most in-demand technologies, few bootcamps have equipped themselves to teach. While our in-person program teaches NodeJS and React JS, our online program’s length and unique structure allow us to tailor the curriculum for teaching students who want to work at more established companies with strong hiring cycles.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Our program is longer than most totaling 42-weeks when considering the 34-week core phase of curriculum&nbsp; and the 8-week post graduate support phase (or as long as it takes to land a job).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lifetime relationship with alumni via 'Lifetime Alumni Support' . Grants students free access to (1) quarterly curriculum updates to upskill on the job long after graduation and (2) free access to the campus after 2pm on weekdays to work on side projects and further their learning.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Commitment to transparency of student outcomes. We are a CIRR member and we provide readily available student outcomes on our website through our student disclosures section</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rigor. The program is very intense and thus not always a great fit for everyone. We believe this rigor sets our graduates apart and provides them with a strong starting point to a successful career in software engineering.</p>

<p>Yes, you need a personal computer to participate in our program. From a technical perspective, as long as it can run the latest version of OSX, Windows or Linux, &nbsp;you'll be fine. Your machine must also have a minimum of 8GB of ram to run the applications that you will be building every day. Our staff prefer Mac machines for simplicity of configuration with some of the technologies we use in the program.&nbsp;</p>

Graduates receive a Letter of Completion with the ability to add the Launch Academy logo of experience to your LinkedIn profile for prospective employers to validate your successful graduation from the program.

While we don’t set specific cohort size limits, we do like to keep size during the on campus phase to less than 30 students. Like all rules, there are exceptions. However, one exception we will never make is providing low student to teacher ratios. This is one of the pillars to our high level of education at Launch Academy. People learn better when they have support - ideally in person - and in small groups. Deviating from that philosophy is a nonstarter for us.