Coding bootcamp tuition can range from $9,000 to $21,000, and without the help of traditional loans and financial aid, scholarships can make or break your decision to change your career. Below is our comprehensive list of over 30 bootcamps around the world that offer coding scholarships. We've included scholarship specifics like the amount of the discount and eligibility requirements – good luck!
Can't get a scholarship? Most bootcamps also offer financing options, payment plans, and loan partnerships through companies like Earnest, Ascent Funding, Pave, and Climb Credit in addition to scholarships and discounts for women, military veterans, and underrepresented groups. And remember – Course Report offers $500 scholarships to over 85 bootcamps around the world!
Yes! Many coding bootcamps around the world offer scholarships and sometimes automatic tuition discounts to students. These coding bootcamp scholarships may be applied to in-person and/or online programs and may be geared towards military veterans, underrepresented folks in tech, and those affected by financial hardship. According to our research, bootcamps offered $13.5M in scholarships for students impacted by COVID-19!
Some programs offer full-tuition scholarships to make it possible for students to enroll in a coding bootcamp. Oftentimes, these full-tuition scholarships are need-based and/or aimed at veterans and underrepresented folks in tech in order to increase access to a tech education and diversify the tech pipeline.
School | Scholarship Name | Scholarship Details |
Ada Developers Academy | Ada Developers Academy Scholarship | Full tuition scholarship and paid internship for women! |
Code Fellows | Scholarship Fund | Need-based scholarship that covers up to 70% of your bootcamp tuition! |
Code Platoon | Various scholarships | Multiple full-tuition scholarships are available for U.S. veterans and military spouses! |
Codesmith | The Black Engineers at Codesmith Scholarship | Full-tuition scholarship offered to students who identify as Black or African-American. This scholarship is available to 10 students through the end of 2022, and to be used towards the Full-Time or Part-Time Software Engineering Immersive programs. |
V School | Various scholarships | Multiple full tuition scholarships available for U.S. veterans, military spouses, underrepresented folks in tech, and those affected by Covid-19 health crisis! |
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Accurate as of 2022. Listed in alphabetical order.
Ada Developers Academy waives the full cost of tuition.
Alchemy offers various scholarships to meet funding needs:
BrainStation offers merit-based scholarships and automatic scholarships for women and members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Claim Academy offers various scholarships to meet funding needs.
The Scholarship Fund at Code Fellows features numerous scholarships that are need-based, covering up to 70 percent of tuition for recipients. Scholarships are awarded based on financial need and the applicant's ability to meet the requirements of the course and scholarship application. Whether you are a career changer, recent college grad, female, code school student looking to join a better program, military veteran, unemployed or underemployed, Code Fellows' scholarships are intended to assist individuals from a variety of backgrounds and financial circumstances.
Code Platoon offers various scholarships to meet the funding needs of their veteran students:
Scholarship grants to the under-represented demographic of women with $500 off tuition price.
Codesmith offers several scholarships for applicants.
Coding Dojo offers several scholarships for applicants.
All veterans and military spouses are eligible for large scholarships, which cover most of the $13,000 tuition cost.
The Elevate Scholarship Fund provides a $10k scholarship fund to new students. 25% of the funds are for women and the remaining 75% of funds are distributed based on need.
The Women in Tech and Diversity in Tech Scholarships offers 50% off tuition.
The Builder Scholarship allows students to receive up to $1500 for the Immersive Program and up to $1000 for the Flex Program. The You Belong in Tech Scholarship is aimed at students from underrepresented groups in technology, including all female, Black, and Latinx students
Galvanize offers partial and full scholarships based on merit, demonstrated financial need, and increasing participation in technology among underrepresented groups such as women, veterans, minorities, and people who identify as LGBT.
Grand Circus offers diversity scholarships from $1000-$1500 for veterans, those identifying as a woman, African Americans, Chicano or Latino people, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and those who identify as LGBTQ.
The Recurse Center is free for everyone. Need-based grants available for living expenses for female programmers.
IronHack offers a 1000€ scholarship for women.
$500 scholarships for their Boston program for women and underrepresented minorities in tech. They sometimes announce full scholarships on their blog.
If you identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming and you want to learn how to code – Lesbians Who Tech wants to fund your coding tuition by 50% with their Edie Windsor Coding Scholarship.
£500 discount for women.
All women and underrepresented minorities (includes African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans (American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians), Pacific Islanders, and mainland Puerto Ricans), and veterans or members of the U.S. military are eligible for a $3,000 scholarship to apply toward their tuition.
A limited number of scholarships are available for students from underrepresented groups like women and minorities.
RMOTR offers 25% off tuition for their online bootcamp for new applicants who identify as women and for applicants who are already current students at another educational program.
Sabio offers $500 scholarships for courses and a $1500 Jill H. Mays Women in Tech Scholarship.
The Software Guild gives a $2000 Women in Tech Award for eligible females and a $2000 Veterans Who Code Award for eligible military personnel who are admitted into the full-time online coding bootcamp program or Louisville on-ground program.
A number of $500 scholarships are available with no minimum eligibility requirements
This program sponsors 20 students from underrepresented communities to complete Tech Elevator’s bootcamp for free, and then go on to either the Niantic Voyager Apprenticeship or through Tech Elevator’s Pathway Program.
Eligible applicants must identify within an underrepresented group in tech, and must be in the Southern California, San Francisco Bay, and Seattle areas.
For the purpose of the scholarship, Tech Elevator currently defines underrepresented personas as anyone who self-identifies with any of the following qualifiers:
Self-identifying women and active or former US service members are eligible for $300 off each month of enrollment in Thinkful's Full Time Web Development Bootcamp and $100 per month for Thinkful's Flexible Web Development Bootcamp and Flexible Data Science Bootcamp. Thinkful Atlanta offers 5 scholarships of $3,000 towards either the Flexible or Full Time Web Development Bootcamp.
$200-500 discounts for women, non-binary individuals and military veterans. Discount amounts vary by program; ask your Admissions Rep for details if you fall into any of these categories.
A number of $500 scholarships are available with no minimum eligibility requirements
We Can Code IT has a $1,000 scholarship for women and African American, Hispanic American, or Native American students.
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