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Berkeley Boot Camps offer 12-week, full-time and 24-week, part-time courses in web development; 24-week, part-time courses in data analytics, UX/UI, cybersecurity and financial technology (FinTech) and 18-week, part-time digital marketing and technology project management courses. The full stack curriculum includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Express.js, Node.js, databases, MongoDB, MySQL and Git.
The data curriculum includes programming in Excel, Python, R programming, JavaScript charting, HTML/CSS, API interactions, SQL, Tableau, fundamental statistics, machine learning and more. Enjoy close collaboration with other professionals while receiving hands-on experience.
The UX/UI program provides hands-on training in user-centric design research, design thinking, visual prototyping and wireframing, interface design, storyboarding, visual design theory, web prototyping with HTML5 and CSS, interaction design with JavaScript and jQuery, and more.
The cybersecurity curriculum offers hands-on training in networking, systems, web technologies, databases, and defensive and offensive cybersecurity.
The digital marketing curriculum covers highly relevant skills, training students in marketing strategy fundamentals, optimizing campaigns and websites, digital advertising and automation strategy and more. Students will get hands-on experience with tools such as Google Analytics, Facebook Ads Manager, and Wordpress.
The fintech curriculum covers Python programming, financial libraries, machine learning algorithms, Ethereum, blockchain, and more.
The technology project management program takes a multidisciplinary approach to developing in-demand technical, leadership and business management skills. The curriculum covers requirements documentation, test plans, traditional, agile and hybrid methodologies, scrum frameworks, resource planning, and more.
Applicants do not need prior experience to enroll in the bootcamps, but once admitted, all students will complete a pre-course tutorial. Berkeley Boot Camps are designed for working professionals and individuals who are actively pursuing a career change or advancement or looking to gain a new skill set.
Students will benefit from a wide range of career services to be positioned for success through graduation and beyond. Services include portfolio reviews, resume and social media profile support, career content and practice sessions, technical interview training, 1:1 mentor support, soft skills training and more. Upon program completion, graduates will receive a Certificate of Completion from Berkeley Extension, and will build a portfolio of projects in our web development, data analytics, UX/UI, digital marketing, financial technology or technical project management programs and gain skills applicable to industry certifications in our cybersecurity program.
Berkeley Boot Camps are offered in collaboration with edX.
The full-time full stack coding bootcamp at UC Berkeley Extension is a great way to make the switch to web development or software engineering, provided you know what you are getting into and are prepared to put in the work.
First things first: the tuition is more on the affordable side. Easier to afford, but some creature comforts are lacking, AKA don't buy into the marketing materials you'll inevitably see on Facebook, your classroom will not be a computer lab and you will not h...
The full-time full stack coding bootcamp at UC Berkeley Extension is a great way to make the switch to web development or software engineering, provided you know what you are getting into and are prepared to put in the work.
First things first: the tuition is more on the affordable side. Easier to afford, but some creature comforts are lacking, AKA don't buy into the marketing materials you'll inevitably see on Facebook, your classroom will not be a computer lab and you will not have external monitors. The Slack org is not paid for, so save any messages that may be important or you may want to keep for future reference. That being said, the San Francisco campus building itself is quite nice, but there can be limited space to work in larger groups once class is over, as the bootcamp itself doesn't have it's own dedicated space. You only get the classroom during classtime like the other extension classes.
The curriculum is kept fairly up to date for individual concepts. For my cohort it was the MERN stack, and it certainly wasn't stale React either. Some concepts you will not get to spend enough time on, but it's a 3 month bootcamp, so that's pretty common. I would say the most detrimental example of this is at the end with React. In general, an extra half week of React would be awesome. More specifically, learning create-react-app is a great way to get up and running quickly with React apps, but almost never used in production. Actually learning webpack would have been far more relevant IMO.
Above I took care to highlight the word individual. Real world production-level environments will not look like the MERN stack apps you learn and create in class. It's very hard, almost unheard of, to be exposed to that in a bootcamp. So don't be surprised after graduation, it's okay.
There are usually two homework assignments a week, and periodically career services assignments as well. Mix in 3 projects, and that's a lot of stuff to work on. If you're coming into this with zero experience and zero exposure to coding before the pre-bootcamp assignments, you NEED to be prepared to put in 40-50 hours of work, or you will be wasting your money, and letting down your cohort. The "admissions" process is a joke. Don't be fooled into thinking it won't be hard because the application part was cake. It's going to be hard, and you're going to struggle. That being said, there is a fair amount of hand-holding, so for students more comfortable with the material, it can be easy or tempting to not pay attention or look ahead. It can also start to feel like the pace of the class is too slow.
The instructor and TAs I had were great. Jerome does a great job of breaking the material down and does not shy away from coding examples on the spot. Time doesn't always allow for deeper dive conversations into the concepts during class, but if you can bring it up after-hours or in 1-on-1s, there's knowledge to be shared there. My only complaint is sometimes I wish they had clones. Even if I couldn't always get time in-person outside of class (more my fault than theirs), I could almost always find at least one of them on Slack at all odd hours of the night. They genuinely care about the students' well-being and success. If you're someone who likes to get extra instruction, be sure to book those 1-on-1 sessions. Online tutoring through other course alumni is also available.
Outside of the classroom, the organization in my opinion is fairly barebones and thinly staffed, with sometimes little support for the students, the TAs or even the instructor. I never even got the receipt I requested by email. I suspect this goes back to the more affordable tuition I mentioned earlier.
The career support is a mixed bag. Again, the organization here is thinly staffed. The career support directors are amazing. Both of the ones we had were very insightful, charismatic and genuinely driven to help us succeed. The people behind the scenes who review career services assignments were a different story. The feedback I received was shallow, unhelpful, and direct questions would be very vaguely answered. I'm pretty sure it's because each one has to review hundreds of these assignments.
I can't say anything about post-graduation career services support ( I didn't opt-in at that point). However because I completed the assignments to qualify for post-grad support, our career services director still checked in with me from time to time. which I thought was pretty cool.
TL;DR worth the money if you have reasonable expectations about what you're getting and how much effort you have to put in. You can't learn everythign in the classroom, so if you truly want to learn, there's so much more to check out on your own, too.
Jayson Beagley of Berkeley Boot Camps
Regional Director - NorthWest Territory
May 21, 2018
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How much does Berkeley Boot Camps cost?
Berkeley Boot Camps costs around $14,495. On the lower end, some Berkeley Boot Camps courses like Digital Marketing - Part-Time cost $9,995.
What courses does Berkeley Boot Camps teach?
Berkeley Boot Camps offers courses like Cybersecurity - Part-Time, Data Science and Visualization - Part-Time, Digital Marketing - Part-Time, Full Stack Web Development - Full-Time and 2 more.
Where does Berkeley Boot Camps have campuses?
Berkeley Boot Camps has an in-person campus in San Francisco.
Is Berkeley Boot Camps worth it?
Berkeley Boot Camps hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 70 Berkeley Boot Camps alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Berkeley Boot Camps on Course Report - you should start there!
Is Berkeley Boot Camps legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 70 Berkeley Boot Camps alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Berkeley Boot Camps and rate their overall experience a 4.32 out of 5.
Does Berkeley Boot Camps offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
Right now, it doesn't look like Berkeley Boot Camps offers scholarships or accepts the GI Bill. We're always adding to the list of schools that do offer Exclusive Course Report Scholarships and a list of the bootcamps that accept the GI Bill.
Can I read Berkeley Boot Camps reviews?
You can read 70 reviews of Berkeley Boot Camps on Course Report! Berkeley Boot Camps alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Berkeley Boot Camps and rate their overall experience a 4.32 out of 5.
Is Berkeley Boot Camps accredited?
Yes, UC Berkeley has been fully accredited since 1949 and had its accreditation reaffirmed most recently in 2015 under the Western Association of Schools & Colleges (WASC) pilot institutional review process.
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