General Assembly
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 bootcamps and courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science and more.
To help students land their first job in a tech role, the full time bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practiti...
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 bootcamps and courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science and more.
To help students land their first job in a tech role, the full time bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field, supported by career coaches from day one, and enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs. 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 & part time courses. 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.
594 General Assembly Reviews
AnonymousGraduate • New York CityAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/AHTML AND CSS
GREAT EXPERIENCE. LOVED THE ONLINE COURSE, WISH THEY OFFERED ONE IN JAVA AND OTHER LANGUAGES. WOULD DEFINITELY ATTEND AGAIN EVEN THOUGH IT WAS VERY EXPENSIVE.
- AnonymousSoftware Engineer • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • SeattleAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Good school, would recommend
Learned a lot taking the Web Development immersive. Instructors can be hit or miss --- I had one that was great and one that was not so great, but they both helped me learn a ton over the 3 months of class. Finishing the course definitely does not get you a job easily, and the job search was the most difficult/frustrating part. But it all worked out okay as I'm now a contractor with Microsoft.
Learned a lot, but there's always still more learn.
- AnonymousJr. Web Developer • Student • Web Development Immersive • BostonAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Web Development Immersive
Great program, good pace. Instructors have good availability and attitudes. Will help you while also encouraging you to learn/figure out how to fix things on your own. Worked well for me.
- AnonymousDeveloper • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
OK, but could be more rigorous
I can't speak for campuses across the country and world, but the New York campus I experienced was a tremendously helpful/open community of people interested in learning web development and growing in the tech industry. I never experienced (though I have heard stories) of people who felt ostracized or put down by those with more knowledge/skills. Overall, I think the community as a student is a good one for fostering learning.
In terms of the coursework, we had very experienced i...
I can't speak for campuses across the country and world, but the New York campus I experienced was a tremendously helpful/open community of people interested in learning web development and growing in the tech industry. I never experienced (though I have heard stories) of people who felt ostracized or put down by those with more knowledge/skills. Overall, I think the community as a student is a good one for fostering learning.
In terms of the coursework, we had very experienced instructors who had taught multiple immersives and TA's who had taken them themselves. We primarily focused on Javascript over Ruby (I believe we were one of the first classes to do so at GA), which I felt at the time was a good decision considering the movement in the industry towards using JS across the stack.
In terms of my background, I was coming from a tech role (I was formerly a product manager at a tech company) so I had had some experience in coding in my free time. I think due to that I felt frustrated at times by the pace of the class which spent a good deal of the first month on beginner aspects of web development. While I understand why it's structured that way (not everyone comes from tech), I wish a few of those weeks had been moved into pre-work. I think moving that work into pre-work would have helped prepare students for the rigors of web development and allowed us to get into more advanced topics quicker. One of the things I heard while interviewing is that students don't come out with enough exposure to the computer sciency aspects of development that some companies don't feel confident hiring grads because of that. There's just too much unknown that the student can pick up those concepts.
On that topic, I was somewhat disappointed with the career placement services. I felt it was a lot of resume and cover letter re-writing, as opposed to introduction to hiring managers and advice on how to continue your growth following the class. I actually felt I got better advice from a handful of recruiters I met who openly told me that they didn't have any jobs for me, but helped out of the goodness of their hearts. I felt, at times, that I was left to fend for myself when it came to meeting hiring managers and given GA's considerable size that it should have been able to leverage its community more productively than it did.
That being said, I did get hired within 3 months of graduating as a developer so all in all I'm a success story!
- AnonymousSoftware Developer • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • WashingtonAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Great, Minus Management
General Assembly is great if you only focus on the teachers, the environment, the students, the curriculum, and the outcomes. But, after all, these are for-profit businesses. More and more you started to see these things creep into life at general assembly. While they say not everyone who has the money can get in, I'm not sure I believe it. They have less of a focus on paying upper echelon teachers now than when they started. There's more of a reliance on TAs who get paid fairly low amount...
General Assembly is great if you only focus on the teachers, the environment, the students, the curriculum, and the outcomes. But, after all, these are for-profit businesses. More and more you started to see these things creep into life at general assembly. While they say not everyone who has the money can get in, I'm not sure I believe it. They have less of a focus on paying upper echelon teachers now than when they started. There's more of a reliance on TAs who get paid fairly low amounts (and are typically previous students to keep those outcomes numbers high). They cut benefits like happy hours and lunches that bring students together and improve networks. They raise tuition whenever possible (despite the fact that all they are providing are a space and knowledge, they charge more per hour than even the most vicious private colleges).
Would I do it again? Yes. It is solely responsible for getting me where I am today. But if they're not careful, bootcamps will be analagous with low-quality in the years to come.
Work hard, make awesome projects (and rockin portfolio), network, and you'll be fine here.
- AnonymousGraduate • San FranciscoAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Web dev bootcamp
Great program, classes were fun and learned so much. Outcomes support can use a little more help.
- AnonymousStudent • HTML, CSS & Web Design - On Demand • OnlineAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
GA HTML CSS Basics
I had a great experience with this course. Well paced. Plenty of one-on-one time with tutors who were helpful and patient.
- AnonymousFront End Web Developer • Student • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
WDI to fully employed
General Assembly's Full stack web development course got me a full time job with benefits within 3 months. Concise course plan, knowledgable and engaging professors, dedicated job placement support.
- AnonymousJr. Web Developer • Graduate • Web Development Immersive • New York CityAug 03, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Life Changing
I truly enjoyed my bootcamp experience. While I think the market is currently oversaturated, it was a great experience and career changing vehicle for those of us who have already gone through it. Everyone I know who went through the bootcamp has gotten a job in the field. Mission accomplished.
- AnonymousSr. Product Manager • Product Management (10 week part-time) • SeattleAug 01, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
A+ for basic Product Managment
Product Managment Certification (Part-Time)
I found the program solid and helpful. I’ve been in product management for about seven years now. This program is much for new professionals or those seeking to enter the profession. However, I went in with the objective of defragmenting my knowledge from years of various PM roles is very different kinds of companies and products. The program did its job, I was able to:
- Defragment my experience into co...
Product Managment Certification (Part-Time)
I found the program solid and helpful. I’ve been in product management for about seven years now. This program is much for new professionals or those seeking to enter the profession. However, I went in with the objective of defragmenting my knowledge from years of various PM roles is very different kinds of companies and products. The program did its job, I was able to:
- Defragment my experience into core best practices.
- Understand what kind of product manager I am vs. what kind of product manager I want to be.
- Have confidence in customer centricity and testing assumptions and hypotheses using scientific method. (…and fighting for that in the organizations I work for where needed.)
I would recommend this part-time course to anyone interested in product management and is NOT YET a product person or within their first three years.
Where this program did not serve me as a senior level product manager:
(But I didn’t expect it to…)
- We didn’t spend much time on
- Product Strategy and strategic thinking
- Steering a product with metric data or refining KPIs and metrics as a result.
- Product finance
- Pricing
- Profit and loss
- AnonymousAccount Coordinator • San FranciscoJul 26, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Intro to Adobe Photoshop
This class was a complete waste of time. The teacher sped through all of the crucial aspects of basic Photoshop, but spent an exorbitant amount of time going over the simplest tasks (like opening a new file). I expected to come out of the class having at learned at least the basics of inserting an image onto a different background. The teacher was obviously very skilled with the program, but was not good at slowing down to repeat herself and show how she made her changes. The teacher also ...
This class was a complete waste of time. The teacher sped through all of the crucial aspects of basic Photoshop, but spent an exorbitant amount of time going over the simplest tasks (like opening a new file). I expected to come out of the class having at learned at least the basics of inserting an image onto a different background. The teacher was obviously very skilled with the program, but was not good at slowing down to repeat herself and show how she made her changes. The teacher also didn't handle individual questions well - she told several students she didn't know the answers to their questions and was visibly irritated when the class didn't catch what she said and asked her to repeat. I was VERY disappointed in this class and learned nothing new from it. If you want to learn Photoshop I'd suggest saving your money, repeating free online classes, and if you want one on one help, spend the $60 on an hour of tutoring. You'll learn more that's actually useful.
- AnonymousBusiness Owner • Student • AustinJul 26, 2016Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Digital Marketing Course @ Austin Campus
Part-time course taken on campus in Austin, Texas. Designed to give students an all-encompassing and actionable understanding of digital marketing best practices. Upon enrolling in the course I had about 8 months marketing experience/learning and was employed full-time in a marketing position (note: by a company that knew as much about marketing as Jon Snow knows about anything) and pursuing my own venture on the side. This course was great for filling in the knowledge gaps for me and givi...
Part-time course taken on campus in Austin, Texas. Designed to give students an all-encompassing and actionable understanding of digital marketing best practices. Upon enrolling in the course I had about 8 months marketing experience/learning and was employed full-time in a marketing position (note: by a company that knew as much about marketing as Jon Snow knows about anything) and pursuing my own venture on the side. This course was great for filling in the knowledge gaps for me and giving me the chance to ask questions of an experienced marketing professional (instructor). Prior to the course I did not in any way know how to build a marketing strategy from scratch- now I do and the class was worth every penny and minute in that regard.
General Assembly Alumni Outcomes
| Description | Percentage |
| Full Time, In-Field Employee | 92.3% |
| Full-time apprenticeship, internship or contract position | 0.0% |
| Short-term contract, part-time position, freelance | N/A |
| Employed out-of-field | N/A |
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
Qualifying Courses
- 4. Data Analytics Immersive (Online)
- 3. User Experience Design Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 2. Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 1. Data Science Immersive Bootcamp (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
Qualifying Courses
- 4. Data Analytics Immersive (Online)
- 3. User Experience Design Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 2. Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 1. Data Science Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
$1000 Accessibility Tuition Discount
Course Report is excited to offer an exclusive accessibility 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.
- Your annual income in the recent 12 months is less than $40,000 USD (£28,000 GBP, 30,000€ EUR, $40,000 AUD, $40,000 SGD, or $40,000 CAD).
- Your course start date is between October 15th, 2022 and January 31st, 2023
- Discount is limited to a maximum of 25 students per month across all courses.
- 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
Qualifying Courses
- 4. Data Analytics Immersive (Online)
- 3. User Experience Design Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 2. Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 1. Data Science Immersive Bootcamp (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
- Your course start date is between October 15th, 2022 and January 31st, 2023
- Discount is limited to a maximum of 15 students per month across all courses.
- 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
Qualifying Courses
- 1. Data Science Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 2. Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 3. User Experience Design Immersive Bootcamp (Online)
- 4. Data Analytics Immersive (Online)
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Frequently Asked Questions
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How much does General Assembly cost?
General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Data Analysis On-Demand cost $950.
What courses does General Assembly teach?
General Assembly offers courses like 1. Data Science Immersive Bootcamp, 2. Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp, 3. User Experience Design Immersive Bootcamp, 4. Data Analytics Immersive and 15 more.
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.