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Rutgers Bootcamps offer 12-week, full-time and 24-week, part-time web development courses, and 24-week, part-time Data Science and financial technology (FinTech) 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 fintech curriculum covers Python programming, financial libraries, machine learning algorithms, Ethereum, blockchain, and more.
The bootcamp curricula are designed with the most in-demand market needs in mind. Rutgers Bootcamps empower expert instructors and TAs to deliver a dynamic learning experience. Whether you choose to pursue web development or data science, over the course of our program, you’ll be immersed in an intensive educational experience. Students not only learn the fundamentals but also apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems and build portfolios.
Applicants do not need prior experience to enroll, but once admitted, all students will complete a pre-course tutorial. Rutgers Bootcamps are designed for students and professionals who are actively pursuing a career change, advancement or are 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, high-impact career events, workshops, mock interviews, and one-on-one career coaching. Graduates will receive a certificate from the Rutgers University Department of Continuing Studies and will have a portfolio of projects demonstrating a working knowledge of web development, data science, or financial technology.
Rutgers Bootcamps are offered in collaboration with edX.
I will break this down based on the star ratings.
Overall Experience:
The name says Rutgers but the course is run by a company called Trilogy who creates the curriculum and then sells the course to colleges.
The class enviroment was good. Everyone in my cohort was eager to learn which made for an interactive class. I have heard of a few classes with various types of people which pulled down the quality of the class and made it diffi...
I will break this down based on the star ratings.
Overall Experience:
The name says Rutgers but the course is run by a company called Trilogy who creates the curriculum and then sells the course to colleges.
The class enviroment was good. Everyone in my cohort was eager to learn which made for an interactive class. I have heard of a few classes with various types of people which pulled down the quality of the class and made it difficult for those wanting to learn to do so.
Instructors:
My instructor, Alex, was great. He kept the class fun and engaging while covering the material and brought in donuts constantly! He is always available and able to assist.
The down side is that none of the instructors have real world experiance working with React, Mongo etc in a company for a long period of time. They either have been in other areas of development, C++ etc, or just recently taken the course themselves. This reduced the learning to the basics and the things they have learned themselves along the way.
A course should be using instructors with years of experiance with these systems. Rutgers wouldn't hire professors that have only just graduated so why allow it for these ones?
The teacher's aides are also in the same boat. Most of them have recently taken the course so some of them know even less. They can assist you with the basics in regards to material covered in the course but outside of that they arn't much help and you are left to fend for yourself.
Curriculum:
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The Curriculum covers the basics of everything but delves deep into nothing. It's good as a kick start to get you up to speed with everything but that is it. After that it is up to you to learn about other things. That being said, the course starts for those with no experiance at all and the first month is going over the basics of HTML, CSS, and intro to Javascript.
Because of the goal of the course I feel learning all that material should be prerequisite work and day one should be diving into JS.
Very little time is taken to cover SQL, Mongo, and React.. As I said the basics are covered on how to make queries but not how to do anything such as stored procedures or other valuable features of the system.
Even more disapointing is that React, the heart of the course, in my opinion, is only given 1 week of learning. My instructor replaced the last week (learning Java for some reason) with an extra week of React. Given that the system is so important they certainly don't procvide much time to learn it. This is the main reason they should make learning HTML etc a pre req.
From what I have heard of other course that is what they do so that they can start digging into the heavy stuff and provide more time with the important systems. Since this one is a Javascript course why was a wasting 1 month of time learning basics?
Job Assistance:
My advice, do not choose this bootcamp because of the job assistance. When I signed up for the course it said it uses Rutgers career services, which makes it sound like it's the Rutgers College career services but it's not. It's Trilogies on. They took that blurb down from their website after I was taking the course.
This statement is a joke. I wish I could of given it 0 stars. They state you are required to complete job preperation work in order to qualify for job assistance but that's not the case at all.
The person in charge of this area does post jobs on slack and tells you to apply, they seem to have some connection with companies. Once you apply though you never hear anything back. All I was kept getting told was "no havn't heard anything" or "going to be talking to that person next week". The links that are provided, and the assistance they give are indeed or glassdoor search links that anyone can do on their own.
between myself and someone else who took the full time cohort we only know 1 person that got hired through the career services.
Tech Panels:
The course says they do tech panels, it's more or less a lie. We had 1 tech panel the whole time ans it was two people that came in for about 30 minutes while we asked them questions. This really annoyed me as I was expecting, from their own words, a tech panel every other week or so.
Over all:
Trilogy makes lots of claims but falls short on all of them. I went in expecting much more that what I got but I did learn some things. I guess If you asked me would I take it again, I would say no. There are $25, multi hour web courses that you could take and get the same material out of it. This would go for begineers and intermediate programmers alike.
Sure the course does help in the fact that you can work and learn off of others but it's not woth the 10k for this course.
Find a place that does direct job placement, I spent 3 months looking for a job and the only thing that helped me was my previous background in I.T. Others without that will have a harder, if not impossible, time.
Funda Istvan of Rutgers Bootcamps
Student Success Manager
May 11, 2018
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How much does Rutgers Bootcamps cost?
Rutgers Bootcamps costs around $14,495. On the lower end, some Rutgers Bootcamps courses like Full Stack Flex - Part-Time cost $11,995.
What courses does Rutgers Bootcamps teach?
Rutgers Bootcamps offers courses like Cybersecurity - Part-Time, Data Science and Visualization - Part-Time, Full Stack Flex - Full-Time, Full Stack Flex - Part-Time.
Where does Rutgers Bootcamps have campuses?
Rutgers Bootcamps has in-person campuses in Jersey City and Somerset.
Is Rutgers Bootcamps worth it?
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Is Rutgers Bootcamps legit?
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Does Rutgers Bootcamps offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
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Can I read Rutgers Bootcamps reviews?
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Is Rutgers Bootcamps accredited?
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