Both are 12 weeks long, and each costs $12,000 - or a thousand bucks per week. Flatiron currently offers two courses: one for iOS, and one for Ruby. So we raised.”Īs with all things in life, though, selectivity comes with a price tag. We certainly had the opportunity to do that, but we really want to be maniacal about quality. We realized there are two ways to grow it: one of them is by enrollment – more and more students, and more and more tuition. Where most companies raise money in order to hit the gas pedal, we wanted to raise so we could take it slow. “The reason we raised money,” says Flatiron President Adam Enbar, “… well, it may sound crazy. So why raise? If they’re only accepting 10% of those who apply, why not just… accept more students? According to the school’s founder, Flatiron only accepts around 10% of those who apply. Their enrollment numbers aren’t small for lack of interest, though. That’s about the number of students you might find sitting in a single lecture at a big university.
In the past year and half, The Flatiron School has seen just 250 full-time students grace its halls (including current students). Once class starts, you’re there from 9 AM to 6PM, Monday through Friday.
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Like many a “bootcamp”-style course that has sprung up in the last 3 or 4 years, the Flatiron School (named after the Flatiron Building, one of NYC’s first skyscrapers) is an intense 3-month training session meant to turn people who’ve never written a line of code into professional programmers.īefore day one of class even starts, students must do around 150 hours of pre-work. They’ve just raised $5.5M to keep the ball rolling. NYC’s Flatiron School thinks so - and with around 98% of their students finding paid development gigs after the program, they might just be right. Can you teach someone to code well enough to do it for a living in just 12 weeks?
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