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They’re even learning from each other. She pointed to the recent news about Make School and Dominican University of California, which are working together to design a CS minor at Dominican, featuring both tech and humanities, to cover the hard and soft skills employers want from new hires. In return, Make, which offers coding programs, received accreditation through Dominican for its two-year bachelor’s degree in “applied computer science.”
“There are so many different types of partnerships between the schools,” said Eggleston. But it comes down to this, she pointed out: “Boot camps get the panache of working with the university and universities get the trendy, cutting-edge skills that a boot camp is teaching.”
Eggelston, who monitors such deals, has identified a number of formats followed in these partnerships:
• On-campus and open to the public. The outside operator comes to the school to deliver its programming, typically after hours and on weekends, with its own curriculum and instructors (although faculty from the hosting school might weigh in here and there). This is the model followed by Trilogy, which argues that it isn’t a boot camp but rather a “workforce accelerator,” because it has no physical location of its own from which to deliver programming.
• Off-campus and open to the public. The boot camp hosts classes at its own facility, but the institution drives prospects in its direction. This was the model followed by the
University of New Haven and Galvanize before that was shuttered, about a year ago.
• On-campus and open to students. In the Revature model, after free training, students are hired by the training company. A similar program exists at Carleton University in Canada, which has teamed up with Shopify to provide multi-year internships to CS students that cover their tuition and pay a salary.
• Online or blended boot camps open to the public. This model is followed by the Software Guild, which works with University of Georgia and several other institutions to market the program. A blended option includes some face-to-face instruction on campuses.
• Integration with existing degrees. Florida’s Lynn University works with Wyncode Academy to integrate the boot camp experience within master’s programs. Students going this route pay both entities but receive credit toward their degree.
• Internally launched boot camps. Northeastern University’s (MA) Level, developed by the university, is a prime example of this. Level students may earn transferrable credits for specific master’s programs. They also gain access to the university’s career services, job fairs and some professional-studies-related scholarship funding. The format includes full-time, part-time hybrid, part-time virtual and self- paced options.4
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