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 part-time and full-time bootcamps and short courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science, and more. The bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field. 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 and part time bootcamp.
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.
To help students land their first job in a tech role, General Assembly students are supported by career coaches from day one. The program is enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.
710 General Assembly Reviews
Katie PetersonGraduate • SydneyJun 28, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceThe best decision I have ever made!
The most rewarding (and challenging) 12 weeks of my life. The curriculum and my instructors were amazing and helped me gain the skills and confidence that I needed to bring my ideas to life through code. I have met so many incredible people and I am so happy that I have finally made the transition and become a web developer.
- RinGraduate • Product Management Immersive • Los AngelesJun 17, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Product Management Immersive Course
I really enjoyed this class. It is definitely intense and a lot of info to pack into one week but if you need to learn these skills quick I would highly recomend it. The teacher, Suzanne, is great and goes into depth on many of the topics. I feel more confiendent to position myself as a Product Manager as I progress in my career. We did a lot of activities to really put into practice what we were learning. This is intnese though, make sure you are aware of that before committing, you have ...
I really enjoyed this class. It is definitely intense and a lot of info to pack into one week but if you need to learn these skills quick I would highly recomend it. The teacher, Suzanne, is great and goes into depth on many of the topics. I feel more confiendent to position myself as a Product Manager as I progress in my career. We did a lot of activities to really put into practice what we were learning. This is intnese though, make sure you are aware of that before committing, you have to dedicate you week to this to get as much as you can out of it.
- LeslieMarketing Executive • Digital Marketing (Part-time) • ChicagoJun 07, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Digital Marketing - 10 week course
Overall a great experience and I learned a great deal about Digital Marketing strategy and digital markeitng plan execution.
After completing the course, I have more insight and understanding into Digital Marketing (strategy, language/vocabulary). As I read articles/blogs about Digital Marketing trends or practices (native advertising, retargeting, etc), I am able to follow along with the article and have an understanding of the concepts.
The course is a bit long, but ...
Overall a great experience and I learned a great deal about Digital Marketing strategy and digital markeitng plan execution.
After completing the course, I have more insight and understanding into Digital Marketing (strategy, language/vocabulary). As I read articles/blogs about Digital Marketing trends or practices (native advertising, retargeting, etc), I am able to follow along with the article and have an understanding of the concepts.
The course is a bit long, but there's alot to learn. During class, the information and content felt a bit disjointed and not connected, but the last 3-4 classes brought all the information together and the various components started to make more sense.
I have many years of traditional marketing experience and this course has helped me to better understand digital marketing and has expanded my knowledge base as a business person and a marketer.
- Alexi O'HearnStudent • Web Development Immersive • DenverJun 02, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Amazing Experience
I'm graduating today from the Web Development Immersive program and I could not be more pleased with how the entire experience went. The instructors were amazing, the staff was great and the curriculum was challenging.
I feel that I now have an incredible background to help propel me into web development. Not only did we learn languages and frameworks that are relevant to the market, we learned how to learn. I went from thinking "there's no way I can solve this" to "I can work th...
I'm graduating today from the Web Development Immersive program and I could not be more pleased with how the entire experience went. The instructors were amazing, the staff was great and the curriculum was challenging.
I feel that I now have an incredible background to help propel me into web development. Not only did we learn languages and frameworks that are relevant to the market, we learned how to learn. I went from thinking "there's no way I can solve this" to "I can work through and figure this out." I would highly recommend this course (especially in Denver) to anyone who has an interest in web development.
- Ricardo HernandezStudent • User Experience Design (Part-time) • San FranciscoMay 23, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UX Designer
You will get a good taste of the skills needed to start your UX designing journey.
- AVGraduate • Data Science (Part-time) • LondonMay 19, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Data science course - a joke and waste of money
I cannot describe how disappointed I am. I partly blame my own judgement. The curriculum looked very attractive with all the topics I hoped to learn. But if you think about it - they promise you to become a data scientist in two months with two 3-hour lectures a week? Common! I totally understand that the course would cost more if you extended it, but this is exactly why I will not recommend it to anyone who asks me for advice. In the end it feels like I wasted my money. I'd prefer t...
I cannot describe how disappointed I am. I partly blame my own judgement. The curriculum looked very attractive with all the topics I hoped to learn. But if you think about it - they promise you to become a data scientist in two months with two 3-hour lectures a week? Common! I totally understand that the course would cost more if you extended it, but this is exactly why I will not recommend it to anyone who asks me for advice. In the end it feels like I wasted my money. I'd prefer to pay more and learn properly, than pay less and pretend learning.
They could probably save the situation if they put more support in place. But support was not there. For money you pay you expect someone there to help you when you are stuck with your code or understanding and interpreting models. But no, you are basically alone! In the end I found all answers I needed interacting in stackoverflow.com and learnt how different models really worked watching youtube videos by some prominent universities.
The structure of the course and the pace are also totally wrong. We were asked to start working on a final project on week 3 before we covered all the topics. No feedback whatsoever! So instead of practising useful skills, playing with modelling etc., students ended up fighting bad data sets and working on tasks which were unrealistic.
So if you ask me - don’t waste your money. You will get the same knowledge elsewhere for free. Or if you have more money and time, do it properly.
- Beth WStudent • LondonMay 02, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Programming for Non-programmers Bootcamp
Brilliant introduction to the stack and coding. Very exciting to go from zero to making a personal website over the time of the course. Enjoyed it so much that I went on to take the HTML, CSS & Web Design online course with General Assembly, which was great.
- John McCoyData Science (Part-time) • SydneyApr 25, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Review - Data Science Part time - John McCoy
Overall thoroughly enjoyed the courses. The lecturer was engaging and Amanda was very supportive, especially as I started quite behind. I also enjoyed the guest speakers, which added a bit of real life flavour for the industry and what being a 'data scientest' actually meant.
One area that could definitly improve though was the slides. When reviewing them post lecture or trying to draw on them for the final project weeks later, they had very little information that was possible ...Overall thoroughly enjoyed the courses. The lecturer was engaging and Amanda was very supportive, especially as I started quite behind. I also enjoyed the guest speakers, which added a bit of real life flavour for the industry and what being a 'data scientest' actually meant.
One area that could definitly improve though was the slides. When reviewing them post lecture or trying to draw on them for the final project weeks later, they had very little information that was possible to follow. I'm not sure if this was intentional, but would have been good to have more structure to them. - LaurenGraduate • WashingtonApr 15, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Product Management Gives a Full Picture of Entrepreneurial/ Business needs
I took the Part-Time 10 week Product Management Course at General Assembly beginning August of 2016. The two instructors were incredible, Sherika and Jocelyn both have a deep background in Product Management (Jocelyn with tech companies and start-ups, Sherika with large private companies). Both brought so much experience to this class. The portion of the class I most enjoyed was that I gained so many different skillsets in a short period of time from user-experience design to writing ...
I took the Part-Time 10 week Product Management Course at General Assembly beginning August of 2016. The two instructors were incredible, Sherika and Jocelyn both have a deep background in Product Management (Jocelyn with tech companies and start-ups, Sherika with large private companies). Both brought so much experience to this class. The portion of the class I most enjoyed was that I gained so many different skillsets in a short period of time from user-experience design to writing and pitching my product proposal to developing roadmaps. For anyone with an entreprenurial bent or who wants to know enough to lead teams with very different goals and personalities, this is the course for you.
- Claire ColleryProduct Manager • Graduate • Front-End Web Development (Part-time) • New York CityApr 07, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Product Manager
Disclosure: I am a GA employee but I am writing honestly.
I took Front End Web Development (FEWD) at the NY campus in 2016. Overall I had an excellent experience.
Pros:
-my instructor, Chandler, was awesome. So knowledgeable, very engaging up in front of the class (tough to do-- 3 hours x twice a week x 10 weeks), always available to help with projects outside of class, and also a fun guy outside of class. Our TAs were also incredibly helpful.
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Disclosure: I am a GA employee but I am writing honestly.
I took Front End Web Development (FEWD) at the NY campus in 2016. Overall I had an excellent experience.
Pros:
-my instructor, Chandler, was awesome. So knowledgeable, very engaging up in front of the class (tough to do-- 3 hours x twice a week x 10 weeks), always available to help with projects outside of class, and also a fun guy outside of class. Our TAs were also incredibly helpful.
-my classmates were so cool. There were a lot of designers in my class who were looking to get more technical and I loved making friends with them. Also some ppl in adtech, and some ppl with more traditional IT jobs looking to expand their skills. We went out for drinks as a class a few times and I've kept in touch with some ppl professionally.
-the space. The campus is awesome and very well located.
Cons:
-Chandler did a great job organizing all the content so I knew where to find everything, but I think he built the website where he organized everything himself, so I don't think other teachers' classes materials are as well organized.
-I wish there had been a little more time built into class for the students to get to know each other. I think if the connections had happened earlier we could have helped each other more easily instead of just relying on Chandler.
-The onboarding experience was pretty non-existent, though idk if i got something different bc I work at GA?
- RumskiUX Designer • Graduate • User Experience Design Immersive • MelbourneApr 07, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Immersive!
I came to the UXD Immersive course on the back of trying to find a role in UX Design following the part time course I have completed at GA.
If you are serious and committed to learning and have a real passion for UX you will learn a lot; about yourself just as much as about UX Design (That goes hand in hand.. doesnt it??)
I have nothing but positive feedback to give everyone at General Assembly Melbourne; the instructors and GA Staff have equally been helpful, professi...
I came to the UXD Immersive course on the back of trying to find a role in UX Design following the part time course I have completed at GA.
If you are serious and committed to learning and have a real passion for UX you will learn a lot; about yourself just as much as about UX Design (That goes hand in hand.. doesnt it??)
I have nothing but positive feedback to give everyone at General Assembly Melbourne; the instructors and GA Staff have equally been helpful, professional, supportive and instilled a great depth and wealth of knowledge and experience which hopefully will now allow me to take my first steps professionally with ease.
- EmmaMarketing Lead • Student • Digital Marketing (Part-time) • MelbourneApr 06, 2017Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Digital Marketing Part Time Course
General Assembly has carved a space within all-things digital marketing including strategy, brand, content, social, analytics and more with this part time course. My instructor's comprehensive knowledge, experience and captivating teaching style was really impressive and I've recommended to friends of mine who have since enrolled in the same course.
General Assembly Alumni Reviews Summary
How much does General Assembly cost?
General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Visual Design (Short Course) cost $3,500.
What courses does General Assembly teach?
General Assembly offers courses like 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Part Time), 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) 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.
Is General Assembly worth it?
The data says yes! General Assembly reports a 84% graduation rate, and 95% of General Assembly alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2021, General Assembly reported a 82% graduation rate, a median salary of , and N/A of General Assembly alumni are employed.
Is General Assembly legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 710 General Assembly alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed General Assembly and rate their overall experience a 4.31 out of 5.
Does General Assembly offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
Yes, General Assembly accepts the GI Bill!
Can I read General Assembly reviews?
You can read 710 reviews of General Assembly on Course Report! General Assembly alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed General Assembly and rate their overall experience a 4.31 out of 5.
Is General Assembly accredited?
All of General Assembly's regulatory information can be found here: https://generalassemb.ly/regulatory-information