10-month Software Engineering program
7-month Data Analytics program
9-month Data Science program
5-month Quality Assurance Engineering program

All our programs are online and part-time. Expect to spend about 15-20 hours a week within your program. You can learn and practice at any time — just follow the curriculum on our coding platform. We also organize live workshops, Q&As, and co-working sessions, which usually take place on the weekends, and offer opportunities to participate in group projects, hackathons, and externships throughout your studies.

No. Our programs are beginner-friendly and don't require any prior knowledge of coding or a tech industry background. We dedicate hours of support to our students, helping them get through the challenges of learning a new profession. All you need is motivation and grit — we’ll provide everything else.
Our programs are part-time in order to provide a balance of structure and flexibility. This is why our students come from all walks of life: retail workers, nurses, teachers, mechanical engineers, stay-at-home parents, college students, and other diverse backgrounds and occupations.

There are no barriers to joining Practicum. The only requirements are grit, motivation, and about 20 hours per week. We do ask all students to have a call with an advisor first so that they can find out everything they need to know about the profession and our program before committing.

Yes, we will send you a certificate when you complete your program.

Take our career quiz and find out!

Breaking into these professions isn’t something that can be done overnight. We’ve worked closely with industry professionals and experts in education to streamline your training without compromising on quality.

• Software Engineering – 10 months
• Data Analytics – 7 months
• Data Science – 9 months
• Quality Assurance Engineering – 5 months

We offer four payment options:

1. Upfront before you start.
2. Monthly installments while you study.
3. Success-based tuition — an installment plan that allow you paying just an enrollment fee and further after your employment.
4. A loan from our financing partner.

10-month Software Engineering program

• Upfront: $10,000
• Monthly: $1,300, total: $13,000
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 monthly payments of $670, total: $15,000
• Loan: $417.92 monthly for 24 months, total: $10,029.97

7-month Data Analytics program

• Upfront: $8,000
• Monthly: $1,500, total: $10,500
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 payments of $520, total: $12,000
• Loan: $419.98 monthly for 18 months, total: $7,559.55

9-month Data Science program

• Upfront: $12,500
• Monthly: $1,800, total: $16,200
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 payments of $858, total: $18,750
• Loan: $469.57 monthly for 24 months, total: $11,269.63

5-month Quality Assurance program

• Upfront: $4,200
• Monthly: $1,100, total: $5,500
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 payments of $235, total: $6,300

80% of our graduates had a full time job and managed to complete the program. Our programs are flexible, with no mandatory meeting times. Study and practice on your schedule — everything you need is provided on our online learning platform. Our guidance team is online for most of the day and the tech support team is online 24/7. They are available to ensure you have all you need to meet sprint deadlines.

You won’t need any special equipment, just a stable internet connection, and a computer.

All of your lessons and practice at Practicum take place in the same browser window on our platform. This includes concepts, skill practice, and theory. We find that this helps Practicum students focus and learn new skills more easily. If you’ve ever had to click between different windows (e.g. a code editor, a PDF assignment, and a lecture video) to complete a single task, you know how distracting it can be.
Instant feedback. You’ll know if your code works immediately, with real-time feedback from the platform. We also have our support team online 24/7 to help resolve any issues.

Practicum is a thriving online community. You’re always supported by a full complement of tutors, senior students, community managers, code reviewers, career coaches, and tech support folks.
On this page, we go into detail about the different roles, all the different ways they assist you, and their availability.

Tutors host live webinars, workshops, and Q&A sessions every week. They also hold live office hours on Slack. These help students prepare for the more challenging parts of their learning process, like the projects. You can always get a quick help on Slack if you’re stuck, or book an in-depth 1:1 session to help you untangle.

If you’re struggling with the course material, you can schedule a one-on-one meeting with a tutor. Tutors also hold office hours every week, where students can get a quick reply to their questions in Slack or in Zoom.

Code review is a part of every coding profession, as your code is always being reviewed by peers before it gets added to a production codebase. It is when coding professionals check the projects that students deliver every 2-3 weeks (i.e. every sprint). A code reviewer goes over every project line-by-line. Instead of grading your project, the code reviewer helps you improve it through several iterations. Once bugs have been fixed and the project is up to industry/professional standard, the reviewer accepts it, and you can move on to the next one. They share also their expertise, advice on how to write better code, and help analyze mistakes.
After you submit your project for review, allow up to 24 hours to receive feedback from a code reviewer.

Expect to spend about 20 hours/week with Practicum. Our learning platform makes it entirely flexible when and where to do so. Keep in mind that our bootcamps are not entirely self-paced — there are deadlines to meet and projects that have to be done before starting more complex ones. It’s all part of preparing for the workplace.
While all projects need to be completed, we provide a robust support network to help you catch up if life happens and you fall behind.

If you feel like you can’t meet a deadline, you can reach out and ask for an extension or additional help from community managers and tutors. There will always be someone to help you.
We understand that sometimes life can be less than smooth. If necessary, students have the option of taking a break during the program. They can then come back and continue right where they left off — at no additional cost.

Data Analytics = 12 projects using real datasets
Data Science = 16 projects using real datasets
Software Engineering = 6 polished application development projects
Quality Assurance = 5 real-life projects

Students can also do an unlimited number of externship projects — freelance projects with team lead guidance — for real companies.
Usually students do up to 2-3 Apiary projects during their time with Practicum, receiving feedback from teams working in the real world. However, there is no limit to how many you can take on after graduation.

Yes, you’ll be able to join a group working on an externship project for one of Practicum’s partner companies. Students can boost their LinkedIn profiles and impress future employers with relevant projects and reviews. These partnerships create opportunities for our students to boost their portfolios and contribute to important causes. They have created websites related to climate change, sustainability, mental health, and LGBTQ+ matters.

You will have lifetime access to our platform with all the course materials. Any time you need to refresh your knowledge, we’re here.

Practicum’s mission is to get you a job you’ll love. That involves a lot more than “just” learning to code or analyze data. Learning the skills only gets you halfway — learning how to get hired is just as important.
This is where the Practicum career services package comes in. We’ll prepare you for your job search and support you during the job hunt. Here’s how:

1. You’ll learn how to write a compelling resume and cover letter, which will be reviewed by experienced career coaches. HR professionals.
2. You’ll graduate with a show-stopping portfolio of real-life projects. Your Practicum projects will be professionally reviewed line-by-line, while your externship projects will be coded with feedback from our employer partners. Because Practicum teaches you industry best practices for coding, you’ll stand out.
3. We’ll help you present your best self in tech and HR interviews. Career coaches and tech industry leads will take you through a series of mock interviews where you will be able to master your interviewing skills.
4. We’ll help you train your soft skills such as learning agility, teamwork, time management, and business thinking through carefully crafted content and webinars led by leadership coaches.

All career and job search services are included in your Practicum curriculum. There are no additional fees.

Yes, you will attend individual coaching sessions with our rockstar career coaches and talent acquisition professionals with recruiting and hiring experience, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small startups.

You’ll do at least two one-on-ones with our career coach. If you need more sessions to get your professional brand and job search strategy figured out, we’re happy to schedule more.
For the Software Engineering Bootcamp, aside from ongoing coaching in acceleration, we also have AMA (aka open hours with a coach) on a weekly basis — so it’s unlimited coaching support.

They’re like regular job interviews, which is the point. Mock interviews are based on real technical section interviews.
Knowing how to answer typical interview questions and solve tasks are skills. Professional feedback enables you to practice and rapidly perfect these skills. Going through the process in a low-stakes environment will also help you feel more confident going into real interviews.

Externships are available to all our grads, forever. You may take part in as many projects as you wish. The Career Prep course and the Career Acceleration program are available for students’ lifetime access. We also have an alumni community where former students post job openings and coach each other. We love keeping in touch with our graduates — we want to see where your journey takes you!

The overwhelming majority! 87% of our students, regardless of background or prior education, began a sustainable career in tech within 6 months of graduating.
By program, the outcomes are: Software Engineering — 89% grad employment rate
Data Analytics — 85% grad employment rate
Data Science — 86% grad employment rate
Find out more about how our grads were able to start new professional lives in our Graduate Outcomes Report.

Starting salaries for Practicum grads are currently averaging:
$75,000 Software Engineering grads
$65,500 Data Analytics grads
$89,300 Data Science grads
$77,000 Quality Assurance grads

See what goes into these numbers in our H2 2021 Graduates Outcomes Report

Our numbers are phenomenal for our field, though a lot of things depend on individual factors. You get what you put in, and our Career Prep course and Career Acceleration program make sure that you put in what it takes. Thus:
56% of Practicum’s students were hired before graduation
21% of Practicum’s students were hired 1-3 months after graduation
35% of Practicum’s students were hired 3-6 months after graduation

Find out more about in our Graduate Outcomes Report.

Yes, we guarantee that you’ll get a job, or we’ll give you your money back.
We believe that anyone can have a sustainable and enjoyable career in tech, it just takes the right guidance and someone to open doors for you. That’s why we built our platform, filled it with real-life projects, implemented line-by-line code review, and work with 40+ partner companies to provide our students with externship opportunities.
If you finish your bootcamp, follow our Career Services blueprint for success and money-back guarantee requirements, and yet don’t find a relevant job within 6 months, Practicum will refund the full cost of your bootcamp.
More info about our money-back guarantee in our Terms of Use.

We offer four payment options:

1. Upfront before you start.
2. Monthly installments while you study.
3. Success-based tuition — an installment plan that allow you paying just an enrollment fee and further after your employment.
4. A loan from our financing partner.

10-month Software Engineering program

• Upfront: $10,000
• Monthly: $1,300, total: $13,000
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 monthly payments of $670, total: $15,000
• Loan: $417.92 monthly for 24 months, total: $10,029.97

7-month Data Analytics program

• Upfront: $8,000
• Monthly: $1,500, total: $10,500
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 payments of $520, total: $12,000
• Loan: $419.98 monthly for 18 months, total: $7,559.55

9-month Data Science program

• Upfront: $12,500
• Monthly: $1,800, total: $16,200
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 payments of $858, total: $18,750
• Loan: $469.57 monthly for 24 months, total: $11,269.63

5-month Quality Assurance program

• Upfront: $4,200
• Monthly: $1,100, total: $5,500
• SBT: enrollment fee - $1,600, 20 payments of $235, total: $6,300

Your first monthly payment will be charged when you purchase your program. The second monthly payment will be charged 26 days from your program start date. For each subsequent month, the monthly payment will be automatically charged 30 calendar days following the date of your previous payment.

Yes, you can! We've partnered up with Upstart, a lending platform that partners with banks to distribute personal loans with three- and five-year terms. The process is simple:

• Submit a loan application through Upstart.
• Get approved in a few minutes.
• Once you’ve received your funds, return to the Practicum website and finish your payment.

Success Based Tuition (SBT) allows qualified students to study, graduate, and land a job in their industry before paying for the bootcamp.

SBT in 4 easy steps:

1. Pay a one-time enrollment fee of $1,600 to start the bootcamp.
2. Graduate from the bootcamp.
3. Get hired in your industry, with a gross salary of at least $50,000 per year or $4,100 per month. Earn at that level for at least 3 consecutive months.
4. Begin making affordable monthly payments over a term of 20 months.

Eligibility
Success Based Tuition is a limited offer that came into effect on September 16, 2022 for new students only. To qualify you must:

• be 18 years of age or older
• be a US citizen or legally permitted to work in the U.S.

The Practicum Guarantee*
If you don’t land a job within 6 months of graduating, your bootcamp is free. That’s right, you pay nothing.
If you decide that Practicum is not for you and withdraw from the bootcamp within 14 days of your start date, we’ll refund your enrollment fee.
If you withdraw after 14 days, then your time with Practicum is prorated — we’ll ask you to pay for the months you spent with us, but not for the entire bootcamp.

If you decide to leave the course early, we'll refund your money on a prorated basis. This means that if the course has already begun, you’ll have to pay the tuition for the time you were with us.

To request a refund, please fill out the Practicum Refund Survey.

After receiving your request, we will contact you within three business days to confirm the refund amount. Once we’ve confirmed, we will process the refund. Please be aware that refunds may take up to 30 calendar days, depending on the payment system.

If you have any technical issues with cancellation, please contact us:
support@practicum.com

Yes, we guarantee that you’ll get a job, or we’ll give you your money back.
We believe that anyone can have a sustainable and enjoyable career in tech, it just takes the right guidance and someone to open doors for you. That’s why we built our platform, filled it with real-life projects, implemented line-by-line code review, and work with 40+ partner companies to provide our students with externship opportunities.
If you finish your bootcamp, follow our Career Services blueprint for success, and yet don’t find a relevant job within 6 months, Practicum will refund the full cost of your bootcamp.
More info about our money-back guarantee in our Terms of Use.