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Rithm strives to cultivate a strong learning community where each individual student is a self-motivated, curious, and persistent learner. Web development is challenging, and your success will be largely determined by your ability to continue to stay engaged with your code despite a seemingly never-ending series of stumbling blocks.
Great programmers come from all walks of life, and we find that the thing that they all have in common is a positive attitude under pressure.
Rithm wants you to succeed. If you fall behind in your coursework in the first 6 weeks, we’ll begin a conversation with you to decide whether or not it’s worth your time, energy, and money to continue. If it makes more sense to part ways, we’ll return your tuition (less your deposit) - no harm, no foul.
As teachers, we know that students need rest in order to be receptive to new information. During classroom hours, you’ll be coding with your peers and instructors and we expect that you’ll get the majority of work done in this supportive environment.
What’s more, we don’t recommend coding all night. In fact, we close our space at 11pm. There are resources and reading materials we’ll ask you to review at home, and we do that so that you’ll be able to maximize the time during the day when you have access to our instructional staff.
We ask a lot of our students. There are 60-80 hours of prework to be completed before your program starts. You’ll spend three full months in class; days will be approximately 9-6, although you’re welcome to spend evenings at Rithm too. After that, you’ll be shifting your focus to the job hunt. During the job prep portion of the course you'll still be working at Rithm full-time.
Financially, the commitment is your initial deposit of $1,000, due when you’re admitted to Rithm, plus the balance of your tuition, payable in 1 or 2 installments. You can either pay the $23,000 upfront or make two payments of $11,000 (due on the first day of week one) and $11,500 (due on the first day of week seven). Note that if you pay in two installments, the payments include an additional $500 fee. Take a look at our lending partners who can help you finance your tuition.
We tell students to budget 60-80 hours for the prework. We’ve designed this take-home curriculum to lead you through Terminal Basics, Git/GitHub, HTML, CSS, and foundational JavaScript. You’ll learn how to navigate these technologies on your own, so that by the time step into the Rithm classroom you’ll be ready to take full advantage of our instructors’ expertise and level-up fast.
Tuition for Rithm School is $24,000.
This includes:
Payment
A $1,000 deposit is due upon enrollment. For the remaining balance, you have two options:
Please note that paying in installments involves an additional fee of $500.
We look at the first six weeks of our course as an indicator of your success at Rithm. And so, if your progress doesn’t keep pace with the curriculum, we’ll start a conversation with you to determine whether or not you should remain a student. If necessary, your time at Rithm will come to an end early and we’ll offer you a full refund (minus your enrollment deposit).
We designed this policy to ensure that every student in the program is thriving. We want to offer students who might struggle with the pace of the course a way out without sacrificing the majority of their tuition. We believe our Separate Ways Clause is beneficial to the students who remain in the class; it’s understood that everyone in the classroom is there because they want to be, are willing to do the work, and are at a comparable skill level.
No. Rithm doesn’t currently offer financial aid. However, if paying your tuition up front, we do offer a scholarship:
The Rithm Diversity Scholarship awards up to $5,000. Students of all backgrounds are eligible to apply and the scholarship is awarded based on merit as well as need. Students can apply for this scholarship upon admission to the program.
The process has multiple steps: