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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. Our rigorous interview process is designed so that if you get in, we believe you have what it takes to finish. If for some reason, though, you fall behind in your coursework in the first 4 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, (when we're holding in-person cohorts) we close our space at 10pm. 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 studying 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. In addition to completing the free material on the site covering Terminal Basics, Git/GitHub, HTML, CSS, and foundational JavaScript, you'll also be given several other assignments. These may consist of solving additional JS problems, building a static webpage, creating some fun, interactive games, and/or other similar tasks. After completing these projects, you’ll be ready to step into the Rithm classroom, take full advantage of our instructors’ expertise, and level up quickly.
You'll need a decent computer that was made in the last three years.
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 four 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.
For students who are paying at least half their tuition up front, we may be able to offer a scholarship.
Since we opened our doors in 2016, we have always offered a rolling partial scholarship based on diversity, financial need, and merit. Once you have been accepted to our program, you may apply for this scholarship. Our scholarship committee will review all applications and you will receive a determination notice with information about any cost adjustment we can offer.
The process has multiple steps:
Find the application here.