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Code of conduct: Programming and web design students at General Assembly learn by doing.

IS THE MASTER'S
DEGREE AN EXPENSIVE
ANACHRONISM?
For legions of new college graduates struggling to find
good jobs in a weak labor market, "boot camps" are a faster
and cheaper alternative to traditional grad school.

W

ashington, D.C., is a college town. Georgetown, American, Catholic, Howard, and George Washington Universities all have sprawling campuses with dorms, lecture
halls, athletic fields, and tens of thousands of students. But one
of the most interesting higher education organizations in D.C.
has none of those things. It's called General Assembly. The entire
"campus" is located on one end of the eighth floor of an office
building on 15th Street, in a space that looks like a Silicon Valley
startup, complete with cappuccino machines and lots of youngish people pecking away on their MacBooks. It's like the whole
university is the student lounge.
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The differences don't stop there. GA uses a business and
learning model that departs radically from established colleges
and universities. Instead of enrolling in the expensive one- and
two-year master's degrees that are increasingly becoming the
norm for people trying to find a foothold in the job market, students at General Assembly's twelve campuses in America, Europe, Australia, and Asia take intense, eight- to twelve-week programs in high-demand fields like computer programming and
designing the user experience for high-traffic commercial websites. The goal isn't to teach them everything they need to know
to be great in a job. The goal is to teach them just enough to start

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