10 Better Ways to Get an Education than Spending $160K on College

By Praxis

College is expensive, with many students paying $160K or more for a four-year degree.

Elsewhere, we’ve discussed whether college is worth it, how to decide whether college is for you, how to weigh the downsides of college against the payoffs, and top college alternatives, so we won’t go into all of that here.

Instead, we hope this post will serve as a helpful resource to help you identify alternative education opportunities that don’t cost $160K and a debt sentence.

Below, we’ve rounded up some of the best education opportunities and training programs available. Spoiler alert, none of them cost $160K.

1. Join a Career Bootcamp to Fast-Track Your Business Education

Career bootcamps are training programs that help individuals to fast-track their careers by providing training, mentorship, career coaching, and, often, job opportunities. A career bootcamp aims to accelerate your learning through hands-on training, build your network, and help you build your portfolio (and confidence) through real-world projects. Many career bootcamps offer income share agreements (ISAs) as a means of deferring tuition until you start earning above a certain income threshold.

Below, we’ve rounded up some of the best career bootcamps available today.

Praxis, the Ultimate College Alternative

Disclaimer: Obviously, we’re a bit biased, so naturally, we’re including ourselves in this list… but read on to learn about many other great programs.

Praxis is a college alternative that puts you in the driver’s seat of your education – and your career. The 12-month program involves a rigorous 6-month remote bootcamp and career coaching that prepares you for the workplace, followed by 6 months of on-the-job mentoring and coaching at the full-time job, which we’ll help you land.

Through guided self-directed learning, Praxis will help you explore your unique interests and talents, build your skills, and match them to in-demand business skills to help you build a personally-fulfilling career. You’ll work with inspiring people, learn from experts, and complete projects that showcase your skills and ability to create value.

Praxis costs $12K, and it comes with the Praxis guarantee: If you don’t find a full-time job within 6 months of completing the bootcamp, your tuition is free.

Plus, Praxis graduates’ average first-year income is right around $50K, and 93 percent of Praxis participants have full-time jobs at graduation.

Sound good? Check out our Program Guide.

Prehired

Prehired is an intensive 12-week sales bootcamp that teaches students the fundamentals of sales and culminates in a “Science-Based Sales” certificate. The bootcamp is online, and participants can complete it at their own pace, which makes it possible to participate even if you are working full-time. The program includes recorded lectures, readings, assignments, mock interviews, and more, and participants can communicate with their instructors via email, Slack, video conferencing, and phone.

Participants only pay once they’ve landed a job of $60K or more and then contribute 12.5 percent of their income for 48 months, up to a cap of $30K.

SV Academy

SV Academy is a 4-week online program that allows participants to be mentored by Silicon Valley’s rising stars. Students participate in an intensive 300-hour technology sales bootcamp and are then paired with a rapidly-growing tech company, where they receive a year of on-the-job coaching. Participants can choose between paying tuition ($10K) and participating in the program for free while working at a partner company.

General Assembly

General Assembly is a private for-profit education organization with campuses all over the world that teaches practical technology skills, including:

Software Engineering
UX Design
Data Science
Front-End Web-Development
Product Management
Data Analytics

General Assembly offers full-time, part-time, and online courses and also partners with businesses to upskill and re-skill their employees.

Flockjay

Like Prehired, Flockjay is a bootcamp for people who want to launch a career in software sales. Flockjay’s bootcamp runs for 10 weeks and teaches skills ranging from sales techniques to software tools. Participants can choose to pay a discounted, upfront tuition of $5,000, or pay up to $9,000 through an ISA, which kicks in when graduates start earning over $40,000. Payments are made in small increments (10% of monthly income for 12 months).

AlwaysHired

Always Hired is a sales bootcamp for people who want to work as a sales development representative (SDR) at a SaaS (software as a service) company. Participants can choose between paying full tuition ($2,299) or being placed with a partner company.

Uvaro

Uvaro is a 12-week work-integrated learning program for technology sales that offers internship opportunities with partner tech companies. After graduation, participants receive ongoing access to coaching and jobs that don’t get advertised. Uvaro offers an ISA tuition option equivalent to 10% of your base salary for 24 months after being hired full-time.

2. Do an Apprenticeship to Learn a Skill On the Job

Apprenticeships are a great way to learn because they allow you to receive on-the-job training while earning an income. Since January 2017, more than 800,000 Americans have found employment opportunities through apprenticeship programs, and there are currently nearly 25,000 registered apprenticeship programs in the US. According to the US Department of Labor, more than 90 percent of people who completed an apprenticeship earn an average of at least $70,000, and more than 94 percent of workers who completed an apprenticeship are still employed six months later.

You might associate apprenticeships with trades jobs like welders, plumber, or electricians, but these are far from being the only fields that offer apprenticeships. Below, we’ve rounded up a collection of apprenticeship opportunities, but keep in mind that these are only a few and there are many others available.

Vendition

Vendition is a comprehensive sales apprenticeship program that helps you land a sales job, trains you, and not only doesn’t charge you tuition but pays you $7500 to participate. Apprentices receive assistance in landing a sales job at a SaaS company (resume and cover letter prep, mock interviews, software tools training, and career planning) as well as ongoing mentorship and hands-on coaching and training. Participants receive $2,500 per month during their 3-month training period and the average Vendition apprentice earns $82,000 per year.

CyberDefenses Apprenticeship

The CyberDefenses Apprenticeship Program is an intensive nine-month paid training program that provides hands-on training, certification, and placement as a Tier 1 security operations center analyst within its cybersecurity services business. Apprentices need not have prior IT or security experience and receive instruction and mentoring from industry-leading cybersecurity experts to become subject matter experts and full-time team members with a salary and benefits.

IBM Apprenticeship Program

The IBM Apprenticeship Program is a 12-month program that allows participants to learn new technical skills while getting paid. The apprenticeship is an intensive on-the-job skills development program that offers hands-on training and mentorship with your long-term professional career in mind.

Julliard Apprentice Program

If you’re interested in a career in theatre, Juilliard’s Professional Apprentice Program in Technical Theater and Arts Administration may be a good choice for you. This is a paid training program in New York City that follows the academic year (August-May). Apprentices are paid an hourly rate and gain hands-on experience working with professional artists, technicians, and administrators in a vibrant, diverse, and welcoming community.

LaunchCode Technical Skills Apprenticeship

LaunchCode matches job seekers with technical backgrounds with employers who are experiencing talent shortages. Successful applicants embark on full-time paid apprenticeships, working as part of a team of experienced software developers and improving their skills on the job. Participants are paired with an experienced mentor who invests in their growth and helps them to reach their full potential.

Mercedes-Benz Technician Training & Development Program

The Mercedes-Benz DRIVE Technician Training and Development Program is a 16-week apprenticeship that trains participants to become qualified Mercedes-Benz automotive service technicians. The program takes place in state-of-the-art training facilities and instruction consists of approximately 10% academic lectures and 90% workshop instruction. The initial 16-week apprenticeship is followed by 12 months of full-time on-the-job training as a Mercedes-Benz dealership employee.

Microsoft Leap Apprenticeship Program

Microsoft’s Leap Apprenticeship Program is an immersive 16-week training program that combines in-classroom learning with hands-on engineering projects. Applicants need to have previously graduated from a project or program management bootcamp or coding academy and should have at least 6 months of professional software development or project management experience. Leap applicants select a focus area before applying and can choose one of the following “pathways”: User Experience Designer, Software Engineer, Software Support Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Customer Service Engineer, Business Program Manager.

Walgreens University Career Development Program

Walgreens offers its employees a variety of paid apprenticeship programs through its Walgreens University career development initiative. Alongside its Business and Leadership programs, Walgreens University offers a Pharmacy Technician Training Program that gives participants an entry point into a career in healthcare as a certified pharmacy technician. Walgreens assists employees through review classes, study materials, and even sponsors the cost of their exam.

3. Learn to Code

Ever dreamed of learning to code? If so, why not make your dream a reality? Coding is a highly sought-after skill that offers excellent earning potential – and demand for skilled developers is expected to rise.

There are currently more than 23 million coders in the world, and experts predict that this number will grow to near 28 million within the next five years. This high demand pushes up developer incomes, making it an attractive career path. According to a Burning Glass analysis of job market demand for skills, jobs that require coding skills pay on average $22,000 more than jobs that don’t.

Below, we’ve rounded up some of the top coding schools and bootcamps in the country.

Codecademy

Codecademy is an interactive online platform that offers completely free coding education in 12 programming languages including Java, Ruby, Python, Swift, Go, SQL, C#, C++, Sass, and markup languages HTML and CSS. Participants receive assistance selecting a path to focus on, learn by doing, and receive instant feedback on their code. Paths include Computer Science, Data Science, and Web Development, and there are also specialized skill paths that focus on shorter-term goals. Codecademy also offers a Pro membership that gives members access to additional resources, real-world projects, and certifications.

Flatiron School

The Flatiron School offers online and on-campus training that equips participants to launch a career in tech as a data scientist, full-stack developer, cybersecurity analyst, or cybersecurity engineer. Programs vary in length depending on which path is selected, and the school offers comprehensive career services to help graduates land attractive positions at established technology companies. Flatiron graduates find fulfilling careers with leading technology companies including Apple, Google, Black Rock – and even NASA! Flatiron uses an income share agreement (10% of gross monthly income for 48 months) to allow participants to defer payment until they are earning.

Fullstack Academy

Fullstack Academy is an intensive coding bootcamp that offers part-time and full-time coding classes both online and through its New York and Chicago campuses. Each Fullstack coding or cybersecurity bootcamp has three phases: Foundations (off-campus), Junior Phase (on-campus), and Senior Phase (on-campus). Fullstack participants build up a portfolio of projects and code on Github, which serves future employers as an excellent signal of their coding ability. Students pay a $2,000 enrollment deposit and full tuition depends on whether the participant is enrolled in a part-time or full-time bootcamp, amounting to $15,980-$17,910.

Lambda School

The Lambda School offers fully-online training that equips participants to embark on careers as full-stack developers or data scientists. Full-time courses take 6 months to complete, while part-time courses take 12 months, and participants don’t need a prior formal education to enroll. Participants remotely attend live lectures presented by industry experts and participate in real projects that allow them to learn in a hands-on environment and build their portfolio. Participants only pay tuition after reaching an annual income of at least $50,000, and the school’s career coaches help participants to land jobs at leading technology companies.

freeCodeCamp

freeCodeCamp is a non-profit organization that offers free online courses, programming projects, a community forum, chat rooms, and other resources such as interview preparation assistance for developer jobs to make web development accessible to anyone. Participants earn verified certifications in a wide variety of coding skills and graduates have gone on to work for leading technology companies including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Spotify.

If you’re interested in learning to code and want more information about coding education opportunities, also check out Career Karma — an app, resource, and community to help you discover the best coding bootcamp for you.

4. Learn the Skills to Follow a Creative Career Path

If you’re a creative person and you’d like to gain the skills to embark on a career that allows you to use your creative talents to make money, check out the training opportunities below.

Design

There are many different courses available to learn design skills without going to college. Here are some of our top picks:

The Graphic Design School

The Graphic Design School offers a variety of online design courses that teach you the skills you need to succeed as a graphic or web designer. These include its intensive foundation course (from $3,500), CUA40715 Certificate IV in Design (from $4,290), Web Design Course (from $695), and Design@Work Course (from $1,500).

Coursera

California Institute of the Arts’ Graphic Design Specialization through Coursera is a fully-online course for beginners. The course takes approximately 6 months to complete (at 3 hours per week) although students can complete it at their own pace, and includes a shareable certificate. Participants pay the Coursera subscription fee (typically $30-$80 per month) if they want the certificate but can participate free of charge if they don’t require the certificate.

Udemy

The Udemy Graphic Design Masterclass, which covers Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, design theory, branding, and logo design. Participants in this course should have access to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign (or Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher). Students learn at their own pace with 19 hours of on-demand video and more than 35 downloadable resources.

Canva Design School

User-friendly design platform Canva recently launched the Canva Design School, which hosts a variety of free design courses and tutorials

CareerFoundry

CareerFoundry offers a range of design courses with the guarantee that if you don’t find a job within 6 months of completion, you’ll get your money back. Courses include UX Design (10 months, from $6,555), UI Design (9 months, from $6,555), and more. All courses are fully-online and include mentorship and career support.

CreativeLive

CreativeLive offers a wide array of creative courses including Art & Design courses. Students can purchase access to individual courses or unlock more than 1,500 courses for life with the Creator Pass priced from $149.

Daily Logo Challenge

Daily Logo Challenge offers free prompts for daily design challenges – to help you level up your design chops in a self-directed manner. They also share their recommended best online design courses here.

Website Design

If you think you need to be able to code to build websites, you’re mistaken. Thanks to content management systems like WordPress and Wix – and drag-and-drop page builders like Elementor – it’s fairly easy to build professional websites that are responsive (adjust to any device) right out the box.
Here are some resources to help you learn how:

Wix

Wix is a website builder that allows users to build websites using a user-friendly drag-and-drop function. It also has a lot of comprehensive resources to help beginners get started, such as its Step-by-Step Guide: How to Build a Website from Scratch.

YouTube

YouTube is full of excellent tutorials to help you start building professional-grade websites in no time at all. My personal favorite channel for this is Tyler Moore, who has made a number of detailed step-by-step breakdowns to help beginners build awesome websites using Elementor, including How To Make a WordPress Website – In 24 Easy Steps and How To Make a WordPress Website – 2020. Tyler has also made a collection of super helpful website section templates available on his website.

HubSpot Academy

HubSpot is an absolute Mecca for digital content creators and marketers (we’ll talk about them in more detail in the section on Digital Marketing below). Check out their comprehensive free course on how to build websites using Elementor.

Skillshare

Skillshare is an online learning community that combines video tutorials with interactive, project-based learning in a subscription-based model. Skillshare is a great way to form connections with a community of like-minded individuals and an excellent opportunity to learn out loud and ask experts in your field for advice. Among the many courses available, check out the various courses on using Elementor for web design.

Cinematography/Videography

As video content grows ever more prominent as a medium for marketing, the demand for skilled video creators grows. Being able to plan, shoot, and edit high-quality video content will serve you well. Below, we’ve included our top picks for video skills courses.

Udemy

Udemy offers a number of excellent (and very affordable) video production courses, including:

And many more.

YouTube

DSLRguide is a YouTube channel dedicated to digital photography and cinematography education. Check out their Introduction to Filmmaking for Beginners and How to Edit Videos (for Beginners).
Think Mediais a YouTube channel by a collective of content creators that create detailed tech reviews, camera tutorials, and YouTube growth videos. Check out their video How to Make a YouTube Video (Beginners Tutorial).

Pluralsight

Pluralsight facilitates online education through video training courses for creative professionals, software developers, and IT administrators. Among its video editing skills courses are in-depth tutorials teaching everything from using Adobe products for video and audio production to getting started with Camtasia, to DSLR video production, to using various editing software to get the best results.

HubSpot Academy

We’ve mentioned HubSpot before, and we’ll discuss them in more detail below, because they truly offer a lot of great online educational resources. For now, check out The Beginner’s Guide to Editing YouTube Videos.

Photography

Do you have a passion for photography that you want to make your career? Or maybe you look at pro photographers’ shots on Instagram and think “I want to do that!” If so, check out the resources we’ve rounded up below:

The Digital Photography School

The Digital Photography School offers daily tips, resources, and free tutorials to help you get the most out of your camera. The Digital Photography School site hosts a ton of user-created content like helpful blogs full of tips to make you a better photographer and photo editor, as well as a huge range of short online digital photography courses.

Pixpa

Pixpa is an all-in-one platform for photographers where creators can host their portfolio, sell products through a built-in e-commerce function, and build their audience through photo blogs. Check out this awesome roundup of the 25 best photography workshops around the world by Anisha Singh.

CreativeLive

CreativeLive offers a wide array of creative courses including Photo & Video courses. Stud

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(2) every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose

All other individuals are defined as “non-residents.”

If this definition of “resident” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.

What categories of personal information do we collect?

We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:

Category	Examples	Collected
A. Identifiers	Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and account name	YES
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute	Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history and financial information	YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law	Gender and date of birth	YES
D. Commercial information	Transaction information, purchase history, financial details and payment information	NO
E. Biometric information	Fingerprints and voiceprints	NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity	Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems and advertisements	NO
G. Geolocation data	Device location	NO
H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information	Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities	NO
I. Professional or employment-related information	Business contact details in order to provide you our services at a business level, job title as well as work history and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us	YES
J. Education Information	Student records and directory information	NO
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information	Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics	NO

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories instances where you interact with us in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:

Receiving help through our customer support channels;

Participation in customer surveys or contests; and

Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

How do we use and share your personal information?

Praxis Careers LLC collects and shares your personal information through:

Targeting cookies/Marketing cookies
Social media cookies
Beacons/Pixels/Tags

More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice.

You may contact us by email at info@discoverpraxis.com, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.

If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf.

Will your information be shared with anyone else?

We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf.

The current list of our service providers can be found in below.

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal data.

Praxis Careers LLC has disclosed the following categories of personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months:

Category A. Identifiers, such as contact details, like your real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and account name.
Category B. Personal information, as defined in the California Customer Records law, such as your name, contact information, education, employment, employment history and financial information.
Category C. Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as gender or date of birth.

The categories of third parties to whom we disclosed personal information for a business or commercial purpose can be found under “WHO WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH?“.

Your rights with respect to your personal data

Right to request deletion of the data – Request to delete

You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.

Right to be informed – Request to know

Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:

whether we collect and use your personal information;
the categories of personal information that we collect;
the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.

In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights

We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Verification process

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.

We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. If, however, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.

Other privacy rights

you may object to the processing of your personal data
you may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data
you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission.

To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at info@discoverpraxis.com, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.

10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at info@discoverpraxis.com or by post to:

Praxis Careers LLC

__________

Dallas, TX

United States

12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please visit: info@discoverpraxis.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

This privacy policy was created using Termly’s Privacy Policy Generator.

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2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

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5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

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9. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

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