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Learn the Skills You Need to Launch a New Career in Tech for Free

Change your career through LaunchCode’s tuition-free, flexible education and job placement services.

Launch Your Tech Career Through These Skill Tracks

Data Analysis

Our Data Analysis course trains learners to use data to answer business questions and assist in making business decisions. In this course, LaunchCoders utilize Microsoft Excel, Python, SQL, and Tableau to clean, profile, model, and visualize data.

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Software Development

Our Software Development is designed to teach practical tech skills at an accelerated pace in a supportive environment. This course teaches learners foundational programming concepts and front-end programming in JavaScript, and object-oriented programming in Java.

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How it Works

Here’s how the typical LaunchCoder starts their career in tech:

Discover & Apply

Discover what career track and relevant training opportunity is right for you and apply.

Learn & Prepare

Learn and prepare for a career in tech through our free technical skills training and career support program.

Launch Your Career

Launch your career in tech through our job placement services. 75% of graduates enter the tech industry!

Discover & Apply

Discover LaunchCode’s Programs

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Learn About the Application Process

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Learn & Prepare

Learn Technical Skills

Our award-winning free technical training program prepares you for the skills you need in tech.

Prepare for Your Career

Our Liftoff Program prepares you with the career skills you’ll need.

Launch Your Career

Placement Services

Our team connects you with opportunities and prepares you for interviews to be career-ready.

Apprenticeship Model

Our unique apprentice-to-hire model allows you to get real-world experience while getting paid.

Launch Your Tech Career at Our Employer Partners

Real LaunchCoder Stories

“We had too much debt and too much obligation to afford anything more than free.”

- Katie Straubinger

Web Developer

“I’ve done about five or six different career paths and never found my niche, then I ran into LaunchCode.”

- Shawn Jones

Web Developer

“To watch people use and touch the things I’ve created … it’s really something special.”

- Al Lopez

UX Designer

Thanks to These Program Supporters

How LaunchCode Courses Stay Free

LaunchCode is a nonprofit on a mission to create new pathways to careers in technology. By shifting the burden of training costs away from the learner and to the employer, everyone benefits.

LaunchCode’s unique model relies on three sources: donations from community members, public and private grants to support education and job preparedness, and the revenue we earn from employers after paying wages and benefits to our apprentices. Because we’re a nonprofit organization, all the money goes to support the next cohort of classes and apprenticeship jobs, and the cycle sustains itself.

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