Mission We founded Make School to empower students to build and ship products. Creating a product that improves the lives of others is a thrilling and fulfilling experience that opens the door to a successful career in tech. We’re building the college experience we wished existed, one where our students love coming to school every day and are passionate about their work.
Description Make School is redesigning higher education for the 21st century. Our emphasis is on ensuring the relevance of education for the modern economy and accessibility to students of all backgrounds.
Students earn a Bachelor’s in Applied Computer Science while studying liberal arts, computer science theory, and product development. Our outcomes are on par with schools like Stanford and MIT with alumni working at companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Y Combinator startups.
Students can graduate in 2 years and pay tuition through Income Share Agreements as a percentage of their salary once employed. We also provide low-income students with living assistance to help cover their living expenses. 45% of our students are underrepresented students of color, while 66% are from low-mid income families.
Make School was founded in 2014 and is funded by Learn Capital, Y Combinator, Kapor Capital, Fresco Capital, Tim Draper, and Alexis Ohanian.
Make School has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Make School employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 78% of employees would recommend working at Make School to a friend. This is based on 25 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
91% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Make School as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Make School.