Holberton School cited for innovation
The Holberton School New Haven, which employs a unique business model to educate software engineers, has been named Connecticut’s “Innovator of the Month” by U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy.
Founded in San Francisco by tech entrepreneurs Julien Barbier and Sylvain Kalache, Holberton has made its mark by virtue of an innovative, non-profit post-secondary educational model that leverages hands-on project-based peer learning to train “full-stack” software engineers for the rapidly growing number of jobs across the entire spectrum of technology industries.
The school, which opened a branch in District New Haven on James Street last September, also aims to lower barriers to education to ensure community members from a wide spectrum of socioeconomic backgrounds have access to technology careers while being part of the digital transformation.
The school aims to accomplish this through a blind application process intended to reduce or eliminate human bias. Holberton is also best known for its unique tuition model, that requires no up-front tuition payments in lieu of a commitment by students to pay the school a percentage of their future earnings after they complete the two-year Holberton curriculum.
Holberton has no fixed tuition structure. Students have the option of deferring upfront payments and pledging 17 percent of their future earnings for 3.5 years — provided they are hired for positions that pay in excess of $40,000 annually.
Holberton officials say their objective is to double the number of locally based software engineering students in just a few years, helping to fill the current talent gap in one of the fastest growing fields in Connecticut.
Holberton's list of corporate partners (those looking to support and hire the budding full software engineers) includes companies including Scroll Network, Digital Surgeons, SeeClickFix, Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky, Stanley Black & Decker, and iDevices.
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