BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training. BrainStation empowers individuals and organizations to achieve digital success through courses, workshops, events and corporate training.

BrainStation’s Education team of 250 industry professionals has trained over 100,000 people through campuses in New York, San Jose, Toronto and Vancouver.

What Sets BrainStation Apart?   

BrainStation’s LMS (Learning Management System), Synapse, is among the most sophisticated on offer in Canada. The live online learning platform allows students to attend live lectures, collaborate with other professionals, and get immediate feedback from instructors — wherever they are.

Lighthouse Labs was created as an experiment in 2013 by a group of software developers with a passion for code, mentorship, and education. The school’s mission: to continuously find the best ways to train the next generation of developers and to transform the way tech education is delivered. Over two years later, Lighthouse Labs is still chasing that same mission.

What Sets Lighthouse Labs Apart?   

When it comes to in-person training, Lighthouse Labs offers a more expansive geographic reach than any other Canadian coding bootcamp, with campuses from Vancouver to Halifax, with many stops in between. The college maintains a high job placement rate (95 percent within 180 days of graduation), high average student salary ($84,908), and high graduation rate (91 percent). In 2020, Lighthouse Labs committed $1 million in needs-based scholarship funding to new students. It also decided to build on its success educating the future coding workforce with new courses in data analytics and data science, including the new data science bootcamp.

CareerFoundry offers mentored online courses in UX design, UI design, data analytics and web development. The Berlin, Germany-based online educator is focused on helping beginners become tech professionals in as little as six months with help from dedicated mentors, tutors and career specialists. According to CareerFoundry, 96 percent of graduates land a job in their field within 180 days of graduation.

What Sets CareerFoundry Apart? 

CareerFoundry’s well-calibrated online, mentored, programs strike one of the best balances available today between live and self-paced online learning. Students receive individualized mentoring and support from their personal mentor and tutor through a live online learning environment, as well as from a dedicated team of student advisors and career specialists. Lessons are broken down into broad topics called Achievements, each of which is supported by a series of hands-on exercises designed to mimic actual work projects.

CareerFoundry’s Job Guarantee is another key differentiator. Students who do not land a job in their desired field within six months of graduating get their money back.

Le Wagon in Montreal offers a top-notch coding curriculum that gives students every bit of knowledge necessary to develop their own applications from the ground up. More than 160 startup companies have been founded by Le Wagon alumni, with a select few going on to be acquired by Apple.

What Sets Le Wagon Apart?

Students have the choice of either nine-week full-time studies or a 24-week part-time course load, both of which cover the same topics. With 40 hours of online prepwork to ensure students begin on more-or-less the same footing, Le Wagon offers considerable pre-program support compared to most other bootcamps. Prep also includes introductions to workflow tools and common terminology before students begin using a text editor.

Le Wagon’s nine week full-stack program is based out of 45 cities in 25 countries, aimed at those looking to start their own business or add technical skills to their portfolio. Grads come away with the knowledge of how to design every aspect of a website or app, with a heavy dose of exposure to local startup scenes and entrepreneurial thinking. In a typical day, students will find time for lectures, challenges, live coding events and yoga breaks.

At Juno College (formerly HackerYou), you get more than just a couple of awesome projects for your portfolio. When you make the decision to learn with Juno, you’re taking a big leap. It means you’re ready for change in your professional life. Juno’s goal is to give you the tools necessary to succeed. With that vision in mind, the Juno experience is tailored to you, and that’s why it’s among the top-rated tech schools in Toronto.

What Sets Juno College Apart?   

Juno, perhaps more than any other bootcamp, boasts a summer camp vibe and almost cult-like community following. The school is well-known for helping graduates foster close professional relationships within Toronto’s tech community and beyond.

Juno was the first coding bootcamp in Canada to offer Income Share Agreements (ISAs), which allow students taking its Web Development Immersive Bootcamp to pay tuition of just $1 until they land a full-time job in their field.

WeCloudData continues to evolve with customized bootcamps focused on data science and big data knowledge — but with plenty of coding education on offer for the data engineering inclined. The Toronto-based bootcamp bills itself as a leading data science education and career service provider in Canada. The school is known for serving as a bridge between devoted and passionate data scientists and companies who need help with challenging business problems in data analytics.

What Sets WeCloudData Apart?

WeCloudData may not be Canada’s best bootcamp for learning front-end development, but when it comes to Python, SQL and coding for data engineers, it shines. WeCloudData was one of the first bootcamps in Canada to offer advanced training in data science, and its co-founder, Shaohua Zhang, still spends plenty of time in the classroom, where he consistently gets top marks for teaching. Before co-founding WeCloudData, Zhang taught big data at Ryerson University and managed research and development projects at Blackberry.

Concordia University in Montreal is the highest ranked North American university to be founded within the last 50 years. It is also among only one other university on this list to offer to offer a job-focused web development program in an accelerated format. The University’s emphasis on coding and computing, part of what’s being billed as a plan to redefine the 21^st century university, is positioning itself to advance a Montreal tech boom.

In 2018, Concordia re-named its engineering department to the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science after Cody, an alumna, donated $15 million to the school. It is the first engineering school in Canada to be named after a woman.

What Sets Concordia Apart?

Concordia’s flagship Web Development Diploma program leaves students with a mastery of web development after 12 weeks. Partner DecodeMTL grants students unparalleled access to industry professionals who bridge the gap from education to employment.

More than 90 per cent of Concordia coding bootcamp students are hired within six months of graduation, with an average starting salary of $55,000. Additional programs focused on what to do after graduating, how to search for jobs more efficiently, and interview skills are available for bootcamp students as well.

The University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (SCS) is among the largest providers of continuing education in Canada, with more than 700 courses, 40 program areas, 100 certificates and 700 instructors. The University has partnered with Trilogy Education Services, an NYC-based education technology company, to deliver a variety of programs in a bootcamp format, from coding to data analytics, digital marketing and fintech (financial technology).

What Sets the University of Toronto SCS Bootcamps Apart? 

UofT SCS “Boot Camps” offer more flexible learning options than most bootcamps, with part-time and full-time options for students who want the same intensive bootcamp experience but can’t afford to take time off work. Despite a bumpy start in 2017, the School has continued to fine-tune its curriculum and expand its offerings into a variety of in-demand digital training options, with a robust network of companies and instructors to show for it. The School has strengthened its career services, too, with coaching, portfolio and resume assistance, and technical interview training, now available to all students.

CodeCore Developer Bootcamp is an intensive in-person training program in professional web development that runs for 12 weeks at a time, 6 times a year, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

CodeCore program administrators work with some of the biggest names in the industry. Great companies such as Wishpond, ZOZI, Clio, Sage, ModernAdvisor, and BMC have formed partnerships with CodeCore, and organizations such as Simon Fraser University, and Canadian Women in Communications have also built relationships with us.

CodeCore Developer Bootcamp is a program of CodeCore, which is recognized by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education as a PTIB Designated Institution.

What Sets CodeCore Apart?   

Interested in learning full-stack web development? CodeCore offers training across a breadth of programming languages in a notoriously intensive study environment (students arrive on campus at 8:00AM each weekday and get plenty of coaching time from instructors who stay late into the evening). To help improve workplace diversity, CodeCore offers all female students a $500 scholarship upon enrolment into its full-time coding bootcamp.