Make School offers an accelerated bachelor’s degree program developed in partnership with Silicon Valley employers, including Lyft and LinkedIn. The program can be completed in as little as two years and was approved by the same accreditors as Stanford and Berkeley. Make School operates a pay-for-performance tuition model that requires students to make payments only if their post-graduation income exceeds $60,000. The college reports graduates have launched careers at employers including Google, Apple, and Tesla. With the new funding, the company plans to scale to serve thousands of students in San Francisco and to prepare for a New York City campus launch. It also intends to add new degree programs in computing-influenced STEM fields, such as computational biology. Make School offers a two-year bachelor’s degree in computer science and software engineering. Founded in 2012 by Jeremy Rossmann and Ashu Desai and based in San Francisco, the company operates as a B‑Corp. It uses an outcomes-aligned tuition model and only gets paid when graduates secure jobs paying at least $60,000 per year. Make School emphasizes access for underrepresented students, reporting that 45% of its students are Latino or Black and that admissions consider work history and family obligations alongside academic metrics. Graduates have landed roles at companies including Facebook, Google, Tesla, and Amazon. The school has raised $10 million to date from investors including Y Combinator, Tim Draper, and East Ventures.

Total raised

$25M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Apr 2019