Finance
Your New
Career Path.
At LEARN, we offer multiple ways to fund your coding education. With available scholarships, discounts, and industry leading lenders, we want to make it as easy as possible to get you in our coding classroom.
Fund Your Future
Ascent and LEARN Academy have partnered to provide students with flexible and accessible financing options for their education. Ascent’s goal is to help students from all walks of life and backgrounds get access to the programs that interest them.
Flexible Repayment Options allow students to make no payments while in school and three months after.
Access to Cost of Living Expenses provides support not just for tuition, but also for day-to-day expenses while students focus on their studies.
No prepayment penalties, potentially reducing the total cost by limiting accrued interest.
Meratas
Experience financial freedom with LEARN’s partnership with Meratas. Access diverse, flexible loan options via a streamlined application that won’t impact your credit score. Their inclusive approach ensures accessible options for everyone, regardless of past financial challenges. As part of our commitment to comprehensive financial support, our partnership with Meratas also assists you in securing funds for cost-of-living.
Joining the Meratas Multi-Lender Marketplace is free and won't affect your credit score.
In just three minutes, you can complete one application and receive numerous private loan offers from lenders throughout the nation.
Diverse national lenders provide you with a variety of rates, offering more choices when it comes to financing your education at LEARN.
Cover your living expenses with ease as our platform also extends support to meet your daily financial needs
Pay As You Go
LEARN academy and Climb Credit have partnered together for our ‘Pay as you go’ plan. Allowing learners to make payments toward the tuition throughout the four months of the full-stack coding bootcamp. This new payment option will also help students avoid interest and loan fees and allow them to pay over time rather than pay everything upfront.
Make 4 recurring payments by debit card, credit card, or bank transfer - no fees.
The first payment is due once enrolled; the following payments are processed automatically every 30 days.
Payment excludes a $500 deposit.
Deferred
Tuition
Agreement
Deferred Tuition Agreements with Stride lets you pay an affordable, fixed monthly amount only after graduation and once you are employed and earning more than $2,500/month (or $30,000 annually).
With a DTA, there is no accruing interest—ever! Even while you’re in school.
The DTA payback timeline only lasts 4 years instead of the 10+ years it can take for a traditional loan.
Our DTAs include grace periods and automatic deferral for times when you are unemployed and/or make less than the minimum income threshold.
Meritize
Loans
For students who aren’t able to afford the LEARN tuition upfront, we provide loans through our financing partner, Meritize. Once your loan is approved, LEARN will reach out with the next steps in the admissions process.
Meritize looks beyond your FICO score and uses your previous academic, military, or work achievements to potentially improve your loan options.
Meritize allows you to defer payments for up to 3 months after graduation.
Meritize lets students who may lack a co-borrower improve their loan options by sharing their past merits.
VET TEC
LEARN academy is proud to announce we have been accepted into the VET TEC program. VET TEC (Veteran Through Technology Education Courses) is a benefit for Veterans who are off duty or near off duty. Veterans can use their GI benefits towards the VET TEC program to help launch their new careers in high-technology industries.
VET TEC allows veterans to retrain and pursue a career in high-demand industries like computer programming and web development.
VET TEC covers your tuition as well as money for housing during your training.
Scholarships
& Discounts
As part of our commitment to building an authentically representative, welcoming industry, LEARN Academy offers several scholarships and discounts and works with foundations and scholarship funds with the singular goal of widening the entryway to tech.
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Through a concrete curriculum, extremely strong network, public speaking opportunities, and intensive job prep LEARN helped me land my first job as a developer within a week after my internship. Even after graduation, LEARN continues to provide me with tools to get out of my head and get into the world and make an impact through extended education opportunities at meetups and various networking events.
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