Anyone here took General Assembly’s part-time UX class? I am ad background, has less than a year ux experience ( mostly website wires + visual). GA vs. grad school in HCI, what do you recommend?

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I went to the GA open house. The alumni all had exceptionally mediocre jobs. Later that week I had coffee with a programmer friend who basically said “trying to get a job with GA certificate is trying to compete with Harvard grads using a HVAC repair certificate.”

Seems like a good idea but doesn’t payout over time

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I went the grad school route and it had a big payout for me. I was able to get a degree from an accredited school and use my work tuition benefits to avoid debt.

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Grad school where companies you want to work for go to recruit. I'd use GA to learn a secondary skill to make myself more marketable, or to learn enough coding to do my own thing.

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Alumni networks are veryyy powerful

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@ senior art director 1 : yeah that was one of my concerns. I come from A-list agency in new york and I only saw one person from GA. Rest were from CMU

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Thanks everyone!!

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