Student outcomes
The method comes first
Most bootcamp outcome pages lead with a number and bury the method. We are doing it the other way round: here is exactly how we will count, published before we have a headline figure to protect.
Status
Where we are right now
Upkora is new. Our earliest cohorts are still running, which means we do not yet have a placement figure that clears the reporting window below.
No outcome figures published yet
Definitions
What each word means
These are the terms every figure we publish will use. They are deliberately strict, because loose definitions are how a 90 percent placement rate gets manufactured.
- Graduate
- Someone who completed every required module and the capstone project in the cohort they enrolled in, or in the cohort they deferred to. Partial completion does not count.
- Job seeking
- A graduate who told us at the end of the programme that they were actively looking for work. Graduates who were upskilling in a current role, who chose not to look, or who were unavailable to work are reported separately and excluded from the placement rate.
- Placed
- A job-seeking graduate who accepted a paid role, of at least 30 hours a week, in a position where the skills from their programme are a stated requirement. Contract roles of three months or longer count. Unpaid internships do not.
- Reporting window
- Placements are counted within 180 days of a graduate finishing the programme. Anything after that is reported as a separate figure, not folded into the headline number.
- Response rate
- The share of graduates we were able to verify an outcome for. Every published figure states it. A high placement rate on a low response rate is not a real number.
- Salary figures
- Base salary at the point of offer, in United States dollars, reported as a median rather than an average so that one large outlier cannot move it. We publish the sample size alongside it.
Our rules
How we hold ourselves to it
Four commitments that constrain what we are allowed to say about results.
Method before numbers
The definitions above were published before our first cohort finished. Setting the rules after seeing the data is how misleading outcome claims get made.
Verified, not self-reported
We confirm placements against an offer letter, a payslip or a public employment record. A graduate telling us it went well is not evidence.
We report the misses
Cohorts that underperform are published alongside the ones that do well. We also publish how many graduates we could not reach.
Per cohort, not lifetime
Figures are broken down by programme and by cohort. A blended lifetime average hides which programme is actually working.
In the meantime
What you can judge us on today
Until there are outcome figures, look at the things you can actually verify before you pay: who teaches the programme, what the curriculum covers week by week, what the tuition is and what happens to your money if you change your mind.
Judge the programme, not the marketing
Read the curriculum, check the instructors, then decide. We would rather you enrol with clear eyes than with a number we cannot back up.