Located at Granville and W Pender, BrainStation’s Vancouver campus boasts 20,000 square-foot of vibrant community space befitting of a digital skills training company with global ambitions. The campus, as with the school’s campus in Toronto, offers digital training in web development, data science, digital marketing, UX and UI design, and product management.

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.

BrainStation is also one of the first colleges in Canada to offer Income Share Agreements (ISAs), which allow students to pay tuition only after they secure full-time work in their chosen fields of study. ISAs can be used for online or in-class diploma programs in web development, data science, UX design and digital marketing.

Lighthouse Labs Vancouver calls Devhub, a modern co-working space designed to bring developers together, its home in Western Canada. The space is a collective of developers from all spectrums of the tech world.

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?   

Lighthouse Labs is one of the few top-ranked bootcamps to focus exclusively on web development, with depth in full-stack development unsurpassed by many Canadian coding bootcamps. (It’s also currently the only bootcamp to offer a blockchain course for web developers.)

Despite steady growth since opening in 2013, including the introduction of new business courses, CodeCore has remained loyal to its west coast roots. The only-offered-in-Vancouver bootcamp is best known for its 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.

What Sets CodeCore Apart?   

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.

VanArts was founded in 1995 with Academy-Award winning animator/director Lee Mishkin as its founding program director. Recognizing the industry’s need for a skilled and specialized workforce, for over 20 years VanArts has offered a variety of highly focused diploma programs designed to prepare students for work in specific areas of the media arts including Visual Effects Production, Game Art & Design, Character Animation, Professional Photography, Acting for Film & Television, Web Development and Broadcasting.

What Sets VanArts Apart?   

VanArts’ Web Development & Interactive Design program is multi-disciplinary unlike any other in Vancouver. The program offers a 40-40-20 split between web design, programming and business, including agile development. The program serves as a bridge between tech and creative industries like film, art, media and communication.

*Update: RED Academy closed its Vancouver campus in April 2020. To learn more, here’s a letter from the team.

RED Academy, which stands for “redefining education,” believes tech needs more talent, more innovation, and more inclusivity. Yet despite the demand, traditional models of post-secondary education are not preparing students for an industry that’s constantly changing. So, RED Academy decided to do something about it.

RED is for people who want fulfilling, innovative, and important work. It’s for having creative freedom, for making connections, and for having a say in what happens next. It’s for designing your tomorrow.

What Sets RED Academy Apart?   

One thing that truly differentiates RED Academy from its competitors is a unique combination of in-class instruction and hands-on learning assignments—such as developing websites or digital marketing strategies—for real companies within RED’s community network.