ACUITUS

BECOME ESSENTIAL

WE CREATE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS

LEARN REMOTELY, WORKING WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL PERSONAL TUTOR

 

Our five month Information Technology (IT) program is the result of a fifteen-year joint effort between Stanford faculty, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US Navy, Department of Veterans Affairs and DARPA (the nation’s premier research organization). Participants start with no experience and exit five months later joining the best in the IT field.

Over 1,200 have gone through the program. In the Navy, sailors entered the Fleet as the advanced, “go-to” ITs, better than the best with ten years of experience. In the commercial world, our IT engineers see an average salary increase of 15% per year over the first five years. We know how to create experts, and we expect everyone who starts the program to succeed – over 98% have completed the program on time, to exceptional standards.

 

In The News

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Melinda Gates - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
"Our foundation is very excited about the work of a company called Acuitus...The Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) matched graduates of a 16-week Acuitus [IT] training program against [Navy Fleet] experts with up to 15 years IT experience. The Acuitus students had no prior IT background and were not college bound. Yet in all categories, the Acuitus students dominated. They learned in 16 weeks more than others had learned in 15 years.”
Read her full talk at the Excellence in Education Summit
View IDA's comprehensive analysis here.

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Rob Joyce - NSA Director of Cybersecurity
"Our key to success is knowing that network better than the people who set it up. If you really want to protect your network, you really have to know your network. Well run networks really do make our job hard. I'm going to use best practices for exploitation. Are you gonna use best practices for defense?"
Watch the NSA's full talk from USENIX Enigma 2016.
Read the transcript from NSA's talk.


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Tom Kalil on NPR - President Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director
"After four or five months, these new Navy recruits [trained by Acuitus] were outperforming [IT] people who had been with the Navy for seven to ten years."

Read the NPR Marketplace story.
Learn about our IT School for the US Navy.
 
 

The Program

As an IT intern, you will spend five months solving the hardest Information Technology problems you can handle, until you are solving some of the hardest in the field – on your own.  As you work from home, you will connect directly into your own enterprise-class server-room, remotely, the norm for advanced ITs today. 

At your elbow are elite tutors – elite engineers and exceptional AI – effectively working with you shoulder to shoulder, always challenging you to understand what you are doing.  Your experience will be unique, transformational and exceptionally powerful. This is the way training should be.


The Opportunity

Information Technology is an Essential Service, critical to supporting our digital infrastructure, critical as we move forward into the new ‘normal.’  In these uncertain times, the need for highly-qualified ITs is certain.

For you, this presents an opportunity:

  • If you find yourself with little to do as we shelter-in-place, this is the time to transform yourself into an expert IT;

  • If you are frustrated by traditional education, but passionate about technology and becoming an expert IT, you can get there in five months;

  • Using the Pay For Success program from our partner Social Finance, you don’t need to pay until you are well employed; and we don’t succeed unless you succeed;

  • We have also partnered with the VA to offer those in the Veteran Readiness & Employment (VR&E) program full-ride tuition scholarship.

If you want a high-intensity, high-achievement internship which is all hands-on, solving real-world problems, focused on teaching you to understand the hard ideas underpinning IT, this is the opportunity for you.



The Numbers


1,200+ HAVE GONE THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS

98% Graduate to an exceptionally high standard


75% OF GRADUATES IN MID-TO-SENIOR LEVEL POSITIONS WITHIN 3 YEARS

At Cisco, PayPal, USAA, Amazon, EMC, the US Navy, Palo Alto Networks, Booz Allen Hamilton, Brocade, eBay, Microsoft, and Akamai to name a few...


$0 cost unless you're well employed after graduation



OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR PROGRAMS IN SILICON VALLEY + WASHINGTON D.C.


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