Dive Brief:

• Hack Reactor, a San Francisco company that offers 12-week coding program, has acquired MakerSquare, a similar coding school.
• MakerSquare teaches classes at Austin, TX, and San Francisco campuses. Like Hack Reactor, its classes are 12 weeks long and it requires applicants to complete an online coding challenge.
• MakerSquare will continue to operate separately from Hack Reactor, while taking some material from its new owner, to keep its own separate learning experience and culture, EdSurge reported.

Dive Insight:

Look for schools like these, which provide just enough specific professional skills training over a few months to land specific in-demand jobs, to become a more popular approach in higher education. Hack Reactor’s owner, Tony Phillips, says it was the applicant coding challenge that drew his interest because the two coding schools are the only ones with that requirement. Hack Reactor’s tuition is $17,780, compared to $13,880 for MarkerSquare.