Silicon Valley Coding School Holberton Expands to Morocco, Third African Campus

Holberton offers a project-based university alternative to train the next generation of software engineers. By setting up in the kingdom, the Silicon Valley-born company aims to continue its mission of helping to fill the lack of IT talent in Africa and train more than 250,000 Africans before the end of this year, according to a statement from the California startup.

In Morocco, a little less than a hundred Moroccan students are already benefiting from these software engineering programs and solutions. "Since the beginning of the year, 95 Moroccan students are currently enrolled in our programs. Holberton plans to open a physical campus in Morocco in 2 or 3 years," Julien Barbier, founder and CEO of Holberton, told Challenge.

Holberton offers innovative and high-quality university programs delivered in person and digitally around the world. These programs have attracted thousands of students on the African continent, particularly in 2022. "This demonstrates the growing interest of Africans in IT professions and the need for training on the continent, partly met by Holberton’s solutions," the same source points out.

These intensive 12 to 24 month programs, with university-level certifications equivalent to those in Silicon Valley, cover all IT professions: software developers specialized in full-stack web development, front-end, back-end, machine learning, AR/VR or blockchain, it is added.