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Students

Explore careers in tech and build your skills through free online courses, programs, and digital badges.

Professionals

Taking the next step in your career or considering a job change? This wide range of offerings can help you reach your goals.

Educators

Bring industry expertise directly to your classroom with these toolkits, curriculum enhancements, and professional development courses.

Organizations

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University Faculty

Learn how IBM can provide software, research, expertise and learning to advance relevant technical skills for your students.

What our learners are doing

From high school students to professionals looking for reskilling, our programs are meeting learners at all stages of their careers.

(IBM SkillsBuild) - North Carolina

Christian Stevenson

Christian completed IBM’s SkillsBuild Blockchain Curriculum after deciding to make a career change during the pandemic. Less than two months later, he secured a job as a blockchain programmer.

(P-TECH + IBM apprenticeship) - Connecticut

Adriana Cifuentes

Adriana has a strong passion for all things art, but also wanted to explore careers in tech. She was able to combine these two interests by studying web design at P-TECH and joining IBM’s UX Design Apprenticeship after graduation.

(P-TECH + IBM apprenticeship) - Chicago

Everardo Guiterrez

Everardo was first exposed to tech as a student in the P-TECH program. After graduation, he deepened his knowledge of coding by obtaining a bachelor’s degree in IT and computer science. This past year he joined IBM as a software engineer apprentice.

(SkillsBuild for Students) - Taiwan

Yen-Hsiang Tseng

Yen-Hsiang learned about IBM SkillsBuild for Students from his IT teacher, and within two months earned 9 badges on the platform. He loves how SkillsBuild is an organized and integrated platform with rich content that allows him to learn freely and gain industry-recognized badges. He plans on continuing to use the platform to supplement his studies in college.

(SkillsBuild for Teachers) - Taiwan

Wen-Chi Wang

Wen-Chi is the library director at one of IBM’s STEM for Girls partner high schools. She loves the Python curriculum on IBM SkillsBuild because it provides accessible content that allows students to learn at their own pace.

OHUB (New SkillsBuild for Job Seekers Partner)

Rodney Sampson
Co-founder of OHUB

"Opportunity Hub is excited to double click on its work to bring Black, Latinx & Indigenous Americans and beyond into the technology, startup and venture ecosystem in collaboration with IBM and Skillsbuild. Let’s create an equitable future, together!"

Core Topics

Discover the path that's right for you with key technologies, tools and processes for you to sharpen your competitive edge.

Infrastructure & Hardware