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Title is a bit click baity, but I agree with the author's points.

He sees it as a negative thing, but I see it as a massive improvement on college/uni/grad schools, who wouldn't even know where to start with gathering/publishing this data.

Bootcamps are subject to market forces in a way most colleges are not, and it's initiatives like this (what the author is proposing) that give me a sense of optimism for how they'll evolve.

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> He sees it as a negative thing, but I see it as a massive improvement on college/uni/grad schools, who wouldn't even know where to start with gathering/publishing this data.

This isn't true in the US. Many schools do actually try to collect this data, but they're typically dealing with far larger populations with far less response rate to surveys, so it isn't as readily available.

Law schools especially report the number of students with jobs, but they're notorious for gaming the system by doing things like hiring their own graduates for a year post graduation and similar nonsense.

True - many schools collect employment data, but unlike the author, they don't tend to shine light on "total costs of program" (like four years of $30-50k/yr salary + housing expenses + books)

Ah, law schools...

This is a great point. Can you imagine if every college major published its job placement stats and average salary?

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