Anthropic has collaborated with CodePath to reimagine collegiate coding education with AI, with Claude and Claude Code at the forefront of industry-aligned courses and career paths for more than 20,000 students enrolled in community colleges, state colleges, and HBCUs. With more than 40% of CodePath students coming from families with incomes below $50,000 per year, this effort seeks to democratize access to frontier technologies that have long been the domain of well-funded institutions. Claude is being embedded into applied AI engineering courses and open-source capstone projects, following successful pilots where students contributed to production repositories.
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“Claude Code was instrumental in my learning process, especially since I came into the project with very little experience in the programming languages used in the repository [including TypeScript and Node.js],” said Laney Hood, CodePath student and computer science major at Texas Tech University. The partnership also supports a new AI course at Howard University, developed with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. “We now have the technology to teach in two years what used to take four,” said Michael Ellison, Co-founder and CEO of CodePath. “But speed for some and not others just widens inequality. Partnering with Anthropic means our students learn to build with Claude from day one, at institutions that have historically been overlooked. This results in better outcomes for our students and a fundamentally different answer to who gets to shape the AI economy.”