University-Run Boot Camps Offer Students Marketable Skills — but Not Course Credit

Northeastern University is planning to offer a boot-camp style program called Level at a space in downtown Boston. (Adam Glanzman, Northeastern U.)

Level, a venture that offers students courses in data analytics, has a motto of sorts. It’s written in large letters across the program’s website: “Real skills. Real experience. Two months.”

That motto sounds a lot like the boot-camp style of education offered by companies like General Assembly. But Level, a product of Northeastern University, is nei...