Alex Ross, who graduated in October from an intensive design boot camp at General Assembly coding school in New York City, is still looking for a job. But while the former media producer is eager to launch her new career, she’s not particularly worried about paying the $14,700 tuition.

Ms. Ross took advantage of General Assembly’s new income-share-agreement program, a financing strategy that has the school fronting the tuition in exchange for a percentage of its graduates’ future earnings.

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