Project-first teaching
You ship five graded projects per diploma — a dataset pipeline, a trained model, a deployed API, a front end and a capstone you can show at interview.
Admissions open — Autumn 2026
Learn AI. Build the Future.
Industry-focused diploma programs designed to prepare students for real-world careers in artificial intelligence and software development.
18Weeks average program
1:12Instructor to student ratio
92%Complete their diploma
Diploma in AI Development
Python for machine learning100%
Neural networks & training76%
Model deployment on cloud42%
Capstone project15%
Verifiable certificate
Live weekly mentoring
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Why Cloud Institute
Built around the job you want next
Every program is written with hiring managers, taught by working engineers, and assessed on the work you actually produce.
Instructors from industry
Classes are led by engineers and data scientists who still work in the field, so the tooling you learn is the tooling teams use this year.
Certificates anyone can check
Each certificate carries a unique ID. Employers confirm it in seconds on our public verification page — no phone calls, no paperwork.
Schedules that fit work
Morning, evening and weekend cohorts run in parallel. Recordings and labs stay open for twelve months after you graduate.
Mentoring, not just lectures
Small cohorts get weekly one-to-one code review, plus a mentor channel that answers within a few hours on working days.
Career support that lasts
CV clinics, mock technical interviews and introductions to our hiring partners continue for six months after graduation.
Popular programs
Start with a diploma that has a clear outcome
Four of our most-enrolled programs. Each includes a certificate, graded projects and mentor review.
Flagship
Diploma in AI Development
Build, train and deploy machine learning systems end to end, from data collection to a served model with monitoring.
€1,999Exam & certificate included
Most enrolled
Full-Stack Web Development
Take a product from wireframe to production: semantic front ends, REST APIs, databases, authentication and deployment.
€1,999Exam & certificate included
New
Prompt Engineering for Professionals
Design reliable prompts, evaluate model output against a rubric, and wire language models into real business workflows.
€1,999Exam & certificate included
AI tools
The assistants you will actually use at work
We teach the tools teams have already adopted, and we teach them honestly — including where each one gets things wrong and how to check its output before you rely on it.
Claude
Anthropic
An assistant built for long documents, careful reasoning and code. Known for very large context windows, so you can hand it a full codebase or a hundred-page report and ask questions about all of it at once.
In class: Structured prompting, document analysis, code review, and calling the API from your own app.
ChatGPT
OpenAI
The most widely used AI assistant in the world. Handles text, images and voice, runs custom assistants you configure yourself, and exposes the same models through an API.
In class: Prompt patterns that hold up under pressure, building a custom assistant, and API basics.
Gemini
Google's multimodal assistant, built into Search, Android and the Workspace apps most offices already run on.
In class: Multimodal prompts across text and images, and automating document and spreadsheet work.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub / Microsoft
An AI pair programmer that lives inside your editor, completing code as you type and answering questions about the file you have open.
In class: Pair programming discipline, and how to review AI-written code before it reaches a pull request.
Midjourney
Midjourney, Inc.
A generative image tool used heavily in design, marketing and concept work, driven entirely by written prompts and reference images.
In class: Image prompt structure, style control, iteration, and what the licence does and does not allow.
Perplexity
Perplexity AI
An answer engine that searches the live web and cites its sources, rather than answering from memory alone.
In class: Research workflows, source checking, and knowing when a citation is doing real work.
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Fees
One price, everything included
The same fee covers every program on this page. No separate exam fee, no charge to issue or verify your certificate.
- Live classes and recordings for the full program, replayable for twelve months.
- Final exam and one free resit if you do not pass first time.
- Certificate issued and registered, verifiable by ID for life at no extra cost.
- Weekly mentor code review on your own repository.
- Career support for six months after graduation.
- Pay in three instalments at no extra cost, or in full for 10% off.
Student reviews
Graduates, in their own words
I came in writing spreadsheet macros and left with a deployed recommendation model. The capstone review was tougher than my job interview — which is exactly why the interview went well.
Zara AhmedDiploma in AI Development
Evening cohorts meant I kept my job while studying. My mentor reviewed every pull request line by line, and the habits from those reviews are the ones I use at work now.
Bilal NawazFull-Stack Web Development
The machine learning module never let us hide behind a library. We derived the maths, then implemented it, then compared it to the framework version. That order changed how I debug.
Mehak SiddiquiMachine Learning Fundamentals
I run operations, not engineering. The prompt engineering course gave me an evaluation rubric I still use to decide whether an AI workflow is safe to roll out to the team.
Omar FarooqPrompt Engineering for Professionals
Questions
Answers before you apply
Anyone aged 16 or above with a secondary school qualification. Beginner programs assume no coding background; intermediate programs ask for basic programming, which you can prove with a short online assessment.
Short certificates run 8 to 12 weeks; full diplomas run 20 to 24 weeks. Expect six to nine hours a week of live class plus lab time you schedule yourself.
Every certificate carries a unique ID that anyone can check on our verification page. Employers see the student name, course, result and issue date without contacting us.
Every program costs €1,999, which includes the final exam and the certificate. Pay in full for a 10% discount, or split it into three monthly instalments at no extra cost. Merit scholarships cover 25% to 50% of tuition for applicants who pass the entrance assessment.
Yes. You can move to the next cohort once per program at no charge, as long as you tell us before the halfway point. Your completed modules carry over.
Course recordings and labs stay open for twelve months. Career services — CV review, mock interviews and partner introductions — run for six months after your final assessment.