Cockroach School teaches AI from absolute basics to training your own models, so no matter how the world changes, you adapt, build, and survive.
From your first line of Python to RAG, agents, deployment and a fine-tuned model. Six shipped projects. This is the core of Cockroach School.
See the curriculum →Train language models, not just call them. Data pipelines, pretraining a small model from scratch, supervised fine-tuning, DPO and RLHF, evals, quantisation and serving on GPUs.
Ask about the next batch →Learn to find customers, not just build for them. ICP and list building, LinkedIn outreach, cold email and deliverability, WhatsApp follow-ups, Meta lead ads, CRM pipeline, and getting found by AI search. You run it all on LeadWoo for a real business, and keep the account through the course.
Ask about the next batch →The entrepreneurship program. Turn the AI product you shipped into a company: first customers, pricing, sales, incorporation, fundraising, demo day.
Ask about the next batch →We don't award degrees. We help you enrol in a UGC-recognised online degree from a university that teaches and awards it directly, and we schedule the residency around it.
Laptop open. Python, VS Code, your first API call to an LLM. No theory week.
Your first AI product is deployed on a real URL with real users giving you real feedback.
Six shipped AI projects including a model you trained yourself, a production-grade portfolio, and the AI engineering interviews to show for it.
Everything starts with building AI: Python, LLM APIs, RAG, agents, deployment, then training your own models. Only once you can ship do we teach you how to find customers, sell it, and build a company around it.
Every module ends with something deployed, not a quiz. You learn RAG by shipping a RAG app, agents by shipping an agent.
Beds on campus in Madhapur, minutes from Hitech City. Your desk, your bunk, and your cohort under one roof.
Python, FastAPI, OpenAI / Claude / Gemini APIs, embeddings, vector databases, PyTorch and Hugging Face, Docker and cloud deployment. The tools teams actually hire for.
Instructors who build AI products for a living, plus sessions with founders and operators who use AI every day. Ask anything, get real answers.
Work on live problems inside startups next door while you study, so your first job is not your first job.
The residency fits around a UGC-recognised online degree, so you don't choose between a qualification and real skills.
A battle-tested roadmap to become an AI engineer, whether you are starting from scratch or upgrading from software engineering.
Open-plan desks, whiteboards everywhere, fast internet. Sessions run here, so does your late-night debugging.
Dormitory beds a staircase away from your desk. Rent is separate from the program fee, and you can opt out if you live in Hyderabad.
5th Floor, RR Building, 100 Feet Main Road, Madhapur. Walkable to the startups and offices you'll intern at.
Learn online. Connect offline. The Cockroach community turns up where the people using AI at scale are, asks hard questions, and brings the lessons back to campus.
The cohort doesn't wait for industry to visit. We go to it: conferences, demo days and founder meetups, with notes shared back to everyone on campus.
“Cockroach School throws you into chaos. Real problems, real pressure, real learning. Then it teaches you how to survive and win.”Simran Kour Sidhu
| Round | Deadline | Cohort starts |
|---|---|---|
| Early bird | — | — |
| Regular | Until seats fill | — |
Program fee and bed pricing are shared on the call. Scholarships for applicants who have already shipped something, anything, on their own.
Fill the short form below. Name, number, and one honest paragraph.
We talk about where you are, which track fits, and whether you'll actually enjoy six months of this.
No aptitude test. You get a small brief and two days. Beginners get a no-code version. We look at how you think, not what you know.
Seat confirmed, bed allotted if you want one, and a pre-work pack so Day 1 starts fast.
Yes. The beginner track starts at Module 0 with the programming mindset and setup. Half the cohort usually starts from zero.
Full-time, yes. Residential is optional. Beds on campus are priced separately from the program, and Hyderabad locals can commute.
Both. You start by building on OpenAI, Claude and Gemini APIs because that is how most products ship. Then you go under the hood: PyTorch, Hugging Face, fine-tuning open models with LoRA on a GPU, evaluating and serving them. You leave knowing when to train and when not to.
Six deployed projects with live URLs, including a model you fine-tuned yourself, a portfolio built to a standard hiring managers recognise, and interview preparation for AI engineering roles.
No, and it doesn't have to. The schedule is designed to fit around a UGC-recognised online degree if you want to keep one running.
Not first. The AI Engineering Residency and the LLM Training Lab come first. Then GTM Lab teaches you to find customers with LeadWoo, and Cockroach Founders is the entrepreneurship program for people who want to build a company around what they shipped.
Cockroach School doesn't award degrees. Like other new-age schools, we help you pair the residency with a UGC-recognised online degree from a university that teaches and awards it directly, so you leave with both.
Because they survived everything the planet threw at them. Dinosaurs didn't. Adapt, build, survive.
Tell us what you want to learn. A human from the team replies, usually the same day.
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