Neumont College of Computer Science

Summary

Neumont is a small, private for-profit college in downtown Salt Lake City that teaches computer science and essentially nothing else. The federal record lists 476 students, 453 of them undergraduates, taught by 13 full-time and 11 part-time faculty, at 143 South Main Street (IPEDS record). Its Carnegie classification is Special Focus Four-Year: Engineering and Other Technology-Related Schools — the category for institutions built around one field.

It has operated since 2003 and states that it is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, with a model built on project-based learning and enterprise projects done with outside companies (official website).

Two things are worth flagging before anything else. It is for-profit and Title IV-participating — its students take federal loans and Pell Grants — which is a category that warrants scrutiny of outcomes this page does not yet have. And it does not use one name consistently: the federal record and its own contact block say "Neumont College of Computer Science", while its website's hero and copyright line say "Neumont University".

Impact

Neumont's significance in Utah is structural rather than headline. It is not large and it is not famous, but it occupies a slot almost nothing else in the state fills: a degree-granting institution whose entire program is software, organized around building things for real companies rather than around a general curriculum with a CS major inside it.

The measurable evidence of that focus is in the federal record and is unusually stark. Of the school's 24 faculty, zero are classified in research and public service — all are instructional. This is a teaching institution with no research arm, which is exactly what the Carnegie special-focus classification implies and is the opposite of how the state's other computer science capacity is organized at the University of Utah, BYU, or Utah State.

Its second role is as community infrastructure. The campus is a venue the local technology community actually uses — Utah Kids Code Camp has been hosted there (Kids Code Camp 2026 announcements) — which is a small thing that recurs, and the kind of contribution a downtown campus can make that a suburban one cannot.

What this page cannot assess is whether the model works. No graduation rate, employment outcome, loan repayment rate, or student debt figure has been pulled, and for a for-profit institution those are the numbers that matter most.

Utah Context

Neumont sits at 143 South Main Street, in the core of downtown Salt Lake City rather than on a campus at the edge of a suburb — with student housing attached, which is unusual for an institution of its size and makes it a genuinely residential downtown presence.

It fills a specific gap in the state's education-to-employment pipeline. Utah's computer science capacity is concentrated in large public universities and, more recently, in bootcamps and apprenticeship programs; Neumont is neither. It is accredited and degree-granting like the former, narrow and employer-facing like the latter, and it has been running that combination since 2003 — long before the bootcamp wave.

Its enterprise projects and enterprise partnerships are the mechanism that ties it to Utah employers, putting students on outside companies' problems as coursework. That is the part of the model most relevant to this wiki's charter, and also the part with the least independent evidence behind it.

What They Need Now

Nothing located states Neumont's own hiring or institutional needs, and this section should not invent them. What the record does show is the shape of the institution's dependencies:

• Employer partners for enterprise projects. The model requires a steady supply of companies willing to put real work in front of students. That is the school's structural need, and the most direct way for a Utah company to engage with it.
• Instructional faculty. With 13 full-time faculty covering a 27-to-1 student ratio, teaching capacity is the binding constraint on growth, and there is no research track to subsidize it.

Anyone considering Neumont as a student should ask for outcome data directly — completion rates, placement rates, and median debt — because those are the figures this page cannot supply and the ones a for-profit college should be asked for first.

Who Could Help

Utah employers willing to sponsor enterprise projects or hire from a small local pipeline; people who can supply or interpret Title IV outcome data for prospective students; and anyone with primary records on the school's accreditation history and its repeated name changes.

Evidence

• Source: Neumont IPEDS institutional record (NCES College Navigator) · https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=445692 — legal name, address, for-profit control, 476 students, 24 faculty, Carnegie classification, Title IV eligibility
• Source: Neumont official website · https://www.neumont.edu/ — founding year, claimed NWCCU accreditation, project-based model, enterprise partnerships, and the naming inconsistency
• Source: Kids Code Camp 2026 announcements (Forge Utah Slack) — the campus in use as a community event venue

Open Questions

• What are the outcomes? Graduation rate, employment rate, median earnings, and median debt are all unpulled. For a Title IV-participating for-profit college these are the load-bearing figures, and College Scorecard publishes them.
• Which name is current, and why does it drift? The federal record files it as Neumont College of Computer Science; the website brands Neumont University in the same breath as it prints the other name in the footer. No record of a formal name change was located.
• Is the NWCCU accreditation claim confirmed by NWCCU? Only the school's own assertion has been captured. The accreditor's directory would settle it and has not been cited.
• Who owns it? It is private for-profit; no ownership record, parent company, or investor was located.
• What is the enterprise project program's actual scale? Which companies participate, how many students, and what the projects produce are all unestablished.
• How has enrollment moved? 476 is a single undated snapshot from one reporting cycle. A small institution's trend line matters more than its level, and the trend was not pulled.

See Also

• Utah Kids Code Camp — hosted on the Neumont campus
• Western Governors University — the other Utah institution built around a non-traditional degree model, at the opposite end of the size scale
• Forge Utah