Build and ship client websites and web apps end to end, with your work reviewed by someone who has done it before.
You take a project from a brief to something live: the database, the back end, the front end and the deploy. Not one slice handed down to you.
Most of our work is plain PHP and MySQL on shared hosting, which is less fashionable than it is useful — you learn what is actually happening rather than what a framework is doing for you.
We would rather see one live site you built and can explain than a list of courses you have finished.
PHP and MySQL, HTML and CSS you can write without a framework, Git. Laravel is a plus, not a requirement.