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UK-listed Pearson is a testing and educational provider. Pearson's primary operations are in assessment and qualification testing and higher education, but they also provide English education and testing, virtual learning, prehiring testing and screening, and upskilling/reskilling. The company divested noncore businesses, including the Financial Times, The Economist, and publishing house Penguin, and is now focused on being an educational resource and testing provider.

New Oriental Education & Technology is a prominent private education provider in China, offering a wide array of educational services. These include overseas test preparation and consulting services, high school academic tutoring, nonacademic tutoring, and intelligent learning systems and devices. Additionally, the company holds a 57% ownership stake in East Buy, a leading player in the livestreaming e-commerce market.

Duolingo Inc is a technology company that develops a mobile learning platform to learn languages and is the top-grossing app in the Education category on both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Its products are powered by sophisticated data analytics and artificial intelligence and delivered with class art, animation, and design to make it easier for learners to stay motivated master new material, and achieve their learning goals. Its solutions include the Duolingo Language Learning App, Super Duolingo, Duolingo English Test: AI-Driven Language Assessment, Duolingo For Schools, Duolingo ABC, and Duolingo Math. It has four predominant sources of revenue; time-based subscriptions, in-app advertising placement by third parties, and the Duolingo English Test, and In-App Purchases.

TAL Education Group is a smart learning solutions provider in China. It operates a few business lines including enrichment learning, high school academic tutoring, learning technology, and content solutions. Among those business lines, TAL focuses on enrichment learning and content solutions.

Laureate Education Inc is an international community of universities. The company provides higher education programs and services to students through an international network of licensed universities and higher education institutions. Its geographical segments include Peru and Mexico.

Graham Holdings Company is a diversified holding company with operations spanning educational services, television broadcasting, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive dealerships, and other businesses. The Company's education activities are conducted through Kaplan, whose services include academic preparation programs for international students, English-language programs, exam preparation, and career and academic advisement. These services are provided to students, schools, and colleges, both domestically and outside the United States. It operates through seven reportable segments: Kaplan International, Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan Supplemental Education, Television Broadcasting, CSI, Manufacturing and Automotive, with key revenue coming from the Education and Automotive segments.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc provider of early education and child care, family care solutions, and workforce education services that help working families and client employees personally and professionally. It provides services under multi-year contracts with employers that offer early education and child care, back-up care, and educational advisory services as part of their employee benefits package. The company has three business segments; full-service center-based child care, backup care, and educational advisory services. The majority of the revenue is generated by full-service center-based child care, which includes traditional center-based child care and early education services. Other services provided by the company include in-home child and elder care, and Others.

Covista Inc is an American healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by faculty and colleagues, it expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale.

FibraEduca Management SC invests in real estate opportunities in the education sector. The company seeks investment opportunities in the education sector with administrative efficiency to generate returns to investors.

Grand Canyon Education Inc is a publicly traded education services company dedicated to serving colleges and universities. GCE's university partner is Grand Canyon University, an Arizona non-profit corporation that operates a comprehensive regionally accredited university that offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, emphases, and certificates across nine colleges, both online and on the ground at its campus in Phoenix, Arizona, and at four off-site classroom andlaboratory sites. The Company generates all of its revenue through service agreements with its university partners.

Stride Inc is an American online educational company. It offers alternative programs to traditional on-campus schooling. It also operates state-funded virtual charter schools around the United States. The educational programs for K-12 students are usually monitored by parents and provide virtual classroom environments where teachers meet with students online, by phone, or in-person. The company's contractual agreements with various school districts to offer its curriculum programs provide a majority of the company's revenue. The company lines of business are Managed Public School Programs, Institutional and Private Pay Schools and Other.

Adtalem Global Education is a Chicago-headquartered provider of postsecondary education in healthcare, business, and technology fields. It oversees institutions like Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, DeVry University, and Becker Professional Education, enrolling students in nursing, medical, accounting, and IT programs across the United States, Caribbean, and Brazil.

East Buy Holding Ltd is a live-streaming platform that focuses on selecting premium products for customers. The company operates in three reportable segments: Private Label Products and Livestreaming E-Commerce, College Education, and Institutional Customers. The majority of its revenue comes from private label products and the direct e-commerce segment, i.e., direct online commerce with private label products sold to individual customers and providing commission services.

John Wiley & Sons Inc is a publisher and a trusted leader in research and learning. The company segment includes: Research, which includes the reporting lines of Research Publishing and Research Solutions, and Learning includes the Academic and Professional reporting lines and consists of publishing, courseware, and assessments. Its industry-principal content, services, platforms, and knowledge networks are tailored to meet the evolving needs of its customers and partners, including researchers, students, instructors, professionals, institutions, and corporations. The company empowers knowledge-seekers to transform today’s obstacles into tomorrow’s brightest opportunities. For more than two centuries, the company has been delivering on its timeless mission to unlock human potential.

Universal Technical Institute Inc is an educational institution. It provides undergraduate degree, as well as certificate programs for technicians in the automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine fields. The company's reportable segment which includes Universal Technical Institute (UTI) and Concorde Career Colleges, Corporate. Majority of the revenue is generated from UTI segment which provides different kinds of degree and non-degree transportation and skilled trades technical training programs under brands such as Universal Technical Institute, Motorcycle Mechanics Institute, Marine Mechanics Institute and others. It also provides dealer technician training or instructor staffing services to manufacturers.

Perdoceo Education Corp is an American for-profit education company that focuses on quality postsecondary education online to a diverse student population, along with campus-based and blended learning programs. The company's important segments include the American InterContinental University, the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, and Colorado Technical University. These universities provide undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs focusing on business, technology, management, and social services, with the majority of the students enrolled in programs offered fully online. The majority of the its revenue comes from the Colorado Technical University segment.

Alef Education Holding Plc is an EdTech company that designs impactful learning experiences for students customized to different curriculums. The company operates in three segments: The Education solution segment, which provides customers the right of access to the Group’s learning platform. The Support and services segment includes ancillary services such as IT infrastructure setup and maintenance support and services, and the Financial investments segment pertains to the maintenance of the investment portfolio for returns based on market dynamics. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Education solution segment.

Youdao Inc develops and markets software applications. It engages in developing technologies to provide learning content, applications, and solutions. The firm operates in three segments: Learning services, Smart devices, and Online marketing services. The majority of its revenue comes from the Learning services segment, which generates revenues from online courses, mainly including Youdao Premium Courses, NetEase Cloud Classroom, and China University MOOC. The learning products segment includes sales of smart devices such as the Youdao Dictionary Pen and the Youdao Pocket Translator. Geographically, all of its revenue is generated from the People's Republic of China.

Strategic Education Inc. is an education services company that provides access to high-quality education through campus-based and online post-secondary education offerings, as well as through programs to develop job-ready skills for high-demand markets. The company operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries Strayer University and Capella University, both accredited post-secondary institutions of higher education located in the United States, as well as Torrens University, an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education located in Australia. It provide employees with access to affordable and industry relevant training, certificate, and degree programs. The reportable segments of the company are U.S. Higher Education, Australia/New Zealand and Education Technology Services.

Offcn Education Technology Co Ltd is China's multi-category vocational education institution and civil servant entrance examination training company. The company serves the younger demographic including college students and university graduates throughout mainland China.

Coursera Inc is an online learning platform that connects learners, educators, and institutions with the goal of providing educational content that is affordable, accessible, and relevant. It combines content, data, and technology into a single, unified platform that is customizable and extensible to both individual learners and institutions. The company operates through two reporting segments: Consumer and Enterprise. The majority of revenue is generated from the Consumer segment. The consumer segment targets individual learners seeking to obtain hands-on learning, gain valuable job skills, receive professional-level certifications, and otherwise increase their knowledge to start or advance their careers.

Advtech Ltd is a South Africa-based company engaged in education and training services. The company has three primary business segments, Schools, Tertiary, and Resourcing. The Schools segment offers pre-primary, primary, and secondary educations services. The Tertiary segment provides diploma, degree, and post-graduate services. The Resourcing segment provides permanent, temporary, and contract staffing solutions. These staffing positions are in several areas such as information technology, network finance, accounting and finance, engineering, and advertising.

National Co for Learning and Education is a provider of educational and learning services based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is engaged in ownership, establishment and management of private schools for general education (pre-university) in addition to investment in sport and entertainment along with sport clubs for school students. The company offers educational complexes that accommodate more than 15 thousand students, distributed in all stages from kindergarten, primary, intermediate and high school, according to the national curriculum and international curricula, with scientific laboratories on one hand, and entertainment facilities and sports clubs on the other hand. The company's business segments include Al-Rayan schools, Al-Rawabi schools, Al-Nuzha schools among others.

Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc is an educational technology, content, and services company operating in the higher education, professional, K-12, English language teaching (ELT) and library spaces. It has five reportable segments on the basis of products and customers provided by each segment: Cengage Academic (U.S. Higher Education, International Higher Education, and Secondary Education), Cengage Work (ed2go and Infosec), Research, ELT, and Other (Australia K-12 and Milady). Research, ELT, and Other are reported together as a core business unit titled Cengage Select.

Lincoln Educational Services Corp provides diversified career-oriented post-secondary education to high school graduates and working adults. The company offers programs in automotive technology, skilled trades, healthcare services, hospitality services, and business and information technology. Its reportable segments include; Campus Operations, and Transitional. The majority of the revenue is generated from the Campus Operations segment which includes all campuses that are continuing in operation and contribute to the Company’s core operations and performance.

Afya Ltd is a medical education group based in Brazil. Its education portfolio has several courses in addition to Medicine, such as Management, Dentistry, Law, Engineering, Nursing, Psychology, and Accounting Sciences, among others. It has three segments; Undergrad provides educational services through undergraduate courses related to medical school, undergraduate health science and other ex-health undergraduate programs, Continuing Education provides medical education, specialization and graduate courses in medicine, delivered through digital and in-person content; and Medical practice solution provides clinical decision, clinical management and doctor-patient relationships for physicians and provide access, demand and efficiency for the healthcare players.

Phoenix Education Partners Inc. is a mission-driven organization operating at the forefront of the rapidly evolving post-secondary education market. it is an online education provider and a pioneer in its field. The company benefits from the dynamic interplay between technological innovation, education, employment, and economic trends. It is focused on delivering personalized, career-relevant, and affordable education to its students through its flexible learning model, skills-aligned curriculum, and accessible tuition costs.

HumanSoft Holding Co KSCP is Kuwait based company. The company is engaged, along with its subsidiaries, in establishing and managing private universities and colleges, providing computer education, language training, executive courses, and electronic commerce and media. The company is organized in business segments of Higher Education and Others. The company earns the majority of revenue from the Higher education segment.

AcadeMedia AB is an education services provider in Northern Europe, operating preschools, compulsory schools, and upper secondary schools in Sweden and Norway, as well as adult education units in Sweden. The company’s operating segments include Preschool and International Operations, Compulsory School, Upper Secondary School, and Adult Education. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Preschool and International segment. Geographically, the company operates in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Poland, deriving the majority of its revenue from Sweden.

Emirates Driving Co PJSC is the driver's training and road safety institute in Abu Dhabi. The company and its subsidiaries are engaged in the management and development of motor vehicle driving training and services. The company offers these services to the national and expatriates living in the country. The firm generates its revenue from training and testing services.

Taaleem Holdings PJSC is a premium education provider. The group operates two types of schools namely: premium schools and government partnerships. The premium portfolio includes five schools offering an IB curriculum, four schools offering a British curriculum and one school offering an American curriculum.

CognaEducacao SA is one of those private educational organizations in Brazil and around the world. The company's segment includes Kroton; Vasta and Saber. It generates the maximum of its revenue from the Kroton segment.

Scholastic Corp is an American publishing and education media company that focuses on books and educational material for schools, teachers, parents, and children. It creates print, digital, and audiobooks, learning materials and programs, classroom magazines, and other products that support children’s learning and reading both at home and at school. The company also owns rights to various books, including Harry Potter, Dog Man, and The Hunger Games among others. It has three reportable segments Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution, Education Solutions, and International. The majority of its revenue is from the Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution segment.

Stadio Holdings Ltd facilitates the widening of access to quality and relevant higher education programmes in Southern Africa through its three prestigious higher education institutions, namely STADIO Higher Education, AFDA and Milpark Education. The institutions offer a diverse range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes via the contact learning and distance learning modes of delivery. Geographically it operates in South Africa and Namibia with the majority of the revenue deriving from South Africa.

China Education Group Holdings Ltd is a ultra-large-scale private education group in China with 30 years of experience in higher education operations. CEG's schools offer both higher vocational education and secondary vocational education. The school network spans domestic China and overseas. CEG's full-time student enrollment was about 270,000 as of August 2024.

KinderCare Learning Companies Inc is a private provider of early childhood education and care services (ECE) in the United States. It serves children ranging from 6 weeks to 12 years of age across its market footprint of around 1,480 early childhood education centers with a capacity of more than 194,000 children and contracts for more than 650 before- and after-school sites located in 40 states and the District of Columbia. Its segment derives revenue from providing early childhood education and care services at centers and before- and after-school sites.

Ataa Educational Co is a Saudi Arabia-based company involved in the establishment of national and international schools, kindergarten, primary, intermediate, and secondary schools for boys and girls, colleges and universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad. It is also engaged in establishing, managing, and maintaining vocational training centers. The company's operating segments are; Education, Training, and Recruitment. The majority of its revenue is derived from the Education segment which is engaged in establishing and managing private, international, French and Indian schools.

YDUQS Participacoes SA is a Brazilian education company that focuses on postsecondary education. The company operates universities, colleges, and distance learning campuses across the country, with over 90 locations across 22 Brazilian states. It offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional designation programs to its students. Estacio Participacoes attracts middle- and lower-income workers across the country to its educational programs and enrolls over 500,000 students annually. Approximately 75% of enrollees study at the company's on-campus locations, which drive the majority of revenue for the company. Geographically, Estacio Participacoes operates the majority of its campuses around Rio de Janeiro.

IDP Education performs English language testing and student placement services globally, constituting 31% and 57% of fiscal 2025 group gross profit, respectively. Additionally, IDP operates English language schools, organizes education events, and delivers consultancy services to education institutions, which constitutes the remainder of group gross profit. Originally established in Australia as an aid body for Southeast Asia, today IDP operates one of the world’s most widely accepted English language tests and one of the world’s largest student placement services businesses, predominantly connecting prospective migrants from India and China to Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Gaotu Techedu Inc is a technology-driven education company that provides online live courses in a large-class setting backed by its proprietary technology infrastructure. The company offers courses in large-class format, which amplifies the benefits of online education and allows it to rapidly expand its student base. It operates solely in the PRC and all assets are located in the PRC. The learning services that the company offers include Traditional Learning Services, Non-Academic Tutoring Services, and College Student and Adult Education Services. It derives maximum revenue from Learning Services and also from Educational content & digitalized learning products.

Vitru Brasil Empreendimentos Participacoes e Comercio SA invests in educational service providers and provides distance learning continuing education services through its subsidiaries. The group provides educational services in Brazil, mainly undergraduate and continuing education courses, offered in person at its campuses located throughout Brazil. Its operating segments are: Distance Learning Undergraduate Courses, In-person undergraduate programs, and Continuing education courses. Maximum revenue is generated from its Distance Learning business, which offers virtual learning opportunities in education, business administration, accounting, physical education, vocational training, engineering, and health-related courses.

China Beststudy Education Group is an investment holding company. Along with its subsidiaries, it is engaged in providing education-related courses, including full-time revision business (equivalent to full-time test preparation programs), talent education, self-study programs, vocational education, and after-school tutoring programs. It generates maximum revenue from the provision of talent education services. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from Mainland China.

NIIT Learning Systems Ltd is engaged in providing managed training solutions which predominantly include technology-based solutions for learning and education management to improve efficiency and effectiveness to customers in the education sector in India and international markets. The company also offers a comprehensive suite of solutions including content, learning delivery, assessment, and technology for students and teachers, as well as solutions for institution administration and management. Geographically, the company derives a majority of its revenue from America, and the rest from Europe, India, and the rest of the world.

Tianli International Holdings Ltd operates as a private education service provider in Western China. The Company provides clients with integrated education management and diversified services. Its services mainly include comprehensive education services, training services, study trip services, early childhood education services, canteen operations, management and franchise, as well as supply chain management services. The Company also offers extracurricular programs in music, arts, physical education, and languages, as well as licensing rights to its brands for early childhood centers. Geographically, it derives revenue from the PRC.

Navneet Education Ltd is an Indian company engaged in the publishing of educational and children’s books, scholastic stationery, and non-paper stationery products. It offers syllabus-based content in print and digital mediums aligned with various Indian educational boards including CBSE and ICSE. The business segments includes Publication, Stationary and Others. The company markets its products under several brands such as Navneet, Vikas, Gala, YOUVA, and TOPClass, and has a dominant presence in Western India with expanding reach across the country and internationally. Navneet also provides digital learning solutions and has diversified into non-paper stationery and general books. Its revenue is generated from publishing, stationery product sales, and digital education services.

Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology Co Ltd provides online training courses.

Wilmington PLC is a provider of data, information, education, and training in the global Governance, Risk and Compliance ('GRC') markets. The company's segment includes HSE, Legal, and Financial Services. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Financial Services. Geographically, the company derives revenue from the UK, the USA, and Europe (excluding the UK).

Insource Co Ltd provides corporate training and business-related open courses. Also, it offers HR related system and transition support for employment as well as production of e-learning and corporate movies. Lecturer dispatched training business provides training services by dispatching lecturers. The firm offers on-site training, open seminars, contract packages for human resources development, learning systems through AV, consulting, and system development and delivery for training and sales supports.