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Strategic Education, Inc.
Strategic Education still earns most of its money from tuition. But its more revealing business is the connective tissue around college - employer benefits, low-cost credits and flexible paths designed for people whose jobs cannot pause while they learn.
VMEdu Inc.
VMEdu Inc. is a global professional training and certification company founded in 2008 by Dr. Tridibesh Satpathy. It operates a portfolio of accreditation and education brands - including SCRUMstudy, 6sigmastudy, SMstudy, Kanbanstudy, OKRstudy and BALearning - and a cloud-based learning management platform used to deliver Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, business analysis and sales-and-marketing certifications. Backed by Sequoia Capital and recognized among Red Herring's Top 100 Global companies, VMEdu has trained hundreds of thousands of professionals across 150+ countries through a network of authorized training partners.
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private, nonprofit, regionally accredited university based in Manchester/Hooksett, New Hampshire. Founded in 1932 as a small accounting school, it reinvented itself under president Paul LeBlanc into the largest nonprofit provider of online higher education in the United States, serving more than 200,000 learners through over 200 degree and certificate programs while keeping a roughly 3,000-student traditional campus.
Mission College
Mission College is a public community college in Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, part of the West Valley-Mission Community College District. Founded in 1975, it offers associate degrees, university-transfer pathways, career and technical certificates, ESL and noncredit courses to a diverse, largely working-adult student body. Through its Mission Promise program it offers free tuition to district residents and wraps students in support services - food, childcare, mental-health counseling and more - to remove the barriers that keep people from finishing.
Study.com
Study.com is a Mountain View-based online learning platform that breaks subjects into short, animated video lessons and college-credit-eligible courses. Founded in 2002 by Adrian Ridner and Ben Wilson, it now serves more than 30 million learners, teachers and working adults each month, with one of the largest catalogs of ACE-approved courses of any provider. Its mission is to make education accessible and affordable - especially for the underserved students its founder once was.