Laureate Education Company Profile

About Laureate Education, Inc.

Laureate Education, Inc. is the largest global network of degree-granting higher education institutions, with more than one million students enrolled across 70 institutions in 25 countries at more than 200 campuses and online. In 1999, Laureate made its first investment in higher education and since that time, has become the global leader in the sector. Laureate offers high-quality undergraduate, graduate and specialized programs in a wide range of disciplines that generate strong interest from students and provide attractive employment prospects for over 60,000 employees, faculty, and staff. Laureate’s programs feature professional-oriented content for growing career fields and are focused on specific academic disciplines, or verticals, that it believes demonstrate strong employment opportunities and provide high earnings potential. Its institutions offer degrees in business, medicine, engineering, design, education, law, hospitality management and dozens of other fields.

Laureate believes society is best served when its students, faculty and entire network use their collective skills and experiences to create positive and enduring change. Laureate students and graduates are improving lives and communities every day. Its institutions are providing the critical skills, knowledge and support to make this happen. This commitment is best expressed through the company’s philosophy of being ‘Here for Good’ and is represented by its conversion to a U.S. Public Benefit Corporation, a new class of corporation committed to creating a positive impact on society. Every Laureate institution makes a commitment to both permanence and purpose in their communities, believing that when students succeed, countries prosper and societies benefit.

Laureate is a trusted partner of governments, NGOs, and world-class independent universities such as the University of Liverpool and the University of Miami. In 2013, the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, invested $150 million in Laureate, their largest ever education investment. Through a partnership with the International Youth Foundation, over 14 Laureate campuses have become hubs for social entrepreneurship in their respective countries. Laureate has also commissioned studiesby Millward Brown Vermeer and Zogby Analytics to respectively analyze Laureate student employment outcomes and student sentiments on the future of higher education.

We believe in the power of education to change lives, and remain committed to making an enduring impact in the communities we serve. This has been our focus since our first investment in higher education was made in 1999 and our conversion to a Public Benefit Corporation and B Corp certification reflects a natural progression for us. This process enables us to demonstrate our commitment to social impact, measure it, and continue to expand and strengthen our efforts to be ‘Here for Good’. The B Corp movement’s principles and commitment to rigorous assessment are ones that run concurrent to our own and make us proud to be the largest ever Certified B Corp at the time of our certification.

The Change We Seek®

Laureate seeks to bring current and future students applied, professional-oriented higher education options that prepare them for success in growing career fields. In many developing markets, demand for quality higher education continues to outpace supply, and a commitment to closing this gap is key to Laureate’s mission. Creating lasting change in communities is a natural outcome of this mission, and the company believes that alongside more traditional indicators like financial performance and student outcomes, that this is how performance can and should be measured in the future - and Laureate is proud that to be leading the way.

Making a positive social contribution is not something that happens as a single individual effort at Laureate. This is something the entire Laureate network is committed to, in all they do, every day.