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Transforming Education Transforming Lives CORPORATE BROCHURE Kaplan helps individuals achieve their educational and career goals. We build futures one success story at a time. By the Numbers 80 years TRANSFORMING LIVES 1.2M+ 13K+ 10K+ 1K+ 30+ 100+ 20+ STUDENTS EMPLOYEES BUSINESS EDUCATIONAL COUNTRIES COUNTRIES CITIES worldwide worldwide clients partners where we have in which online globally with operations courses are student recruitment delivered services Message from the CEO Kaplan is a global education powerhouse. We excel at providing education We provide professional training to improve THE GRAHAM HOLDINGS COMPANY programs and services, because of employees’ productivity and their opportunities our incomparable array of assets and for career advancement. capabilities and the ability to draw upon Kaplan, Inc. is the largest subsidiary a one-of-a-kind network of partners, Kaplan has a long history and deep experience of the Graham Holdings Company affiliates, and relationships with providing educational services to institutions and (NYSE: GHC), a diversified education schools, businesses, and professional businesses. These take the form of university and media company whose principal organizations worldwide. pathway programs, international student operations include educational recruitment, university hosting, residential design services; television broadcasting; We have built a reputation for quality and an array of student support services, such as online, print and local TV news; and innovation. Kaplan pioneered those we provide to Purdue University Global or home health and hospice care; the test prep business. We were an the University of Essex. For corporations, Kaplan and manufacturing. early leader in online instruction and provides expert exam preparation for professional digital learning. A learning engineering licensure and certification as well as educational Graham Holdings is comprised of approach informs how we design and services and consultation across a company’s entire these companies: deliver our programs and courses. This professional development needs. legacy of transformation continues • Kaplan, Inc. to characterize Kaplan’s approach to We’re one of the largest English-language training • Graham Media Group education—always examining what and university preparation providers in the world. Includes TV stations WDIV (Detroit, delivers the best outcomes for our Our professional education programs in finance and MI), KPRC (Houston, TX), WCWJ students and never afraid to reshape accountancy are top-ranked in the U.S., U.K., and and WJXT (Jacksonville, FL), WKMG our offerings accordingly. Australia. Kaplan was an early leader in expanding (Orlando, FL), WSLS (Roanoke, VA), access to higher education, enabling many and KSAT (San Antonio, TX); Graham Throughout our 80-year history, Kaplan nontraditional students to earn a college credential. Digital; and Social News Desk has been a beacon for expanding • The Slate Group educational access. Kaplan helps Today, almost half of our earnings come from Includes Slate.com and Panoply students achieve their educational relationships with other institutions and businesses. • The FP Group aspirations. We prep high school Whether we serve students directly, or through • Social Code students for the SAT, so they can these partnerships, the goal is always the same: • The Graham Healthcare Group enter college and become teachers or To improve lives through education. Includes Celtic Healthcare and engineers or whatever they dream. Residential Healthcare Group We help doctors and nurses pass • Hoover Treated Wood Products their licensing tests, so they can save • Dekko lives. We help adult learners return to • Joyce/Dayton Corp. college to earn a degree or prepare for • Forney Corporation career advancement. We enable global Andrew S. Rosen • CyberVista educational experiences via language Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaplan, Inc. study and university pathway programs. Executive Vice President, Graham Holdings Company Table of C0ntents Kaplan for 01 INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS Test Preparation Learning & Professional Development Higher Education Transnational Education English-Language Training New Economy Skills Training Kaplan for 02 COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES International Recruitment & Pathway Programs Infrastructure Development University Support Services & Online Enablement Educational Resources Kaplan for 03 BUSINESSES & ORGANIZATIONS Corporate Training & Learning Consultancy Distinctive 04 CAPABILITIES Global Reach and Connections Online Tools & Platforms Performance Assessments Learning Engineering 3 Kaplan for INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS Kaplan serves people with ambition…people who want to make the most of their abilities. Our students come from all backgrounds and at all stages of their lives and careers. We believe that regardless of their starting point, working with Kaplan gives them the edge they need to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. For those willing to invest in themselves, we prepare them to achieve more. 1.2M+ 100+ STUDENTS COUNTRIES worldwide in which online courses are delivered Kaplan for INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS 5 TEST We prepare students for success on high-stakes exams for LEARNING & We prepare individuals so they can pass and maintain PREPARATION entry into the college, university, or graduate or professional PROFESSIONAL professional licenses and certifications and pursue their school of their choice. DEVELOPMENT chosen vocations. Kaplan Test Prep (KTP) KTP maintains industry For healthcare professionals certifications, and designations remains the industry leader in leadership through continuous seeking to practice in the U.S. in accounting, engineering, test preparation—more than evolution. Today, more than and Canada, Kaplan Test insurance, securities, real twice the size of its nearest half of its business comes from Prep provides prep programs estate, financial planning, competitor—serving more than online enrollments. By scaling for the USMLE and COMLEX and information technology 350,000 students, including over up its online technology, KTP (physicians), NBDE (dentists), through an array of programs 175,000 online. KTP offers prep has created more streamlined PANCE (physician assitants), offered under theKaplan programs for undergraduate, and flexible delivery systems, NAPLEX (pharmacists) and Financial Education®, Kaplan graduate and professional such as its Live Online platform NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN Schweser®, PPI®, SmartPros® school admissions exams. and adaptive QBank product. (nurses) exams. Kaplan’s and Loscalzo® brands in the Test prep is delivered online iHuman Patients product is U.S.; Kaplan Financial in the Kaplan’s Manhattan Prep in more than 100 countries, a cloud-based, interactive tool U.K.; Kaplan Professional in and Kaplan Test Prep through resellers and partners, that simulates interactions Australia; and Kaplan Genesis International (KTPI) also and through important new with virtual patients, to help in the Middle East region. provides prep programs partnerships with large test health professionals prepare for select graduate and makers (like the ACT and GED). online for the clinical parts of These exam and licensure prep professional school admissions these licensure exams. Kaplan programs are offered as blended tests in the U.S. and globally. Bar Review also offers full- online programs with faculty-led service bar review programs courses or self-paced modules, for 51 U.S. jurisdictions and the as well as in traditional classroom MultistateBar Exam for aspiring settings. Whatever the channel, lawyers. the curriculum includes Kaplan- published study materials—more Additionally, Kaplan helps than 3,900 educational products individuals attain and maintain in print or digital formats—many industry-recognized licenses, of which are also sold retail. KAPLAN GROWS AS A In August 2018, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, which regulates TEST MAKER IN THE UK solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, announced a business- shifting partnership for Kaplan, which it chose to design, develop and run the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). When introduced, by 2020 at the earliest, the SQE will be the common assessment for all aspiring solicitors, whether trained through an apprenticeship or law school, and ensure rigorous professional standards. Kaplan already has industry leading expertise and experience in high stakes assessments in the legal sector in England and Wales; going forward, Kaplan will not provide training for the SQE. Kaplan for INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS 7 HIGHER We operate a number of educational institutions across EDUCATION the world, where individuals can earn a higher-education credential that allows them to embark on or advance in their chosen career. United States Ireland Historically, Kaplan has Dublin Business School (DBS) is Ireland’s largest independent helped expand access third-level institution. DBS offers undergraduate, postgraduate, to higher education to and executive education and professional accreditation working adults and other programs in a range of disciplines, including business, underserved populations accounting and finance, marketing, information technology, through an online computing sciences, data analytics, fintech, law, event university and ground- management, psychology, the social sciences, and media and based campuses. Today, journalism. DBS has over 1,000 prizewinners and top scorers in Kaplan’s higher education the global ACCA examinations. focus in the United States