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Serving Students Serving Students by the Numbers SERVING STUDENTS SERVING STUDENTS BY THE NUMBERS 1M+ 15K+ Students Worldwide Employees 30+ 2600+ Countries Business Clients 1K+ 75+ Education Partners Years transforming students’ lives 2 3 MESSAGE FROM THE CEO aplan is one of the world’s largest and most diverse education providers. Throughout our almost 80-year history, Kaplan has been a beacon for expanding educational access and a leader in instructional innovation. We prep high school students for the SAT, so they can enter college and become teachers or engineers or whatever they dream. We help doctors and nurses pass their licensing tests, so they can save lives. We help adult learners—many of whom are working individuals juggling competing responsibilities of home, work, and school—change or start careers with a college degree. We enable global educational experiences—via language study and travel programs—that expose young people to new ideas and cultures; we also help universities across the globe better serve these international students. We provide corporate training to improve employees’ productivity, so enterprises can serve their Kaplan is one of the world’s largest and most diverse education providers. 4 customers better and support the communities in which they do business. Kaplan has long been a pioneer and a leader. The Graham Holdings We created the test prep business and were Company an early leader in online education. We’re one of the largest English-language training and Kaplan, Inc. is the largest subsidiary of university preparation providers in the world. the Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: Our professional education programs in finance GHC). and accountancy are top-ranked in the U.S., Based in Arlington, VA, Graham Holdings U.K., and Australia. Kaplan has greatly expanded is a diversified education and media access to higher education, enabling many non- company whose operations include traditional students in the U.S. to earn a college educational services; television credential. Kaplan’s substantial investment in broadcasting; online, print and local TV learning science in all our programs underlines news; home health and hospice care; our emphasis on improving student outcomes and manufacturing. and our focus on educational performance and results. In addition to Kaplan, the company includes the Graham Media Group Whatever the program or service, we’re constantly (includes TV stations WDIV–Detroit, pursuing the mission of improving lives through KPRC–Houston, WKMG–Orlando, KSAT education, one success story at a time. –San Antonio, WILS-Roanoake, VA, WCWJ and WJXT–Jacksonville, FL), The Slate Group (Slate and Foreign Policy magazines and the Panoply podcast network), and Social Code, a leading social marketing solutions company. The Andrew S. Rosen Company also owns home healthcare Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaplan, Inc. and hospice providers Celtic Healthcare Executive Vice President, and Residential Healthcare Group and Graham Holdings Company manufacturing firms Forney Corporation, Joyce/Dayton Corp., and Dekko. 5 SERVING STUDENTS 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS By the Numbers 01 Message From The CEO SERVING STUDENTS Test Preparation Learning & Professional Development 02 Post-Secondary Education Transnational Education English-Language Training New Economy Skills Training SERVING INSTITUTIONS International Recruitment & Infrastructure Development 03 University Support Services Nursing Schools SERVING BUSINESSES Kaplan Professional Education (U.S.) Kaplan Professional (Australia) 04 Kaplan Financial (U.K.) Kaplan Altior Corporate Training and Learning Consultancy Kaplan Learning Institute (Singapore) DISTINCTIVE CAPABILITIES Global Reach and Connections Learning Engineering 05 Performance Assessments 7 Serving Students Kaplan serves people with ambition…people who want to make the most of their abilities. Our students come from all backgrounds and life stages. 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. SERVING STUDENTS Test Preparation Kaplan prepares students to attain the best possible pharmacology, dentistry, optometry, the arts and results on a broad range of high-stakes exams, to social sciences, and others—Kaplan offers prep enter college or graduate school. programs for the LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, GRE, PCAT, DAT, and OAT exams. Kaplan’s Manhattan Kaplan Test Prep (KTP) offers prep programs for Prep brand also provides comprehensive test-prep college admissions exams, including the PSAT, SAT, options for the GRE, GMAT, and LSAT. and ACT, ranging from free tests to group classes to private tutoring. While most students enroll Test prep is delivered online in more than 100 directly with us, some receive these services through countries and through resellers and partners in 31 partnerships Kaplan has with local school districts countries. Further, Kaplan Test Prep International and community-based organizations across the (KTPI) helps students prepare for the BMAT and United States. UKCAT medical school exams in the U.K. and for the HPAT in Ireland and UMAT in Australia. For students pursuing post-graduate studies— including such fields as law, business, medical, 10 Learning & Professional Development Besides prepping them to enter graduate insurance, accounting, wealth management, and school, Kaplan helps physicians, nurses, health related sectors. These products, plus a wide array of professionals, and lawyers seeking to practice in the professional development and certificate programs, U.S. and Canada. Specifically, Kaplan Medical offers are offered under the Kaplan Financial Education, prep programs for the US Medical Licensing Exam Kaplan Schweser, SmartPros® and Loscalzo® brands (USMLE) and the Comprehensive Osteopathic in the U.S.; Kaplan Financial in the U.K.; and Kaplan Medical Licensing Exam (COMLEX) as well as Professional in Australia—through online, on-site, other health exams (NBDE, PANCE, and NAPLEX), in-person, and blended on-demand programs. and Kaplan Nursing offers prep programs for the These exam and licensure prep programs are National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX- increasingly offered digitally, either as blended RN and NCLEX-PN). Further, Kaplan Bar Review online programs with faculty-led courses or self- offers full-service bar review programs for 51 U.S. paced modules, in addition to traditional classroom jurisdictions and preparation for the Multistate settings. Whatever the channel, the curriculum Bar Exam. includes Kaplan-published study materials—more Additionally, Kaplan helps individuals attain than 4,300 educational products in print or digital and maintain industry-recognized licenses, formats—many of which are also sold at retail to certifications, and designations in the financial, individual students. 11 SERVING STUDENTS Post-Secondary Education United States Kaplan University (KU) provides both online and Academic awards offered at the University include: campus-based programs primarily to adult learners, certificate, associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate focused on career advancement. The majority (nursing), and professional (law) degrees, and of its students are enrolled in online programs. training programs for advanced financial and With its main campus in Davenport, IA, the accounting designations such as the CFA, CAIA, University is regionally accredited by The and FRM. Kaplan University is comprised of Higher Learning Commission (reaffirmed in eight schools: School of Business and Information 2016 through 2025-2026). It is also accredited by Technology, School of General Education, School numerous program-specific accrediting agencies of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, School of and approval grantors. Professional and Continuing Education (PACE), College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Concord Although most students attend online, Kaplan Law School, and Open College (OC@KU). University also operates campuses in Iowa (Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, Strongly focused on improving student outcomes, and Mason City), Indiana (Indianapolis), Maine Kaplan University continues to develop its new (Augusta, Lewiston, and South Portland), Maryland competency-based modularized curricular model, (Hagerstown), Missouri (St. Louis), Nebraska where students are able to get more credit for their (Lincoln and Omaha), and Wisconsin (Milwaukee). previous learning—knowledge and skills gained at Additionally, the University has learning and school, work or through training—enabling them student support centers in Maryland (Rockville) to earn a degree more quickly and at a lower cost. and Minnesota (Rochester) as well as teaching Here, KU is working to ensure its graduates have locations for members of the armed services at the skills that employees need and employers desire three military bases. and are “job ready” on Day One. Top program for military students For 10 years running, Military Advanced Education & Transition has recognized Kaplan University as a Top School in its Guide to Colleges & Universities, which measures best practices in military and veteran education. 12 United Kingdom & Ireland Singapore Dublin Business School (DBS) is Ireland’s largest Kaplan Higher Education Institute provides part- independent third-level institution. DBS offers time courses to local students, and Kaplan Higher a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and Education Academy offers full-time courses to executive
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