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upGrad, Asia's leading integrated skilling and workforce development company, has announced the acquisition of Internshala, the world’s largest early-talent marketplace, for an undisclosed amount — in a 90% stock-swap transaction.

The University of Dubuque (UD) is proud to announce the debut of its online MBA program, offering students the opportunity to earn a Master of Business Administration degree fully online for those whose personal and professional commitments are better served with an online format.

Asia’s largest higher Edtech player upGrad continues its growth and expansion plans to impact learners in India and globally and make them job ready. To date, 'One upGrad' has impacted 8.2 million learners in soft skills, test prep, college-linked programs, credential-linked programs, placements, job changes, and career enhancement.

Edtech major & Asia’s largest Higher Education company upGrad today announced a giant step in offline higher education with the launch of its new brand “UGDX” which stands for upGrad’s massive thrust in emerging digital technologies. The ‘X” factor to UGDX is added by its recently acquired Data Science, AI, ML-focused offline institute - INSOFE.

upGrad, Asia’s largest higher edtech company, post all its consolidating of M&As climbs up the gender diversity index to record a 40 per cent women participation as compared to the total workforce across the org.

upGrad, Asia's largest higher edtech company, has made another senior appointment to its leadership team - with the hiring of Srikanth Iyengar who joins as the CEO - Workforce Development, effective September 2022.

Harappa Learning - part of Asia’s largest higher edtech company upGrad, today unveiled plans to create a one-of-its-kind Leadership School to build the Owners & top management of tomorrow.

upGrad, Asia’s largest higher edtech company announces the 100% acquisition of corporate training solutions leader Centum Learning (“Centum”) in a share swap deal.

upGrad, Asia’s largest higher EdTech Company, announces the appointment of Myleeta AgaWilliams as CEO - International to spearhead growth across the APAC, EMEA and US regions.

upGrad, Asia's higher edtech major, has announced a fresh round of fundraise from marquee investors and Family Offices who join the company cap-table.

upGrad, Asia’s largest integrated higher Edtech major has announced a 100% merger of Harappa Education at a value of USD 38 million (INR 300 crores). Harappa will clock USD ~10 million( INR 75 crores) in Revenue this year. upGrad closed this transaction with present Harappa shareholders - Bodhi Tree Systems, (a newly formed platform between James Murdoch & Uday Shankar) and Co-founders Pramath Raj Sinha & Shreyasi Singh. All of them join the upGrad Cap table.

With over 4000+ Alumni & 10,000 corporate learners along with 7 partnerships with leading universities around the world - INSOFE is ranked high for global excellence and the most sought-after destination for an undergraduate to doctoral education in ML, AI & Data Science.

upGrad, Asia’s higher EdTech leader in a most recent development, has joined forces with Golden Gate University - one of California's oldest private universities to launch 8 new online programs in the areas of Management and Law as a part of its initial expansion phase.

upGrad, Asia’s higher EdTech major with a strong presence across the APAC, doubles down on the Vietnam region to address the strong local demand for digital-first education, as the country heads towards Industry 4.0.

upGrad KnowledgeHut became a 100% subsidiary of upGrad in September 2021 and in 6 months, it has witnessed meteoric growth in its course offerings, its revenue, and its geographical spread of customers from around the world.

upGrad, Asia’s higher EdTech major, today confirmed closing and integrating all of Talentedge’s business with upGrad.

Taking another significant leap to make quality education affordable and accessible, upGrad, Asia’s higher Edtech major, announces the formation of its philanthropic and not-for-profit division called upGrad Foundation, today.

upGrad Abroad, the ‘Study Abroad’ vertical of Asia’s leading higher EdTech company upGrad, launched a high decibel campaign last week with the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, announcing the future for undergraduates and postgraduates studying abroad with the right blend of online learning for the first year, followed by the on-campus thereafter. Just in the last 8 months, upGrad Abroad has enrolled 1,500 learners and onboarded 18 partner universities.

upGrad, Asia’s higher-edtech major, has been moving strongly with its back-to-back university collaborations aligned with its ambition of driving quality global education within the country. upGrad now makes another milestone movement — it announces its collaboration today with Wharton Online at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

South Asia’s largest & Asia’s leading higher EdTech major - upGrad, today reported turning a profit spurred by a 150% growth Y-o-Y in revenues and a stable 70% gross margin, across all its income streams.

In a bid to strengthen its global foothold, upGrad, Asia’s higher EdTech leader, announces another significant university partnership with Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. The arrangement combines the marketing analytics thought leadership of Goizueta faculty, program design expertise from Emory Executive Education, and powerful delivery and reach from upGrad. The Marketing Analytics Certificate Program helps professionals leverage the power of their organisation’s data.

Launched on Independence Day 15th August 2021 - and having had its first Advisory Board meeting on Republic day 26th January 2022 - ATLAS SkillTech University - Maharashtra’s first - is a new addition to the city of Mumbai, situated in the heart of the city’s commercial district, with a vision of global excellence.

upGrad – Asia’s higher EdTech major takes an aggressive route to further strengthen its Study Abroad vertical and partners with the US’s Clark University to offer a Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Information Technology, and Project Management. Designed carefully, keeping in mind the evolving requirements of the professionals, the course provides Dual Certification from IIIT Bangalore and Clark University where learners get to pursue the program online from India’s leading university in the first year, followed by the on-campus learning in the US in the final year.

upGrad, Asia’s largest online higher education company has entered into an exclusive agreement to acquire Talentedge (i.e., Arrina Education Services, the Holding Company of Talentedge Education Ventures Private Limited), one of India's largest online higher education companies. This would be one of the larger consolidations in the Indian Higher education space. Talentedge is slated to do revenue of over USD 17 Million this year and double its revenue in the coming year. Sources say the deal value is at 3-4X this year’s revenue.

upGrad, Asia’s integrated higher edtech leader, has entered into an exclusive acquisition agreement with Global Study Partners (GSP), Australia's largest study abroad company, in a bid to strengthen its overseas education network. upGrad will invest USD 16 Million to buy 100% of GSP and commit a further USD 10 Million for future growth. GSP is slated to close its current financials at a GMV of over USD 10 million which will grow four-fold in the coming year.

upGrad, Asia’s Higher Edtech leader, has added two more renowned international universities to its Study Abroad portfolio, strengthening its transnational education offerings. Making their debuts on the upGradAbroad.com is the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) and Yorkville University.