Top 10 Online Education Company In India — mktop10.in
By: Mantosh Kumar
Tags: Unacademy, Online Education, UpGrad, Education, Edtech

The online education market in India is forecasted be worth over $18 billion by 2022.

The reason behind this huge growth is latest technologies like cloud computing that leads to success of many startup companies in India.

Edutech startups are changing the face of education in India in a rapid way.

The cloud technology enables e Learning companies in India save a significant amount of data, content, and information on a single platform.

The saving of data makes easier for users and providers to manage, procure, process and access information from anywhere possible.

While some startups are providing online courses in various fields, some are providing career advice.

Let’s have a look at the Top 10 edutech in India:

BYJU’s

Byju is a giant in online education companies in India with 35 million registered students and 2.4 million annual paid subscriptions that spreads around 2000 cities in across India.

Company has primary focuses on math and science and the concepts are explained using 12–20 minute digital animated videos.

Company has K12 learning smartphone app that offers highly effective, adaptive, and engaging learning programs.

These programs not only serve school students but also train students for various competitive exams such as IIT-JEE, CAT, UPSC, GMAT, GRE, and Engineering & Medical.

Byju’s app is available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

BYJU’S has also won many awards like CRISIL Emerging India Award and Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award, and is available on Android and iOS platform.

Founded 2011

Founder Byju Raveendran

Headquarter Bangalore

Educomp Solutions

Educomp group has around 30 million learners across 65,000 schools and having more than 25 offices worldwide.

Company is a globally diversified education solutions provider and the largest online education company in India.

The Company operates through its various subsidiaries including authorGEN, Threebrix eServices, Learning.com, USA, AsknLearn Pte Ltd, Singapore and Savvica in Canada.

Educomp smartclass brings about a complete transformation in classrooms by producing and making the best use of digital products

Educomp Solutions has aim and focus on smarter way of learning rather than the traditional.

The company deals in four segments — Higher Learning Solutions (HLS), School Learning Solutions (SLS), K-12 Schools, and Online, Supplemental and Global business (OSG).

IGNOU

IGNOU is a government entity distance and open education with around 67 centers across the country.

IGNOU is the largest distance learning university in the world with active enrollment of over 4 million students.

The University provides degrees that valid and recognized not only in India but abroad.

Edukart

Edukart lists among the top eLearning companies in India.

Edukart provides a wide range of courses from a range of Indian and international providers including universities as well as other edutech portals.

Company has various certification programs through which helping students and professionals to enhance their skills.

Edukart has more than 2000 courses in degree, diploma, certificate, entrance coaching and K12 categories.

Founded 2011

Founder Ishan Gupta, Mayank Gupta

Headquarter New Delhi

Simplilearn

Simplilearn is one of the leading professional certification company and successfully ranks among the best eLearning companies in India.

Company has aim and primary focus on IT professionals who are wishing to upgrade their skills through a certification and structured program.

That is why company provides online professional courses in disciplines such as Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Digital Marketing, and Data Science.

60% of it’s takers belong to US where online learning is more prevalent but India is fast catching up. It provides more than 300 courses.

Founded April 2010

Founder Krishna Kumar

Headquarter San Francisco, California

Zeus Learning

Zeus Learning, headquartered in Mumbai, stands ninth among the list of top eLearning companies in India.

Zeus Learning concentrates in the development of HTML5-based Interactive Learning Assets, Mobile apps, technology solutions for LMS, CMS and TEI systems, Software Simulation Training, and Content-rich Courseware and Learning Experiences designed using the latest trends for the web and mobile world. The business of imparting education online is slowly becoming its forte.

Founded 2000

Founder

Headquarter Mumbai

Meritnation

Meritnation is one of the topmost edutech companies in India.

It is a complete social network experience for education, where you can connect with other students of others schools and colleges.

By conducting regular tests and giving time-bound assignments and also provides learning content for students for classes 1st to 12th — CBSE, ICSE and leading state boards.

Meritnation provides its users with study material, tests, proficiency tests and Olympiad packs.

Meritnation has their own online portal from where students can easily get learning needs.

The compnay has facility of live video lectures and interactive recorded videos to impart the best knowledge to the students.

Company has their own apps that they use to track every student’s progress and with analytical data reports, they focus on their strength and improvements areas.

Founded 2008

Founder Pavan Chauhan, Ritesh Hemrajani

Headquarter New Delhi,

Unacademy

This company started as a YouTube channel by Hemaash Singh in 2010, Unacademy is now a famous name in the education technologies market of India.

Unacademy is one of e learning startups in India.

Unacademy has provided lessons to more than 3 million students. They have tied up with some of the most famous and experienced teachers to teach the students.

Company has over 2400 online courses and most of the courses are free on this platform, however, you might have to pay for certification.

Unacademy has a goal of providing all the education in the world for free.

It has ventured into numerous fields like Banking, CA, CAPF, UPSC, CLAT, CAT, JEE, Pre-Medical and more.

The video tutorials are also available in various languages.

UpGrad

Ronnie Screwvala, the media magnate started Upgrad in July 2015. But in a very short span of time, company has become fastest edutect company in India.

UpGrad is an online edutech platform that provides higher education programs.

They provide an immersive learning experience with the latest technology and well-designed courses.

Company has designed the courses that cover the almost all areas from entrepreneurship to digital marketing.

Founded 2015

Founder Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Phalgum Komapalli and Ravijot Chugh.

Headquarter Mumbai

Toppr

Toopr is a Mumbai-based company founded by Zishaan Hayath in 2013.

It also offers courses for medical and engineering examinations, board examinations, and Olympiads.

The Toppr app includes goal based learning, adaptive question practice, performance report, concept sheets and previous year question papers.

It provides students access to 24×7 e-learning, solving doubts, and personalized coaching from quality educational professionals across the country.

Toppr also started focusing on junior and senior grades (Classes 5 to 12).

Company has tremendous achievement from 40,000 pieces of content in 2013 to two million pieces of learning material till now. Toppr has aim to reach three million by the end of 2020.

It has solved more than four million doubts, and more than three million tests have been taken on its platform.

It offers structured courses that feature interactive video lectures, practice question sets, doubt clearing by professionals and all India test series.