Laureate Education Company Description
If higher education is a matter of degrees, Laureate must be hot. The company provides full-time and working adult career education through online and campus-based programs in 20 countries in Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Laureate's educational institutions offer more than 130 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs and specializations to a combined enrollment of more than 500,000. Students can earn degrees in areas such as business, hospitality management, law, engineering, and medicine. Laureate's Canter unit provides professional development and training for teachers. An investment group headed by chairman and CEO Douglas Becker owns the company.
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