Laureate Education Company Description
If higher education is a matter of degrees, Laureate must be hot. Laureate Education, formerly Sylvan Learning Systems, provides full-time and working adult career education through online and campus-based programs in Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Laureate's educational institutions offer more than 100 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and specializations to a combined enrollment of more than 240,000. Students can earn degrees in areas such as business, education, hospitality management, law, and medicine. Laureate's Canter unit provides professional development and training programs for teachers. An investment group headed by chairman and CEO Douglas Becker owns the company.
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