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Published: June 25, 2011

For-profit education industry



A $100-billion- a-year, broad-based industry made up of corporations and organizations engaged in the production, distribution and sale of educational products and services for profit. There are four basic segments of the for-profit education industry: educational services, with just under 40% of total industry revenues, derived from corporate training programs, tutoring, test preparation and language instruction; operation of for-profit, or PROPRIETARY, SCHOOLS, with about one-third of industry revenues, derived from child-care facilities and for-profit pre-primary, primary and secondary schools; production and sale of learning products, with nearly 12% of total industry revenues, derived from textbooks, educational software and school supplies; and electronic services, made up of Internet education portals and Web sites—basically outsources—offering internal and external content-based software, search capabilities, on-line education from schools and colleges and educational e-products sales sites. Electronic services was the fastest growing segment of the for-profit educational products industry in 2000.
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