Unacademy Launches Offline Classes

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Unacademy Launches Offline Classes
21 May 2022
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Unacademy, a leading edtech company, is building Unacademy Centers to offer offline classes in nine cities. After Byju's Aakash Institute, this is the second online edtech major to take this path. Unacademy, like Aakash, will focus on NEET UG, IIT JEE, and foundation courses for students in grades I through II.

It plans to build its first Unacademy centre next month in Kota, Rajasthan, the country's coaching capital. More will be launched in Jaipur, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Patna, Pune, and Delhi, according to the company. In its first batch, it intends to recruit up to 15,000 students across all centres.

Gaurav Munjal, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Unacademy Group, said, “Our experiential touchpoints - Unacademy World have seen tremendous response from learners, many of whom have also expressed the need for in-person learning from the best educators.”

Unacademy is the second most valued edtech companies in India after Byju’s. The company has raised more than $800 million from notable investors such as Deepinder Goyal of Zomato, Ritesh Agarwal of Oyo, Tiger Global, Mirae Asset, General Atlantic, and others. In August 2021, the company was valued at $3.4 billion.

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