BYJU’S Launches ‘BYJU’S Tuition Centre’ in Kolkata

● Offers students across classes 4-10 the best of offline and online learning methodologies to gain a competitive edge
● 10 centres to be operational across Kolkata
● Targets to launch 500 centres across 190 cities this year
● Expected to create over 10,000 jobs across the country this year
● Aims to enroll over 1 million students in the next two years

Kolkata, May, 2022: BYJU’S, the world’s leading EdTech company with 115 million registered learners, today announced the launch of ‘BYJU’S Tuition Centre’ in Kolkata. BYJU’S Tuition Centre is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive program for students that brings together the best of offline and online learning experiences. The city has 5 centres which are currently functional and will be scaled to 10 centres by end of this year.

The newly-launched BYJU’S Tuition Centres have been set-up in centralised locations and easily accessible areas such as Park-Street, Rabindra Sarobar, Dalhousie, Ruby, and Salt Lake, among others.

Available for students in classes 4-10, BYJU’S Tuition Centres will be the neighbourhood tech-enabled physical tuition centres providing world-class learning experience with a focus on engagement and better outcomes through the two-teacher model.

After a strong and positive feedback from 100 centres launched as part of a pilot program, BYJU’S will be launching 500 centres across 190 cities in 2022. BYJU’S Tuition Centre will not only redefine after-school learning with its 360 degree teaching and learning system, but also create employment opportunities for over 10,000+ people across India within a year of operations. BYJU’S targets to enrol 1 million students into this program in the next two years.

Commenting on the launch, Himanshu Bajaj, Head of BYJU’STuition Centre, said, “We are happy to announce the launch of BYJU’S Tuition Centre in India’s culture capital – Kolkata. This launch fortifies our commitment to making quality education personalised, engaging and tailored to students’ needs. Owing to the pandemic, students had to oscillate between offline and online learning, but this new offering of BYJU’S will address complex concerns of students and parents across the country. BYJU’S Tuition Centres is the next step in personalised learning. It will offer students the benefit of two teacher models in tech-enabled physical centres and a personal teacher-student connect supported by analytics-led assessment of progress and performance. Students will also get access to BYJU’S online ecosystem. By keeping students’ requirements at the core, these tech-enabled physical centres have been designed to offer world- class learning and personalised education to unlock a student’s’ full potential”.

BYJU’S Tuition Centre combines the best of technology, teachers, and formats to ensure a wholesome and impactful learning experience for students. Standardised teaching methodologies offer deep teacher connect along with delivering superior learningexperiences that enable better outcomes. With technology and features such as anytime doubt resolution support, regular tests/practice sessions, identification of doubts, and frequent parent-teacher meetings – students get the best of both worlds – access to high-quality teachers and personalised attention.

The BYJU’S Tuition Centre offering has been designed in a way where students will get to bridge learning gaps, strengthen conceptual understanding, and reinforce learning through regular practice and tests that ensure exam readiness. Students will also have the same teacher for their offline and online classes who will support them with their personalised learning journeys.

With this launch, BYJU’S is reaffirming its student-centric approach, and creating new and innovative experiences, products, and services based on learners’ real needs. With blended learning set to be the future of education in a post-pandemic world, the BYJU’S Tuition Centre is setting new benchmarks for this format.

Last year, the company launched BYJU’S Classes with a two-teacher advantage for its learners. With 115 million registered students and 7 million paid subscriptions, BYJU’S sees an annual renewal rate of 86%. Under BYJU’S Education for All social initiative, BYJU’S has helped 3.4 million children access education through digital learning and aims at empowering 10 million children from underserved communities by 2025.

About BYJU’S:
BYJU’S is the world’s leading edtech company that offers highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning programs for students across K-12, competitive exams, coding, and upskilling courses for professionals. With over 150 million registered learners globally, 7 million annual paid subscriptions, and a presence in 120 countries, BYJU’S has been at the forefront of creating tech-driven and immersive learning experiences for students around the world.
Since the launch of its flagship Learning App in 2015, BYJU’S has been innovating learning experiences and pioneering new approaches to education by blending world-class pedagogy with cutting edge technology. These include hybrid learning, ‘phygital’ learning, interactive and personalised approaches, and multiple learning formats.
BYJU’S portfolio of products has now expanded to meet the learning requirements across grades, levels, and geographies. These include Disney.BYJU’S Early Learn, which offers highly engaging early learning programs for the K-3 segment; BYJU’S Classes with Two Teacher Advantage – a comprehensive after-school learning solution; BYJU’S Tuition Centre – a hybrid after-school learning centre; BYJU’S Exam Prep for various entrance tests, and more. It also offers coding, maths and music programs to students in USA, UK, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico.
BYJU’S is taking big strides in bringing together the best of offline and online learning experiences and setting up international innovation hubs to deliver breakthrough solutions across its ecosystem of learning products.
Taking its vision of building a community of active learners globally, BYJU’S has onboarded strong partners through strategic acquisitions of Osmo, EPiC, Tynker, White Hat Jr, Aakash, Great Learning, Gradeup, and GeoGebra.
A digital-first company, BYJU’S has been backed by prominent investors like Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Naspers, CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tencent, Sequoia Capital, Sofina, Verlinvest, IFC, Aarin Capital, TimesInternet, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global, Owl Ventures & Qatar Investment Authority.
BYJU’S is heavily invested in the amalgamation of education and sports. It is the official sponsor of the Indian Cricket Team. In 2022, BYJU’S also became the first edtech company to be an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, inspiring learning through the unifying power of football.
With the aim to democratise education and break socio-economic barriers to learning, BYJU’S launched its social impact initiative Education for All in 2020. Within a year of launch, the initiative positively impacted 3.4 million children across 26 states and 340+ districts by making tech-driven education accessible and equitable. By 2025, the initiative aims to impact 10 million children.