12 Best Education Stocks to Buy in 2025

6. Coursera, Inc. (NYSE:COUR)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 28

Coursera, Inc. (NYSE:COUR) offers an online learning platform connecting educators, learners, and institutions. It provides accessible and relevant educational content through its platform and operates in the Consumer, Enterprise, and Degrees segment. It offers an elaborate learning credentials and content list, including courses, guided projects, clips, specializations, and degrees. Its offerings span Coursera.org for Individuals, Coursera for Enterprise, Coursera for Business, Coursera for Campus, and Coursera for Government.

The company has attained significant milestones in the past few years, such as completing its IPO, growing its revenue from less than $100 million in 2017 to nearly $700 million by the end of 2024 while attaining profitability, rapidly expanding its platform, products, and offerings, partnering with more than 200 new universities and industry leaders, and growing its number of registered learners by over 100 million.

It added 26 million new learners from across the globe in 2024, the highest since 2020, taking its learner base to 168 million by the end of the year. It also added nearly 250 new paid enterprise customers, ending the year with more than 1600 governments, businesses, and campuses that use Coursera, Inc.’s (NYSE:COUR) platform. The company plans to continue this momentum by investing in domains such as product innovation by leveraging AI to redefine customer experience.