The new categories will help Unacademy expand its reach in the competitive exams space and make learning more accessible to students across the country.
Unacademy, India’s largest learning platform, today announced the launch of their new Plus Subscription categories - Law, CA and NEET PG. This move comes after the education platform introduced its paid subscription model, Unacademy Plus in February earlier this year.
All the educators teaching these categories are highly experienced and are well-known faces across the country. These categories will have complete subjects’ coverage, topic wise courses including rapid revision, last-minute revision strategies, test series, etc.
Over 2 lakh candidates appear for these exams every year and there is a huge demand for preparation material online. Unacademy aims at giving the aspirants access to the best teachers and complete their entire preparation online without any financial or geographic barriers. The launch will help Unacademy to build the world's largest education platform and provide quality education by leveraging the power of technology.
Commenting on the launch of these new categories, Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder and CEO, Unacademy said, “Our vision is to change the way India prepares for competitive examinations. In order to achieve that, it is our constant endeavour to make quality education accessible to learners across geographies and socioeconomic strata. The categories on the platform have the toughest competitive exams and the preparation can be plain-sailing through the teachings of expert educators under the Plus Subscription. It gives the learners a more streamlined and holistic learning experience. Learners here don’t have to search for a course. Instead, they just subscribe and get unlimited access to everything that they need to prepare for that category, as a part of the subscription.”
Launched in February 2019, Unacademy Plus has already garnered over 50,000 active subscribers in less than 6 months. It gives learners preparing for various examinations unlimited access to live classes by the best teachers in the country. Learners get a personalised learning experience that is augmented by doubt-clearing sessions with the educators, interactive classes and a live test series.
Currently, four subscription options are available for the 27 categories - UPSC CSE, IIT JEE, NEET & AIIMS, SSC Exams, CAT, NTA-UGC NET, Bank Exams, IELTS, MPPSC/VYAPAM, MPSC, Railway Exams, RPSC, UPPSC/UPSSSC, TNPSC, CDS/AFCAT/CAPF, GMAT, GATE, Karnataka PSC, APPSC/TSPSC, Kerala PSC, WBPSC, Ujian Tulis Berbasis Komputer, CSIR-UGC NET, Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), NDA/Airforce X and Y/Navy, ESE, Foundation & NTSE. More than 600 live classes are conducted every day on Plus by 400+ Educators.
Founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh in 2015, Unacademy is changing the way India learns. Unacademy’s Educator App helps educators create high quality educational lessons, that learners’ access via the Learning App.
The platform currently has more than 10,000 registered educators and 13M learners. The company has raised a total of $88.6 million from Steadview Capital, Sequoia India, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures, and others.
Unacademy also has the largest distribution for educational videos on its free platform. YouTube and Unacademy lessons have more than 150M monthly views across these platforms. Unacademy’s YouTube channels currently have more than 18M subscribers.
