HIQ Global 100 Education Index

Education is one of the world’s largest social and economic activities. Global annual expenditure on education is approximately $5 Trillion dollars, forecast to grow to $10 Trillion by 2030. Whilst measures like these help us understand the scale and impact of the sector, the potential of education must not be measured by money alone. What is being “sold” is the education of future generations.

Education has been slow to leverage private capital to fuel research, investment and development in human capital. The HIQ Global 100 Education Index seeks to measure the change in this dynamic over time by tracking the cumulative value of the world’s 100 largest publicly traded education companies. The index tracks the market capitalization of those 100 companies, measuring what the companies are worth on the open market, as well as the market’s perception of their future prospects, because it reflects what investors are willing to pay for its stock.