Posted on April 04, 2008 by Ginger Watford
Kumon Education
Started 50 years ago in Japan, this education franchise is well known throughout the United States and the world as both an exceptional business and tutoring service. It currently sits in Bond’s Top 100 franchises and is considered the #1 tutoring service franchise, period. From its inception, Kumon’s method has proven so effective that the founder’s son—in a way, the business’ first client—was able to do calculus by the time he had reached the sixth grade. Part of the reason for this profound success is the Kumon practice of sending students (who only come in for two or three sessions a week) home with extra assignments, which provide relevant exercises throughout the week, teaching not only the subject at hand, but study and time-management skills as well. Today, this method is used in 1400 Kumon centers that exist in North America, which is only one of the 43 nations in which franchises are active, still holding deeply that “there’s nothing a child can’t do.”
Virtuoso Music
There are few ways to work from home and expand an appreciation of music without being an in-home piano teacher, but this is one of them. Virtuoso Music provides music lessons and other music-related products to homes, schools, and other locations by way of stay-at-home franchisers who coordinate independent music instructors trained in a wide array of instruments. Everything is done through an easy-to-use central database system that makes lesson scheduling and tracking, billing, CRM, and other critical business functions a breeze. Franchisers become the vital and simple connection between those who teach music and those who want to learn.
Computer Explorers
This home-based business specializes in educational technology solutions to childcare centers, preschools, public and private schools, recreation and community centers. That means essentially that they send resource teachers to plan and guide lessons in the use of modern technology to virtually everyone, ranging from three-year-olds to adults. The success of this business is evident, as it reaches 30,000 students per week in the U.S. and around the world.
Huntington Learning Center
Founded in 1977, Huntington Learning Center was and remains the pioneer and leader in franchised learning centers, serving tens of thousands of children, grades K-12, with quality instruction throughout their national network. The key to their success so far, and the success of franchises joining in on this business opportunity, rides on Huntington’s commitment to individualized instruction for their students. No two children are the same, so neither are their educational needs.
Kiddie Academy
“Educating the whole child”: that’s the foundation of this company and each of their franchises. For 25 years, Kiddie Academy has been committed to early childcare education, to developing the youngest learners mentally, physically, and socially, instead of highlighting one aspect of a child’s life at the expense of the others. Though that commitment to excellence could be daunting for a budding franchisee, the company offers support from their expert franchise staff, real estate team, a few selected third party lenders, trainers to a new franchisee through every aspect of running the business, comprehensive manuals, and a crack marketing and advertising department. In no area of building a business is the franchisee alone.
Tutor Doctor
This home-based business is operated through a network of virtual tutors that are linked to students via the work-at-home franchisee. Among innumerable tutoring franchises in the U.S. that are forced to set one tutor over three or four children at a time, Tutor Doctor is the leader in providing one-on-one tutoring that is custom tailored to each child. This true children’s franchise orchestrates online and home-visit tutoring in Math, Calculus, Science, French, Chemistry, English, Physics, Algebra, and Biology at all grade levels, resulting in an average 10%-20% rise in grades in 6 months. And their “Big Apple” central management system makes the franchisee’s life easier by simplifying business and driving profits.
Mathnasium
As many of us recall, one of the most stressful subjects in school is undoubtedly math. That is precisely why Mathnasium specialized in mathematics education. Their method of tutoring is the result of 30 years of study, making it one of the more effective a parent can find for his or her child. As for the franchisee, the system matches one teacher to several students, which reduces labor cost without costing the education of the children. Many are already climbing onto this bandwagon to start their own franchises. Today, one site opens per week, resulting in a current total of over 700 learning centers serving 2 million kids in 72 countries.
The Tutoring Center
Every new member to the Tutoring Center franchise actively engages in their specific four-part mission for their students. (1) Develop student skills in reading, math, and writing. (2) Develop focus, concentration, and attention span so they learn quickly. (3) Develop confidence and motivation so the enjoy learning. (4) Develop test-taking and study skills so they do better. And while the uneasy children are taken care of in their studies, so are the inexperienced and uneasy new franchisees. At the outset of building their wing of the business, every franchisee is assigned a Support Team to help accomplish all the difficult tasks of start-up, never leaving them alone to flounder in the ocean of educational franchising.
CompuChild
Founded in 1994, CompuChild is the nation’s leader in preschool computer education, providing technology education to private and public preschools and daycare centers across the United States, hoping to give children a firm foundational understanding of technology early on. They are 100% committed to getting franchisees to their specifically desired levels of business success, encouraging relationships with other, nearby program directors, to insure that everyone is competent in using the most effective educational and business methodology. No one is left behind: neither student nor franchisee.
Sylvan Learning
With 30 years of experience in the Educational Franchise industry and 1200 locations throughout North America, Sylvan Learning Centers was understandably Success Magazine’s #1 franchise overall in 2000. Even if Sylvan’s methods of teaching students with personalized instruction online, at home, or in-center weren’t some of the best around—which the are—greater brand awareness and higher advertising spending than any other business in the field still prove to make Sylvan a most well-known and well-trusted name in the market.
