Rethinking Funding in Private Education

Private-education funding is no longer a single-institution lending question — it has become a group-structuring question. In 2025, around 85 education-sector transactions worth over US$580 million were recorded, and capital has grown far more selective about governance, profitability and regulatory alignment. Today, infrastructure, fee income, management rights and investor capital often sit in different parts of the same group. Fundability now depends not just on enrolment and operating performance, but on whether these relationships produce clear, enforceable and predictable cash flows. This roundtable brings together promoters, finance leaders, lenders and investors for a candid, practitioner-level discussion on structuring capital for conventional schools and universities as well as across corporate education groups — spanning term loans, working-capital facilities, asset-backed lending, refinancing, and equity and acquisition capital for multi-campus and multi-school operators.