UNH Professional Development & Training

Name

UNH Professional Development & Training

Legal name

University of New Hampshire

Website

https://training.unh.edu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Continuing & Professional Education

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Applied Skills Noncredit Certificates (Non-licensure) (EDAAAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Workforce Development & Continuing Education Divisions (Noncredit) (EDAHADAG), Human Resources & Talent (SHRM/HRCI Recertification) (EDAAALAN), Education & Training (Teaching/Instructional Design) Certifications (EDAAANAM)

Keywords

• Professional development training
• Continuing education programs
• Workforce certification courses
• Corporate training services
• Leadership and management certificates

Headquarters

HQ city

Durham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Workshop and Certificate Program Fees: Individual program fees for workshops, certificate programs, and conferences offered to professionals. Enrollment is open with flexible short-term formats in-person and online.
2. Custom Corporate Training: Fully customized workforce training programs delivered directly to business organizations. Part of Corporate Partner Services with no upfront fees and 15% program discount.
3. ed2go Career Training Partnership: Partnership with ed2go for online career training programs including healthcare, fitness, and professional certifications. Students enroll and pay through ed2go platform.
4. Corporate Partner Services: Subscription-like corporate partnership model providing businesses with access to training portal, learning catalog curation, employee enrollment management with volume pricing (15% discount).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

UNH Professional Development & Training delivers non-credit continuing and professional education programs — short-term open-enrollment workshops, multi-course professional certificates, conferences/retreats, and fully customized corporate training — to New Hampshire's businesses and workforce. Programs are offered in-person across UNH campuses in Durham, Portsmouth, and Manchester and live online via Zoom, with additional online career training delivered through ed2go, HyperionDev, and Ziplines Education partnerships and digital badges issued via Canvas Credentials.

Product overview

UNH Professional Development & Training is a non-credit continuing and professional education unit of the University of New Hampshire. It offers a comprehensive portfolio of training products organized around three core delivery mechanisms: open-enrollment workshops and certificate programs available both in-person (Portsmouth, Manchester, Durham campuses) and via Zoom live online; custom corporate training with a dedicated Corporate Partners Portal; and partnership programs through ed2go (healthcare careers), HyperionDev (data science), and Ziplines Education (business analytics). The certificate portfolio spans project management, HR, leadership, AI, digital marketing, coaching, and specialized domains like Violin Craftsmanship. Microcredentials are issued as digital badges through Canvas Credentials. Programs target New Hampshire businesses, workforce professionals, and educators, with corporate partners including Days Jewelers, Kennebunk Savings Bank, TURBOCAM, ICL Autos, and ERDC.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Professional Development & Training Programs (Core Portfolio) Non-credit continuing and professional education programs offered in short-term open-enrollment formats, both in-person and online, across thousands of topics for New Hampshire's businesses and workforce.
• Certificate Programs Professional skills certificate programs across in-demand content areas (project management, HR, leadership, digital marketing, AI, data analytics, coaching, specialized fields), completable in-person, online, or in combination.
• Corporate/Custom Training Fully customized workforce training delivered directly to businesses and organizations, with a Corporate Partners Portal providing 24/7 access, learning catalog curation, 15% program discount, and no upfront fees.
• Workshops One-day and multi-day intensive workshop sessions covering specific skill areas across business, education, and natural resources topics.
• Conferences & Retreats Annual and periodic professional development conferences and retreats including the UNH Leadership & Management Conference and Supervisors Boot Camp.
• Live Online Programs Synchronous virtual classroom instruction delivered via Zoom with live instructors, set class times, cohort interaction, and recorded sessions.
• Microcredentials (Digital Badges) Digital badges issued through Canvas Credentials partnership that demonstrate professional competencies; several badges accompany certificates.
• Healthcare Career Training (ed2go Partnership) Online career training programs for healthcare professions including Sterile Processing Technician, Medical Billing and Coding, and Clinical Medical Assistant, offered in partnership with ed2go with preparation for industry certifications.
• Data Science Boot Camp (HyperionDev Partnership) Flexible, hands-on boot camp covering data analysis, machine learning, and AI using Python; online format with monthly cohort start dates, offered in partnership with HyperionDev.
• Business Analytics Certificate (Ziplines Partnership) Foundational business analytics skills including SQL, data modeling, and AI applications; online with optional live sessions, monthly cohort starts, offered in partnership with Ziplines Education.
• UNH Violin Craftsmanship Institute Specialized program for violin and bow making from beginner to advanced levels, live online via Zoom; tuition $999 per week; open to adults 18+, musicians, music educators, and instrument repair professionals.
• AI Essentials Certificate Certificate program building practical skills in AI tools, strategy, decision-making, automation, and ethical implementation through expert-led, hands-on live online sessions.
• Agile-Scrum Master Certificate Two-day hands-on certificate teaching Agile project management methodology and underlying Scrum process, offered in-person or live online four times per year.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate Certificate teaching core tools and concepts of Lean and Six Sigma management techniques for continuous improvement environments, in-person and live online three times per year.
• PMP Test Prep with PM-SM Certificate Program preparing candidates for the Project Management Institute's PMP Exam, with an additional Project Manager-Scrum Master certificate combining waterfall and Agile-Scrum concepts; offered live online four times per year.
• Supervisors Boot Camp Annual intensive one-day program for supervisors; 2025 theme focuses on strategic leadership and organizational dynamics; 2026 theme addresses modern supervision challenges blending people management and technology in hybrid, multigenerational environments.
• Leadership & Management Certificate Certificate program for leading teams and building leadership skills with practical strategies; earnable in one semester to two years through flexible workshops held in Portsmouth, Manchester, and Durham.
• Women's Leadership Certificate Certificate program designed for women leaders featuring experienced instructors to build clarity, competencies, courage, and strategies for leadership success.
• Human Resources Management Certificate Flexible program for HR professionals allowing selection of six workshops from topics including employee relations, performance management, compliance, workplace diversity, compensation and benefits, and talent development.

Quantifiable outcome

• Career transition success: Former art professional transitioned to satisfying marketing communications career through design courses
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Days JewelerscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLong-standing corporate partner receiving customized training programs. Days Jewelers is a New Hampshire-based jewelry retailer that has partnered with UNH PD&T for employee workforce development.
• Kennebunk Savings BankcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLong-standing corporate partner. Kennebunk Savings Bank, a New Hampshire community bank, participates in Corporate Partner Services for employee training and development.
• TURBOCAMcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLong-standing corporate partner. TURBOCAM, a manufacturing company, receives customized workforce training through the Corporate Partner Services program.
• ICL AutoscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerICL Autos received customized soft skills training that equipped senior leaders with actionable strategies. The program's success led to extending training company-wide, improving performance and collaboration across all staff levels. This represents a deep, strategic partnership for organizational transformation.
• Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerSix-year partnership with ERDC, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers research center. UNH PD&T delivers exceptional training with innovative ideas and high-quality presentations tailored to ERDC's specific unique needs.
• ed2gocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with ed2go for online career training programs including healthcare (Sterile Processing Technician, Medical Billing and Coding, Clinical Medical Assistant), pharmacy technician, dental assistant, and optician certification. Programs are open-enrollment, career-focused training.
• HyperionDevminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with HyperionDev for Data Science Boot Camp - an online program teaching data analysis, machine learning, and AI using Python with monthly cohort start dates.
• Ziplines EducationminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with Ziplines Education for Business Analytics Certificate Course and other digital skills programs. Online offerings with optional live sessions and monthly cohort starts.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Skillsoft: Skillsoft is an enterprise learning platform providing compliance, leadership, and IT training to large organizations. Overlaps with UNH PD&T's corporate training and HR/leadership certificate offerings, but at much larger enterprise scale and via subscription SaaS.
• Coursera: Coursera is a scaled online learning platform with university and industry credentials, serving individual learners and enterprise customers with broad catalogs including business, tech, and data. Operates at much greater scale and lower price points than UNH PD&T, making it a broad incumbent in the same space.
• LinkedIn Learning: LinkedIn Learning offers subscription-based video courses in business, tech, and creative skills, frequently bundled into enterprise L&D budgets. Competes for the same corporate training dollars as UNH PD&T but with a vastly larger catalog and platform distribution.

Direct peers

• General Assembly: General Assembly delivers short-format, cohort-based boot camps and corporate training in tech, data, design, and leadership — closely overlapping UNH PD&T's certificate and custom-training offerings. Both target career-changers and corporate upskilling buyers with similar delivery formats.
• HyperionDev: HyperionDev partners with UNH PD&T on the Data Science Boot Camp and is itself a provider of cohort-based coding and data science boot camps to individuals and enterprises. Comparable learner profile, format, and outcome-orientation make it a direct peer in the same buyer category.
• New Horizons Worldwide: New Horizons is a long-standing corporate IT and professional skills training provider with both open-enrollment and customized enterprise delivery. Like UNH PD&T, it combines individual workshops with custom corporate programs and partners with certification bodies.
• Ziplines Education: Ziplines Education is both a partner (Business Analytics Certificate, AI Automation) and a direct peer, offering cohort-based online certificate programs in digital skills to working professionals through employer and university channels. Overlap with UNH PD&T's business analytics and digital marketing certificates is substantial.
• Learning Tree International: Learning Tree offers instructor-led IT and management training to professionals and enterprises globally, with both public enrollment and custom corporate formats. Its mix of certificate programs, custom training, and enterprise delivery closely mirrors UNH PD&T's model.
• Noble Desktop: Noble Desktop provides short-format, in-person and live-online certificate and boot camp programs in design, coding, data, and business, targeting career-changers and corporate clients. Comparable to UNH PD&T in delivery style, certificate orientation, and learner profile.
• ed2go: Ed2go is a channel partner and direct comparator, providing open-enrollment online career training programs in healthcare, IT, and skilled trades through university partnerships. UNH PD&T resells ed2go healthcare programs and competes with similar university-affiliated offerings in the same category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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