Training Industry continuously monitors the IT training marketplace looking for the best providers of IT training services.
As part of our commitment to the industry and service to our community members and website visitors, we announce Top Company Lists to help buy-side organizations searching for the right training partner.
Selection to the 2017 Top 20 IT Training Companies List was based on the following criteria:
- Breadth and quality of IT training content and courses
- Leadership and innovation in IT training
- Company size and growth potential
- Strength of clients
- Geographic reach
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Due to the diversity of client requirements in the IT training marketplace, no attempt is made to rank the Top 20.
Top 20 Companies

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New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
New Horizons IT and business training solutions have kept businesses ahead of the technology curve for over 35 years. We combine the resources of the world’s largest IT training company with the responsiveness of a local partner. New Horizons is certified as a Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and VMware authorized partner.
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Fast Lane
Morrisville, North Carolina
Fast Lane specializes in advanced and emerging IT training from all the major tech vendors. Our launch of MOOC content as LaaS and Open edX as PaaS gives our customers the most up-to-date delivery choices for a full suite of cloud, hardware configuration and maintenance, cybersecurity, virtualization and digital transformation training.
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Firebrand Training
London United Kingdom
Firebrand is the leader in accelerated learning, and has grown to become a global business – with training centres around the world. Over 65,000 students have saved more than a million hours gaining IT and project management certifications through our unique accelerated learning methodology.
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ExecuTrain
Alpharetta, Georgia
ExecuTrain provides high-quality IT training and support all over the world. Over 33 years of experience empowers us to evolve to best help our clients’ changing needs. Pioneers in content creation, delivery methods and customization, coupled with our global footprint, allows us to consistently deliver superior training results for our clients.
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NIIT
Atlanta, Georgia
In our history of 36 years, we have trained 35 million people in IT worldwide from China to USA and in 40 countries around the world. We can design, develop and deliver virtually any technology, customer education service or solution, customized to the needs of the technology, audience, geographic distribution, regional requirements and scale.
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LearnQuest
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
LearnQuest has remained nimble and responsive to the needs of the global IT training market for over twenty years. Because technology is constantly changing, many organizations are looking for ways to gain a strategic competitive advantage in the knowledge economy. LearnQuest fulfills these needs by providing customers with the quality and integrity that customers have come to expect.
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Learning Tree International
Herdnon, Virginia
Learning Tree’s vision: Be the leading partner to IT organizations to support the development of their workforce.
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The Training Associates
Westboro, Massachusetts
The Training Associates collaborates with global corporations, within many technical verticals, to incorporate and continually develop best practices and new strategies for agile IT training. Based on this knowledge, our trainers have delivered vast curricula of IT training to millions of motivated learners across a spectrum of learning formats.
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Tech Data
Clearwater, Florida
Tech Data Education and Training is a certified provider of IT training services globally offering training in more than 60 countries. They operate under two brands: Tech Data Academy and ExitCertified, offering training services authorized by the top technology vendors including AWS, IBM, Oracle, RedHat, SAP, VMWare, and many more.
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QA
Slough United Kingdom
QA take pride in the innovation and quality of the training we provide. Each year our learning services are recognized worldwide by leading vendors and independent organizations. We are continually receiving prestigious awards for the high standards of our training, confirming our position as the UK’s leading learning provider.
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NetCom Learning
New York, New York
We teach IT. We manage learning. NetCom Learning helps build innovative learning organizations by structuring a smarter workforce, supporting changes and driving growth. We've helped 12,000+ organizations achieve their goals by offering a full complement of managed learning services, including IT training, content development and consulting services.
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ONLC Training Centers
Wilmington, Delaware
ONLC Training Centers is a privately held IT training firm with over 300 training locations. ONLC specializes in remote classroom instruction (RCI™), where clients can take live virtual training from their remote classrooms. The company offers a wide range of courses and specializes in Microsoft products as well as data science and analytics topics.
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Global Knowledge
Cary, North Carolina
Global Knowledge empowers organizations, teams and individuals with the skills and best practices necessary to leverage the technologies to deliver the intended business outcomes behind every technology initiative. They're the global leader in IT training for cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT management and best practices, and software development
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GP Strategies
Columbia, Maryland
GP Strategies has demonstrated how to ensure the value of learning as part of business initiatives by applying solid analytics focusing on the front line performer, the processes related to learning have become indispensable to the business and are ensuring that the learning initiatives are directly linked to the business strategy.
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CGS
New York, New York
CGS designs, delivers and manages a wide range of IT training solutions in a multi-modality format scaled to meet the changing needs of a global audience. Our full-cycle services begin with needs assessments, training solutions design, development and delivery, program management, quality assurance, data collection and ends with deliverable results.
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Skillsoft
Nashua, New Hampshire
Skillsoft offers a robust IT library of online content to address the skilling needs for a dynamic global IT workforce. With microlearning assets, Skillsoft builds learners competencies whether it’s for a just-in-time skilling need or to prepare them for an industry certification.
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CTU Training Solutions
Pretoria South Africa
We offer a variety of innovative solutions and services in education that enable modern learning in the new digital world of learning. We move students from campus to corporate and deliver training and development solutions that equip and build organizations human capital.
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O'Reilly Media
Sebastopol, California
O’Reilly leverages an unparalleled network of experts to bring technology trends to light. Millions of IT professionals use O’Reilly to stay ahead and expand their skills. They can personalize their learning experience to suit what works best for them, choosing to read books, watch videos, listen to live instruction or use interactive tutorials.
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InfoSec Institute
Elmwood Park, Illinois
InfoSec Institute provides IT training for security professionals and enterprise security awareness solutions for businesses of all sizes. Our programs generate industry-leading outcomes: Our IT courses lead the industry with an average 93 percent exam pass rate, and our security awareness training drops client phishing susceptibility to as low as 0 percent.
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Simplilearn
San Francisco, California
Simplilearn combines a narrow curriculum focus on IT and digital economy skills, developed with leading outside experts in each field and aligned to the authoritative certification body, a blended learning approach to maximize course completion, a proprietary LMS that provides extensive user management and a dedicated customer success team.