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Top 25 Distance learning providers based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 163 distance learning providers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 7,483 professional contacts across them, including 1,043 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers distance learning providers headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest distance learning providers based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,573 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WELCOME TO WBS GRUPPE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 839 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The FernUniversität in Hagen is Germany’s only state distance-learning university, and its largest in terms of student numbers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 338 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “karriere tutor® – Gemeinsam.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The ILS was founded in Hamburg in 1977.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt is one of the largest and most traditional distance learning institutes in Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Für uns steht die Weiterentwicklung von Menschen im Fokus unseres unternehmerischen Handelns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lecturio is aiming to have a sustainable and positive influence on the education system and landscape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Wifa Gruppe ist Ihr renommierter Partner für hochwertige Firmenschulungen, berufliche Umschulung und Weiterbildung für Erwachsene.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OneCareer GmbH ist Dein Partner für geförderte Weiterbildungen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STAATLICH ZUGELASSENE WEITERBILDUNGEN in den Bereich Sport, Fitness und Life Balance Die Deutsche Sportakademie bietet berufsbegleitende Fernstudiengänge und Lizenzausbildungen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Das Deutsche eLearning Studieninstitut (DeLSt) ist eine moderne Bildungseinrichtung, die neben klassischen e-Learning-Kursen unter anderem auch staatlich anerkannte Abschlüsse…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An der Steinbeis University - Schools of Next Practices (S-Next) unterstützen wir dich auf deinem persönlichen Karriereweg: Du eignest dir das nötige Wissen an, um deinen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mannheimer Abendakademie und Volkshochschule GmbH is a professional training & coaching company based out of U 1 13-19, Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Europäische Hochschule für Innovation und Perspektive (EHIP) hat sich als moderne Fernhochschule das Ziel gesetzt, dich mit den Schlüsselqualifikationen und Fähigkeiten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “examio ist eines der führenden EdTech-Unternehmen Deutschlands mit über derzeit aktiven Kursteilnehmern (2024).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Klett Corporate Education combines the offer of more than 600 qualifications across six distance learning schools and universities of applied sciences of the Klett group: APOLLON…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Volkshochschule Braunschweig GmbH is an education management company based out of Alte Waage 15, Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hinter oncampus verbirgt sich ein Team von kreativen, witzigen und unkonventionellen Digitalraketen, die digitale Produkte leben und finden, dass Lernen Spaß machen sollte.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Move forward with distance learning at the TU Kaiserslautern - part-time master and certificate programmes as well as online courses in the disciplines Human Resources, Management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Deutsche Weiterbildungsgesellschaft (DWG) ist ein Unternehmen der Klett Gruppe, eines der größten Bildungsunternehmen in Europa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission: Bildung Next Level bietet hochwertige Weiterbildungskurse in zukunftsweisenden Bereichen wie Online Marketing, Content Creation, KI, Frauen in Führung und digitalem…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to the Academy of Continuing Education at the University of Bremen!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Re-build your Future through Education!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Weiterbildung verändert unser Leben positiv.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mit Sitz im Science Park C4 in Weiherhammer bietet die C4TRENDS GmbH Unternehmen und Einzelpersonen ein umfangreiches Portfolio an Bildungsdienstleistungen an.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: distance learning providers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names distance learning providers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of distance learning providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name distance learning providers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Distance learning providers based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 163 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among distance learning providers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “distance learning providers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names distance learning providers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among distance learning providers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,043 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names distance learning providers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many distance learning providers are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 163 distance learning providers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
WBS Gruppe, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most distance learning providers?
Berlin leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (13) and Munchen (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,043 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 163 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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