Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance at Udemy
At Udemy we believe that anyone can build the life they imagine by gaining access to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in an ever-changing world. Udemy’s culture encourages innovation, creativity, passion, and teamwork, and we strive to create a better world for all stakeholders including learners, instructors, customers, employees, and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to showcase our ESG programs and metrics to help you better understand how we are making a positive impact around the globe.
As a mission-driven company, Udemy helps aspiring practitioners learn from experts in their fields. Udemy enables anyone, regardless of academic credentials, to create courses and market them to consumer and enterprise learners. Udemy believes in the power of opening up possibilities by bringing learners and content creators together.
Access and inclusion are at the very core of our business, and we have aligned our ESG goals with the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as we continue to scale our business:
We provide inclusive and equitable quality training and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Our platform enables individuals from around the world to create new income streams and support their families and local communities.
Our platform dramatically reduces barriers to teaching and learning around the globe. We offer tens of thousands of free courses to help anyone learn the skills they need to advance in an ever-changing world.
Beyond the United Nations SDGs, we reference the Internet Media & Services Sustainability Accounting Standard developed by the SASB in our impact reporting. An independent institution, the SASB provides a globally recognized framework for sustainability reporting across companies and industries.
Sustainalytics recognized Udemy as an ESG Industry Top Rated company in 2024. The ESG risk-rating report is available from Sustainalytics as linked above and a summary is available on the Sustainalytics website.
Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings measure a company’s exposure to industry-specific material ESG risks and how well a company is managing those risks. This multi-dimensional way of measuring ESG risk combines the concepts of management and exposure to arrive at an assessment of ESG risk, i.e. a total unmanaged ESG risk score or the ESG Risk Rating, that is comparable across all industries. Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings provide a quantitative measure of unmanaged ESG risk and distinguish between five levels of risk: negligible, low, medium, high and severe. Learn more about the ESG Risk Ratings here.
Udemy Free Resource Center
We’ve always been passionate about making learning accessible to everyone. Through our Free Resource Center, we offer hundreds of free courses across a variety of topics and languages, helping individuals around the world develop their skills. Over one million learners have enrolled in Udemy Free Resource Center courses.
Meet Some of Our Impact Partners
At Udemy, we’re humbled by the opportunity to open access to learning — especially for those whose opportunities have historically been limited. To do this, we’ve partnered with a number of nonprofit organizations to support their learning programs. Through our Impact Program, Udemy has supported more than 200 nonprofits globally with discounted licenses and courses helping them further their own mission to transform lives.
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The Last Mile (TLM) provides resources to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people to help them thrive in a rapidly evolving job market. Since our partnership began in 2019, over 189 TLM learners have re-entered the workforce after developing coding and workplace skills on Udemy.
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AnnieCannons is dedicated to helping survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence become software engineers and entrepreneurs. By partnering with Udemy, AnnieCannons further enables students with no prior development experience to learn data literacy, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more.
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Upwardly Global aims to eliminate the employment barriers that skilled immigrants and refugees encounter when entering the U.S. workforce. Our partnership gives job seekers access to resources that prepare them to pass industry-recognized certifications, including CompTIA A+, CCNA, and PMP.
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SV Academy with Gainsight offers an apprenticeship program that helps people break into customer success roles. By partnering with Udemy, over one million underrepresented job-seekers have access to the skills and resources necessary to begin careers in the tech industry.
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Sentinels of Freedom (SoF) assists severely wounded, post-9/11 veterans in their efforts to become self-sufficient members of their communities as they transition back into civilian life. Our partnership is designed to provide veterans participating in the SoF program with access to the skills and resources they need to re-enter the workforce and complete their transition to civilian life.