The online test-preparation platform
Physics Wallah
(PW) recently conducted an internal data analysis on a sample size of 27 lakh students from the
PW App
for the period between January 2022 and December 2023, along with 4 crore subscribers across its
YouTube
channels for the period from January 2023 to December 2023, and shared insights revealing that students' trust in online learning continues to grow in the post-pandemic era.
The
edtech platform
claims to have seen a 182% growth in the number of enrollment in paid courses and 38% increase in app downloads from 68 lakh downloads in 2022 to 94 lakh downloads in 2023 making it a total of 1.62 crore downloads as December 2023.
The company also claimed to witness 300% growth in student enrollments in Hindi medium batches. The student base for vernacular languages has seen a 5x growth, with Marathi, Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, and Telugu being India's most in-demand vernacular languages.
Looking at the trends
Alakh Pandey
, Founder and CEO of Physics Wallah, said,“It is exciting to observe that despite the industry's concerns regarding the decline of online learning in the post-pandemic world, it continues to thrive. Students are opting for the comfort, self-paced, and personalised experiences that online learning offers. Physics Wallah believes in the hybrid model as the future and personalised learning as the key to transforming how India learns. Our efforts are directed towards ensuring that students from the remotest corners of the country have access to these resources, providing them with a fair chance at success.”