Hobsons’ Higher Ed Business Split and Sold in Separate Deals Totaling $410M | EdSurge News

Hobsons, which offers a suite of software for college and career planning, admissions and enrollment, and student success and advising, will be broken ...

The company’s owner, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT, which is also the publisher of the British newspaper Daily Mail), announced it has reached an agreement to sell Naviance and Intersect to PowerSchool for $320 million. The two products complement one another. Naviance is used by students to learn about their life and career interests, and provides recommendations for what educational options can best support them. Some of that data is shared with Intersect, which is sold to colleges and universities to support their recruitment and enrollment efforts...