Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education is the leader in integrated education publishing. Spread across a wide spectrum of subjects, including business, technology, sciences, law and the humanities, our books and resources help students learn, teachers teach, and professionals evolve throughout their careers. Our books and learning tools help people around the world to expand their knowledge, develop their skills and realize their potential. Pearson Education provides quality content, assessment tools, and educational services in all available media, spanning the learning curve from birth, through university, and beyond.
We specialize in the publication of academic and reference books in the fields of computer science, engineering, business and management, professional and trade, higher education and competitive examination preparation books. We are also India’s foremost publisher in school publishing (K-12), with book lists in English language teaching (ELT), the humanities, the sciences and mathematics, from primary to senior secondary classes.
With elaborate editorial facilities in Delhi, Chennai and Chandigarh, Pearson Education India covers the entire subcontinent. We have specific divisions catering to all levels and fields of education. We create indigenous publishing programmes to meet local market needs, and undertake customized publishing for schools, universities and other institutions. We work closely with our authors and customers through strong editorial development processes and innovations in sales and marketing.
Our Imprints
The imprints that make up Pearson Education describe a rich educational and literary heritage.
Longman is a leading publisher of educational materials for schools, higher education, and English language teaching (ELT). It is the world's oldest commercial imprint; it published the first book typeset by Benjamin Franklin back in 1725, the first English language dictionary in 1755 and the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus in 1852.
Prentice Hall, founded in 1913, is a leading publisher in most of the main academic disciplines and on cutting-edge topics in business, computer science, engineering and information technology.
Scott Foresman, which dates back to 1889, taught generations of Americans to read with the first Dick, Jane, and Spot stories and published First Journeys in Numberland, the first math text for primary grades. Always at the forefront of elementary education publishing, Pearson Scott Foresman joined forces with NASA in 2003 to enhance science curricula.
Addison-Wesley, which firmly established its reputation as a science and math publisher of note in 1942 with the bestselling Microbiology, is the world’s leading technical publisher.
Benjamin Cummings is one of the world’s foremost science publishers in the higher education market, specializing in the areas of anatomy and physiology, biology, health and kinesiology, and microbiology.
Our other businesses and brands include Merrill Education, Cisco Press, FT-Prentice Hall, Peachpit, Sams, Que, New Riders Publishing, Penguin Longman Publishing and Pearson PTR.
Our Learning Solutions
Pearson Education has the most comprehensive range of educational programmes, pre-eminence in testing, assessment, and enterprise software; and the very best in online consumer and professional learning for every age and every level of student. Through our products and our exceptional level of service and support for educators, we help people realize the power of education in thousands of ways.
Pearson Education India can offer students many ways to learn, and at their own pace. The innovative MyLabs are state-of-the-art interactive online learning tools have been slated for release in India. With a full range of assessment, homework and sophisticated grade-book functions, it can be customized meet needs of every instructor and student.
Pearson Education has led the industry in delivering supplementary content since our first ‘Companion Websites’ in 1996. Our 300 websites, hundreds of successful media products, and numerous successful alliances with media and distributed learning companies—these are all part of an integrated educational programme that links textbooks, supplements and websites so that each medium plays an important role in helping students to learn and instructors to teach. We are already working on implementing the next step in India: the development of such teaching aids as interactive exercises, practice sessions, step-by-step explanations of difficult topics with visuals and voice-overs, and 3-D modelling of difficult processes and concepts.
Pearson One
The Pearson One initiative is an innovative publishing model that harnesses the talent and expertise of Pearson authors, editors, and production teams all over the world in a truly global endeavour. Each title in the Pearson One series is developed and produced to be launched simultaneously around the world; the internationally customized and combined content thus provides students with greater local and global relevance. Marketing Management, 13e, the international bestseller by Philip Kotler and Kevin Keller, is the first in the Pearson One series.