Selected Education IPOs: 1991 to Present

Offer Date Company Sector Offering Amount

(in millions)
Offer Price Stock Price

11/11/99
% Change

Offer to Present
4/21/91 Tesseract Group K-12 education management $6.00 $4.00 $2.13 -46.9
6/21/91 DeVry Postsecondary education $21.20 $1.25* $23.00 1,740.00
2/24/92 Scholastic Educational publishing $108.00 $22.50 $51.69 129.7
12/15/92 Res-Care At-risk youth $15.00 $4.44* $12.25 175.6
12/9/93 Sylvan Learning Systems Education services $22.00 $4.89* $12.19 149.3
12/5/94 Apollo Group Postsecondary education $35.20 $1.63* $23.94 1,368.60
12/20/94 ITT Educational Services Postsecondary education $20.00 $2.96* $20.50 591.9
11/13/95 New Horizon Kids Quest Child care $5.00 $5.00 $0.97 -80.6
2/1/96 Childtime Learning Centers Child care $18.70 $11.00 $12.81 15.5
7/25/96 Strayer Education Postsecondary education $30.00 $6.67* $15.00 125
10/31/96 Education Management Corp. Postsecondary education $68.00 $7.50* $9.09 21.3
8/12/97 Bright Horizons Family Solutions Child care $23.50 $10.00 $16.44 64.4
9/24/97 Advantage Learning Systems Education services $44.80 $8.00* $23.26 190.6
1/28/98 Career Education Corp. Postsecondary education $45.60 $15.00 $35.50 121.9
5/4/98 Caliber Learning Network Education services $79.80 $14.00 $1.69 -67.9
6/10/98 School Speciality Education products $32.90 $15.00 $14.75 -4.8
3/8/99 Argosy Education Group Postsecondary education $28.00 $14.00 $4.50 -67.9
7/21/99 Scientific Learning Company Education software $36.80 $16.00 $20.69 29.3
10/19/99 ZapMe! Education services $99.00 $11.00 $12.94 17.6
11/10/99 Edison Schools K-12 education management $122.40 $18.00 $18.06 0.3
*These companies' offer prices have been adjusted to reflect stock splits.

SOURCE: Banc of America Securities Inc.

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