How to Choose the Tutoring Franchise That’s Right For You
Lily Sweeney, writer
Published at 08/02/2019, Updated on 04/05/2022 , Reading time: 5 min
If you’d love to start a franchise in the education industry, becoming your own boss with plenty of franchisor support and training, you might find that running a tutoring franchise would be right up your street. The education sub-sector is vast, and there’s plenty of room for specialism. Read on, and find out how to choose the tutoring business that’s right for you/where you’d be best placed to invest.
Estimates put the size of the UK tuition market between £2 billion and £6 billion [Tutor Hunt], and during the COVID pandemic, when many industries were suffering and struggling to stay afloat, tutors experienced a huge boom in demand as a result of school closures. Many parents of child learners and many adult learners realised the value of a private tutor as a result, and are continuing to retain tutoring services.
This picture - of a British consumer base that’s more aware than ever of how helpful quality tutoring can be - makes it the best possible time to make a career change with a tutoring franchise. In this article, you’ll explore exactly what that career change might entail. There are four main avenues that you might go down within the tutoring sub-sector, and they are...
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- A multi-subject tutoring franchise
When you start looking into how to become a tutor, you’ll see that some tutoring franchises offer tuition and teaching sessions based on a single subject, while others cover multiple. Multi-subject tutoring franchises might focus on core subjects like Maths, English and Science, or they might cover an even wider base, including things like music lessons and language lessons. If you’re working with a multi-subject tutoring franchise, you’ll likely be performing solely managerial duties, coordinating a team of trained, subject-focused tutors.
How to choose a tutoring franchise that covers a range of subjects
One strong option in the multi-subject realm is Boost Education, a franchise targeted at 4-16 years olds that offers Maths, English, Science and 11+ tutoring. You can become a franchisee for a minimum initial investment of £30,000, with franchise fees of £15,500 and a total investment cost of £55,000.
Another great choice of investment would be Tutortoo, which describes itself as “the only British tuition management franchise covering all subjects, across all ages, including special educational needs”. You can become a franchisee for a minimum initial investment of £4,000, with franchise fees of £4,000 and a total investment cost of £24,950.
- A subject-specific tutoring franchise
The inverse of a multi-subject franchise, then, is one that focuses on one specialism. Franchises of this kind tend to operate slightly differently. Where multi-subject franchises might work one-on-one with clients, many subject-specific franchises run group sessions and workshops in schools. You’re more likely to be teaching, lesson planning and getting hands-on with a franchise investment of this type. The specifics of running a single-subject franchise will differ, so make sure you do plenty of research into your subjects of interest!
Choosing a franchise that offers subject-specific tutoring
There are many great subject-specific options, but two of the best are Mathnasium and Jam Coding. Mathnasium offers high quality Maths tuition individually tailored to each child, while Jam Coding seeks to work with schools to bring vital coding and computing knowledge to kids.
You can become a Mathnasium franchisee for a minimum initial investment of £30,000, with franchise fees of £29,500 and a total investment cost of £100,000. You can become a Jam Coding franchisee for a lower total investment of £19,950.
- A centre-based tutoring franchise
Some networks choose to operate out of tuition centres up and down the UK. Franchisees manage the running of these centres, and all/the majority of tutoring occurs within them. These investments tend to be a little more costly than their at-home or online counterparts, because as you can imagine, running a physical space in which tutees can congregate comes with higher overheads than working from home/out of the home of someone else. That said, this type of investment is also a very profitable, expansion-friendly way of starting your own tutoring business.
Choosing a centre-based tutoring franchise
You should check out First Class Learning if you’re looking to manage a tuition centre. First Class Learning offers Maths and English tuition to kids of all abilities and ages, and you can become a franchisee for a minimum initial investment of £10,000, with franchise fees of £8,000.
Another strong choice would be MagiKats, a pre-school to GCSE tuition franchise offering Maths, English and Reasoning tutoring sessions. You can become a MagiKats franchisee for a minimum initial investment of £7,500, with franchise fees of £9,500 and a total investment cost of £15,000.
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- An at-home or online tutoring franchise
Many franchise businesses choose to offer two kinds of service: One-on-one at home learning, or one-on-one at home learning that happens digitally, via advanced online tutoring platforms. These categories have been connected as it’s rare to find a franchise in this niche that won’t offer both, depending on which is preferred by the client. The advantages of starting an online tutoring franchise, or an at-home tutoring franchise with online options, are many and various, not least the lower overheads and the lower initial investment cost.
How to choose a franchise that provides at-home and online tutoring services
Two really strong companies that offer both at-home and online tutoring options are Choice Home Tutoring(/franchise/choice-home-tutoring) and Tutor Doctor. Choice Home Tutoring offers private one-to-one tuition to kids of all ages, and you can become a franchisee for a minimum initial investment of £17,500, with a total investment cost of £23,500.
Tutor Doctor offers highly personalised one-on-one tuition to kids and adults, and you can become a franchisee for a minimum initial investment of £33,000, with franchise fees of £34,700.
Start running your own business in the tutoring sector
Now that you’ve found your niche, you’re halfway towards investing and building a profitable business. For further advice on how to run a tutoring franchise, stay on Point Franchise. Check out a day in the life of the owner of a tutoring franchise, and discover the top three tutoring trends of 2021.
Lily Sweeney, writer