Our Mission

Noodle is transforming the way prospective students find and learn about degree programs. We bring together expert counselors, great schools, real-time information, and helpful tools to manage the process from the first web search to the first day of class. 

Noodle Partners creates excellent online and agile programs that elevate campus-wide teaching and technology. Since January 2019, Noodle Partners has launched as many online degree programs with elite US universities as have all our competitors combined

Together, our network of universities, higher education leaders, providers, and students fuel innovation and efficiency in learning design, marketing, student recruitment, technology, student and faculty support, and clinical placement.
Universities and colleges need to increase access and reduce costs while optimizing student engagement. And it’s why we’ve built a team unique in its experience, flexibility, diversity, transparency, efficiency, and commitment.

Higher Ed in the US is excellent, but simply too expensive. Using technology, expertise, and our growing network, we can reduce tuition significantly while enhancing engagement, capacity, and outcomes.

  • We help students more than any website solely ranking programs, especially through our free counseling.
  • We help universities more than conventional OPMs because our services are inexpensive, flexible and transparent. 
  • More importantly, we help schools do something better, more impactful, and less expensive than do-it-yourself efforts...or the paralysis that some schools currently face. 
  • We help excellent technology and service providers show off their work in a polished, integrated platform (if you’ve got something you want to show us, click here).

Noodle helps universities use technology to achieve higher engagement, capacity, and accessibility. In doing so, we speed the digital transformation of higher education.

More specifically, we build, grow, and administer innovative, excellent online and agile programs. Our experts, technology, and resources help faculty create superb learning experiences and streamline administration, and our marketing and recruiting teams help lower the cost of higher education by spreading universities’ fixed costs among more students and programs. This is in line with our belief that American higher education can be more robust, more accessible, and more affordable.

Universities and colleges need to increase access and reduce costs while optimizing student engagement. And it’s why we’ve built a team unique in its experience, flexibility, diversity, transparency, efficiency, and commitment.

We honor the academic and cultural values of our university partners, and demonstrate that public-private partnerships can fundamentally transform the higher education landscape for the benefit of all.

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Our History

Noodle was founded by John Katzman, who created and ran The Princeton Review and 2U before he finally got it right with Noodle. We have been funded by the top education venture firms, including Owl Ventures, ReThink Education, NewMarkets, Osage Ventures (sister to Osage University Partners), The Spring Fund, and The Lumina Foundation. We continue to invest in great technology and systems to help our schools build world-class programs.

Our staff is spread all over the US and Asia, but our home office is in Union Square in New York City. We call it the Ed Tech Factory because it was once Andy Warhol’s Factory. Click here to contact us anytime.

Meet the Team