Alumni network
Expand Your Impact and Connections with Our Alumni
With over 1,500 alumni spread across the UK, continental Europe, US and Canada, the Upgrade Education Alumni Network is your gateway to lifelong connections, career advancement, and global opportunities. Whether you’re looking to mentor, expand your professional network, or access exclusive resources, being part of our alumni community keeps you connected, informed, and supported throughout your career journey.
If you receive a letter from your alma mater each year, you’ve probably come across the word alumni. Perhaps you even own a sweatshirt with your school’s name, which you wear with pride. Whether you realize it or not, your school likely sees you as a valued member of their alumni community—a network that celebrates shared experiences, achievements, and memories that connect you back to your educational journey. This is exactly what we do, too.
Reasons to get involved
What you get as part of our Alumni Network
Mentorship
Share your journey and gain fresh perspectives as you guide and are guided by fellow alumni.
Networking
Connect with peers globally to exchange insights and open doors.
Alumni events
Join exclusive events that foster collaboration and celebrate alumni success.
Career guidance
Gain valuable career advice tailored to every stage of your journey.
Educational resources
Access specialized resources designed to keep your skills sharp.
Career advancement
Leverage alumni connections to explore new opportunities and grow.
Impactful alumni networking
Build purposeful relationships that create lasting professional impact.
Industry Insights
Stay informed with insider knowledge from industry-leading alumni.
Job Connections
Tap into a network that connects you to meaningful career prospects.
Lifelong Learning
Engage in continuous learning with courses, webinars, and more.
Testimonials
Hear from our alumnis
Ioana
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It all started with a dream of studying in the US. Turning the dream into reality was, nevertheless, an extremely demanding process. Only those who have walked this path know how difficult it can get to harmonize the preparation for the SAT exams and the writing of your essays (lots of essays!) with the studying for high school classes and exams, the extracurricular activities, and the social life (the lowest priority most of the time, indeed!). The key ingredient throughout this process is, in my opinion, perseverance – the intrinsic motivation to keep going, especially when things don’t seem to work out as well as they should. To the ones who don’t feel this strong desire or embark on this journey following any source of external motivation, I would suggest they take a step back and ask themselves what they truly want. Besides the fact that an enormous amount of effort is involved, the essays you create will eventually reveal if your motivation is authentic or not. As I started to work on my essays, I was striving to sound more academic in my writing, to achieve a more grandiose and interesting expression – but I could feel something was not going right. I began to work with my mentor and understood that I needed to learn how to write so that every story I tell, every single word I put down on paper represents me, reveals to the reader who I truly am. It might sound easy, but trust me, it’s not! I wrote and rewrote thousands of words, I walked the memory lane and relived things I’d previously believed to be unimportant, I thought about people with whom I hadn’t spoken in years or who are no longer with us. It was a very intense search. However, the purpose was not to find the perfect, Ivy League approved essay theme, but to find my true self, the things that define me. Throughout the entire process my mentor was both the catalyst for my introspection, asking questions that determined me to dive deep into my consciousness, and the one who answered my questions with other questions, making me re-analyze the situation and rewrite it all. And I want to thank him for all these things.