PhysicsWallah puts South India at the centre of its next phase
PhysicsWallah founder Alakh Pandey plans a two-year South India expansion, targeting five states through local partnerships, multilingual learning and a broader education offering.
Edtech firm PhysicsWallah (PW) has announced a two-year expansion targeting South India, with founder and CEO Alakh Pandey personally leading the initiative. The move aims to bring the company's low-cost digital teaching, physical centres and hybrid learning model to markets with varying language, academic preferences and established coaching networks. Pandey stated, "For the next 24 months, my life will be dedicated to students in South India, and I will be stationed here."
The focus of the expansion will cover Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. To begin, PW has entered into a five-year partnership with Mohan Babu University in Tirupati, providing online AI, skilling and career-focused courses to approximately eighteen thousand students. This partnership extends the company's South India strategy beyond entrance-exam coaching to encompass university learning and employability.
Pandey emphasized the company's ambition to create a more measurable impact in the southern part of the country. PhysicsWallah initially launched as a YouTube teaching channel in 2014 and was founded as a company in 2020 by Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari. The firm now offers online, offline and hybrid formats across multiple education segments.
Since its inception, PW has reached more than four crore students, with over half a crore paid students in the fiscal year 2026. Its app has garnered nearly nine crore cumulative downloads by the same period.
The company listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in November 2025. In its Q2 FY26 shareholder letter, PW disclosed over twenty centres in Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, with plans for thirteen additional centres across five southern states. The broader policy environment in India supports digital and multilingual delivery, with the National Education Policy advocating for education technology and digital content in major Indian languages and the government's DIKSHA platform facilitating learning content in eighteen languages, including Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.
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