List of training organizations in France: 153,700 registered, 45,800 Qualiopi-certified

Where can you find the public list of professional training organizations?#

The list of training organizations is kept by the French Labor Ministry and published free on data.gouv.fr. It implements Article L.6351-7-1 of the Labor Code. It covers organizations registered with the regional prefect (the national government's regional representative) and up to date on their BPF (bilan pédagogique et financier, the annual activity report).

It is not a directory; it is a file. The public list of training organizations is published as a CSV under the Open License (Licence Ouverte) and updated daily. Each row contains:

• the NDA (numéro de déclaration d'activité, the registration number a training provider receives once it declares its activity), the identifier unique to each organization;
• the name, the SIREN number (the French company ID, nine digits) and the physical address of the organization;
• its currently valid quality certifications (Qualiopi, France's mandatory quality certification for training providers that receive public or pooled funding, or an equivalent), which also makes it the list of Qualiopi-certified organizations;
• the number of trainees and trainers reported.

The address is often missing, though. In the November 2, 2026 file, 86,512 organizations (56%) have no postal code: the list then gives only the region. The business registry, read through each organization's SIRET number (the French ID of a business location), gives the département (France's county-level area) of 115,753 of them.

The total moves from one edition to the next. Every figure on this page comes from the edition downloaded on November 2, 2026.

How many training organizations are there in France, by region?#

The November 2, 2026 file counts 153,730 training organizations in France, one for each distinct NDA. One in four has its address in Île-de-France. Five regions together hold 103,046, or 67.0% of the list of training organizations.

Source: public list of training organizations, edition downloaded November 2, 2026. Region = code of the declared physical address, matched to the official geographic code (code officiel géographique) of Insee (France's national statistics office).

The method comes down to three rules. A row is one registrant, identified by its SIREN and the SIRET of the location that files the declaration. The region is that of the declared physical address, not that of the training centers where trainees take classes.

Scope matters as much as the figure. Organizations that are not up to date on their BPF are not on the list. Conversely, the list includes independent trainers: Service-Public, the French government's official information site, requires "any trainer or professional training organization" to register."

Seven rows carry a region code "905," absent from the official geographic code. We show them as they are, without assigning them to a region.

This total describes the supply side of the professional training market in France, not its volume of activity. A registered organization can train ten trainees a year or ten thousand. This count follows the Observatory's format: one figure, its edition date, its source.

The figure holds up against public statistics. Dares, the Labor Ministry's statistics department, counts "just over 150,000 active training organizations" for 2025, of which 113,710 had revenue during the year. Île-de-France accounts for 24% of organizations there, but 41% of the sector's revenue.

How many organizations actually train people?#

A little over half of those that filed a full report. Of the 113,330 organizations whose latest report covers the year 2025, 64,014 report trainees trained directly. 42,203 report trainees only on behalf of another organization, as subcontractors. 7,113 report none.

Of the other 40,400, 39,264 do not yet have a report covering a full year; 1,136 have a most recent report dated before 2025. Most of those 39,264 organizations are recent: more than half were created since 2024. The Labor Ministry counts 37,634 declarations registered in 2025 alone.

In practice: more than 1 in 3 organizations that filed a 2025 report do not sell their training directly; they train for a prime contractor.

Activity is highly concentrated. 1% of organizations, those reporting at least 4,167 trainees, train 56% of the trainees reported for 2025. The largest is the Centre national de la fonction publique territoriale (CNFPT, the national training body for local government employees), with 1,110,832 trainees, the same figure the French state publishes. At the other end, 13,869 organizations train between 1 and 10 trainees a year.

How many Qualiopi-certified training organizations are in the list?#

The file counts 45,779 organizations with at least one valid quality certification (Qualiopi or equivalent), or 29.8% of the list. So fewer than one in three organizations are Qualiopi-certified. The file records only certificates currently valid: an expired certificate disappears from the row.

Certification is recorded by category, and one organization can hold several:

• training actions: 44,513 organizations;
• apprenticeship training actions: 4,497;
• skills assessments: 4,258;
• validation of prior experience (VAE): 2,415.

An organization can therefore be on the list without being certified. Quality certification is required only of providers paid by certain funders. Article L6316-1 of the Labor Code names in particular the OPCO (opérateurs de compétences, the bodies that fund employee training), the national government, the regions and France Travail (the public employment service).

The DREETS Normandie (the regional labor and economy directorate) notes that this requirement has applied since January 1, 2022 to organizations that seek public or pooled funds. To get the list of Qualiopi-certified organizations, filter the file on its four certification columns. The value "true" marks a valid certificate.

Certification follows activity. Of 100 organizations that train directly, 59 are certified. Of 100 organizations that work only as subcontractors, 4 are: a subcontractor generally does not have to be certified, its prime contractor does.

The rules are changing right now. A new national quality framework, set by the decree of August 1, 2026, takes effect this fall. An order of October 28, 2026 tightens audits: presence of the manager or an authorized employee, identity check, possible suspension of the certificate if no training has been delivered since the initial audit. Until December 31, 2026, an audit can still be done on the old framework.

Before choosing a training organization: check the NDA and Qualiopi certification#

The NDA proves a declaration, not quality. It is issued after the activity declaration is registered. It appears on agreements, invoices, quotes and contracts, and Service-Public states that it is not an accreditation.

A training organization's obligations come down to three points:

• declare its activity to the regional prefect;
• file its BPF every year, usually around April or May, or the declaration loses its validity;
• be Qualiopi-certified to access public or pooled funds.

An organization missing from the list has not declared its activity, or has stopped it. Its declaration may also have been canceled after an inspection, or have lapsed: BPF not filed, or no training activity at all. An organization that is on the list but not certified has no valid certificate on the file's date.

Checking takes three steps. Note the NDA and the SIREN on the quote. Look up that NDA in the current edition, then read the certification column that matches the service you are buying.

To choose a training organization, these three checks are not enough: they say nothing about teaching quality or the trainers. They rule out a provider that is not registered, or not certified when the training has to be funded.

NAF code 85.59A or NDA: why the two lists don't match#

The NDA is not tied to any NAF code (the French activity classification code, also called APE code), and the official file has no NAF code column. Counting companies under 85.59A therefore does not give the same total as counting the list of training organizations.

The two training codes do not cover the same thing. Code 85.59A covers, according to Insee, "professional training for adults who have entered the workforce." Code 85.59B, "Autres enseignements" (other education), covers language classes, computer courses outside continuing training, and tutoring.

A count by NAF code goes through the Sirene directory (Insee's business register) and covers a different scope. We calculated it as of November 2, 2026:

• Organizations on the list have varied codes. Of the 141,763 SIRET numbers of organizations still open, only 34,628 are classified under 85.59A, or 1 in 4. 21,210 are classified under consulting (70.22Z) and 18,016 under 85.59B.
• Code 85.59A brings in many other rows. The registry counts 99,418 open locations under 85.59A. Only 35% are the registrant location of an organization on the list; 8,572 others are a second location of a registered organization. Of the other 64,790, 88% have no employees and 9,727 were created since November 1, 2025: a new organization has three months after starting activity to register.

In practice: a file built on code 85.59A alone misses 3 organizations in 4, and more than 1 row in 2 belongs to no registered organization. We read 60 of these off-list rows, picked at random: only 9 present themselves as training organizations on their public profiles, and the others show almost no sign of it.

The code itself is going to change: on January 1, 2027, APE codes move to NAF 2025, according to Insee. How a NAF or APE code works stays the same.

In NAF 2025, 85.59A becomes 85.59G, "Formation continue d'adultes" (adult continuing education), and 85.59B becomes 85.59H (the 2025 NAF code).

A count measures a market. A prospect list is for calling.

The official file does the first job well. For the second, it lacks the phone number, the name of the person who runs it and the real activity of each site.

Who are the training organizations in the list?#

The business registry, read through each organization's SIRET, and the linked public profiles give this portrait:

• 3 organizations in 4 have no employees (75% of the 141,763 with an open SIRET). Only 4,246 organizations on the list report more than 50 trainers.
• Half were created after November 2021. 10,504 SIRET numbers of organizations on the list were created since November 1, 2025.
• Collective agreements are not all those of the training sector. Among the 37,172 organizations with employees found in the collective bargaining agreement declarations (5,658 of them with no agreement), 8,928 apply the one for engineering and consulting firms (Syntec), 8,091 the one for training organizations.
• Public contracts. 6,848 organizations on the list have won at least one published public contract.

On public business listings, the most common categories of organizations on the list are "training center," "adult education" and "driving school." Schools themselves are a separate market, counted in our study on the number of schools in France.

Market structure: who to sell to among training organizations?#

For anyone selling to training organizations, the list is mostly one-person accounts. Of the 141,781 organizations whose SIRET is open in the business registry, 74,393 (52%) are sole traders, who make their own purchasing decisions. Only 8% of them are Qualiopi-certified, against 56% of companies, associations and public bodies (37,956 out of 67,388).

Banners and networks carry little weight: more than 99% of the 141,527 locations are outside any confirmed banner or network. 901 organizations operate under one of these banners, and the five largest networks bring together 690: the maisons familiales rurales (rural vocational schools, 355), ECF driving schools (114), the GRETA adult-education centers of the national education system (79), CER driving schools (73) and the chambers of agriculture (69). Counting also the organizations that only share a website, an e-mail domain or the same company, at least 2,931 (2%) belong to a group of several organizations. In practice: a prospect list drawn from this file is worked one organization at a time, with almost no network head to win over.

Large accounts are rare. 4,100 organizations report 50 or more employees in the registry, fewer than 3 in 100. Of the 8,379 that publish recent revenue, for a fiscal year closed in 2024 or later, half have revenue above one million euros, all activities combined. This covers almost only companies: sole traders, associations and public bodies rarely publish their accounts.

Which French départements are the training organizations in?#

Paris first, then the Rhône and the Hauts-de-Seine. By the postal code of the SIRET in the registry, Paris counts 12,111 organizations on the list, 5,149 of them Qualiopi-certified. The Rhône has 6,103 and the Hauts-de-Seine 4,928.

Can you reach the organizations in the list?#

Not directly: the official list gives no phone number, no website and no manager's name. We looked for each organization's public profiles in the Scalon graph, which links the registry to the directories.

One organization in three (34%) has a phone number on a public business listing that we linked to its SIRET. The gap by certification is clear. Of 100 Qualiopi-certified organizations, 66 have a public phone number. Of 100 non-certified ones, 20 do.

Websites follow the same split: 29% of organizations have one on their profiles, 61% of certified ones. E-mail addresses are rarer: 9.8% of organizations have one on a linked public listing or business directory. Those with a public business listing are rated well: 4.6 out of 5 on average, across 24,381 rated profiles and 1.9 million reviews.

In practice: 4 in 5 non-certified organizations have no public number linked to their SIRET.

Method#

The number of organizations comes from the public list of training organizations of the French Labor Ministry, a CSV file downloaded on November 2, 2026 at 11:05 a.m. (153,730 rows). We cross-matched it by each organization's SIRET number with the Sirene registry and with the public profiles gathered in the Scalon graph, read the same day.

Cite this study#

Sources#

• Liste publique des organismes de formation (L.6351-7-1 du Code du travail), ministère du Travail, data.gouv.fr
• Jaune budgétaire « Formation professionnelle », annexe au projet de loi de finances pour 2027, octobre 2026
• Déclaration d'activité des formateurs et organismes de formation, Service-Public Entreprendre
• Article L6316-1 du Code du travail, Légifrance
• QUALIOPI : la certification qualité des organismes de formation, DREETS Normandie
• Référentiel national qualité, guide de lecture Qualiopi, ministère du Travail (mis à jour le 30 octobre 2026)
• Sous-classe 85.59A, NAF rév. 2, Insee
• Sous-classe 85.59B, NAF rév. 2, Insee
• Sous-classe 85.59G, NAF 2025, Insee
• Vers une nouvelle nomenclature : la NAF 2025, Insee