General Assembly is an American-headquartered private, for-profit education organization founded by CEO Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves in early 2011 and purchased by The Adecco Group in 2018.

[2] General Assembly began in early 2011 as a co-working space in Midtown Manhattan, and evolved into a private school.

[7] In April 2018, human resources services company Adecco Group announced they were acquiring General Assembly for $413 million.

[11] In 2016 it worked with accounting firms to develop a framework for assessing student outcomes that it plans to market to other private educational institutions.

[11] Local General Assembly branches have provided discounted programs sponsored by the charity Get Well Cities for training the homeless.