The IT education provider took its total funding to about $120m with an Advance Publications-backed round that could represent its last external funding.

US-based IT education provider General Assembly secured $70m yesterday in a series D round backed by media group Advance Publications.

Advance was joined by investors including Wellington Capital Management, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Learn Capital, Maveron, Rethink Education and Western Technology Investment (WTI).

Founded in New York in 2011, General Assembly offers three-month courses in programming across 14 cities including London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, charging between $10,000 and $12,000 for a full-time course. Its alumni is set to…