POWER OF ATTORNEY

(For Executing Form ID and Forms 3, 4 and 5)



Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Matthew J.  Norden of 2U, Inc. (the "Company"), Joseph
A. Roy, Bryant H. Park, Andrea L. Nicolas, Steven J. Daniels and Faiz Ahmad
of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP, the undersigned's true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents to:



(1)   Prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's
behalf, and submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC")
a Form ID, Uniform Application for Access Codes to File on EDGAR, including
amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to
obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic
filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or any rule or
regulation thereunder;



(2)   Prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's
behalf, and submit to the SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including amendments
thereto and joint filing agreements in connection therewith) in accordance
with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer, director or beneficial owner of more
than 10% of a registered class of securities of the Company;



(3)   Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
that may be necessary or desirable to prepare and execute any such Form 3,
4 or 5 (including amendments thereto and joint filing agreements in
connection therewith) and file such forms with the SEC and any stock exchange,
self-regulatory association or any similar authority; and



(4)   Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing that, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit
to,in the best interest of, or legally required of the undersigned, it
being understood that the documents executed by the attorney-in-fact on behalf
of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form
and shall contain such terms and conditions as the attorney-in-fact may
approve in the attorney-in-fact's discretion.


The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and
powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in--fact's substitute or substitutes, shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, and their substitutes, in serving in such
capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming (nor is the
Company assuming) any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with
Section 16 of the Exchange Act.



This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the earliest
to occur of (a) the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5
with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities
issued by the Company, (b) revocation by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the Company and the foregoing attorneys-in-fact or (c) as to any
attorney-in-fact individually, until such attorney-in-fact is no longer employed
by the Company or Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP, as applicable.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of the date written below.



Date: 10/1/2017




By: /s/ Rani Hammond
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        RANI HAMMOND