1. An apparatus which selects an educational course to be taken by a person who plans to take an educational course, comprising: an educational course selection premise information storage unit storing educational course selection premise information which is information about a condition of a skill required as a premise of taking an educational course; a skill information obtaining unit obtaining skill information about a skill of the person who plans to take an educational course; and an educational course selection unit selecting an educational course to be selected by the person who plans to take an educational course based on similarity between the educational course selection premise information and the skill information.