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Our honest position

We don't sell scholarships. Here's why that's good for you.

The agencies that promise free degrees are the agencies most likely to leave you stranded. Here's what we do instead — and why it works.

The industry's broken promise

Walk through any education-fair hall and you'll hear the same pitch on repeat: "We get students 100% scholarships," "65% of our placements are funded," "Apply through us and pay nothing." The numbers are designed to close a sale, not to reflect what you'll actually receive.

What's almost always missing: which scholarships, awarded by whom, on what criteria, with what success rate for students with your specific profile.

What's almost always present: a registration form, a sign-up fee, and a long wait for an outcome that quietly differs from the headline.

When the offer letter finally arrives, the "scholarship" is often a routine tuition discount the university already publishes, available to any direct applicant — no agent required.

What we deliver instead

Three pillars, all written into our service contract:

Honest cost planning

Tuition + visa + accommodation + living costs + travel + contingency, by destination, in your currency. You decide what's affordable before we start an application.

Connection to partner schools that DO fund students

Hult, IE Madrid, SDA Bocconi, Charles University, Alpha Aktiv-funded TestDaF routes — these schools genuinely award scholarships and competitive funding. We help you reach the people who decide.

End-to-end placement so you actually arrive

Application, visa, accommodation, pre-departure, first week on campus. A scholarship that you never enrol on is worth nothing.

Schools we connect you to that DO offer scholarships

These institutions publish their own scholarship criteria and award them on merit and need. We don't "sell" their scholarships — we help eligible students reach them.

Hult International Business School

Founder's, regional impact, and need-based merit awards across MBA, MIB, and undergraduate.

IE University, Madrid

Talent and diversity awards, IE Foundation funding, and named-donor scholarships at master's level.

SDA Bocconi, Milan

Bocconi Merit Awards and partial-tuition fellowships for the MBA and specialised masters.

Charles University, Prague

Faculty-level scholarships and Czech-government-funded routes for medical and humanities programmes.

Alpha Aktiv (Heidelberg) — TestDaF routes

Funded German-language pathways into tuition-free public universities for qualifying students.

How we compare to the scholarship-promise agencies

Scholarship-promise agentLCIS
Up-front transparency on fees
Often "free" — paid by university commission
Fixed published tiers — £0 / £150 / £1,500–£3,000
Real placement & visa rate disclosed
Marketing claims, no audit trail
Published, with named partner schools
Genuine relationship with the awarding school
Mass-application volume model
Direct contacts at admissions offices
Post-arrival support
Ends at offer letter
First-week settling-in included in Full Service

Plan your study abroad on facts, not promises

Start with a free 15-minute Discovery call. We'll tell you what's realistic, what it really costs, and which schools are worth applying to.

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