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 agent | LCIS | |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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