November 7, 2026 · GlobalStudyConsulting database
Comparing Consultancies Side by Side in StudyRoute: What to Line Up
Pick any three offices in the app and the comparison view lines up the fields that actually differ: destinations, services, founding year, fee wording and partner claims.
Most consultancy marketing sounds identical, which is why comparisons fail when they rely on brochures. StudyRoute's comparison view ignores slogans and lines up the fields this database actually records, for up to three offices at once. Every field comes from the consultancy's own website, and every empty field stays empty, because a blank tells you something too.
| Field | What it tells you | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Destinations served | Whether your target country is core or occasional for this office | The office's own destination list |
| Services | Whether filing, visas, loans and test prep sit under one roof | The office's services pages |
| Fee statement | Free, priced, or silent, in the agency's own words | Quoted from the office website |
| Partner claim | The size of network the agency says it works with | The agency's published figure, labelled as its claim |
| Founded | How many visa cycles the office has lived through | The agency's own history pages |
| Office type | Headquarters, branch, franchise or independent | The chain's published office list |
Three comparisons repay attention. First, destination depth: an office listing fourteen destinations is a generalist; one listing three is a specialist, and specialists usually know their consulates better. Second, the fee field: compare a verbatim free statement against silence, and treat silence as a question for the first meeting, not as a hidden charge. Third, the partner claim: it is the agency's own number, useful for scale, useless for quality, and the app labels it that way on purpose.
What the comparison deliberately leaves out is ratings. This database holds no star ratings and no review counts, because none exist in a verifiable form. When two offices tie on facts, the tiebreaker is the first meeting: how specifically they talk about your universities, your intake and your documents.
A comparison, walked through
Picture three offices in one city, all serving Australia. The first lists 12 destinations and a partner claim of several hundred universities; the second lists four destinations and names its partners; the third is a branch of a national chain. The comparison view will not crown a winner, but it will show that the second office's narrowness might be depth, the first's breadth might be convenience, and the third's process will be the most standardized. Those are three different products wearing one label, consultancy.
That is the level at which this database wants you to think. Not best and worst, but shape and fit. The app adds one more layer once you have visited: your own notes sit beside the factual fields, so the impression from the room and the record from the website stay side by side when you decide.
Data: the GlobalStudyConsulting database of 1,506 consultancy offices in 384 cities, collected from consultancies' own websites and verified November 7, 2026. Try the Agency Fit Finder or browse consultancies by city.