November 7, 2026 · GlobalStudyConsulting database

Where the Consultancies Are: 1,506 Offices Across 384 Cities

The full shape of the database in one read: India holds nearly a third of all offices, and one city, Dhaka, holds a tenth of everything outside India.

This database lists 1,506 foreign-study consultancy offices. One row is one office in one city, which means the counts below describe physical places a student can walk into, not brands. India holds 467 of those offices, just under a third of the total. Bangladesh and China hold 251 each. The remaining three countries with offices in the database, the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom, sit between 132 and 146 each, and the Philippines closes the list at 114.

The city counts tell a second story. India's offices spread across 110 cities, the widest spread in the database, while Bangladesh concentrates into just 15 cities and one overwhelming capital. The USA lists offices in 88 cities but rarely more than a handful per city, a long tail of independent counselors rather than chain branches. The United Kingdom is the opposite shape: 35 cities, but 68 of its 132 offices sit in London alone.

Why does the shape matter? Because consultancy is a local business wearing global branding. A student in Sylhet or Cebu City does not need the world's biggest network; they need an office near home whose staff know their board, their bank and their consulate. The database is built city first for exactly that reason, and every country hub breaks down into state and city pages so the local picture stays visible.

Two gaps are worth naming honestly. The Philippines number is the floor of what exists, not the ceiling: many Filipino agencies run on social media pages without websites, and this database only lists offices verifiable on an agency's own site. Northern Ireland has no office at all, because no Belfast consultancy could be verified on its own website. Absent here means unverified, not nonexistent.

What the country totals hide

Averages mislead in both directions. Australia's 145 offices sit in just 35 cities, heavily weighted to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, because its market serves students who have already arrived as much as those still at home. The United Kingdom's 132 offices concentrate even harder, with London holding more than half. China's 251 offices, by contrast, are spread across 61 cities and five dominant chains, a franchise map of the country's urban hierarchy.

The most useful way to read the table is as a ratio: offices per city. Dhaka's market runs at 16.7 offices per city across Bangladesh, a density no other country approaches. India runs at 4.2, the signature of a market that reaches deep into second tier cities. The USA runs at 1.7, a counselor here and there. Same industry, three completely different shapes, and the student experience differs accordingly.

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.