How we verify
Study-abroad advice online is full of numbers no one will stand behind — screenshots from forums, out-of-date tuition, invented scholarship rules. We built the opposite. Every public figure here is tied to an official page and a date we checked it, and anything we cannot stand behind is removed rather than shown with a hopeful label.
What that covers today
- 804
- verified programmes, each linking to its official page
- 78
- scholarships with source-checked rules
- 72
- verified application deadlines
- 34
- destination countries
- 742
- tuition figures confirmed on official pages
- 30
- countries with an official living-cost figure
These counts are read live from the database as you load this page — they are the real public totals, never a rounded-up marketing figure.
What “verified” means here
A programme, scholarship, deadline or cost appears on the public site only when it carries two things: a link to the official source, and the date we last confirmed it there. This is enforced in the database query itself, not just at data-entry time.
The consequence is strict and deliberate: if a figure ever loses its source or its verification date, it disappears — from the page, from our statistics, and from our sitemap — instead of lingering with a “Verified” badge it no longer earns.
Where the numbers come from
We read primary sources: the university’s own programme page, the government or foundation page that runs a scholarship, the test maker’s official requirement tables. We do not copy figures from ranking aggregators, agents, or student forums, because those are exactly the sources that go stale or embellish.
Every entity on the site links out to its official page so you can check us in one click. If our figure and the official page ever disagree, the official page is right — tell us and we fix it.
What we drop
When a figure cannot be confirmed on a live official page, we do not guess and we do not average someone else’s guess. We leave the cell blank and point you to the official page instead. A visibly missing number is more honest than a confident wrong one.
This is why some of our tables have gaps. We would rather show less and have all of it be true than fill every cell and make you check our work.
What we refuse to do
We never take payment to list, rank, or feature a programme or scholarship. Nothing here is a paid placement, and our order is never for sale.
Our tools screen published requirements — an English minimum, a stated work-experience rule, a course length. They never predict your odds of admission, because that would mean inventing per-programme GPA cut-offs we do not hold. Grades, references and fit still decide admission, and no honest tool can score those for you.
Keeping it current
Verification is not one-and-done. Every figure keeps its verification date, and we track how old each one is so stale data surfaces for re-checking on a cadence — tuition and deadlines change every cycle, and the date on each figure tells you how fresh it is.
Deadlines are handled the same way: each application cycle is verified and dated on its own, so a passed or unconfirmed deadline is never quietly shown as open.
Found something wrong?
If a figure here disagrees with an official page, we want to know — corrections are the fastest way this stays trustworthy. Email us with the page and the source and we will check it.
We are an independent resource, not affiliated with any university, government, scholarship programme or test provider. That independence is the point: it is why we can drop a figure or contradict a glossy brochure without anyone’s permission.