We rank on facts that can be checked by anyone. That is a deliberate constraint, and it is the whole reason this directory is worth reading: in a market where the highest-ranking “best consultancy” lists are written by consultancies about themselves, an independent ranking only has value if its inputs are verifiable. Advertising with us buys a labelled placement. It does not buy a position, a score, or a review.
We will publish our own numbers here once we have them. How many licences we have checked, how many reviews we have verified, and what share of submitted reviews we rejected as unverifiable. Until those figures are real we are leaving the space empty rather than filling it — which is the same standard we hold every listing to.
Sponsorship does not affect rankings. Sponsored listings carry a visible label, appear at most once per five organic results, and never above position one. Their algorithmic position is computed identically to free listings. Pay-to-rank is not possible here, and we would rather lose the revenue than lose the reason anyone reads this directory.
Review systems in this market get gamed within weeks if they are left open, usually by friends and family rather than by anything sophisticated. Four mechanisms keep ours usable.
We accept a review only with an enquiry record, a receipt or an intake year, and we verify by phone.
Ratings are shrunk toward the mean, so a listing with three five-star reviews does not outrank one with two hundred consistent fours.
Reviews lose weight as they age. A consultancy cannot coast on a good record from four years ago.
We re-audit older reviews and remove ones that fail. Consultancies that violate our guidelines face lower rankings, restricted visibility or removal.
Some things appear on nearly every consultancy website in Nepal and will never appear on ours as fact.
| Claim | What we do instead |
|---|---|
| “98% visa success rate” | Label it self-reported and unverified, and place the sourced national refusal rate for that destination beside it. For Australia that means citing the roughly 65–69% refusal rate for Nepali higher-education applicants at Assessment Level 3. |
| Any visa guarantee | Refuse it outright. Guarantees are barred under the 2026 regulations. |
| Unverified star ratings | Show no rating at all until verified reviews exist. An empty rating field is honest; a fabricated one is not. |
| Listing counts we have not audited | Publish the number we can evidence, or publish none. |
Australia Assessment Level 3 and refusal rates via The PIE News. Regulations via Kathmandu Post.
No. Sponsorship buys a labelled placement and nothing else. The algorithmic position of a sponsored listing is computed exactly as it would be if the listing were free. If that ever stops being true, this page will say so.
No. We are a directory. We do not recruit students, we do not place students with institutions, and we hold no representation agreements with any university. We take no commission on any student who enrols anywhere.
Labelled sponsored placements, a matched-enquiry service that consultancies pay to receive, and advertising from adjacent categories such as education lenders. All of it is disclosed, and none of it touches the ranking.
Tell us. If a listing has wrong data, we will correct it and say when we did. If you think the factors themselves are wrong, that is a fair argument and we would rather have it in public than not. Contact us or report a listing.
Continuously, as reviews and fee disclosures arrive. Licence status is re-verified quarterly. Every listing page carries the date it was last checked.