Listing your consultancy here puts you in front of students who have already done the thing that filters out time-wasters: they have checked whether you are licensed. Listing is free and always will be. You publish your licence number, your fees and your destinations, you respond to reviews, and you see exactly how many students clicked through to you. Position is earned through those fields, not bought.
We will publish audience and enquiry figures here once we have measured a full month. We publish what we can evidence and leave the rest blank — the same standard we hold listings to.
Nepali students arrive at this directory mid-decision. They have narrowed to a destination, they are comparing three or four firms, and the questions they are asking are the ones a complete profile answers. That is a materially different visitor from someone who clicked a banner.
Students filter by destination, city, fee band and licence status before they see you. By the time they click, they have self-selected into your actual market.
Roughly 900 of about 5,000 consultancies in Kathmandu Valley are licensed. If you are one of them, this is the first place that fact works commercially in your favour.
Outbound clicks are tagged and phone reveals are counted, so you can see what we actually sent you rather than taking our word for it.
Every ranking factor below is free to improve. None of them is for sale. This is the whole list, in order of weight, and it is the same list students see on our methodology page.
| Factor | What to do | Cost to you |
|---|---|---|
| Verified licence | Add your MoEST licence number and renewal year. Unlicensed firms are not ranked at all. | Free |
| Verified reviews | Invite past students to review with proof of service. We verify by phone. | Free |
| Fee transparency | Publish your service fee. This raises your position; leaving it blank lowers it. | Free |
| Accreditation depth | Add ECAN, ICEF, QEAC, test-centre partnerships and university agreements. | Free |
| Responsiveness | Reply quickly to enquiries. We measure it and publish the figure. | Free |
| Profile completeness | Fill every field. The cheapest ranking gain available to you. | Free |
To be direct about it: sponsorship buys a labelled placement, lead notifications and outbound tracking. It does not buy a higher algorithmic position, a better review score, or removal of a bad review. If you want to rank higher, publish your fee and collect reviews — that genuinely works, and it costs nothing.
This is how most listings start. We build them from the public register.
Matched enquiries are capped at five consultancies per student. We cap them deliberately: a lead sent to forty firms is worthless to all forty.
Free · takes about five minutes
We verify your licence against the Ministry of Education register and confirm you represent the business before granting access. We verify every claim against the Ministry register before granting access.
By submitting you confirm you are authorised to represent this business. We verify before granting access. Unlicensed consultancies cannot be listed.
Yes, and it stays free. A claimed listing gives you full field control, review responses and basic enquiry statistics at no cost. We make money from labelled placements and matched enquiries, not from charging you to exist in the directory.
No, and we would rather say so plainly than have you discover it after paying. Sponsorship buys a labelled placement, not a position. The way to rank higher is to publish your fee, add your licence, collect verified reviews and reply quickly — all of which are free. Full methodology.
You do not have to. But publishing it improves your ranking, and declining lowers it. Fee opacity is the single most common complaint students raise about this industry, and the 2026 regulations have made disclosure a regulated area. Firms that publish will win the students who are comparing seriously.
Not for being unfavourable. It can be removed if it is unverifiable, if it breaches our guidelines, or if you can show it is factually wrong — and we do re-audit older reviews. You can also respond publicly to any review, which is usually more persuasive to a reader than a deletion would have been.
Claim it and correct it. We build initial listings from public records, so errors do occur. Claiming is free and correction is immediate once you are verified.
No. Unlicensed consultancies are not listed and not ranked. Come back once your Ministry of Education licence is issued, and we will list you the same week.
Claiming takes about five minutes and costs nothing.