Abstract: Overseas education consultancy are experts or counsellors who assist, guide and direct students is planning their higher education abroad. The rise of overseas education can be seen in India and the number of students going abroad have increased ever since.The education sector has seen a growth of new agents that is the overseas consultancy. Therefore, the aim of this study was to see whether overseas education consultancy played an important role for students going overseas for education. The most important part of this study was to find the prevalence of students going to consultants for overseas education and to study the benefits gained after joining a consultancy. By these findings I have able to put forth the suggestions and recommendations to the management. The study was carried out at Kapol College and CATKing Educare – Mumbai, India. Primary data was collected through questionnaire survey amongst the students who attended the seminars conducted by CATKing Educare and the students who enrolled in
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