1. Do you have any qualification certificate?
To judge whether the study abroad agent is reliable, the most basic point is whether there is a business license and relevant qualification certification for legal operation. For example, does the intermediary have the qualification certificate for studying abroad issued by the Ministry of Education? Whether it belongs to the certification institution within the quality certification system for studying abroad in China, etc.
Personally, I suggest you go to official website of their company to check before consulting overseas institutions, or go to the enterprise to check the information of industrial and commercial registration. If the registration time is particularly short and you haven't experienced the application season, you'd better ask the reasons first, and then pay attention to whether the business scope includes education and training consultation or self-funded study abroad consultation and intermediary services.
Second, look at students' real feedback.
After the agent completes the application, there will be communication and feedback after signing. When they get a successful case, there will be some chat records to show a small part of the content. You can take a closer look and judge whether there are many successful cases in the agency, whether the students' own background is good or the application skills of the agency are good.
Or go directly to Baidu and search for the name of the institution with a book and a voice, and a lot of information about the institution will come out. Looking at these real evaluations also helps us to distinguish whether the organization is reliable.
3. Have you cooperated with famous schools?
Generally, the better the university, the higher the requirements for the team it cooperates with. More importantly, well-known universities are generally very strict with the hardware facilities of the application team. If the institutions studying abroad have close cooperation with well-known institutions, then such institutions are at least good, otherwise the prestigious schools will not cooperate.
Generally, I will search online to see if there are cooperative universities in this institution. If you look at a book searched by official website or Baidu, it will basically come out, but looking at official website is the most direct, because if you cooperate with a famous school, they are eager to write a big picture on the banner of official website, for fear that you won't see it.
4. Talk more and communicate more.
In fact, in the process of chatting, you will also find that this institution is not reliable. In the process of communicating with you, the teachers of reliable study abroad institutions are very clear about their majors. For example, you can ask whether the requirements and scores of the application can be clearly given for the positioning of schools and majors. Can you give a detailed timetable according to the current time? After introducing your background, can you issue a certificate of choosing a school that meets the requirements?
You should know that teachers in reliable institutions can basically answer professional questions easily, while teachers in some unreliable institutions will stutter or ask others to help you answer them. If the teacher doesn't reply to a professional question you ask, it means that he doesn't really understand it himself.
Being famous doesn't mean being reliable.
It is recommended to go to official website, an institution studying abroad, to learn more about the institutional background and service team information. It is best to have a real person's real name, a real education, and at least know the root cause. Those institutions that don't even put down their teaching staff should not be considered. At the same time, many large study agents are basically outsourced. Personally, I don't think it is necessary to entangle the size of the organization.
And as far as I know, the bigger the company, the greater the daily expenses, including some advertising and marketing expenses, which are earned from us students. Moreover, overwhelming marketing simply cannot represent how reliable it is, and the size of fame and the degree of reliability are not the same thing. Some brands of study abroad institutions may not be well-known, but experienced consultants can help you get a good offer.