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Top 25 Financial aid consulting firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,371 financial aid consulting firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 6,205 professional contacts across them, including 1,590 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers financial aid consulting firms worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026. Country and city lists for financial aid consulting firms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest financial aid consulting firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “College Now (formerly Cleveland Scholarship Programs) paves the way for middle and high school students and adult learners to prepare for, finance, and graduate from postsecondary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “General Education is an educational consulting and counseling firm that offers a one-stop admission consultancy for MBA applicants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Red Pen is an independent education consulting company, advising applicants who seek to study abroad at all levels of education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IMFS, with a rich history spanning 26 years, is a leading force in global education consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bright Horizons College Coach is the nation’s leading provider of education advising, offering expert guidance on the college admissions and finance processes to families of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Colledge is a college admissions consulting service, providing students and families with individualized, expert guidance on navigating the college admissions process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Solomon Admissions Consulting provides personalized college, graduate school, medical school, and private school admission consulting exclusively from Former Admissions Officers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our journey is all about helping you onto yours.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Helping You Get Into the College of Your Choice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1998, IvyWise has been dedicated to helping students apply and gain admission to their best-fit institutions – that is, where they will be happy and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We at FLEX know that teaching and consulting are opportunities to build relationships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 15 years, AcceptU has been the trusted source for admissions consulting, with more 5-star reviews than any other provider and thousands of students admitted to top schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parents hire me to guide their children to colleges, independent schools, or special programs where students can grow and thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FA Solutions LLC is not only a dependable and responsive financial aid servicer, we also think and behave like a genuine partner of our schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Granite Edvance is a New Hampshire nonprofit that supports students and their families with free career and higher-education counseling and resources, as well as funding…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Next Admit is a college admissions consulting firm helping high school students get into their dream schools through affordable and personalized counseling services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Blue Icon Advisors is the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators'(NASFAA) financial aid consulting service for colleges, universities, and career schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The MBA Center is an elite test preparation and admission consulting organization helping students from all background enter the university or the business school of their choice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The path to college can often be overwhelming and stressful for parents and students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2001, ProEd is a full-service financial aid outsourcing, auditing, and consulting company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Command Education is a boutique college consulting firm that empowers students to stand out in high school and beyond through a personalized, white glove approach to the college…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Higher Education Assistance Group (HEAG) offers the largest team of Financial Aid and Student Accounts consultants in the industry, backed by a deep bench of compliance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LogicPrep is a premier college advisory and test prep firm that has helped thousands of students around the world maximize their potential, tell their stories, and identify their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Scholarship Foundation of St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Assists students and their families throughout the college application process -Works one-on-one with students/families on developing a list of colleges to visit, mock interview…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: financial aid consulting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names financial aid consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of financial aid consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name financial aid consulting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Financial aid consulting firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among financial aid consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for financial aid consulting firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “financial aid consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names financial aid consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among financial aid consulting firms, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,590 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Financial aid consulting firms by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Financial aid consulting firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Financial aid consulting firms based in the United States723
- Financial aid consulting firms based in India133
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names financial aid consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many financial aid consulting firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,371 financial aid consulting firms worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
College NOW, headquartered in Cleveland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most financial aid consulting firms?
The United States leads with 723 companies, followed by India (133). Every financial aid consulting firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most financial aid consulting firms?
New York leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (20) and London (19).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,590 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,371 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.