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Top 25 Financial aid consulting firms based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 723 financial aid consulting firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,303 professional contacts across them, including 1,179 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers financial aid consulting firms headquartered in the United States, 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.

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.

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The 25 largest financial aid consulting firms based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 723 financial aid consulting firms based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to financial aid consulting firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceCleveland, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-200196 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, 2026
2Indirect evidenceNewton, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20082 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, 2026
3Partial evidenceSouth Pasadena, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026n/a80 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, 2026
4Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20077 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, 2026
5Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20064 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, 2026
6Partial evidenceLos Altos, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20059 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We at FLEX know that teaching and consulting are opportunities to build relationships.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7Partial evidenceNewton, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5058 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, 2026
8Indirect evidenceDaniel Island, SC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026n/a53 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, 2026
9Indirect evidenceConcord, NH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20046 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, 2026
10Partial evidenceCambridge, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026n/a46 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, 2026
11Strong evidenceWashington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026n/a41 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, 2026
12Indirect evidenceOak Brook, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The path to college can often be overwhelming and stressful for parents and students.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13Strong evidenceSarasota, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261,001-5,00037 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Founded in 2001, ProEd is a full-service financial aid outsourcing, auditing, and consulting company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14Partial evidenceMiami, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5034 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, 2026
15Strong evidenceWellesley, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5034 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, 2026
16Indirect evidenceOld Greenwich, CT, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20034 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, 2026
17Indirect evidenceSt. Louis, MO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20032 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Scholarship Foundation of St.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18Indirect evidenceHingham, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5031 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, 2026
19Indirect evidenceNewton, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“mbaMission's team of full-time MBA admissions consultants-named number one among 135 firms for four years running by Poets & Quants-has helped more than MBA applicants gain…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20Indirect evidenceBoston, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Top Tier Admissions produces the best results in the industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21Partial evidenceFort Lauderdale, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5025 contacts →

Partial evidence

“International College Counselors is one of the world’s largest and most successful educational consulting firms, specializing in highly personalized support for students and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22Partial evidenceLos Angeles, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20024 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Stacy Blackman Consulting is the definitive source of MBA admissions intelligence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23Indirect evidenceNeedham, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Accepted consultants have been advising college, graduate school, business school, law school, and medical school applicants since 1994.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24Partial evidenceNashville, TN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5024 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Spivey Consulting Group is the premier law school admissions consulting firm, with collectively more than 250 years of law school admissions experience across our team.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25Partial evidenceSanta Clara, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5022 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ILUMIN Education is a San Francisco Bay Area based educational consulting firm that provides expert college admissions counseling and effective life coaching support to students…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

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Financial aid consulting firms based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026
35.7%Verified-email coverage
4.6Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
5.7%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
588
11-50
104
51-200
24
201-500
2
1,001-5,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 723 companies.

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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United States 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. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
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, 1,179 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
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Financial aid consulting firms by metro

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 based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 723 financial aid consulting firms headquartered in the United States 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 city has the most financial aid consulting firms?

New York leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (20) and Austin (10).

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 1,179 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 723 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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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.