Blue Sky Study was founded by Alex Abrahams, an Englishman with many years of experience in the field of international education, back in 2006. We employ only high quality, professional, yet friendly and helpful consultants who have each spent considerable time studying abroad, and who have extensive knowledge and experience of the overseas education market they serve.

We offer honest and accurate advice and consultancy services to hundreds of Chinese students, who want to go abroad for further study, every year. Most students choose to make use of our full “VIP” service, which includes up to date, expert advice about choosing subjects and schools, assistance with putting together application documents, taking the necessary entrance exams, corresponding efficiently with the overseas schools, help paying application fees, deposits and tuition fees, assistance with visa applications, arranging accommodation, insurance, flights and more, as well as keeping in regular contact with students once they have arrived in their destination country and started studying. Some more able students, wanting to study postgraduate courses in the UK, make use of our fast and effective “DIY” service, and other students apply to schools themselves, and then come to us only for assistance navigating the complex and often daunting process of applying for a visa. Indeed, a number of overseas institutions with rep offices in China regularly recommend Blue Sky Study to their students who have not used an agent, but need help with their visa application.

The vast majority of our students and their families happily recommend us to their friends, and this has resulted in our rapid expansion since we first started off in Hong Kong. Our head office was established in Shanghai in 2007, our Guangzhou office opened in 2011, and other branches across Mainland China are scheduled to be set-up over time.

Blue Sky Study truly understands the importance of planning and choosing the right education path for our clients. We take the enormous responsibility of helping our students and their parents to make these hugely important decisions very seriously. In contrast to most other study abroad agencies in China, we are not motivated by money or profits, but instead by the satisfaction of helping people achieve their dreams of overseas study and reaching their full potential.

Although we always put our student client’s needs first, we also manage to successfully serve many institutional clients both in China and abroad. We offer a range of marketing and consultancy services, as well as direct student recruitment services for our many overseas institutional partners in all of the most popular destination countries. In addition, we work together with a large number of public and private Chinese schools, colleges and universities to help them with their internationalisation. This typically involves matching them up with suitable overseas institutions then assisting with setting up joint degree programmes, student and staff exchange programmes, teacher training programmes, summer camps, etc.

Services Description

Blue Sky Study has built up excellent relationships with an extensive network of local institutions, including public and private schools, colleges and universities, all over China. We help these institutions with their internationalization, which typically involves matching them up with suitable overseas institutions, and then assisting with setting up joint degree programmes, student and staff exchange programmes, teacher training programmes, summer camps, etc. In our experience, this has proven to be an outstanding method for increasing an overseas institution’s brand recognition in China, as well as boosting inbound Chinese student recruitment numbers, although much depends on the specific aims and requirements of the Chinese institutional partner, as well as the country, type and standing of the overseas institution.

• Direct student recruitment

Both in addition to and exclusive of the above services, Blue Sky Study also directly recruits Chinese students for many of our overseas institutional clients. Every year, we serve hundreds of Chinese students wanting to study abroad, who come to us directly, mostly through recommendations and word of mouth, as well as through our informative website, which includes our popular BBS internet forum. Other company based promotional activities include; attending exhibitions, organising seminars, mass e-mailing, on-line advertising as well as advertising in more traditional media, etc.

• Visa application services

Because many, especially older, more mature, students apply to overseas institutions directly – the last thing the student or the receiving institution wants is a visa refusal which leaves the student without enough time to re-apply for another visa and still make the latest start date of their planned course of study. This leaves the student with nowhere to study and the institution with a vacant space on their course which could have been occupied by a full fee-paying student.

Due to the complexity of many country’s visa application processes, and the need for accuracy and lack of even the most minor mistakes (UK Tier 4 visas in particular), many unfortunate visa refusals could have been easily avoided by using a local visa consultancy service, such as that offered by Blue Sky Study. We have an expert team of visa consultants with many years of experience between them and a past visa pass rate which is second to none. Furthermore, in most circumstances we can assist students from the other side of China with their visa applications, without ever even meeting them face to face.