Meridean Overseas Education Consultants

What Meridean Overseas Education Consultants does

Meridean Overseas Education Consultants (MOEC) is a Jaipur-headquartered, privately held overseas education consultancy founded in 2016 that assists Indian students with end-to-end study abroad placement. The firm operates 13 physical offices across India (Jaipur HQ plus Delhi, Mumbai, Noida, Indore, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Pune, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Agra, Jodhpur) and one international office in Dubai, and claims to have assisted over 100,000 students with visa obtainment and overseas admissions.

The company's core offering is human-counselor-led consulting spanning university and course selection, scholarship application support, profile crafting, SOP/LOR writing, interview coaching, visa filing, and post-immigration guidance. Around this consulting layer, MOEC has assembled a portfolio of supporting digital products — Course Finder (exposing 10,000+ course options across partner universities), IELTS Online (online test prep), M-Connect (a referral portal targeting sub-agents, language trainers, and influencers), and Partner Agent (an application-tracking platform) — alongside in-house coaching for IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, SAT, PTE, and ACT. The firm complements these with financial support services (education loan facilitation through HDFC, Axis, ICICI, Yes, HDFC First, and Avanse banks at rates starting from 11.5%, plus FX/remittance and insurance) and event-based marketing (SMC 3.0 youth festival) targeting prospective students across 15+ destination countries.

MOEC's business model combines paid professional-services fees for counseling and visa filing, freemium lead generation through free initial counseling sessions, and affiliate/referral commissions from partner banks, financial institutions, and a growing partner-agent network. Marketing is multi-channel: SEO-optimized country and university pages, 168K Instagram, 150K YouTube, 37K Facebook, and 19K LinkedIn followings, free downloadable guides, intake-specific campaigns, and physical branch traffic. The company is founder/owner-operated with no disclosed institutional investors, no parent entity, no subsidiaries, and no disclosed M&A activity.

Name

Meridean Overseas Education Consultants

Legal name

Meridean Overseas Education Consultants

Website

https://meridean.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Meridean Overseas Education Consultants (MOEC) is a Jaipur-headquartered private study abroad consultancy assisting Indian students with end-to-end overseas admissions, visa filing, and test preparation across 15+ destination countries, supported by 13 offices in India and Dubai and 200+ university partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Consulting Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Direct Enrollment & Third-Party University Study Abroad Programs (EDAIAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Student Visa Application Preparation & Filing Services (EDAIADAA), Application Support, Matching Platforms & Scholarship Administration Services (EDAIAOAN), Study Abroad Credit Transfer, Transcript & Academic Advising Services (EDAIAAAI)

Keywords

• Overseas education consulting
• Study abroad services
• Student visa assistance
• University admission guidance
• Standardized test preparation

Headquarters

HQ city

Jaipur

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Study Abroad Consulting Services: Meridean Overseas charges fees for comprehensive overseas education consulting services including university and course selection guidance, scholarship application assistance, visa filing support, profile crafting, SOP/LOR writing assistance, and interview coaching. The company also provides in-house coaching for language and standardized tests (IELTS, PTE, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, SAT, ACT) as part of its service portfolio.
2. Financial Support Services: The company offers education loan facilitation, remittance services, and insurance products through partner banks and financial institutions (HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank, HDFC First Bank, Avanse Bank). Interest rates on facilitated loans start from 11.5%. The company likely earns referral commissions or service fees from these financial partnerships.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Meridean Overseas Education Consultants provides comprehensive overseas education consulting services for Indian students, including profile assessment, university and course selection, scholarship application support, SOP/LOR drafting, visa filing assistance, and post-immigration guidance. The firm also offers in-house standardized test preparation for IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, SAT, PTE, and ACT, along with education loan facilitation through partner banks.

Product overview

Meridean Overseas Education Consultants operates as a services-based consultancy with a portfolio of interconnected products rather than a unified software platform. The core offerings include Course Finder for course discovery (10,000+ courses), IELTS Online for test preparation, M-Connect for referral incentives, Partner Agent for partner management, Test Prep for coaching (IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, SAT, PTE, ACT), Student Visa Application Services, and Financial Support Services (education loans, remittance, insurance). The company also organizes the SMC (Student Mobility Conference) event. These products work together to provide end-to-end study abroad support from course selection through visa approval and post-arrival assistance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• IELTS Online: Online IELTS test preparation platform
• M-Connect
• Partner Agent

Quantifiable outcome

• 100,000+ students assisted with visa obtainment and study abroad aspirations
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 200+ Partner Universities (Global)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerExtensive network of 200+ university partnerships across UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Malta, Switzerland, Latvia, Spain, Dubai, and Mauritius. Includes Russell Group universities, prestigious US institutions (Johns Hopkins, Columbia), and leading universities in each country. Key partners include Abertay University, University of East London, University of Worcester, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, Middlesex University London, Queens University Belfast, Oxford Brookes University, University of Greenwich, Cleveland State University, Adelphi University, Johns Hopkins University, Tulane University, University of California Berkeley, Mount Saint Vincent University, Cape Breton University, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Tasmania, Vistula University, Victoria University of Wellington, Trinity College Dublin, and Munich Business School among many others.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• IDP Education: Global leader in international student placement with deep Indian operations and IELTS co-ownership; competes head-on with Meridean in counseling for Australia, UK, USA, Canada, and Ireland destinations.
• ApplyBoard: Global study-abroad platform connecting students, recruiters, and partner institutions; competes by enabling universities to recruit Indian students through partner agents, potentially disintermediating consultancies like Meridean.

Direct peers

• Edwise International: Established pan-India overseas education consultancy offering university admissions, visa, and test-prep services across the same study-abroad corridors as Meridean, with comparable multi-city office presence.
• KC Overseas Education: India-headquartered overseas education consultancy operating across the same destination markets (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Europe) with university partnerships and counseling-led acquisition closely mirroring Meridean's model.
• Leverage Edu: Tech-enabled Indian study-abroad platform offering AI-driven university matching, counseling, visa, and loan facilitation; competes for the same Indian outbound cohort with a stronger digital/VC-funded stack.
• Yocket: Indian study-abroad platform focused on MS/UG admissions with content community, counseling, and application management; overlapping sharply with Meridean on the postgraduate study-abroad segment.
• Leap Scholar: VC-funded Indian study-abroad platform combining AI-driven admissions support with visa and loan services, directly overlapping Meridean's core offering to the same Indian outbound student persona.
• Edvoy (formerly AECC Global): India-origin overseas education and test-prep consultancy with multi-corridor university partnerships and student counseling, closely comparable in scope, geographies, and service mix to Meridean.
• Jamboree Education: Indian education company specializing in overseas admissions consulting plus in-house test prep for GMAT/GRE/SAT/IELTS — directly mirroring Meridean's test-prep-plus-admissions combination.

Emerging players

• upGrad Abroad: Well-funded Indian edtech expanding into overseas education consulting and test prep; while broader in scope than Meridean, it competes for the same Indian students pursuing study-abroad programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCTKhMMAFDXtY2gkQ0ezjNpg
• Facebookfacebook.com/MerideanOverseas
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/meridean-overseas-education-consultants
• Instagraminstagram.com/merideanoverseas
• Xx.com/meridean_ed

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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