Navigator: your guide to achieving your study abroad dreams.
AI-powered guidance for top and Ivy League universities, backed by expert admissions and visa consulting from alumni who have done it themselves.
Serving ambitious students across South Asia, Africa & the Middle East — and beyond.
Everything the application needs, in one place.
Navigator by Passage covers shortlisting, funding, writing, interviews and visas — built on real applicant data rather than guesswork.
From first profile to visa in hand.
Build your profile
Tell Navigator your grades, tests, budget and goals. It becomes the basis for everything that follows.
Get matched & see your chances
A shortlist drawn from real applicant data, with an honest read on where you stand at each university.
Find funding
Scholarships, assistantships and fellowships you actually qualify for, matched by country and program.
Apply with confidence
Statements, essays, recommendations and interviews, shaped with frameworks and — on the paid plans — real counselor time.
Secure your visa
Document checklists, financial proof and interview practice for your destination. Visa decisions rest with the embassy.
Want an expert beside you?
Eleven countries, one honest process.
All destinationsMost agencies process applications. We’ve been where you’re standing.
A US company
Passage Global is incorporated in the United States and headquartered in Frisco, Texas.
Founders who did it
Kellogg and Vanderbilt Owen MBAs who went through these applications themselves and built careers in the US.
Funding first
Scholarships and assistantships are part of the plan from day one, not an afterthought once you are admitted.
Honest advice
A school list built on real data rather than flattery — including when the answer is not what you hoped.
Led by people who’ve sat in your seat.
Umer Ijaz
A Gold Medalist from Lahore who went on to a Master's at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. After seven years as a product manager across fintech and AI at Amount and Amazon, he co-founded Passage Global to give ambitious students the guidance he wishes he'd had: expert, honest, and entirely on their side.
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Ali Azeem
A LUMS graduate in Accounting and Finance who earned a merit scholarship to Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management, Ali navigated US admissions the hard way — without a guide. Now a senior leader at Amazon after nearly a decade advising at one of the world's most demanding companies, he co-founded Passage Global to be the expert in your corner that he never had.
Connect on LinkedInIt started with messages like these.
Students kept finding Umer and Ali on LinkedIn asking for honest admissions advice. Many became clients, and we coached them through their applications — shortlists, personal statements, test prep and funding. There were more messages than two inboxes could hold, so we built Passage Global.
Real LinkedIn messages from students who reached out to our founders. Names and personal details are blurred to protect their privacy.
Shared with client consent. Individual results vary. Admission decisions are made by universities.
Answered honestly.
All questionsHow much does Passage Global cost?
Flat fees, published in full. Navigator ($300) is self-guided access to the platform. Navigator + Coaching ($500) adds 10 dedicated hours with our counselor team. Concierge ($1,000) is end-to-end management of your applications plus 5 dedicated hours with founders Umer and Ali. Visa Consulting is priced separately — contact us. Concierge is not paid upfront: it is invoiced in three milestones, 20% at onboarding, 30% at application submission, 50% when admission offers are received. You can compare everything on our Pricing page.
What is Navigator by Passage?
Navigator is our AI study-abroad platform. It brings together a searchable global university database, historical applicant-pool data (GPA, test scores and admit profiles), a scholarships database, country-by-country visa guidance, and frameworks for statements of purpose, essays, recommendation letters, interviews and standardized tests. Every consulting package runs on Navigator underneath, so your counselor works from the same data you can see yourself.
What makes Passage Global different from other agencies?
Two things. The research is done by software and then shown to you — you see the applicant-pool data and the funding matches yourself, rather than being handed a list and asked to trust it. And the people advising you are our counselors and our founders, who made these applications themselves from outside the United States. We are a US company working from one office in Frisco, Texas, with no local branches and no local agents, and we tell you plainly how we are paid.
Do you work with universities?
Yes. We work directly with selected universities worldwide, which can mean faster application processing, priority communication and application fee waivers where available. Students pay nothing extra for a partner pathway. Some partner universities pay Passage Global a fee when a student enrolls. This never changes our advice: we recommend what fits your profile and goals, whether or not a university is a partner. Your shortlist is built from your profile, your funding position and your goals — partner status is not one of the inputs. Our University Partnerships page sets this out in full.
Do you guarantee admission?
No honest admissions advisor guarantees admission, and anyone who does should be avoided. What we commit to is candid guidance, a shortlist built on real data rather than flattery, and relentless refinement of your essays, profile and funding strategy. Admission decisions are made by universities.
Ready to start your journey?
Tell us about your goals and we'll map out your path — Navigator to do the research, our counselors and founders to guide it. Honest advice, a real plan, no obligation.
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