Make elite admissionshonest, accessible,and within financial reach.
Put plainly: we exist to make world-class education reachable for ambitious students across the developing world.
A US company with two sides.
Passage Global is incorporated in the United States and headquartered in Frisco, Texas. We build software, and we do the consulting work ourselves — which is why the software is built around what the work actually needs.
Navigator by Passage
An AI platform that does the research a good counselor would do, and shows you the working: matched universities, your standing against the applicant pool, funding you actually qualify for, and the visa route for each destination.
Explore NavigatorAdmissions and visa consulting
Counselors and founders working alongside you on the parts that need a person: the shortlist, the statement, the funding strategy, and the visa file. Everything they do runs on the same Navigator data you can see.
See our servicesIt began in our LinkedIn inbox.
For years, students from Pakistan and around the world found Umer and Ali on LinkedIn with the same questions: How do I get in? Should I take the scholarship or the ranking? Is this program worth the loan? Real people, big decisions, and almost no honest, firsthand guidance to turn to.
Umer and Ali answered as many as they could — on calls, over WhatsApp, late at night across time zones — because they remembered making those same decisions alone. Eventually the messages outgrew two inboxes.
So they built Passage Global: a proper platform for the guidance they wish they’d had. We’re a new company with a simple promise — the same honest advice that filled those inboxes, now backed by Navigator and available to every student who needs it.
Closing the gap between ambition and admission.
The distance between an ambitious student anywhere in the world and a seat at a great university is rarely about ability — it’s about access to the right guidance, and the funding to make it real. That’s the gap we exist to close.
Most 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
Umer grew up in Lahore and graduated as a Gold Medalist, then went on to a Master’s at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He has spent seven years as a product manager across fintech and AI, at companies including Amount and Amazon — a career built in the United States that began with the same international application our students are filling in now. 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
Ali graduated from LUMS in Accounting and Finance, then earned a merit scholarship to Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management — having navigated the US admissions process the hard way, without a guide. He is now a senior leader at Amazon, with nearly a decade of experience advising at the highest levels of one of the world’s most demanding companies. He co-founded Passage Global to be the expert in a student’s corner that he never had: someone who has made the journey and knows exactly where it gets hard.
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Frisco, TX 75034
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We work with students across South Asia, Africa and the Middle East from here. We have no local branches and no local agents, so the advice you get is ours. How partner fees work
One student, one offer,one funded futureat a time.
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