New Delhi 4th April 2008: A global education information provider headquartered at California, USA, today introduced a unique education information portal, “StudyPlaces.com” that promises to help students take informed career decisions. The portal informs, connects and guides students to over 2, 00,000 courses from 10,000 colleges across the globe including universities in India, US,UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada and the Middle East.

StudyPlaces.com offers a unique platform for career counselling and college planning. It helps students to find, compare, evaluate, and then select the right course and institute anywhere in the world. With clear foresight and strategic direction StudyPlaces.com is the most comprehensive and credible one-stop resource centre for all education and career related information search.

Founded by Mr. Amitabh Nagpal, StudyPlaces.com has a team of professionals who are experts from diverse fields and have in depth understanding of the industry. The professionals have enviable academic credentials and most of them are alumni of some of the best institutions such as Stanford, IIMs, IITs, and Wharton.

StudyPlaces.com is funded by renowned names like Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Ram Shriram’s Sherpalo Ventures, and the Internet Company Info Edge (Naukri fame). The other investors are Nikesh Arora, President, ENEA Operations and Vice President, Google Inc and Sanjiv Ahuja, former CEO of Orange.

StudyPlaces.com offers various distinctive services free of cost namely:

Counseling - a student can chat, email, or call StudyPlaces counsellors and the counsellors help the student to make the right career choice. StudyPlaces.com has a team of 20 counsellors, each specializing in one or more education domains such as engineering, medicine, and management studies. They are expert in understanding students’ psychology and use various tools such as Psychometric tests to ascertain students’ aptitude and interests. Students can take scientifically designed test which helps them to discover their aptitude and true potential making it easier for them to choose most suitable career option.

Practice Test Centre - Students can take online practice tests for various entrance exams like SAT, PMT, GRE, AIEEE, GMAT, IIT-JEE, TOEFL, & AIEEE.

Huge repository of information- Updated database of thousands of courses, colleges and career options across the globe which helps a student to find, compare, evaluate and select the right course, college, and country. Furthermore, a student can find credible information on fee structures, expenses involved, life on campus, application procedures. They can also use the site services to prepare the admission documents and get regular updates on upcoming courses & career options.

Talking on the need of education counselling Mr. Amitabh Nagpal, founder & CEO, StudyPlaces Inc, said, “Education is a building block of a person’s personality and his financial future. The competition in India for a few limited seats makes it difficult for students to get admission in professional courses and hence limits their future. They end up taking admission in non professional courses for lack of information on various career options available to them. As of now no professional counseling platform is available that can help a student to find what institutes, what course and what opportunities exist for him/her. In the west all students from class 9th onwards engage a professional academic counselor to make the right career decision. In India, professional counselling for making career decisions is not an established concept. StudyPlaces.com is an attempt to help students make the right career choice based on credible information and professional counselling. StudyPlaces.com provides professional counseling, information on institutes and various career options available worldwide, and how a student can get admission in these courses and institutes.”

“As the StudyPlaces.com, counselling is available online, it is available to students in small towns and cities, where students really have to struggle to get credible information” he added.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Vivek Gupta, VP Business Operations & Strategy, StudyPlaces.com said “for long we looked at engineering and medicine as the only two career options available for a brighter future. Those students who could not make it to these disciplines were used to be uncertain about their future. For lack of information, students were unable to explore other career options. We help to provide information on various other lucrative career options available to a student based on his/her aptitude, interest, and skills set.” “StudyPlaces.com helps students to take informed career decisions” he added.

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