Over the past two decades, though the Government of India has allocated many funds towards the higher education industry to improve the quantity and quality of education being offered within the country’s borders, the capacity has been insufficient to meet the demands. At the same time, with rising per capita income, more and more students from across India are able to participate in higher education abroad. According to a study conducted by IIM Bangalore, there has been an increase of approximately 256 percent in the numbers of Indian students going to countries such as USA, UK, Germany, Australia and Canada for their higher education. With the growing number of options to choose from, hiring an overseas education consultant will not just save time but will also help you make the best choices.
As a corporation, Canam has been around for nearly 24 years now and the current market landscape has evolved tremendously over the past few years. With a vision to deliver success and customer services to the next level and with only a handful of players in the market, Canam Consultants has developed iApply, an intelligent platform that would present students with dozens of options to enable them to make an informed decision alongside eliminating the inconvenience of travelling.
Providing Assistance on Continuous Basis
Studying overseas is a huge market, especially with the number of students moving abroad from India growing tremendously with each passing day. Earlier, it was mainly for Canada and America, however, over the years even other prime international education destinations have started welcoming Indian students with open hands. Be it Australia, New Zealand or European countries like Germany, France or United Kingdom or Singapore, Indian students are readily exploring their higher education prospects worldwide.
The students are looking out for a wide range of program options to choose from, right from disciplines and specializations all the way to program duration and tuition fee range which students love nothing more than an education that fits perfectly into their requirements. iApply has a massive repository consisting of over 10,000 programs that are
carefully organized based on several key factors which play a key role in the selection process. The platform is programmed as such that it enables students to make multiple applications to several programs from their mobile device along with the feature to track their applications in real-time as well. While the users can conveniently narrow down their search using these filters, it also enables them to check their eligibility against each program using the platform’s artificial intelligence. So, to those who are looking for a range of programs to choose from, iApply is an amazing search tool!
“The AI platform of iApply is highly customizable and capable of being scaled up in a relatively short period of time while keeping costs under control to ensure customer satisfaction”
Developing iApply’s sophisticated platform has not been the bed of roses. From assembling the right tech-team to getting together the best student advisors from across the industry, iApply took over two years to come into action. One of the biggest challenges was to create a database that comprised of detailed information of over 10,000 programs and 250 institutes across Canada. The software uses a sophisticated categorization module that organizes all programs in a very ‘easy-to-find’ way so that students can select programs based on factors that are important to them. The platform shows live availability of all programs for upcoming intakes and its AI powered software allows students to check their eligibility against them. At the core, iApply is backed by a large team of experienced academic counsellors, handpicked from across the industry and extensively trained by Canam. All of this coupled with our obsession with customer service makes iApply the robust application management system it is today.
Marching Ahead!
With over two years’ of rigorous efforts, iApply has successfully started serving students from across India in February 2020. From nearly 1200 visitors a day to over 2500 registrations today, iApply has come a long way. Amid huge uncertainty due to Covid-19, iApply has seen a positive boost in the number of daily visitors as well as the number of the number of new registrations.
In a sense, the nationwide lockdown catapulted iApply into an extreme action zone to cope up with what we had to engage in mass-hiring and upscalling its digital abilities. Four months later, iApply now has 22,000 registered users and over 2000 daily visitors along with more than 3600 college applications from nearly 2100 happy students. Taking note of the tremendous response in India, iApply has now expanded its footprint into Bangladesh from where it already received a dozen applications since their expansion into the southeast nation last week. The pandemic has truly shown the importance of digital technologies and edtech in the field of education.
From a single office in 1997 in Chandigarh, today, Canam Consultants is a proud owner of around 24 offices and the crown for such a glorious journey of delivering visas to thousands of students every year for past two decades, goes to the ideology that the company has followed for years and is still following, which is Client Satisfaction. With years of experience and expertise, Canam has emerged as one of the leading education and career consulting companies from the Indian subcontinent. With 18 plus offices spread across India with an extensive state-of-the-art infrastructure, manned by over 300 trained advisers and consultants, the consultancy firm is optimally equipped to serve students and professionals.
iApply is following the footsteps of Canam and is surely expected to do extraordinarily well in the coming years. The AI platform of iApply is highly customizable and capable of being scaled up in a relatively short period of time while keeping costs under control to ensure customer satisfaction. iApply looks forward to strengthening their market position within India and Bangladesh while refining its modules for smoother process flows. The start of 2021 will mark the initiation of expansion operations through Southeast Asia followed by the Middle East. Currently, iApply only offers programs in Canada but its tech team is working relentlessly so that we may, in the very near future, offer programs in the United States, UK and Australia as well. By 2023, iApply expects a considerable proportion of students across the world to choose iApply as their trusted search tool efficient application partner.
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