Trust & transparency

Methodology

StudiesForeign is an independent discovery layer. We prioritize provenance, crawlability and useful factual comparisons over copied content.

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What we collect

Concise public facts such as program name, institution/provider, country, city, program type, term, duration, published price, rating count, eligibility note, visa note, source URL and last-checked date.

02

What we do not copy

We do not republish full third-party descriptions, reviews, images or proprietary datasets. Users are directed to the original source for current application details.

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Source hierarchy

Official immigration, national education and university pages take priority for authoritative rules. Commercial directories are useful discovery and review signals, not the final authority for visas or admissions.

04

Freshness

Every seeded program record carries a last-checked date. Information may change after that date, so final fees, deadlines and requirements must be confirmed at source.

Hotcourses access note

Hotcourses Abroad is included in the 100-source catalogue. At the time of this build its homepage returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so no Hotcourses program content was copied into the seed dataset.