Released on: April 9, 2008, 2:50 am

Press Release Author: Stella Advisory Pvt. Ltd.

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Press Release Summary: 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.

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