Trusted worldwide

IDP is the world’s largest placer of international students. It’s true, we’re big, but with 79 student-facing offices in 29 countries, we’re also local. Students and parents know the IDP name and know that we have helped many like them make the right choice.

Likewise, governments, sponsoring bodies and other authorities know who we are, know how we work and trust us to provide objective advice. Our clients benefit from our network and our reputation.

IDP Education is a member of the American International Recruitment Council (AIRC). AIRC is a non-profit membership association of accredited U.S. post-secondary institutions and student recruitment agencies, which work together to establish quality standards for international student placement within the U.S.

Quality applications that convert

To ensure we only send you applications from genuine and high-quality students, we have more than 500 highly-trained counsellors that utilise sector-leading technology.

Our global CRM system called Oscar includes the programme data of every client, so we can compare institutions against each student’s criteria and means. Making the right match for students and institutions is at the heart of what we do.

Once a student has a shortlist, we counsel them from an extension to Oscar called Knowledge Base. Knowledge Base has full details about your institution and what you have to offer, including your prospectus material, photos and videos. There’s no risk that just because your prospectus isn’t in one of our offices, or you’re not highly investing in a market, that your potential students won’t be counselled accurately, consistently and effectively.

As proof of the quality of our counselling and the effectiveness of our matching process, we know that 75% of IDP students are in the top 30% of their class and that one in ten rate themselves in the top 1%.

Dedicated client relationship manager

Each IDP client has a dedicated client relationship manager from the team in the UK. If you want to discuss how IDP can help meet your international objectives, or indeed any subject about IDP, get in touch with your CRM.

In addition to being available for questions, your CRM will meet with you regularly about our performance and your strategic aims.

With global reach we can also provide global insight. If you have a question about a market contact your CRM.

Unrivalled transparency

As a client, you will have access to your own client portal that displays real-time statistics of the number of applications we have sent your institution.

You can also look at Knowledge Base and check the information we have about each of your programmes and your institution. If you’ve got a programme you particularly want to push, you can suggest edits and additions to the Knowledge Base yourself.

Market research

IDP Education has spent the last 40 years monitoring and evaluating developments in the international education community, and we have established ourselves as a leader in international research.

Much of our research is made available to the public and our partners. Our areas of expertise revolve around buyer behaviour research, industry and environmental analysis and statistical reporting of key industry metrics.

IDP also hosts the Database of Research on International Education, which is free to use.

Find out more on our dedicated market research pages.

Targeted events and exhibitions

IDP provides a series of global events for our clients to meet prospective students. IDP events may be smaller than the types of fairs you have been used to, but they operate on the principle of quality not quantity to ensure you maximise your time. All students are pre-counselled before you meet them and you should therefore only see students with a genuine interest and with the means to study at your institution. No timewasters or prospectus hunters!

Because all students are also input into our CRM system, we will automatically follow up with them on your behalf and provide you with an accurate list of attendees and their contact details (no handwritten email addresses). At some events, you’ll be able to get a list as you leave that day.

Find out more about events on our events and exhibitions page.

IDP also runs a number of conferences including the AIEC. To find out more about conferences see the conferences page.