Course and university selection
We start from your transcript, your budget and where you want to be in five years, then shortlist programmes that will actually admit you.
How this works →Study abroad counselling · A THB venture · Dhaka
Where can you actually afford to study?
Most consultancies start with a country. We start with your numbers. Four answers, and you will see where your budget genuinely reaches.
Send this shortlist to a counsellor on WhatsApp
Work out the full cost in taka
Check my visa readiness
Planning figures reviewed July 2026, not offers. Every number is re-checked against your shortlist before you pay any application fee.
Free tools
Work it out yourself first. We would rather you did.
Four calculators that answer what a counselling session usually starts with. They run in your browser — nothing stored, nothing sent, no form in front of them.
Tool 01
Cost calculator
Tuition, living, and the nine pre-departure costs nobody mentions — totalled in taka.
Open calculator →Tool 02
Visa readiness check
Six questions about your bank file, scored the way a visa officer reads it.
Run the check →Tool 03
Deadline planner
Your intake counted backwards into seventeen dated milestones, exportable to your calendar.
Build a timeline →Tool 04
Scholarship finder
Sixteen schemes open to Bangladeshi nationals, and when they really close.
See scholarships →What we do
Six jobs, from first conversation to first week on campus
You are buying the work of getting one file accepted by a university and then by an embassy — two audiences that want different things from the same documents.
Admission and application filing
Submissions, deadline tracking and follow-up until the offer letter is in your hand, with a written record of what was sent and when.
How this works →Scholarship and funding strategy
Government schemes, merit awards and fee waivers matched to your profile — plus honest advice on which you will not win.
How this works →SOP, LOR and CV drafting
The one document a visa officer reads for intent. Your reasons, your words, structured to survive scrutiny.
How this works →Student visa file and interview
Financial documentation, source of funds, appointments, biometrics and mock interviews. The stage where most refusals happen.
How this works →Pre-departure and arrival support
Accommodation, arrival and first-week planning, registration and banking — and a number to call when something goes wrong.
How this works →The sequence
Three stages, in the order they actually happen
Each stage ends in a decision made in writing. You can stop at any point without owing us the next stage.
1Weeks 1–3
Plan and choose
We read your record honestly, gaps and weak semesters included, and set a shortlist against your real budget. This stage is free.
- Eligibility and credential assessment against real entry requirements
- Country and city comparison on total first-year cost, not just tuition
- Intake selection, so you are not applying to a closed window
- Scholarship shortlist with deadlines mapped backwards from today
2Weeks 4–14
Apply and secure admission
Documents prepared, attested, submitted. We chase admissions offices, and tell you the moment a shortlist item stops being realistic.
- Transcript attestation, notarisation and translation where required
- SOP, letters of recommendation and academic CV drafted with you
- Applications filed, tracked and followed up until decision
- Offer letter review — conditions, deposit terms and refund clauses explained
3Weeks 15–24
Visa, departure and arrival
The financial file is where applications are won or lost. We build it to the standard that mission expects, then rehearse until your answers hold.
- Financial documentation and source-of-funds narrative
- Visa lodgement, biometrics and medical scheduling
- Mock interviews with feedback until you are steady
- Accommodation, flights, forex and a pre-departure briefing
Straight talk
Four things we will not do
One of the largest financial decisions a Bangladeshi family makes, in an industry that has earned its scepticism. Hold us to these.
The House of Business
Dhaka · Est. 2022
Counselling · Admission · Visa
01
We will not promise you a visa
Nobody can. What we promise is a file with no avoidable weaknesses, and a frank read on your odds before you spend anything.
02
We will not fabricate a single document
No manufactured statements, no invented experience. A forged document does not cost you one visa; it can bar you from a country for a decade.
03
We will not push a country because it pays us more
If India or Malaysia is the right answer for your budget, we will say so. If the plan does not work this year, we will say that too.
04
We will not take money without a written scope
Every charge is itemised before you pay, with our fee shown separately from university and embassy fees.
Inside the group
Study Bridge is one desk. You get the whole building.
THB runs 105 registered ventures across immigration, education, language, compliance, digital and travel. A study file rarely stays inside one of them.
0Ventures under one brand
0Countries covered by the visa desk
0First-attempt approval, THB Visa
#1Visa brand on Google, Bangladesh
THB Visa Services Ltd. · Est. 2024
Your student visa is filed by a visa company
Not by a counsellor who also does visas. THB Visa Services runs country desks that track each embassy's current checklist.
visa.thb.com.bd →THB Human Translation
Certified translation, in-house
Certified translation, credential evaluation, notarisation and apostille — work the group has done for UN agencies, NGOs and embassies.
humantranslation.thb.com.bd →THB Go! · Flights & travel
Flights booked around your visa window
Ticketing planned against visa validity and intake dates, not the cheapest fare on a date that does not work.
go.thb.com.bd →Client notes
Files that went through the first time
Published on the THB visa desk's own feedback page. We have written none of our own — when students send them, they will appear here.
The document checklist for my daughter's Canadian study visa was more precise than what the university itself sent us.
NB
My UK visitor visa had been refused once before. THB rebuilt the file from scratch and it was approved in under three weeks.
FA
They handled my work permit paperwork for Dubai while I was still finishing my notice period here. Zero back-and-forth with the embassy myself.
MH
Resource centre
Why files get refused — read these before you lodge
Written by the visa desk. Not study-specific, but the refusal patterns are the same.
United Kingdom · Jun 2026 · 6 min
Five reasons UK visas get refused
Rejections are rarely about eligibility. They are about how the file is assembled.
Read on the visa desk →United States · Jun 2026 · 7 min
Common reasons US visas get refused
Why 214(b) refusals happen, and how to document ties to Bangladesh properly.
Read on the visa desk →Gulf · Apr 2026 · 6 min
Why Gulf work visas stall
Medical tests, labour approval mismatches and attestation gaps that hold a file up.
Read on the visa desk →Where students go
50 destinations, compared on the things that decide it
First-year cost, English requirement, intakes, work rights and what your visa allows after graduation — side by side, awkward details left in.
৳5LLowest indicative first year
0Schengen-area options
0Destinations under ৳12 lakh
3Main intake windows a year
Questions students actually ask
Before you book anything
Not always. Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, China, Turkey and India often accept a medium-of-instruction certificate or their own test. But a university waiving IELTS does not mean the embassy will — two separate rules, and discovering the difference at the visa stage costs you an intake.
One year of tuition plus one year of living costs, in an account with a history. The amount matters less than the story: missions refuse far more often for an unexplained recent deposit than for a modest balance held steadily.
No. Gaps are normal; unexplained gaps are not. Work, a certification, a family responsibility or documented illness are all facts you can evidence — and some destinations are markedly more relaxed than others.
You can offset costs; you should not plan to cover them. No embassy grants a visa assuming you will earn your way through, and that assumption is the most common reason a family runs out of money in year two.
Six to nine months from first conversation to departure — longer where attestation chains or a language year are involved. Applications that start four weeks before a deadline are the ones that fail.
Counselling, course selection and admission guidance cost nothing. Where a service charge applies you get it in writing first, itemised, with university and embassy fees listed separately from ours. If it is not on that scope, you do not owe it.
It depends on the destination and your level. Several countries now restrict dependants on taught Master's while allowing them on research degrees, and the rules keep moving. We check your exact course before you plan around it.
THB Visa Services Ltd., the group's visa company, from the same Shyamoli Square office. Your counsellor builds the academic and financial file; the visa desk lodges and tracks it. One point of contact throughout — you are not passed to an outside agent.
We read the notice with you line by line, because the reason given determines everything after it. Some refusals are curable and can be re-lodged; some point to a structural problem that makes a different destination the sensible answer.
Free, and genuinely free
Bring your transcript and your budget. We will tell you what is realistic.
Forty-five minutes, at Shyamoli Square or by phone. You leave with a shortlist, a cost and a target intake, whether or not you work with us.