ADVIS is a dynamic and innovative educational counseling agency, providing informed and caring counseling to assist Turkish students in making the best choices to achieve their future goals, while also providing international educational institutions with support for reaching their marketing goals in Turkey. Since 1997, we offer students a wide variety of overseas language programs, high school programs, diploma / certificate programs and career alternatives abroad. Our professional team identifies appropriate options and delivers quality service to all our customers.

Study Abroad

At ADVIS, we offer students a wide variety of overseas language programs, high school programs and diploma/certificate programs at prestigious schools and institutions from all over the world. The following is a partial list of institutions represented by ADVIS: University of California Extensions (UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCI, UCR, UCSB, UCSD, UCD), SDSU, UPENN, CSUH, FLS, J&W University, ELS, NESE and a number of community colleges from USA; ELS, PLI, ILSC, KING’S CANADA, ILAC, Tamwood, Global Village English Centers, WLI, KGIC, Malaspina University College, UVIC from Canada; Embassy CES, Aspect, Shane Global Language Centers, Lewis, Bell International, David Game College Group, MLS, Wolverhampton University, University of Portsmouth, Bellerby’s College and a number of universities from UK; University of Sydney, ACL, BCIT, Intenational House, University of Queensland from Australia; a number of institutions from New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Malta and France.

In 2005, we recruited 421 students to study abroad. ADVIS has a good reputation as a career programs expert, university placement specialist and academic advisor. University placement services in ADVIS have a different structure. Our counsellors are highly qualified specialists who advise students on all the requirements for a successful application for university enrollments. 

Work&Travel and Career Training

Having a high percentage of university student population, Turkey has also drawn the attention of both the employers and the recruiter firms, who want to hire international temporary workforce. So, besides educational programs, we also have “Internship”, “Professional Career training” and “Work & Travel” Programs.

According to the reports of CIEE (Council Exchanges - the biggest sponsor of Work and Travel Program, authorized by US State Department), in the years 2002, 2003, 2004,2005 and 2006; the most preferred agency, which had the highest number of registrations in Turkey, was clearly Advis. CIEE announced Turkey as the new emerging and booming market and expressed their pleasure of working with ADVIS.


The American Consulate General also indicated as follows: “We have been very pleased by the great interest in the Work/Travel Exchange Program for Summer 2006. In fact, over 6,350 candidates for this summer season have been interviewed by the American Consulate in Istanbul. We are happy that so many Turkish students are participating in the Work/Travel Exchange Program. We look forward to working with you again in spring 2007 and will seek your assistance in securing early interviews for your students next year.”  In Summer 2006, Advis recruited 1050 students through work&travel program.

In addition to our local marketing expertise, we are flexible in finding ways of working with all educational organizations, employers/recruiters and in developing promotional projects, which will meet the needs of both parties.

Marketing Activities

We employ many marketing tools in order to increase both our product awareness and number of clients. While we are attending all of the educational fairs and distributing flyers, brochures in key locations in , we also arrange informing seminars, counseling and direct registration events with the school representatives. This year, we will put into practice the following effective projects to increase the quality of our services that we provide to educational institutions and employers/recruiters abroad.

• Telemarketing

Because constant contact with students and their follow up is crucial to the high quality of our services, we create a database with the names and contact information of all the potential students who have contacted us by e mail, phone, online information request form on our website or by visiting us at our office. This database serves as our follow up connection to our future students. We periodically call students in our database and ask them to come to our office for a more direct, one-on-one meeting about the best option that fits their individual needs.

• E-mail Shots

Besides the web publicity, we have a very comprehensive e-mail shot service, which enables us to reach prospective students and recent graduates directly. Our e-mail database consists of 154.000 subscribed e-mail addresses as of today and includes all education fair attendees, executives, alumni and professionals in . We make regular e-mail shots to these people in order to inform them about hot news, current programs and school promotions. This database is always being updated and expanded via new activities and promotions.

• www.advis.com.tr

The official site of ADVIS Educational Counseling is www.advis.com.tr . At our web site, visitors can find detailed information on international programs (our services, promotions, prices, dates).

• www.tebesir.com

Tebesir.com, Turkey's first and most comprehensive educational web site and vertical portal- consists of all kinds of information, news, links and announcements of activities about education related issues both in Turkey and abroad. Tebesir.com, not only aims at creating a "Study Abroad Guide" that covers the needs and expectations of everyone who is interested in studying abroad but also acts as a perfect tool for educational institutions in reaching their potential market in.

• Banners

Periodically, to announce and to market the programs, banners are used to attract the attention of the prospective students on the web sites of big portals that we have partnerships with in.

• Network of Local Representatives

To expand the availability of our services and the programs we represent to Turkish students nationally, we have established a network of local representatives in all major Turkish cities. These representatives are educational counseling agents, tourism agents, or active individuals who work with potential study abroad students and jobseekers.

• Seminars and “Direct Registration Events”

ADVIS organizes various informative study abroad seminars regularly. At some of these seminars, students have the chance of meeting with the representatives and registrars of international institutions, which enables them to register directly.

• Press Releases and Media Ads

Ads and news about ADVIS’s special offers, services, new programs and activities are announced through the press regularly.

• Partnerships with CV Banks and Job Search Sites

To better serve the employers/recruiters abroad by providing a wide range of recent graduates with various qualifications we work in cooperation with Turkey’s best Online CV Banks (with 130,000 – 250,000 CV’s each) and Job Search Sites. Through this, we expand our customer portfolio.

We will be happy to provide you with any further details, if required.