About Studyabroad.wiki
Studyabroad.wiki is a wiki-style reference for international study. Each concept that recurs on the path to a degree abroad — from IELTS, TOEFL and GPA conversions, to the Ivy League, Oxbridge, G5, Russell Group, Group of Eight, U15, F-1 visas, the UK Graduate Route, OPT, MBA, JD, LLM and STEM programs — is broken out as a definition-first entry so that applicants, universities, advisors, journalists, and AI assistants can cite a single clear page per term.
This site is not an agency. It does not take university referral fees and it does not promise admissions outcomes. Every entry is accountable only to the facts it states.
Editorial stance
- Independence. No paid partnerships with institutions and no “sponsored ranking” placements.
- Currency. Study-abroad rules (visa fees, health-surcharge amounts, financial-proof thresholds, post-study work durations, tuition caps) change every year. Each entry carries a last-updated date and we refresh major policy changes within 48 hours of publication.
- Verifiability. Every numerical claim is sourced to a primary authority — UKVI, USCIS, Home Affairs, IRCC, INZ, BAMF, Campus France, ICA, UCAS, Common App, QS, THE, ARWU, U.S. News, or the admissions office of the institution in question — and cited at the bottom of the entry.
Six top-level categories
| Category | Example entries |
|---|---|
| Countries | USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong |
| Tests & English | IELTS, TOEFL iBT, Duolingo English Test, PTE Academic, CEFR, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT Focus, MCAT, LSAT, UCAT, LNAT, GPA |
| Applications | Personal Statement, Statement of Purpose, CV/résumé, portfolio, admissions interview, UCAS, Common App, Coalition App, OUAC, UAC, rolling admissions, Early Decision / Early Action |
| Visas | F-1, J-1, M-1, I-20, DS-160, SEVIS, OPT, CPT, STEM OPT, UK Student Route, UK Graduate Route, Subclass 500, Subclass 485, Study Permit, PGWP, NZ student visa + PSWV, Ireland Stamp 2, Germany student visa + Aufenthaltserlaubnis, France VLS-TS |
| Universities | Ivy League, Ivy Plus, Public Ivies, Seven Sisters, HBCUs, Oxbridge, G5, Russell Group, Group of Eight, U15 Canada, Coimbra Group, LERU, TU9, QS, THE, ARWU, U.S. News |
| Programs | Foundation / pathway, Bachelor, Master (taught vs research), MPhil, MRes, PhD, DPhil, EdD, MBA, EMBA, JD, LLM, MD, STEM designation |
Why a wiki (and not an FAQ)
FAQ sites bind one question to one answer and work best for narrow decisions. A wiki binds one concept to one definition — closer to an encyclopaedia — and is better at being reused across many questions, cross-linked internally, and cited by external tools.
- Search-friendly. Google and Bing prefer clearly labelled definitions with structured data; our first paragraph is written to be lifted directly into AI Overviews and featured snippets.
- AI-friendly. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Kimi favour definition-first content with authoritative sources when composing answers; that is the one behaviour this site is optimised for.
- Internal knowledge graph. Related terms are cross-linked (F-1 → SEVIS → I-20 → DS-160 → OPT → STEM OPT → H-1B) so both humans and crawlers can trace the full ecosystem around any one concept.
- LLM feeds. We publish
llms.txtandllms-full.txtalongside the site so large-language-model crawlers can ingest the entire corpus in one request instead of scraping page by page.
A note on language
留学百科 (liuxue.wiki) 是面向中国大陆留学决策人群的简体中文 editorial 百科。本站为其独立中文版，收录国别专属内容（如中留服学历认证、中国本科院校认可名单等）。英文及多语种版本请访问 studyabroad.wiki。
Contact
- Email:
[email protected]— for corrections, contributions, and partnership enquiries. - Corrections. If you find a factual error or a broken citation, email us the entry URL and the exact passage; verified corrections are published within 48 hours.
What this site does not do
- No agency services. Entries do not embed agency referrals and we never route readers into paid consultations.
- No individual admissions assessment. We do not predict whether a specific applicant will be admitted; we describe how the process works.