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About Passage Global

Closing the gap between ambition and admission.

Our mission: make elite admissions honest, accessible and within financial reach. We exist to make world-class education reachable for ambitious students across the developing world.

What we are

A US company with two sides.

We build software, and we do the consulting work ourselves, which is why the software is built around what the work actually needs.

Why we started

It began in our LinkedIn inbox.

For years, students from Pakistan and around the world found Umer and Ali on LinkedIn with the same questions: How do I get in? Should I take the scholarship or the ranking? Is this program worth the loan? Real people, big decisions, and almost no honest, firsthand guidance to turn to.

Umer and Ali answered as many as they could, on calls, over WhatsApp, late at night across time zones, because they remembered making those same decisions alone. Eventually the messages outgrew two inboxes.

So they built Passage Global: a proper platform for the guidance they wish they had had. We are a new company with a simple promise. The same honest advice that filled those inboxes, now backed by Navigator and available to every student who needs it.

The founders

Led by people who’ve sat in your seat.

  • Umer Ijaz

    Umer Ijaz

    Co-Founder

    Kellogg MBA, Northwestern · MS, U. of Illinois

    Umer grew up in Lahore and graduated as a Gold Medalist, then went on to a Master’s at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He has spent seven years as a product manager across fintech and AI, at companies including Amount and Amazon, a career built in the United States that began with the same international application our students are filling in now. He co-founded Passage Global to give ambitious students the guidance he wishes he’d had: expert, honest, and entirely on their side.

    Connect with Umer on LinkedIn
  • Ali Azeem

    Ali Azeem

    Co-Founder

    Vanderbilt Owen MBA (Merit Scholar) · LUMS

    Ali graduated from LUMS in Accounting and Finance, then earned a merit scholarship to Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management, having navigated the US admissions process the hard way, without a guide. He is now a senior leader at Amazon, with nearly a decade of experience advising at the highest levels of one of the world’s most demanding companies. He co-founded Passage Global to be the expert in a student’s corner that he never had: someone who has made the journey and knows exactly where it gets hard.

    Connect with Ali on LinkedIn

Why Passage Global

Most agencies process applications. We’ve been where you’re standing.

  • A US company

    Passage Global is incorporated in the United States and headquartered in Frisco, Texas.

  • Founders who did it

    Co-founders with MBAs from Kellogg and Vanderbilt Owen, who went through these applications themselves and built careers in the US.

  • Funding first

    Scholarships and assistantships are part of the plan from day one, not an afterthought once you are admitted.

  • Honest advice

    A school list built on real data rather than flattery, including when the answer is not what you hoped.

Our vision

The distance between an ambitious student and a great university is rarely about ability.

It is about access to the right guidance, and the funding to make it real. That is the gap we exist to close.

Meet the team.

Led by our founders, Umer and Ali, with a small team of counselors and mentors.

Meet the team

Get in touch.

Passage Global
3201 Dallas Parkway, Suite 210
Frisco, TX 75034, USA

info@passage-global.com
+92 300 1602878

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Tell us your goals and we'll map out the route: Navigator to do the research, our counselors to guide it.

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