No agency owns us. No agency pays us to rank them first. AralAbroad does one thing: honest, sourced information for Filipino students figuring out the UK, Australia, Canada, the US, and beyond.
Every study-abroad resource you’ll find online right now is published by someone who gets paid when you sign with a specific agency or country. We publish the visa, cost, and scholarship information first — then we tell you exactly where we make money on the page.
AralAbroad is an independent study-abroad information site based in the Philippines, publishing free, sourced guides on student visas, costs, scholarships, and agency reviews for Filipino students since 2026, and is best known for its independent, disclosed reviews of Philippine-based study-abroad agencies.
That sentence is deliberately boring. We’d rather be accurate than exciting.
Why we don’t work for an agency
Why we don’t work for an agency
Every agency in the Philippines gets paid when a student signs up — whether or not that country, school, or course is actually the right fit. We don’t.
AralAbroad started because we kept running into the same problem: every study-abroad resource online was published by someone with a commission riding on the answer. Government visa pages are accurate but written for immigration officers, not applicants. Agency websites are written to close a sale.
So in 2026, AralAbroad set out to do one narrow thing well: publish the visa, cost, and scholarship information a Filipino applicant needs, sourced from the same government pages the agencies use, minus the sales pitch. Where we do earn money — through disclosed affiliate and partner relationships — we say so on the page, every time.
Read our affiliate disclosureEvery dollar we could earn from steering you wrong costs us more in the long run — a wrong review is a broken reason to exist.
How we make money, in plain language
Reading this page costs you nothing. Here’s exactly where our revenue comes from, so you can judge our advice with that in mind. AralAbroad earns money three ways, and only three ways. We don’t run pay-to-rank listings, and we don’t accept payment in exchange for a specific review score.
Affiliate commissions
When you click through to a partner course or service and buy something, we earn a percentage. Your price doesn’t change.
See affiliate disclosureLead-gen referrals
When you use a “match me” form, we may earn a referral fee if you choose to talk to that agency. You’re not obligated to proceed.
Read more aboveLabeled partnerships
Some agencies and schools pay for featured placement. It’s always labeled “Partner” — it never changes a review score.
See partner termsIf a page recommends a partner, the disclosure sits on that page — not buried in a footer link three clicks away.
Who’s behind AralAbroad
AralAbroad is a small, independent Philippines-based team. We’re adding full team bios soon — every guide is still fact-checked against the source government page before publishing.
Read our editorial standardsWhat we hold ourselves to
Independent by design
We’re not owned by, and don’t work for, any single agency, school, or visa consultancy. If a page recommends a partner, that relationship is disclosed on the same page.
Peso-real numbers
Every cost figure we publish is broken down in PHP, not just the destination currency, and dated so you know when it was last checked.
Sourced, not guessed
Visa and immigration details link back to the official government source — UKVI, IRCC, the Australian Department of Home Affairs, or the equivalent — not a paraphrase of another blog.
Reviewed on a schedule
High-stakes pages are checked on a set cadence, not left to go stale. See our editorial guidelines for the exact schedule.
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