by Sachin Murdeshwar

Mumbai: Azent Overseas Education Limited, founded by Atul Nishar (Founder, Hexaware Technologies and Aptech) and his daughter Priyanka Nishar (Engineering Graduate from Cornell University and MBA from Harvard Business School) launches its unique physical-cum-virtual centre for the first time in Vadodara. After an overwhelming response from its Ahmedabad centre launched earlier this year, the Vadodara centre is the second center launched in the state of Gujarat. Conveniently located in the city, the Vadodara centre provides easy accessibility to all visiting students.

In line with its commitment to keep investing in new technologies and innovative product offerings, Azent’s Vadodara centre offers a unique first of its kind virtual counselling option. It brings forth technology enabled services to further enhance the user involvement of its students. Besides walking into the centre, a student can also avail the option of contacting any centre counsellor virtually through video conferencing. With the unprecedented and extraordinary times in the backdrop, Azent is now more focused than ever on delivering touchless and immersive experiences to its students. The Virtual Counselling option at Azent’s Vadodara centre, enables students and their parents to connect with counselors from the safety and comfort of their own home, through the day. With this increased accessibility, students can avail an unparalleled experience of accessing structured in-person or virtual overseas education counselling anytime anywhere.

“Azent brings its unique offering for the first time ever in Vadodara. To study abroad is a life changing decision for Indian students and their families. With the use of cutting-edge technology, Azent’s Vadodara centre will offer best in class information, insights, access and guidance to students to help build their career overseas.” said Atul Nishar, Founder, Azent Overseas Education.

Priyanka Nishar, Founder, Azent Overseas Education added, “Students are currently navigating uncharted scenarios and leaning on our counselors like never before. When will visa services restart? How will travel restrictions impact our plans? And how will universities approach online vs. in-person learning? Our experienced counselors are easily accessible for virtual counseling, and ready to help.”

 

This technology driven state-of-the-art Vadodara centre will help students in selecting the right course and university from over 1200 universities across USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ireland and Singapore. Through extensive use of Virtual Reality (VR) at its “Experience Centre”, students can experience university campuses in Virtual Reality.

The Vadodara center adheres to highest standards of hygiene protocol to ensure all time safety of the visiting students and employees.  Besides ensuring all counsellors wear a mask and maintain adequate distance from each other, the centre is sanitized at periodic intervals. The use of hand sanitizers, temperature checks and basic hygiene standards makes the centre safe for any visiting student.

 With a planned investment of INR 250 Cr in new age technologies, building of products, acquisition and centre infrastructure, Azent seeks to disrupt the overseas education advisory industry. The Company’s strong understanding of the segment and unparallel execution expertise, enables Azent to offer impartial guidance and attention to each student with extensive use of modern technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI), data mining, analytics etc. Azent focuses on diverse offerings, providing students the best possible admissions guidance, while keeping in mind their individual strengths, to set them up for future success. Azent already has centres in Mumbai, Thane, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore running very successfully.