2025-26 Admission Cycle · Fall 2026 intake

Where Our Students Wentin 2026

212 students. 222 offers. 44 universities. 11 countries.

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212
Students Placed
222
Offers, 44 Universities
33
Ivy League Offers
92%
Received Scholarships or Aid
$14M+
Scholarships & Aid Secured
11
International Destinations
2offers from Harvard|9offers from Columbia|2offers from UPenn|7offers from Cornell|5offers from Brown|3offers from Yale|3offers from Princeton|2offers from Dartmouth|18offers from Boston University|14offers from NYU|13offers from LSE|10offers from UCL|8offers from Imperial|8offers from USC|7offers from Carnegie Mellon|7offers from NUS|7offers from King's College London|4offers from Stanford|5offers from MIT|2offers from Oxford|2offers from Cambridge|2offers from Harvard|9offers from Columbia|2offers from UPenn|7offers from Cornell|5offers from Brown|3offers from Yale|3offers from Princeton|2offers from Dartmouth|18offers from Boston University|14offers from NYU|13offers from LSE|10offers from UCL|8offers from Imperial|8offers from USC|7offers from Carnegie Mellon|7offers from NUS|7offers from King's College London|4offers from Stanford|5offers from MIT|2offers from Oxford|2offers from Cambridge|2offers from Harvard|9offers from Columbia|2offers from UPenn|7offers from Cornell|5offers from Brown|3offers from Yale|3offers from Princeton|2offers from Dartmouth|18offers from Boston University|14offers from NYU|13offers from LSE|10offers from UCL|8offers from Imperial|8offers from USC|7offers from Carnegie Mellon|7offers from NUS|7offers from King's College London|4offers from Stanford|5offers from MIT|2offers from Oxford|2offers from Cambridge|
212

Students Placed

Every KGC student in the 2026 cohort accepted an offer from a university on their list. Not every application succeeds — that is what a real admissions process looks like — but every student had a place to go.

Based on KGC's internal placement records for 212 students in the 2026 cohort
Ivy League, 2026
33
offers
26
students
105
applications

A pooled offer rate of 31.4% across all eight Ivy League universities. We report the pooled figure rather than a rate per school: with seven to twenty-five applications each, individual percentages would say more about small numbers than about students.

Student Profile

The 2026 cohort by programme. 40 of the 212 students applied from outside India.

70%
Undergraduate
15%
Master's & PhD
15%
MBA
Ivy League

33 Ivy League Offers

Offers from all eight Ivy League universities, held by 26 students.

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Harvard University

2
offers
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Columbia University

9
offers
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University of Pennsylvania

2
offers
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Cornell University

7
offers
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Brown University

5
offers
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Yale University

3
offers
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Princeton University

3
offers
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Dartmouth College

2
offers

85.1% of the 222 featured offers — 189 of them — are outside the Ivy League. The largest single destinations in 2026 were Boston University (18), NYU (14) and LSE (13).

United States — Beyond the Ivy League

95 offers across 15 universities

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Stanford

United States

4
offers
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MIT

United States

5
offers
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University of Chicago

United States

4
offers
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Northwestern

United States

5
offers
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Duke

United States

5
offers
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Johns Hopkins

United States

4
offers
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NYU

United States

14
offers
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UCLA

United States

4
offers
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UC Berkeley

United States

5
offers
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Carnegie Mellon

United States

7
offers
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Georgetown

United States

4
offers
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USC

United States

8
offers
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Boston University

United States

18
offers
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Rice University

United States

4
offers
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Vanderbilt

United States

4
offers

United Kingdom & Europe

63 offers across 12 universities

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University of Oxford

United Kingdom

2
offers
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University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

2
offers
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London School of Economics

United Kingdom

13
offers
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Imperial College London

United Kingdom

8
offers
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University College London

United Kingdom

10
offers
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King's College London

United Kingdom

7
offers
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University of Warwick

United Kingdom

6
offers
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London Business School

United Kingdom

5
offers
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INSEAD

France

3
offers
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HEC Paris

France

3
offers
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University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

2
offers
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Erasmus University Rotterdam

Netherlands

2
offers

Asia-Pacific

31 offers across 9 universities

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National University of Singapore

Singapore

7
offers
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Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

5
offers
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Singapore Management University

Singapore

3
offers
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University of Melbourne

Australia

4
offers
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University of Sydney

Australia

3
offers
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Australian National University

Australia

2
offers
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University of Auckland

New Zealand

1
offer
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University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

4
offers
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HKUST

Hong Kong

2
offers

India

5 domestic offers — not included in the 222 international offers or the 11 destinations above

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Ashoka University

India

3
offers
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IIM Indore

India

2
offers

11 international placement destinations in 2026: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, Hong Kong. The universities featured above cover eight of the eleven; students were also placed in Canada, Italy and Germany at universities not large enough in our numbers to feature individually.

Scholarships & Financial Aid

What the 2026 cohort secured at the universities they chose

$14M+
Total package value secured
92%
194 of 212 students received aid
$72K
Average per recipient, over the award period

How this is counted. Scholarship and financial-aid value is the total nominal value of institutional scholarships, grants, need-based aid and tuition waivers at the university the student ultimately chose, across the stated award period. It is a total, not an annual figure. Loans and work-study are excluded. KGC has secured $76M+ in scholarships and aid on this basis since 1999.

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How these figures are counted. A placed student is one who accepted an admission offer and confirmed their intended university destination. Admission counts refer to offers received and therefore may include more than one offer for the same student. The featured universities are a selected list, not every university at which offers were received. Figures are based on KGC's internal placement records for 212 students in the 2026 cohort, as reported by students and their families. Results are for the Fall 2026 intake and were final at the time of publication.

Disclaimer: Dr. Karan Gupta is the Managing Director of IE University (India & South Asia). KGC placement figures do not include IE University or any other Spanish university. All university names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Study Abroad Placements 2026 — 2025-26 Admission Cycle Results

In the 2025-26 admission cycle, 212 Karan Gupta Consulting students accepted places at universities across 11 countries. The 222 offers featured on this page come from 44 universities in the United States, United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, with further placements in Canada, Italy and Germany.

The cohort received 33 Ivy League offers from 105 applications, held by 26 students — and 85.1% of featured offers were outside the Ivy League, led by Boston University, NYU, LSE, UCL and Columbia. Seventy percent of the cohort applied for undergraduate study; the rest for master's, doctoral and MBA programmes.

194 of the 212 students received scholarships or financial aid, with a combined package value of $14M+ over their award periods. For the previous cohort, see Where Our Students Went in 2025.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does KGC count placements?
A placed student is one who accepted an admission offer and confirmed their intended university destination. In the 2026 cohort that is 212 students. Offer counts are a different measure: they are admission offers received, so one student can appear in more than one university's total. The 222 featured offers across 44 international universities are a selected list, not every university our students were admitted to.
What is KGC's Ivy League result for 2026?
KGC students received 33 Ivy League offers in the 2026 cycle, held by 26 unique students, from 105 Ivy League applications — a pooled offer rate of 31.4%. Offers came from all eight Ivy League universities. We report the pooled figure rather than a rate per university because the per-university application counts are small enough that individual percentages would be misleading.
Do KGC students receive scholarships?
In the 2026 cohort, 194 of 212 students — 92% — received scholarships or financial aid, with a total package value of $14M+. That figure is the total nominal value of institutional scholarships, grants, need-based aid and tuition waivers at the university each student chose, across the stated award period; it is not an annual amount, and loans and work-study are excluded. Across recipients it averages roughly $72K per student over the award period.