For over 70 years, McMillan Education has guided students from 65+ countries through university, boarding school, and graduate admissions across English-speaking education worldwide. Our global educational consultants average more than 20 years of experience, are based across the U.S., EU, and UK, and speak French, Italian, and Spanish.
Seven decades of guiding students from across the world into universities, boarding schools, and graduate programs in English-speaking education.
Founded in 1955, McMillan Education has built the institutional knowledge and global relationships that define every international planning engagement the firm undertakes today.
McMillan’s team of educators, former admissions officers, and school and university planning specialists brings over 350 collective years of admissions expertise across the U.S., UK, Canada, Europe, and beyond. That breadth of firsthand, cross-system knowledge has guided thousands of students to university, graduate, and boarding school placements at leading institutions across every major English-speaking destination.
That expertise is applied through the W.I.S.E. Method®, refined across every major international admissions system McMillan serves. It is the same methodology that shapes the organization itself: grounded in the integrity and commitment to community that has defined the firm since its founding.
The mission, values, and principles that have guided McMillan Education since 1955.
McMillan Education International was built by educators, and every consultant on the team has a background in education and child or adolescent development, as well as in admissions planning. That grounding shapes everything: how students are understood, how institutions are evaluated, and how planning decisions are made across every admissions system, destination, and country McMillan serves.
McMillan’s work is grounded in the relationships it creates with students and families across 65+ countries. Every student and every family needs the path that is right for them to achieve their goals. Families are educated about the process and the landscape of their destination country, alleviating the stress of what could go wrong. That commitment is reflected in over 10,000 families served, 90% of whom come through referrals.
McMillan works with international students across every academic profile and circumstance, from those pursuing highly competitive admissions to students seeking less selective, more individualized environments. The planning process is calibrated to each student’s specific profile, goals, and educational background, not a standardized template, grounded in a genuine understanding of how students develop academically, personally, and emotionally.
What McMillan Education has built over seven decades is an interconnected ecosystem where every platform, resource, and area of expertise reinforces the whole. At the center of this ecosystem is the W.I.S.E. Method®, the intellectual framework that runs through everything McMillan does, across every admissions system and destination it serves.
Decades of work with international families formalized into a dedicated expertise in international admissions advising, effectively bringing the same unrivaled planning methodology, expertise, and relationships to university, boarding school, and graduate admissions for students from over 65 countries.
America’s oldest educational consultancy and the foundation behind the ecosystem. Since 1955, McMillan Education has built the institutional knowledge, relationships, and planning methodology that powers every engagement across it, serving thousands of students and families across school, college, and graduate admissions in the United States.
Expanding our reach to help families and schools worldwide.
A free, independent resource for families researching boarding schools, with detailed school profiles, side-by-side school comparisons, advanced search filters, and insider knowledge for developing the best list for you and optimizing your application process. Built on McMillan’s decades of boarding school expertise, and free of artificial rankings and the pay-for-play tactics common in other school databases, this Guide is the only of its kind covering the world’s foremost boarding options in the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Switzerland.
McMillan’s 1-1 educational planning expertise, a value starting at $15,000 per student, now accessible to any family, anywhere. Our self-guided online courses bring the full depth of our signature insider knowledge and proprietary W.I.S.E. Method® to families looking to navigate the admissions process on their own terms and timeline at a fraction of the cost, with full access to leading admissions strategies, tasks, and calendars supported by exercises and worksheets to ensure you optimize the process and avoid costly mistakes.
A sampling of the universities and boarding schools, where McMillan Education International students have been placed.
