Edu Alliance is a higher education consulting services firm with offices in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Bloomington, Indiana.

The Co-Founders Dr. Senthil Nathan and Dean Hoke are former university administrators with decades of experience in the United Arab Emirates and the United States. To augment their own considerable expertise, they have assembled a team of highly experienced advisers and consultants.

Edu Alliance creates a custom approach tailored to each client’s unique situation. We bring extensive higher education administrative experience and proven skills to the research, planning, and execution of an international education program.

Our management consulting and advisory services include:

• Developing business plan, feasibility studies and market intelligence for the university in focus, studying past enrollment trends of major demographic groups of students typically enrolling in that institution to project enrollment scenarios.
• Advisory services to international branch campuses
• Assistance for institutional and program accreditation and licensure
• Executive Recruitment of senior academic and administrative leaders from the region and from the rest of the world
• Advisory on investment due-diligence and deal-flows for higher education and K-12 institutions in the region
• International alliances and collaboration
• Provide business intelligence and strategies to enhance marketability, branding, and communications
• Strategic and operational planning and goal/KPI setting;
• Facility and master planning and space planning
• Institutional audit and Risk assessment
• Improve image and message with local community, alumni, and government
• Improve student retention
• Improve revenue generation including fundraising
• The US and international accreditation assistance
• Workshops with key and leading staff to develop in-house capacity