The AbroBot Database: answers you can check.
When the AbroBot counsellor quotes a tuition fee, an acceptance rate or a graduate salary, it is reading an official record, and it tells you the year the figure belongs to. Today that covers 3,949 institutions in the chat and in university search. Every number on this page can be looked up in the public source it came from.
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What the counsellor uses today, and what the database already holds.
We keep these two apart on purpose. The left column is live in the app as of 14 November 2026. The right column is what the AbroBot Database holds; not all of it is wired into the chat yet, and we will not describe it as if it were.
Live in the app today
- Official records for 3,949 institutions, in the counsellor chat and in university search.
- Each answer quotes the figure with its year: “$27,728/yr graduate tuition (2023-24)”, not “around $28k”.
- Search result cards for 3,279 institutions show official tuition, acceptance and a highlight such as median earnings.
- The counsellor remembers the last 8 turns, and universities named in recent messages are looked up in the database again.
- The database is locked down. It cannot be read publicly; every read goes through the app’s server.
Official and open records. Named, and dated.
No brochures, no forum posts, no figures supplied by a university that wants your application. Each source below is published by a government body, a national survey or an open registry, so you can check it without asking us.
IPEDS
US Department of Education. Admissions, tuition, enrolment, graduation, and completions by programme: tuition for 2023-24, acceptance for Fall 2023, degrees awarded in 2022-23.
College Scorecard
US Department of Education. Graduate earnings and debt, by institution and by field of study.
NSS 2026 and LEO
National Student Survey 2026. Longitudinal Education Outcomes from the Department for Education: graduate earnings from tax records, tax year 2022-23.
QILT 2025
Student Experience Survey 2025 and Graduate Outcomes Survey 2025, including separate figures for international students.
HRK Hochschulkompass
The official register of German higher-education institutions, kept by the German Rectors’ Conference.
NIRF 2025
The National Institutional Ranking Framework, published by India’s Ministry of Education.
World Bank and Wikidata
World Bank indicators for country context. Wikidata (CC0), linked through ROR IDs, so each institution is the institution you meant.
Living-cost requirements
The government’s own visa living-cost requirements for the UK, Canada and Germany.
Every figure in this answer has a public source.
Here is the kind of exchange the counsellor has every day. Take any number in it, open the source in brackets and look it up. That is the standard we hold every answer to.
- 833 and 608: IPEDS completions, 2022-23.
- $27,728/yr: IPEDS graduate tuition, 2023-24.
- 5.7%: IPEDS first-year undergraduate acceptance, Fall 2023.
- $99,371: College Scorecard median earnings.
- The follow-up works because the counsellor remembers the last 8 turns and looks Northeastern up again.
30 official figures. AbroBot got all 30.
We asked AbroBot, Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-OSS the same question about 10 US universities popular with Indian students: graduate tuition (2023-24), first-year acceptance rate (Fall 2023) and the share of international graduate students (Fall 2023). Each answer was checked against the US Department of Education’s IPEDS records.
How to read this: a small test (10 universities, 30 figures), run once by MNB Research. The answer key is IPEDS, the same official source AbroBot’s US records come from, so it shows that AbroBot quotes official records reliably, not that it wins on every question. Gemini and GPT-OSS were tested through their APIs without web search; their apps with browsing switched on may score higher. Correct means within 1% for tuition and 1 percentage point for rates.
It would rather tell you it doesn’t know.
A confident wrong number is the most expensive thing a study-abroad adviser can give you. These rules are written into the counsellor, and they apply to every answer it gives from the database.
Official figures, with their year
It quotes an official figure together with the year it belongs to, and it never calls an official figure modelled. Estimates, such as your admission probability, stay labelled as estimates.
Not in the database? It says so
If a university or a figure isn’t in the database, the counsellor tells you that plainly instead of guessing a plausible-sounding number.
The right rate for the right degree
US admission rates are first-year undergraduate figures, and it says so. It never presents them as master’s or PhD admit rates.
“Can’t I just ask ChatGPT?”
You can, and for general questions you should. The difference is where the number comes from. A general assistant answers from what it learned in training, or from whatever it finds that day. AbroBot answers from official records, with the year attached.
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Use a general assistant to explore. Use AbroBot when the number decides where the money goes.
The database and the rules were built by MNB Research.
MNB Research is the Indian AI company behind AbroBot. It assembled the AbroBot Database from official sources, wrote the rules the counsellor follows, and locked the data behind the app’s server.
MNB Research builds AI for work where a wrong answer is costly: law, tax, audit, business operations and study abroad. AbroBot is where it shows its approach most openly. Data comes first, the model may answer only from it, and anything it does not know it says it does not know.
Valued at over ₹100 crore (valuation report, early 2026).
Ask it something you can check.
Name a university and a course. You will get the figures, the year each one belongs to, and the source.