About us
Counsellors first, consultants second
To help every Bangladeshi student reach the university that truly fits them, through honest counselling, meticulous preparation and care that lasts well beyond the visa.

Our story
Skystar Global was founded in Dhaka in 2017 by Md Ripon Mahmud, who had watched too many bright students around him accept whatever a middleman suggested because nobody had ever sat down and explained their real options. He opened a modest counselling office with one conviction: a student's future deserves the same care an adviser would give their own younger sibling. The earliest students came through friends and relatives; they stayed because every conversation ended with a clear, truthful picture of costs, chances and choices.
From that single desk, Skystar Global has grown into a full-service consultancy on West Panthapath, guiding students to universities across ten countries โ from tuition-friendly Malaysia and Poland to the research powerhouses of the UK, Canada and Australia. Along the way we built the services families kept asking for under one roof: test preparation, application processing, visa counselling, travel management, career counselling and language programmes, delivered by a senior team that has handled thousands of files between them.
What sets our work apart today is how it runs behind the scenes. Under our CTO, Md. Shahin Alam, Skystar has invested in technology-driven processes โ digital document tracking, structured application checklists and timely status updates โ so nothing is lost in a drawer and no family is left wondering where their file stands. More than two thousand students later, we still measure success one way: a student settled and thriving at a campus that was genuinely right for them.
Our team
The people behind your application
Md Ripon Mahmud
Founder & CEO
Ripon founded Skystar Global in 2017 with a single desk and a simple rule: advise every student as you would your own sibling. Eight years and more than two thousand students later, he still sits in on counselling sessions every week.
Md. Shahin Alam
CTO
Shahin built the technology backbone that keeps Skystar's applications organised and families informed, from digital document tracking to structured visa checklists. He believes good systems are simply care, made repeatable.
Tania Sarker
Senior Counsellor
Tania specialises in the UK, Canada and Australia, and is known for telling families the truth about their chances before a single taka is spent. Students describe her sessions as the first time anyone properly listened.
Ashfakur Fahim
Senior Counsellor
Fahim leads our European and Malaysian desks, tracking scholarship windows in Finland and Poland as closely as intake deadlines in Kuala Lumpur. His month-by-month timelines have rescued more than a few last-minute applicants.
Afroza Akter Sweety
Admission & Compliance Officer
Sweety checks every transcript, attestation and financial paper before a file leaves the office, and her eye for inconsistencies has prevented countless refusals. If a document can go wrong, she has already caught it.
Ready to start your journey abroad?
Book a free one-to-one consultation with our counsellors โ we'll map out your options, costs and timeline in under an hour.
