COGITO is a global educational services company focused on student recruitment and human capital in the large sense,

anchored to the education sector, with a robust presence in higher education and professional development & training. It also provides the suite of management services that directly support educational and related institutional and corporate platforms for their set-up, operations and business development and growth needs.

Geographic and Thematic Network Nodes

COGITO Human Capital (COGITO) operates as a “network of networks” and functions as an umbrella global Meta-recruitment platform, with particular strengths in Collegiate Graduate, Postgraduate and undergraduate student recruitment. It also operates for K-12, but University recruitment is its core mission and it uses its High School networks’ access as a feeder to global universities.

The COGITO network counts the world’s leading educational recruiting experts, at the subnational, national, sub-regional, regional and global levels, with networking anchors on all continents. Its Dubai global hub allows it optimal reach, including in the United Arab Emirates, the wider Arabian Gulf, the Arab World and wider Middle East & North Africa region and the Asian Continent and South Asian Sub-Continent, as well as the ASEAN and Asia-Pacific Regions, with strong recruitment networks in Africa, the Mediterranean, the European Union, and Eurasia, inclusive of Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia, China, the Far East and some nodes in the Western Hemisphere.

Thematically, COGITO operates recruitment in all academic spheres, and has dedicated specialty networks in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and in specialties anchored to Liberal Arts and the Humanities.

COGITO’s Human Capital recruitment capacity extends to educational staff and faculty.

Its human capital and student recruitment networking capacity is complemented by a robust network of educational business services providers in the areas of educational infrastructure, materials, publishers / publications, multi-media, public relations, marketing, technology, equipment, software and knowledge economy stakeholders, both in the non-profit and for-profit educational spaces.

COGITO HC nurtures strong relationships with both public and private educational entities, including higher education entities as graduate student recruitment feeders, and high schools as collegiate undergraduate feeders, as well as developmental NGOs and civil society platforms focused on education, in both first world countries and emerging markets.

It is also heavily involved in other academic entity network activities such as global exchange programs, study abroad programs, international cooperation and research programs, relations with global multilateral entities, professional development and training networks, corporate education platforms, curriculum platforms, tutoring entities, faculty associations, R&D innovation and entrepreneurship platforms, and institutional education platforms, as well as scholarship and fellowship programs (local, national, regional, global, bilateral, multilateral, etc.), and educational philanthropy, as well as education investment platforms and educational goods and services procurement platforms, including operational financing and execution of infrastructure and logistics that support education.

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS & SOLUTIONS

We inspire our recruitment partners to mobilize prospective students to take every opportunity to better their lives and the lives of their loved ones by accessing the high quality education offered by our academic partners and clients.

COGITO is also involved in education as a social justice vector, such as in its Women’s Educational Programs and its promotion of Women in STEM.

COGITO has dedicated student recruitment network relationships with leading graduate and postgraduate student recruiters and recruitment platforms, notably for Masters and Doctoral Degree Programs.

COGITO leverages its global networks and communication channels to inform and mobilize global students for local, national, regional and international student recruitment, both individual and institutional, for life-changing educational opportunities

COGITO works with educational and academic partner and stakeholder networks to craft innovative recruitment channels, platforms and opportunities, to serve local and international students, create new revenue streams for educational institutions and benefit students in what is increasingly a global knowledge economy.

The importance of education in the global knowledge economy is obvious, and COGITO is a vector for its global business development imperatives, serving higher education entities convergent with the best interests of students and their families, regardless of origin, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, or any other demographic parameter.

COGITO undertakes innovative strategies, in partnership with its global recruitment networks, to serve higher education entities and students, create new revenue streams and grow these, and deploy academic institutions internationally, increasing student enrollment for its high pedigree educational and academic partners.

COGITO’s global recruiters and recruitment partners allow students to enroll in top-tier higher education entities, Colleges, Universities, Schools and Institutes, in order to increase their knowledge, improve their job prospects and develop valuable hard and soft skills and talents.

COGITO supports the building of global relationships and partnerships for academic partners, in ways that benefit the partners, faculty and students, and allowing to strengthen education partner global brands.

COGITO has focused its efforts on selecting global recruitment network partners based on their ability to access the best prepared students for recruitment into leading accredited academic institutions, to optimize win-win outcomes for universities and students.

COGITO has increasingly worked with recruitment entities able to also mobilize educational funding towards student access to higher education.

COGITO believes in the concept of Excellence in Education and its educational consulting and strategic advisory services reflect this philosophy in terms of mobilizing the best student recruitment partners for academic entities that are student-centered.

Global emblematic figure and former South African President Nelson Mandela famously said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” and COGITO takes this mission statement to heart in providing best-in-class recruitment options for higher education access and success.

COGITO selects recruitment platforms that are best practice centers of excellence when it comes to outreach, to optimize visibility and progress from student inquiries to enrollment, in a streamlined and cost-effective process that ensures that COGITO delivers value with a significantly competitive comparative advantage.

COGITO is involved in diversified global business development consulting and operations on behalf of educational partners, clients and providers.

Raw Institutional & Corporate Management Services

While student recruitment, human capital and educational services are at the core of COGITO’s mission and activities, COGITO Human Capital is also active in the related vertical silos that support operations management for educational services and salient institutional and corporate services provision and procurement.