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Choosing a college is a high-involvement decision. Students don't just look for rankings or course information; they also want to understand what life inside the institution actually feels like.
Collegedunia uses student and alumni experiences to help prospective students make more informed decisions. Its review experience allows users to share information about academics, faculty, fees, campus life, accommodation, placements, and other aspects of their college journey.
The challenge is that collecting a useful review requires asking users for a considerable amount of information without making the process feel like a long administrative form.
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| Title | Collegeduni Review |
|---|---|
| My role | UI/UX Designer |
| Team | 1 PM, 3-4 Developer, 1 Designer |
| Project Type | Platform Feature |
| Timeline | 6 Months |
| Tools Used | Figma • Google Forms |
25,000+ Colleges covered
8 steps Review journey
465K+ Reviews currently listed
3 Up to 500 Points for an approved review
When students are choosing a college, they rarely make the decision based only on rankings, advertisements, or official college information. They also want to understand what life at that college actually feels like.
They want to know how the faculty behaves, whether the curriculum is useful, what the campus environment is like, how placements actually work, whether the hostel experience is good, how much students really spend, and what everyday college life looks like.
This is why student reviews are such an important part of the Collegedunia experience.
But there was a fundamental problem with the existing review ecosystem. A large portion of the feedback available to students was short, fragmented, and difficult to evaluate for authenticity or context. A sentence or two could tell a student whether someone liked a college, but it often could not explain why.
The challenge, therefore, was bigger than designing a better review form.
The real challenge was:
How might we help students share enough of their real college experience that another student can actually use that information to make a decision?
This project focused on rethinking the review journey around that question.
Collegedunia is an education discovery platform where students can research colleges, courses, admissions, fees, placements, campus experiences, and other information before making an education decision.
Within that ecosystem, reviews play a particularly important role because they provide something that institutional information cannot always provide: the student's perspective.
A college can publish its official placement statistics, course information, facilities, and fee structure. But students still want to hear from someone who has actually experienced those things.