Saturday, November 22, 2014

An Education Portal CollegeDunia Where Quality And Performance Are At Peak

What must be the qualities of an education portal, like CollegeDunia, to qualify for Quality regarding its usability and end user comfort in all aspects. It should be easy to navigate, tabs must be well placed and equally meaningful, fast to load, tab links, information etc. In all these parameters, CollegeDunia qualifies well.

This education portal aims to become Zomato of education and soon, within next 6 months. Currently it lists around 700 colleges, offering 1500+ courses. Information provided is quite crisp and accurate. Each college has a rating and the courses being offered by the college.

Overall an effective portal. The search engine is quite impacting. Suppose you search for "IIT" you get a listing of 36 colleges, IIT Kharagpur being on the top.

Friday, November 21, 2014

CollegeDunia Raises 1 Crore in Angel Funding For Raising Technology

A portal that is bound to become a must place for education enthusiasts – CollegeDunia recently got an angel funding or Rs 1 crore from various investors – known and undisclosed. The funding has come from Gaadi.com  CEO Umang Kumar and some other unnamed investors. This is a big show for CollegeDunia, as the founder Sahil Chalan aims to utilize these funds for the technological advancements of the portal and use certain amount out of this for marketing and operational activities as reported in a recent news online.

CollegeDunia is a assimilating joint for all college related information, of any stream – commerce, engineering, science, medical, arts and so on. The portal currently lists over 800 colleges information in a uniquely structured manner listing over 1500+ courses offered by them. There is also a separate section for all major exams with their application criteria, important dates, exam information etc.


The portal aims to list all colleges, institutes, b-schools, polytechnics and coaching institutes to a volume of over 8,000.