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Best-for leaderboards, save lists, alumni permalinks
New Best For pages, the ability to save a university, alumni you can link to directly, and a faster site overall.
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Notable alumni on every university page
Pulled from Wikidata, surfaced as cards on each university profile, with structured data for search engines.
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Study in the UK pages, Cantonese, rankings from primary sources
New country × subject landing pages, a Hong Kong locale, and QS + THE rankings now pulled directly from each publisher instead of Wikipedia.
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Five ranking sources, side by side
QS, THE, Guardian, Complete University Guide, and the Times Good University Guide now sit in one database, with per-source pages. Course pages also gained graduate outcomes.
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SEO polish: hreflang, speakable schema, GSC-driven titles
Smaller, less visible changes that should move the needle on search visibility.
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Compare any two universities at a stable URL
Static landing pages for popular comparisons, dynamic Open Graph images for every page, and a robots.txt that takes AI crawlers seriously.
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Sign in with Google
Optional account that syncs your shortlist and saved universities across devices, with a protected API sub-navigation.
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Dark mode, sitewide — plus a public entity resolution API
Toggle in the navbar, no flash on first load. Developers can also resolve UK education entities (UCAS, HESA, UKPRN, OpenAlex) through a new API.
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UniversityDB is in public beta
Rankings, dark mode, a command palette, skeleton loaders, and the start of a proper directory.
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332 qualification values, clustered into 14 sensible groups
Filtering courses by entry qualification used to be a wall of duplicates. Now it is grouped, with extras like duration and sandwich year.
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Analytics on the quiz, search, and clicks
PostHog event tracking so we can see where the quiz drops people, what people actually search for, and which links go nowhere.
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SEO foundation: sitemap, JSON-LD, subject pages
Universities and courses now have structured data, a generated sitemap, and aggregated subject pages.
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New: course recommendation quiz
Five short questions surface UK courses that match your priorities, qualifications, and study mode.