StudyPortals

StudyPortals B.V.
Private
Industry Higher Education
Online Marketing
Founded Eindhoven, Netherlands
(2009)
Key people
 Edwin van Rest, CEO and co-founder
Number of employees
 > 100
Website www.studyportals.com

StudyPortals is a company that provides an online study choice platform listing more than 80,000 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes worldwide, as well as other resources.[1][2][3] It started out as MastersPortal.eu at the end of 2007 and is based in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[4] Besides more than 1,500 participating universities, StudyPortals is cooperating with and supported by the European Commission and national higher education institutes such as DAAD (Germany), Nuffic (Netherlands) and the British Council (UK).[4] StudyPortals has been part of several EU-funded projects[5][6][7] in the field of higher education and regularly publishes reports about developments on the European higher education sector.[8][9][10] According to their website StudyPortals had more than 13 million visitors in 2014.[11]

History

MastersPortal.eu started in 2007 as a spin-off from the international student organisation ESTIEM. Their members identified a massive information gap for finding international Master’s in Europe that increasingly emerged through the Bologna Process. In 2009 StudyPortals BV was founded in the course of further professionalization.[4] In the same year it won the Dutch New Venture award and managed to acquire venture capital.[12][13] The website continuously increased its popularity and became European market leader for English-taught Masters's programmes in 2009.[14] By September 2015 the company employed more than 100 people with the centre of operations in Eindhoven.[4]

Published Portals

Currently StudyPortals is the publisher of the following portals:

The Global Study Awards

In 2015 StudyPortals, in cooperation with the ISIC Association and British Council launched The Global Study Awards. The award was initiated to stimulate more young people to study abroad and explore new countries. In total nine awards up to £10,000 will be granted to participants that are eligible to apply. The prize will be applied towards the tuition fees in first instance, paid directly to the Higher Education Institution. [25]

Awards

In 2009 StudyPortals won the New Venture award as most promising innovative and social start-up in the Netherlands.[12][26]

In 2013 CEO and co-founder Edwin van Rest received the EAIE Rising Star Award for his notable contribution to international education.[27]

In 2014 StudyPortals won the FD Gazellen Award for best International growth achievement in the Netherlands. The company was also honored as one of the fasted growing technology companies within the BENELUX during the Deloitte Fast50 Awards, having occupied place 7. With this result the study choice platform has also qualified for the international pendant, the Deloitte Fast500 EMEA, ending up on place 54 in this ranking.[28][29]

In 2015 StudyPortals was again awarded for the Deloitte Fast50 Awards.[30]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ BachelorsPortal.eu search results, accessed October 13, 2013
  2. ↑ MastersPortal.eu search results, accessed October 13, 2013
  3. ↑ PhDPortal.eu search results, accessed October 13, 2013
  4. 1 2 3 4 About StudyPortals
  5. ↑ "Official launch of DistanceLearningPortal.eu", EADTU, accessed November 16, 2009
  6. ↑ STeXX.eu final report (PDF), European Commission EACEA 2009
  7. ↑ ScholarshipPortal.eu final report (PDF), European Commission EACEA 2009
  8. 1 2 English-Taught Master's Programs in Europe, Institute of International Education 2013
  9. 1 2 Key influencers of international student satisfaction in Europe, 2013
  10. 1 2 Annual Study in Europe Interest Monitor, 2013
  11. ↑ StudyPortals website, accessed October 13, 2013
  12. 1 2 "Studentensite verdubbelt webbezoek dankzij prijs", November 16, 2009
  13. ↑ "VOC Capital neemt belang in Studyportals", February 14, 2010
  14. ↑ "TU/e studenten veroveren Europese studiekeuzemarkt", Nuffic transfer issue 8 2009
  15. ↑ Bachelor's Portal
  16. ↑ Master's Portal
  17. ↑ PhD Portal
  18. ↑ Preparation Courses Portal
  19. ↑ Distance Learning Portal
  20. ↑ Language Learning Portal
  21. ↑ Short Courses Portal
  22. ↑ Scholarship Portal
  23. ↑ STeXX
  24. ↑ "IELTS: find IELTS English test dates and exams anywhere". www.admissiontestportal.com. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  25. ↑ The Global Study Awards official website
  26. ↑ New Venture (website under construction), accessed October 13, 2013
  27. ↑ EAIE Rising Star Award, EAIE 2013
  28. ↑ Deloitte Fast50 Ranking, 2014
  29. ↑ Deloitte Fast500 EMEA Ranking, 2014
  30. ↑ DeloitteNL Fast50 Ranking, 2015
  31. ↑ New routes to higher education: the global rise of foundation programmes, 2015
  32. ↑ CRM Systems in Higher Education, 2015
  33. ↑ Impact of Distance Education on Adult Learning, 2015

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