Company:ClassRanked.com

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Short description: American educational technology company
ClassRanked Inc
TypePrivate
IndustryHigher Education
Technology Solutions
Founded2018; 6 years ago (2018)
FounderHayden Hall
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, Utah
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Websitewww.classranked.com
Footnotes / references
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ClassRanked is an American educational technology company based in Salt Lake City, UT that offers higher education enterprise software (SaaS) solutions for course evaluation, reporting, and survey management.[4][5][6]

The company was founded at Duke University as a data-centric platform aiding students with course registration and subsequently shifted focus to building software for colleges and universities in 2022.[7][8][9][10]

Company history

Origins

ClassRanked was conceived of at Duke University by Hayden Hall, Max Labaton, and Dilan Trivedi in their junior year.[6] While registering for spring classes, they spent several hours scrolling through class descriptions and searching to fulfill academic requirements.[8] Hall proposed building a site to streamline and automate this process.

Over the next three months, Hall coded and developed a website that combined course evaluations, grade distribution data, and user reviews to offer students with comprehensive rankings of courses.[11][12]

Growth and expansion

ClassRanked was initially launched at Duke University.[13] Within its first two days, the site had generated over 5,000 page views. By the end of its first week, ClassRanked had over 1,200 user reviews and within a month was being actively used by over 80% of Duke’s student body.[14][15]

During the months to follow, the site shifted focus on expanding to other schools. By the end of August 2019, ClassRanked announced its expansion to University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Emory University.[16][17] As of April 2021, the company had expanded over 400 colleges and universities with data from courses taught by more than 300,000 faculty members.[18][19][20]

Features

The website provides ratings of classes at colleges and universities ranked by quality and difficulty.[21][22]

In November 2019, the company announced it had added a new feature allowing students to upload course syllabi to view grade distribution breakdowns and required textbooks for potential classes.[23][24] ClassRanked also worked directly with colleges to gain grade distributions for classes. That data is integrated into course rankings and displayed with bar graphs so users can see comprehensive grade history for a class.

References

  1. ↑ "ClassRanked". Owler. https://www.owler.com/company/classranked. Retrieved 10 October 2019. 
  2. ↑ "ClassRanked: College Class Registration Tool". AngelList. https://angel.co/company/classranked. Retrieved 12 October 2019. 
  3. ↑ "ClassRanked, About Us". https://www.classranked.com/AboutUs. Retrieved 13 October 2019. 
  4. ↑ "ClassRanked's new product initiative highlights change to company strategy and mission". Business Insider. 25 August 2022. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/classranked-s-new-product-initiative-highlights-change-to-company-strategy-and-mission-1031705885. 
  5. ↑ "ClassRanked Delivers Modern Insights for Students to Maximize their Learning & Career Prospects". Yahoo! Finance. 28 April 2021. https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/classranked-delivers-modern-insights-students-154400888.html. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Vega, Muriel (9 September 2019). "ClassRanked Founder On How to Scale A College Campus Launch Across the Country". Hypepotamus.com. https://hypepotamus.com/companies/classranked/. Retrieved 10 October 2019. 
  7. ↑ "ClassRanked's new product initiative highlights change to company strategy and mission". Yahoo! Finance. 25 August 2022. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/classrankeds-product-initiative-highlights-change-130000369.html. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Blake, Suzanne (10 October 2019). "ClassRanked Eases The Ordeal of Registering For College Classes". GrepBeat Tech News. https://grepbeat.com/2019/10/10/classranked-eases-the-ordeal-of-registering-for-college-classes/. 
  9. ↑ Daso, Frederick (28 October 2020). "ClassRanked: Startup Spotlight". Founder to Founder. https://f2f.substack.com/p/startup-spotlight-47-classranked. 
  10. ↑ "ClassRanked Delivers Modern Insights for Students to Maximize their Learning & Career Prospects". Morningstar, Inc.. 28 April 2021. https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20210428cl58145/classranked-delivers-modern-insights-for-students-to-maximize-their-learning-career-prospects. 
  11. ↑ Cata, Miguel (13 October 2019). "Hayden Hall - His Company ClassRanked is Changing the College Landscape". Tech News Monthly. https://technewsmonthly.com/2019/10/13/hayden-hall-his-company-classranked-is-changing-the-college-landscape/. 
  12. ↑ Allen, Mark (April 10, 2020). "Hayden Hall, Co-founder of Class Ranked, explains how he and his cohorts built their company" (Podcast). Gaper. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  13. ↑ MacLauren, Amanda (October 1, 2019). "ClassRanked.com: Biz Brief Profile". Durham Magazine: 117. https://legacy.durhammag.com/2019/10/01/october-november-2019-the-downtowner/. Retrieved October 12, 2019. 
  14. ↑ "ClassRanked: College Class Registration Site Expands to University of California Berkeley and Announces Future Growth Strategy at Other Universities" (Press release). August 19, 2019. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020 – via PR Web.
  15. ↑ "College Class Registration Site Expands to University of California Berkeley". The Chestnut Post. 20 August 2019. https://www.thechestnutpost.com/news/classranked-college-class-registration-site-expands-to-university-of-california-berkeley-and-announces-future-growth-strategy-at-other-universities/. 
  16. ↑ Cook, Andrea (20 August 2019). "ClassRanked.com, a Duke student-launched ratings site, expands footprint to other US campuses". WRAL TechWire. https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/08/20/classranked-com-a-duke-student-launched-ratings-site-expands-footprint-to-other-us-campuses/. Retrieved 12 October 2019. 
  17. ↑ "Founder Discusses College Registration Start-Up, ClassRanked". Atlanta Tech Blogs. 10 September 2019. https://www.atlantatechblogs.com/posts/13624/redirect. Retrieved 13 October 2019. 
  18. ↑ "ClassRanked takes guesswork out of messy class registration process.". The Ramapo News. 28 April 2021. http://www.ramaponews.com/press-releases/view.php/643299739/ClassRanked-takes-guesswork-out-of-messy. Retrieved 30 April 2021. 
  19. ↑ Adzo, Kossi (9 October 2020). "Hayden Hall of ClassRanked Tells Us How the Educational Technology Company has Revolutionized College Registration". Startup Info Magazine. https://startup.info/hayden-hall-classranked/. Retrieved 29 October 2020. 
  20. ↑ Fu, Ali (8 January 2021). "These are the Top Education and EdTech Companies in North Carolina (2021)". Boove - The Online Magazine. https://boove.co.uk/these-are-the-top-education-and-edtech-companies-in-north-carolina-2021/. Retrieved 11 January 2021. 
  21. ↑ Bradley, Jack (22 September 2019). "5 College Startups to Watch". Tech News Monthly. https://technewsmonthly.com/2019/09/22/5-coolest-college-startups/. 
  22. ↑ "Hayden Hall, Co-founder of Class Ranked, explains how he and his cohorts built an app for all students out of a need they had". Gaper Tech Blog. 20 April 2020. https://gaper.io/2020/04/30/hayden-hall-co-founder-of-class-ranked-explains-how-he-and-his-cohorts-built-an-app-for-all-students-out-of-a-need-they-had/. 
  23. ↑ Carlisle, Paige (26 November 2019). "Duke students create website as 'an equalizer' to approaching course registration". The Chronicle (Duke University). https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/11/duke-students-website-classranked-course-registration. 
  24. ↑ "ASMSU provides update on recommendation for spring semester, approves two bills in committee meetings". https://statenews.com/article/2020/10/asmsu-committees-oct-1?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest. 




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