ClassRanked.com

ClassRanked is an American educational technology company and review site based in the Research Triangle, NC that offers course ratings, reviews, and resources for US college students.[4]

ClassRanked.com
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
Research Triangle, NC
Founder(s)Hayden Hall
Key people
  • Hayden Hall (CEO)
    Max Labaton
    Dilan Trivedi
IndustryEducation
EdTech
Review site
URLClassRanked.com
RegistrationOptional (Required to post reviews, follow classes, and upload course materials)
Current statusActive
[1] [2] [3]

The company was founded at Duke University and subsequently launched at other colleges and universities around the country. As of September 2020, ClassRanked is active at 350 universities and has over 500 million individual grade distributions.[5][6]

Company history

Origins

ClassRanked was conceived of at Duke University by Hayden Hall, Max Labaton, and Dilan Trivedi in their junior year.[4] While registering for spring classes, they spent several hours scrolling through class descriptions, comparing professor reviews, and searching to fulfill academic requirements.[5] 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.[7][8]

Growth and expansion

ClassRanked was initially launched at Duke University.[9] 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.[10][11]

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.[12][13] As of September 2020, the company had expanded over 350 colleges and universities.[14][15]

Features

The website provides ratings of classes at colleges and universities ranked by quality and difficulty.[16][17] Students can find a list of the easiest classes within a particular major or that fulfill a specific graduation requirement. The site also offers reviews written by students and machine learning class recommendation functionality.[18][19]

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.[20][21] 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
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  8. 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.
  9. MacLauren, Amanda (October 1, 2019). "ClassRanked.com: Biz Brief Profile". Durham Magazine. page 117. Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved October 12, 2019.CS1 maint: location (link)
  10. "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.
  11. "College Class Registration Site Expands to University of California Berkeley". The Chestnut Post. August 20, 2019.
  12. Cook, Andrea (August 20, 2019). "ClassRanked.com, a Duke student-launched ratings site, expands footprint to other US campuses". WRAL TechWire. Archived from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  13. "Founder Discusses College Registration Start-Up, ClassRanked". Atlanta Tech Blogs. September 10, 2019. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  14. Adzo, Kossi (October 9, 2020). "Hayden Hall of ClassRanked Tells Us How the Educational Technology Company has Revolutionized College Registration". Startup Info Magazine. Archived from the original on October 29, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
  15. Fu, Ali (January 8, 2021). "These are the Top Education and EdTech Companies in North Carolina (2021)". Boove - The Online Magazine. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
  16. Bradley, Jack (September 22, 2019). "5 College Startups to Watch". Tech News Monthly. Archived from the original on October 13, 2019.
  17. "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. April 20, 2020.
  18. "ClassRanked:Registration Tool". Crunchbase. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  19. Stuart, Darren (June 25, 2020). "Pitch for Class Ranked". Startup Pitch Media. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020.
  20. Carlisle, Paige (November 26, 2019). "Duke students create website as 'an equalizer' to approaching course registration". The Chronicle (Duke University). Archived from the original on November 28, 2019.
  21. https://statenews.com/article/2020/10/asmsu-committees-oct-1?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest
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