Number of employees > 100 Founded 2009 | Website www.studyportals.com Type of business Private | |
Industry Higher Education
Online Marketing Key people Edwin van Rest, CEO and co-founder | ||
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StudyPortals is a company that provides an online study choice platform listing more than 134,000 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes worldwide, as well as other resources. It started out as MastersPortal.eu at the end of 2007 and is based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Besides more than 2,400 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). StudyPortals has been part of several EU-funded projects in the field of higher education and regularly publishes reports about developments on the European higher education sector. According to their website StudyPortals had more than 13 million visitors in 2014.
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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. In the same year it won the Dutch New Venture award and managed to acquire venture capital. The website continuously increased its popularity and became European market leader for English-taught Masters's programmes in 2009. By September 2015 the company employed more than 100 people with the centre of operations in Eindhoven.
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.
Awards
In 2009 StudyPortals won the New Venture award as most promising innovative and social start-up in the Netherlands.
In 2013 CEO and co-founder Edwin van Rest received the EAIE Rising Star Award for his notable contribution to international education.
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.
In 2015 StudyPortals was again awarded for the Deloitte Fast50 Awards.