Categories : All, Case Study, Education, Mobile and Wireless
About Client
The client is India’s one of the largest experiential learning companies that annually caters more than 25,000 students, thus offering a broad spectrum of choices for the potential candidate to choose an institute from. The behemoth is associated with partners in 28 countries and has corporate clients that range from high-end MNC’s to SMEs. Moreover, the client has collaborated with over 70 universities worldwide. The company helps students to get their hands on various experiential learning programs globally.
Business Challenges
Finding a good college is a tough job indeed. Students have to refer numerous websites, newspaper ads, and third party dealers to find a best overseas college as per their preference. This is a quite time consuming task and when it comes to third-party services, it involves an ample sum of brokerage. At present, there are hardly a few college search apps or admission portals available where global students can apply for Indian colleges. The client came up with a fascinating vision and strategy of developing an education portal for students willing to study overseas. So, developing this platform was one of a kind and a great idea. They wanted to build a platform where foreign students could easily search for courses and colleges available worldwide and apply for the same.
Solution
A web and mobile application were developed, which would make applying for foreign universities a smoother process for students.
Features
- Browse various top colleges and universities across India
- Check out the services the institutions are offering
- Going greener! Students can apply for courses digitally
- Message board connect the students where they can share the views or post query
- Payment gateway integration
- Colleges can enroll through premium subscription
- Colleges can accept/reject student’s application form
Achievements
The comprehensive projects brought so many challenges on the top of the table that are:
- The first challenge was involved in triggering the SMS or Email after a specific interval when the student starts filling the courses to apply form and left in between. To resolve the challenge, the time is fixed for CRON jobs to run on the API so that the alerts will be sent after a defined time interval.
- During profile update, when the student updates any fields, then the information must be updated on every platform and the email or SMS have to be triggered for any changes made, to the students, which was difficult to implement. It was resolved by creating an API that collects the changes from the front- end, and then send the same to the server.
Result
- A real time saver app
- The students can save their time with real time search results
- User can get the list based on various preferences
- Finding the college for a student of their preference in any countries becomes easy.
- Students can get prompt answers to their queries through social media.
- Living abroad can be expensive so students can find paid internships along with courses here.