Scoutlage

Decentralizing the University ranking system

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Decentralizing the University ranking system

47 followers

Scoutlage's mission is to decentralize the global university ranking system by providing an efficient way for students to share information about their schools and a systemized way for prospective students to get the shared information.

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Great product. You mentioned that your problem before was not having enough information. I’m curious what advantages you see in making this decentralized that will help with that problem?

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4yr ago

Scoutlage

Maker

@peter_nooteboom when I was choosing a University back then, my only go-to place for making a decision was from all these international ranking bodies like webometrics and all. But I realized that these bodies' approach of ranking institutions is kind of flawed. Students satisfaction and all wasn't put into consideration. And these ranking bodies don't really have first-hand information about the university. For example in my home country Nigeria there are hundreds of Universities and a ranking body that haven't come to Nigeria or have any partnership comes up with ranking these schools based on some criteria not really made available to the general public. I feel like having a decentralized platform where I can see all what current and past students are saying about their experiences might help in making a good decision; hereby majority of students can stop wasting money and time. I think I explained quite well in this article: https://blog.scoutlage.com/the-a... Thank you for your awesome feedback

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4yr ago

Scoutlage

Maker

Hi Product Hunt, After going to two Universities and losing interest in both schools after some time, I realized that the problem I had was that I didn't have enough information when I was making my decision. Then I decided to come up with Scoutlage. Scoutlage is a middle layer between prospective students and their prospective schools. Our aim is to be the go-to platform for all students and prospective students when it comes to choosing a university. More about us here: https://blog.scoutlage.com/why-w... https://blog.scoutlage.com/the-a...

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4yr ago

BlockSurvey

Can you share some detail about decentralizing? How are you planning to do it?

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4yr ago

Scoutlage

Maker

@wilsonbright thanks for the question. The way we do this is by giving access to verified students from a school we have on our platform to give reviews about the courses they have taken. From this information, we can perform a lot of analytics. This is what we meant by decentralizing... Everything about the ranking and all are coming from the students of the school and not just any predefined body with limited judgmental standards.

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4yr ago