For colleges and universities
Keep your deadlines, contacts and photos current for the students researching you, and hear from the ones who ask to be contacted. Your verified federal data stays exactly as published.
How it works
Search for your institution and request access with your work email address.
If your email is on your college's web domain, a confirmation link gives you access straight away. Otherwise a CollegesRef reviewer checks your request first.
Add your own description, deadlines, admissions contacts and campus photos. We review each change before it goes live.
What you can manage
Students see your updates in a “From the college” section, marked as provided by your institution, next to the verified data they already trust.
Early Decision, Early Action and Regular Decision dates by admission cycle, plus admissions email, phone and key links.
Upload photos you own. They appear on your profile credited to your college after a quick review.
Switch on "Let us contact you". Students who choose it share their details with you, and only those they agree to.
Totals of profile views, Ask AI clicks, comparisons and Backpack saves for your college. No visitor-level data.
Our rules
No. Claiming your profile, editing it and receiving student inquiries are free. If we add paid options later, they will be optional and clearly labelled, and they will never change your verified data or our editorial view.
No. Those figures come from federal sources (IPEDS and the College Scorecard) and stay as published there. What you add appears in a separate "From the college" section, marked as provided by your institution. If you think a federal figure is wrong, contact us and we will check the source.
Staff who are authorised to speak for the college, usually admissions, enrollment or marketing teams. The first verified person becomes the owner and can approve colleagues and remove access.
When your college switches inquiries on, your profile shows a "Let us contact you" form. A student who sends it agrees to share their name, email and the details they enter with your college. You see those inquiries in the portal and can export them. Nobody is added without their consent, and students can ask to be removed.
Access requests from a matching work email are instant. Other requests, content changes and photos are reviewed by a person, usually within two business days.
Create a free account or sign in, find your college and verify with your work email.