MyEdu Will Be Your Curriculum Guide And Virtual College Advisor Rolled Into One
Leena Rao
Mar 11, 2010

Do you remember to the days of college, when you were required to sort through your curriculum and career goals with your designated college advisor? Education startup MyEdu aims to replace this by helping students virtually access their academic information and create a roadmap tailored to their career goals.

To date, over 2 million students at 750 universities have used MyEdu to earn their degree. MyEdu’s suite of online products try to streamline the entire process of a college student’s lifecycle, from selecting a college through to earning a degree. The suite includes detailed course descriptions, grade distributions, official course evaluations, and student reviews to pick the right classes; and schedule Planner to build the best schedule that fits a student’s time constraints and goals.

MyEdu also includes a graduation and degree roadmap to help students build a plan and stay on course towards the degree they want in order to graduate. And the academic progress dashboard allows students to track their grades in a centralized place. MyEdu charges a $20 annual subscription for the entire academic suite.

The startup, which just raised $5.5 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures, has a compelling model to help both students and parents participate in the college planning process. And as colleges are now rapidly adopting web technologies as a educational tool (i.e. Blackboard); it makes sense for universities to do the same for college advising.

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  • http://www.palmprefreeware.co.cc humblebee

    Great Project, a roadmap career is very important this day..

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=594153546 Clint Pee

    Yeah I remember them days like yesterday

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  • http://www.ArticlePlayground.com/ Article Playground

    Sounds good playa

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1210334240 Jesse Guerrero

    Very good read ;)

  • MyLocator tm

    the domain sounds good but looks terrible.

  • Matt Wrench

    Sounds like a good product, but they need to ensure their info is always 100% accurate (difficult considering how degree requirements are often unclear). As a current college student, I’ve seen firsthand how much backlash students can give to advisers over misinformation about their degree.

  • totally lame

    This is nothing new. Not an original idea at all. How does a site like this even get covered on Techcrunch?

  • Billy

    Do you know other sites with similar features that are free? Thanks.

  • Ilan Ben Menachem

    IT sounds good

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