About Us
StudentCrowd started in 2014 when three graduates got tired of prospectuses full of cherry-picked quotes. We built a place where students could say what university life is actually like — the good, the ordinary and the honest. Today that's grown into 300,000+ verified reviews covering every UK university, course, location and purpose-built student property, used by over a million students a year.
Every university and accommodation provider will tell you their place is the best. We think students deserve to hear that from other students instead. Reviews on StudentCrowd exist so that the person deciding where to study or live next year can find out what it's really like from someone who's already there — not just from marketing.
That's why we're the only platform covering all UK universities, all UK degree courses, all UK purpose-built student accommodation, and every university town, all in one place, and all reviewable.
The good and the bad, straight from the people who are actually living it — not the prospectus version.
No one
can buy their
way up our
league tables
This is the part we take most seriously. Universities and accommodation providers cannot pay to improve their rating, remove a review they don't like, or move up a league table. A place's position is decided entirely by genuine student reviews — nothing else.
PROVIDERS CANNOT PAY FOR
A better star rating
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A higher league-table position
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Removal of criticism simply because it is negative
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Different moderation standards
PROVIDERS CAN PAY FOR
Public responses to student reviews
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Additional profile information
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Photos and video on their profile
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More details about courses or properties
Every review goes through moderation against our Community Guidelines before it's published, and it's tied to a verified student.
Read Our Community Guidelines
STEP 01Students share their experiences
Verified reviews capture what studying and living somewhere is genuinely like.
STEP 02Reviews inform StudentCrowd
They contribute to profiles, league tables, awards and comparison content.
STEP 03Other students make informed decisions
Prospective students can learn from people who have already been there.
At scale, that same review data (anonymised and aggregated) also becomes useful market intelligence: over 5.5 billion data points that help universities, accommodation providers and investors understand what students actually think and need.
That intelligence is about spotting trends, not about influencing them. It never changes what any individual review says or how any individual place is rated.
We're a distributed team of 70+ people across three continents — data specialists, engineers and student-experience champions — all working to the same principles: integrity, responsibility, freedom, inclusion and commitment to getting this right for the long term.
