CollegeDunia: A Powerful Education Portal and College Search Engine

With current base of over 800 colleges listed on CollegeDunia education portal, the projected numbers are to cross 8,000 by May 2015. This 8,000 will include listing of all colleges, b-schools, institutes - including polytechnic institutes and coaching (or private) institutes. Current visitor count on this portal is over 1 lakh per month that is estimated to cross a million in next 6 months, the way it is gaining popularity and momentum.

This portal is being aimed to be Zomato of Colleges, like Zomato is on food. So that means the complete information of a college right since its inception till current has to be available in an undated form so as to build a reputation and gain visitor's confidence. That is how it is moving.

So whether it is IIT Kharagpur or any other premium institute on India (in any streams), it has a complete information available here, with proper rating.

CollegeDunia Education Portal And College Search Engine Raises a Crore In Angel Funding

A newly launched education portal CollegeDunia in May 2014, has reached to fame by getting almost Rs 1 crore of funding from MIH group’s venture MIH group, Gaadi.com. The founder of CollegeDunia in a report published recently said that CollegeDunia is aimed to become a single point unique search engine for colleges and examinations of all streams. Apart from funding from MIH’s Gaadi.com, there are some undisclosed investors too. The funding has come in the shape of angel funding.

As per Chalana the complete funding will be used in a big way to make technological advance on the portal and rest will be utilized for managing its marketing and operations. Currently with an manpower base of 30, the company sees it to go more than double in next 6 months. Currently there are 1 lac visitors reported and the count is aimed to reach 1 million within next 6 months. 

The portal currently lists over 700 colleges/ institutes and B-Schools in its foray but very soon it plans to include all polytechnic institutes and coaching institutes.