About shiksha.com
Shiksha.com is a one-stop-solution making course and college selection easy for students looking to pursue undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses in India and abroad (www.shiksha.com/studyabroad); also accessible to users on the move through the website’s mobile site. Launched in 2008, Shiksha.com belongs to Info Edge (India) Ltd, the owner of established brands like Naukri.com, 99acres, Jeevansathi, among several others
Shiksha.com is a repository of reliable and authentic information for over 60,000+ institutions, 3,75, 000+ plus courses and has a registered data base of more than 10+ million students since its inception. We offer specific information for students interested in UG/PG courses and colleges across the most popular educational streams – Management; Science & Engineering; Banking & Finance; Information Technology; Animation, VFX, Gaming & Comics; Hospitality, Aviation & Tourism; Media, Films & Mass Communication; Design; Medicine, Beauty & Health Care; Retail; Arts, Law, Languages & Teaching; and Test Preparation.
Education seekers get a personalised experience on our site, based on educational background and career interest, enabling them to make well informed course and college decisions. The decision making is empowered with easy access to detailed information on career choices, courses, exams, colleges, admission criteria, eligibility, fees, placement statistics, rankings, reviews, scholarships, latest updates etc. as well as by interacting with other Shiksha users, experts, current students in colleges and alumni groups.
With a strong brand pedigree, Shiksha offers its users the unique privilege of customised tools like Alumni Employment Statistics that includes salary data powered by Naukri.com. We have several student oriented products and tools like Shiksha News portal, Common Application Form, College Compare, Alumni Employment Stats, Campus Ambassador Program, College Reviews, College Predictors, MyShortlist and Ask and Answer.
Shiksha News portal
Shiksha has an exclusive Education News section on its portal which brings real-time, authentic updates on exams, application deadlines, cutoffs, results, college admissions, course launches, new campuses, scholarships, placement reports etc. at the fingertips of students.
Shiksha Study Abroad
Shiksha Study Abroad domain draws in 90 million annual traffic and 7.5 million average monthly traffic. Students can find exhaustive information on universities, courses, exams, scholarships and explore ‘Rate My Chances’ of getting admission into a university.
Students can avail of Shiksha Study Abroad’ s free and premium online counselling services to help them with the college application process for universities and colleges in 16 countries across the world. The counselling service is growing with a yearly average of 1500+ applications being processed.
Counselling services include guidance with university/course shortlist, application submission and application chase, application writing/editing services for SOP, LOR, Financial counselling service, Scholarships, and Visa interview preparation and application.
Shiksha Online
Shiksha Online is yet another wing of Shiksha.com targeted to help working professionals with their career progression. At Shiksha Online, we understand the dynamic nature of the modern workplace and the continuous need for skill enhancement. Our mission is to bridge the gap between ambition and achievement for professionals across various industries.
As of 2023, Shiksha Online caters to more than 12 million users annually with a list of 37,000+ paid and free online courses from more than 2300 course providers around the globe. This diverse collection ensures that we cater to a wide array of professional interests and learning preferences.
Some of the popular course providers at Shikha Online include Udemy, Udacity, Coursera, Great Learning, Simplilearn, Edureka, Upgrad, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Harvard, Columbia University, London School of Business and Finance, IIMs, ISB, IITs, and many more.
The website lists online courses around most of the popular evolving domains including - Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Management, Programming, Blockchain, Digital Marketing, Big Data, Database, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Web Development, Finance, Product, Operations, and Logistics. The courses include certification, diploma, online bachelors and masters degree programs from top international and renowned colleges.
College & Rank Predictors
A predictor is an important tool for a student in the college admission journey. Shiksha provides two kinds of predictors – College Predictor & Rank Predictor
College Predictor aims to provide a realistic assessment of colleges and the courses a student might crack, for an exam score provided by the student. It takes into account the changes in exam pattern and the historic cut-off trend for each college and then provides a round-wise cut-off prediction for a particular college.
Rank Predictor is a tool primarily built for engineering exams that assesses the scores entered by the student and provides a predicted percentile or rank.
Predictors are available for 180 exams (including state-wise exam counselling). In 2022-23, Shiksha has helped nearly 3.2 lakh students find the most suitable colleges based on their scores.
College Reviews
College reviews are a critical part of Shiksha.com. Students share their college experiences on this platform, enabling education seekers to make an informed choice about their academic journey. Shiksha has become a trustworthy platform with over 4 lakh+ verified student reviews posted by students across India for colleges and courses. Students can access college placement statistics, academic and infrastructure standards through these reviews. There have been 5M+ reads of reviews by users in last one year.
Campus Ambassador Program
Shiksha is India's leading platform to get reliable advice on college admissions with a flourishing family of 3000+ campus ambassadors across India. While the program provides college students an opportunity to learn new skills and build network, campus ambassadors are the face and voice of Shiksha at their campus helping other aspirants get relevant information to secure admission to their dream universities.
Shiksha Assistant & Counselling
Shiksha has a plethora of content on colleges, courses & exams spread across multiple pages. A state of the art AI based Shiksha Assistant helps to surface this vast set of information in a structured way so that this data can be easily and quickly absorbed. A student can ask any set of questions to the assistant, which will in turn look for the best answers present across the platform and surface it. In case there is no relevant answer available, it would throw that question to Shiksha Ask and Answer community platform at https://ask.shiksha.com where an expert would then get back to the student within 24 hours.
Shiksha Assistant now offers Counselling services wherein it seeks the student’s profile & preferences and recommends the best fit colleges keeping in mind the student’s exam scores, budget preferences, location etc. Shiksha Assistant caters to more than 50 million queries in a year. For the queries answered, 68% students have rated the answers useful.
Shiksha Counselling is a relatively new venture launched in May ’23 and has so far helped nearly 1 Lakh students find the best match colleges according to their profile & preferences.
Shiksha Webinars
Shiksha webinars provide a cost-effective learning tool for students. It enhances two-way communication as it is a great way to provide a learning experience for students where they get the opportunity to have a better interaction with experts. Shiksha webinars cover student-centric topics including Exam preparation, College admission, College life experience, Placements and internships, and Career after 12th, graduation and post-graduation. Shiksha has hosted over 500 webinars in the last year benefiting approx. 40,000 attendees.
Videos and Social Media
As the market leaders in college and course selection, Shiksha also produces in-house video content that summarizes the unique insights of shiksha.com platform. Over 2000 videos across a host of topics on college and course selection and exam preparation and experiences are available on Shiksha YouTube channel. These videos are embedded on the most relevant and contextual pages across the site. Shiksha also aggregates videos from other channels, primarily from students who have captured their own experiences to then showcase these on the most relevant pages. The channel’s 75K subscribers consist mostly students in 18-25 years of age.
Shiksha Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@shiksha/featured) is set to cross 35 million views in March 2023.