Our online community, www.uuni.com, is the first website exclusively for students at the world's leading universities and business schools. Owned and managed by City&Law, the site was launched in 2007 after requests from Student Board members wanting to network with each other following their participation in one of our research projects. Our own research soon indicated a demand for a platform that would connect high-flying students from around the world for academic, career and social networking.
Developed entirely in-house, the site allows members to start and join interest groups and discussion forums, blog, upload pictures, link through to other sites, search for like-minded members by shared interests and attributes, and soon to network with corporates through a shared portal. Following an initial media burst and the recruitment of a team of high-profile, well-connected student ambassadors at key target universities, membership has grown rapidly and now approaches 7,000. All members are students at the world's top 200 universities.
As well as allowing students to network, uuni.com also puts them in touch with leading recruiters, both through a corporate area and through a series of high-profile, student-only, sponsored competitions:
The Big Idea
A global entrepreneurial competition offering £25,000 in seed capital for the best idea. www.uuni.com/bigidea
Top Trader
A global inter-university trading competition using an integrated real-time trading simulator.