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UniCandidate: management software for university calls and applications
The platform where universities publish their calls and foreign students apply with their qualifications, credits and documents.
- Backend
- Frontend
- UX/UI design
- Management software
The client
ISU (International Students Union) is an organisation committed to supporting international students in their academic career in Italy. In collaboration with several universities, ISU identified the need for a digital tool capable of managing applications from foreign students wishing to participate in Erasmus programmes or enrol in Italian degree courses after studying abroad. This need led to the creation of UniCandidate, a platform designed to accompany students along the delicate process of degree recognition and access to the Italian university system.
The objective
Foreign students had to be able to apply to Italian universities from a single portal, entering their qualifications, credits and the required documents. The offices needed to evaluate applications, convert degree scores and decide who was eligible. Meanwhile, applicants had to be able to see where their application stood and which steps and requirements were still ahead of them.
UX/UI design
The platform has two kinds of users. International students are often unfamiliar with the Italian university system, so the interface guides them step by step: which documents to submit, which criteria to meet, where their application stands. University evaluators work on a dedicated dashboard instead, where they compare academic backgrounds, flag inconsistencies and approve applications.
Development
We built UniCandidate as a web application in Ruby on Rails, with the interface in Bootstrap. Users sign in with their university credentials through the same Single Sign-On in Go as IWD, the app for welcoming international students that we built for ISU. The PostgreSQL database also handles peak loads, such as sending notifications to all applicants or running several calls at the same time.
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