university Articles

  • Higher Ed video

    Video: Higher Ed Team Seeks to Predict Collegiate Futures

    November 13, 2015

    LinkedIn leverages professional and educational data from our more than 400 million members to create Student Decision tools that can help students make smarter and more informed decisions about their future careers. I sat down with the former leader of LinkedIn’s Higher Ed team, Josh Clemm, a Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, to find out more about how...

  • Field of Study

    Field of Study Explorer - Data Insights for Students

    September 17, 2014

    We believe the college decision process is not as data-driven as it can be, and we want to change that. Millions of professionals around the world have shared the university they attended and current career on their LinkedIn profile. This data puts us in a unique position to offer help students in their college decision-making process. Our first step towards...

  • U Pages

    Building LinkedIn University Pages

    August 26, 2013

    Last week, LinkedIn launched a new product that will drastically change the way alumni and students will interact with the site: LinkedIn University Pages. This product was only possible due to LinkedIn's unique data and architecture. Over the past few years, we’ve been standardizing data for tens of thousands of schools worldwide. We combined this educational...