Other Universities' websites

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Last updated: Aug 31, 2015 by Paul Seiler (Unlicensed)Version comment
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University of Queensland (Australia) - http://future-students.uq.edu.au/living-in-brisbane
Notable features: Design, Responsive Layout, International/Domestic separation, IA by audience or hierarchy, Hand-crafted content pages.

PS: Make use of high level categories for areas of study, but group degrees not subjects.

 

Johns Hopkins University (USA) - https://www.jhu.edu/academics/#!/degrees=bachelors
Notable features: Programmes and Degrees solution and features around it, menus, responsive layout, dynamic UI. 

PS: Interesting icons to denote attributes of degrees.


Oxford (UK) - http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate
Notable features: Navigation layers and structure, responsive design, simplicity, Programmes detail, Overall UX.

University of Nebraska (USA) - http://admissions.unl.edu/why-unl.aspx
Notable features: Modern features (cascades, tagging), responsive layout, homepage solution, Programmes/Majors solution, social media integration.

University of Puget Sound (USA) - http://www.pugetsound.edu/
Notable features: Simple design, integration with Instagram, responsive design, navigation.

University of Nevada (USA) - http://www.unr.edu/business/degree-programs/finance
Notable features: Programmes & Degrees solution, responsive layout, Marketing-focused homepage, "Take the next step" call-to-action block.

RMIT Australia - http://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/levels-of-study/undergraduate-study/honours-degrees/bh102/?src=/317/503/#pageId=overview
Notable features: Programmes, 5 levels of navigation, local/international student selector (and pop-ups), Programmes solution, responsive layout.

University of Otago - http://www.otago.ac.nz/prospectivestudents/secondary-school-students/otago030118.html
Notable features: "Making my decision" FAQ-based section that is easy to follow.

Imperial College London - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/
Notable features: Simple and clean design, well-balanced news/events/research vs. marketing ratio, responsive layout, Straightforward high-level navigation, 'Study' page, 'Top links' sections, 'Information for' page (based on audience).

Interesting use of statistics on the topic/subject page.

Cornell University (USA) - http://www.cornell.edu/admissions/
Notable features: Highly customized responsive solution (i.e. popular destination links visible for mobile only), integration with social media (Twitter, Instagram), News and Event-based Homepage, IA, people & stories, statistics.

Stanford - https://www.stanford.edu/
Notable features: Conservative approach, Twitter feed integration, using subdomains rather than URLs (i.e. http://admission.stanford.edu/), highly customized faculties/schools sites (https://law.stanford.edu/), responsive layout.

Harvard - http://www.harvard.edu/
Notable features: Dynamic header, events/news/social based homepage, hiding 1 layer of navigation on scroll, responsive layout, text-heavy pages and content, subpages at different domain with different layout (i.e. https://college.harvard.edu/admissions).