ClassRanked.com
ClassRanked is an American educational technology company and review site based in the Research Triangle, NC that offers course ratings, reviews, and resources for US college students. The company was founded at Duke University and subsequently launched at other colleges and universities around the country. As of April 2021, ClassRanked is active at 400 universities and has over 650 million individual grade distributions. Company history. Origins. ClassRanked was conceived of at Duke University by Hayden Hall, Max Labaton, and Dilan Trivedi in their junior year. While registering for spring classes, they spent several hours scrolling through class descriptions, comparing  professor reviews, and searching to fulfill academic requirements. Hall proposed building a site to streamline and automate this process. Over the next three months, Hall coded and developed a website that combined course evaluations, grade distribution data, and user reviews to offer students with comprehensive rankings of courses. Growth and expansion. ClassRanked was initially launched at Duke University. Within its first two days, the site had generated over 5,000 page views. By the end of its first week, ClassRanked had over 1,200 user reviews and within a month was being actively used by over 80% of Duke’s student body . During the months to follow, the site shifted focus on expanding to other schools. By the end of August 2019, ClassRanked announced its expansion to University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Emory University. As of April 2021, the company had expanded over 400 colleges and universities with data from courses taught by more than 300,000 faculty members. Features. The website provides ratings of classes at colleges and universities ranked by quality and difficulty. In November 2019, the company announced it had added a new feature allowing students to upload course syllabi to view grade distribution breakdowns and  required textbooks for potential classes. ClassRanked also worked directly with colleges to gain grade distributions for classes. That data is integrated into course rankings and displayed with bar graphs so users can see comprehensive grade history for a class.