Your entire year of enquiries arrives in about six weeks, and the site either handles that or it does not.
Admission season is the whole website
Between the results coming out and the last date for forms, a college gets more traffic than in the other ten months together. Every one of those visitors is deciding, and most of them are deciding on a phone, at night, with a parent looking over their shoulder. Most degree admissions here run through the SAMS portal, so your site is what a student reads before and after that form, not instead of it.
A site that is slow, or that hides the fee structure, loses them in that window and gets no second chance until next year.
This is also the only sector where we tell clients to spend on hosting headroom before the season rather than after the site falls over during it.
What an enquirer checks, in order
- The courses, and whether the one they want is offered
- The fees, in full, including what is not included
- Placement or results, with real numbers
- The admission dates and what documents are needed
- Whether the place looks like somewhere they would spend two years
Placement numbers, honestly
Every institution publishes a placement figure and every parent has learned to discount it. The percentage without the cohort size means nothing, and everybody knows it.
Publishing the actual numbers, the batch size next to them and the companies who actually came, converts better than the inflated version, because it is the only version a parent believes.
A page for each course
Students search the course, not the college. A page for each one, with its own fees, duration, eligibility and what it leads to, is the only structure that appears in that search.
Counselling, and the fortnight that decides the year
After the forms close there is a short window where a student holds two or three offers and picks one. Almost nothing on a college website is written for that moment, and it is the moment that fills the seats.
What works is specific and unglamorous: the hostel, what a day actually looks like, how far it is from the station, whether the labs are real, and a number that a parent can ring and have answered by somebody who knows.
What it costs
A college site with a page for each course, placement figures, notices and an admission enquiry is a Pro plan: ₹60,000 to build and ₹36,000 a year. The tier is driven by page count and by how often it changes, not by anything clever.
Prices do not include GST.