ClassRanked is an American

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company based in

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, Utah that offers higher education enterprise software for course reviews, rankings, and grade distribution data. The platform was founded at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

History

ClassRanked was founded at

by Hayden Hall, Max Labaton, and Dilan Trivedi in their

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. Hall created the website, Labaton handled marketing, and Trivedi managed the company's finances. While registering for classes, they spent hours searching to fulfill academic requirements. Hall proposed building a site to streamline and automate this process, coding and developing a platform. It combined course evaluations, grade distribution data, and user reviews. ClassRanked was initially launched at

. 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. By the end of August 2019, ClassRanked announced its expansion to

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UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

UNC-Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795 ...

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Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

. As of October 2020, the company had expanded to over 350 colleges and universities.

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