Service · Web Development

Education website design that converts visitors into admission enquiries.

Your website is your hardest-working counsellor. We design and build SEO-first education websites and landing pages that load fast, rank well and turn visitors into applicants.

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Every applicant visits your website before they apply.

Whatever channel brings a student in, whether Google, Instagram, a counsellor's WhatsApp message or an education fair, they end up on your website to check fees, eligibility, placements and accreditation. If those pages are slow on a mid-range Android phone, hard to navigate or out of date, the enquiry is lost and the ad spend that brought them is wasted. Many university website projects stop at a visual redesign and leave these issues untouched.

We build education websites as admissions infrastructure. Information architecture follows how students and parents actually decide. Engineering is SEO-first, with server-side rendering, clean URLs, schema and Core Web Vitals budgets. Enquiry forms, WhatsApp and call options sit where intent is highest, and every lead is pushed to your CRM with its source. Your team gets a CMS they can update without raising a ticket, and the site and code stay yours.

The challenge

Common challenges we solve.

Slow mobile pages

Heavy sliders, uncompressed images and plugins make pages crawl on the phones most applicants use.

Programme information scattered

Fees in one PDF, eligibility in another and placements on a separate page that is hard to find.

Leads without a source

Website enquiries land in an inbox or spreadsheet with no campaign data, so nobody knows what worked.

What's included

What you get

Information architecture

Programme-led navigation built around how students and parents actually decide.

SEO-first engineering

Server-side rendering, clean URLs, schema, sitemaps and Core Web Vitals from day one.

Conversion design

Enquiry forms, WhatsApp, call and chat CTAs placed where intent is highest.

CMS & integrations

Easy-to-edit CMS, CRM, ERP and application portal integrations.

Accessibility

WCAG-aligned design for all users, including assistive technologies.

Care & hosting

Security, backups, uptime monitoring and continuous improvement.

Migration & redirect mapping

Every old URL mapped to its new home so search rankings and backlinks carry over at launch.

Analytics & consent setup

GA4 events, conversion tracking and consent handling configured and tested before launch.

How it works

How we work, step by step.

  1. Discovery

    Stakeholder interviews, analytics review, content inventory and an SEO baseline so nothing that ranks is lost.

  2. Architecture & design

    Sitemap, programme templates, wireframes and a design system approved by your team.

  3. Build & integrate

    SEO-first development, CMS setup, CRM and application portal integrations, and accessibility checks.

  4. Launch & improve

    Redirect mapping, performance testing, GA4 verification and a post-launch improvement backlog.

Why MSM CampusOS

Why institutions choose us

  • 15+ years working only with education brands. We don't learn the sector on your budget.
  • Backed by MSM Unify: 1,500+ partner campuses, 6,000+ certified agents and active operations in 30+ countries.
  • One contract, one SLA, one P&L view across every channel. You deal with one vendor, not nine.
  • Weekly channel insight and a monthly board-ready ROI and attribution report (GA4 and Looker).
UI/UX design for education

Prototypes tested with real applicants.

Before any code is written, we build clickable prototypes of the homepage, a programme page and the enquiry form. We test them with a small group of current students and parents on their own phones and watch where they hesitate: finding fees, comparing programmes or understanding eligibility.

Those findings shape navigation labels, the order of content on programme pages and how many fields the form asks for. UI/UX design for education is mostly about clarity for a 17-year-old and a parent reading on the same screen, often in English as a second language.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to build a university website?
A typical institution website takes 8–14 weeks from discovery to launch, depending on the number of programmes and integrations. Landing pages for campaigns take days.
How long does a school website take to build?
A typical school website takes six to ten weeks from discovery to launch, depending on the number of campuses, pages and integrations. Content and photography are usually the slowest parts, so we start collecting them in week one. A single admission landing page can go live within a few days.
What pages should an institute website have?
At minimum: home, about and leadership, one page per programme or grade, admissions with steps and dates, fees, faculty, facilities, placements or results, accreditation and mandatory disclosures, contact with maps for each campus, and a privacy policy. Each programme page should carry its own enquiry form. Our [school website checklist](/resources/education-website-conversion/school-website-checklist/) lists every item.
Do you build in Next.js or WordPress?
Both. Next.js suits larger universities and groups that need speed, many programme pages and custom integrations. WordPress suits schools and smaller colleges that want a familiar editor and lower running costs. We recommend one after discovery, based on your content volume, integrations and the team that will maintain the site.
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