7 Effective Higher Education Website Designs from Around the World

We know that finding inspiration for a higher education web design can sometimes be difficult. Whether you are updating a current site, or planning an entire redesign, ensuring that you get all the right elements for an effective site can be challenging. To help give you a creative boost, we've found 7 effective higher education website designs from around the world. Enjoy!

Emily Carr - Vancouver, CANADA

Let's start with Canada shall we? (We are located in Vancouver after all). Emil Carr's website has a nice clean layout and design, with bright highlight colors and rotating images on the homepage that emphasize some people of mention at the university and some of their artistic achievements.

University of Boston, Bostonia - Boston, USA

Bostonia is actually a micro site of the University of Boston. The website makes great use of large images and a magazine-style layout. 

Bournemouth University - Dorset, UK

Bournemouth University's website has another very clean layout with lots of whitespace, bright accent colors and easy-to-use tabbed navigation.

Queen's College, University of Melbourne - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Queen's College is part of the University of Melbourne and the website has a colorful eye-catching design, and is the best on our list in terms of social media integration on their homepage. The site does an excellent job of pointing potential students to their social media accounts especially Flickr.

National University of Singapore - SINGAPORE

The National University of Singapore has another simple layout, with easy navigation for university news, upcoming events and galleries and good social media integration with a link to the university's Twitter feed in the main body of the page.

Universidad Europea de Madrid - Madrid, SPAIN

This website has a nice image rotator that depicts several of the degree programs available at the university and it makes a pleasing use of dark colors in it's design, the only website on our list to do so. The homepage also has clear social media links and a detailed news feed. For optimized usability, the site  has obvious links at the top of the page to the webpages for other languages for the benefit of  international students.

Saxion University of Applied Sciences - Deventer, NETHERLANDS

Saxion University has the most minimalist layout on our list today. Despite it's simplicity, it maintains great consistency through the site and has nice bright hover states for the top navigation. The only drawback of their no-nonsense design is their lack of social media links, even though the university does have at least one social media account @saxion on Twitter.

Posted by Amberlie Denny at June 29, 2010 8:16 AM

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