Case study · Education & study-abroad

Study where opportunities open — and a site that opens them.

A fast, trustworthy platform for Generation Education — a personal program-matcher right in the hero, 100+ vetted schools searchable in seconds, and a 92% first-try admission record shown the moment you land.

Client
Generation Education
Industry
Education · study-abroad
Reach
15+ countries, reps on the ground
Scope
Web development · SEO
Timeline
8 weeks
Generation Education homepage — study-abroad hero with a personal program-matcher widget
generation-education.com — home
888+
students placed abroad
92%
admitted on the first try
15+
countries · 300+ universities
17+
years as an education provider
02 · The challenge

Education abroad is won on trust and a fast fit.

Generation Education earns its place the hard way — 17 years, 888+ students and a 92% first-try admission record, with real representatives on the ground in the UK, Germany, Ireland and the USA. But families sending a child (and tens of thousands of euros) abroad decide on two things: how fast they can find a program that actually fits, and how much they believe you'll actually get them in.

The job was a website that wins on both — a real match and real proof, before a competitor's form even loads.

03 · What they came with

A great record that the old site let go to waste.

A trusted agency that looked like every other broker online — and hid the very things that win a nervous parent. Three problems, each one costing consultations:

  • Finding a program was a phone call — no way to browse the 100+ vetted schools and filter to a real fit.
  • The 92% record was buried — the proof that calms an anxious family, out of sight.
  • No fast path from “just researching” to a real consultation with a named person.
04 · Who built it

A senior-only team — the people who scoped it are the people who shipped it.

Valerii Fedorov
Founder · Strategy
Valerii Fedorov

Set the direction — match-first, proof-first — and reviewed every release.

Nick Fedorov
Web & Engineering
Nick Fedorov

Built the platform — Next.js, the program-matcher and a searchable school database the team runs itself.

Alex Yaremenko
SEO · Technical
Alex Yaremenko

Program and country-page SEO, schema and Core Web Vitals — found by families researching every destination.

Veronika Bloemhof
COO · Delivery
Veronika Bloemhof

Ran delivery — scope, sprints and the promises we kept along the way.

4
senior operators
8 wk
brief to launch
4
two-week sprints
0
juniors on the build
05 · Where we started

Match in the hero. Make the schools searchable. Show the proof up front.

01

Match-first

A personal program-matcher starts in the hero — pick a country, see your real odds, start with a named consultant.

02

Searchable schools

100+ vetted schools and programs, filterable by level and country — a family finds their fit in seconds.

03

Proof up front

92% first-try, 888 students and a 15-country network — shown immediately, not hidden.

06 · How we solved it

Calm, credible, unmistakably Generation — and fast.

One platform, four moves: a matcher that starts in the hero, a searchable school database, a network shown not claimed, and student proof on arrival.

01 · The matcher

Your path to education, right in the hero.

Pick a destination, see the real admission odds for it, and start with a named consultant — a vague dream turned into a concrete first step before anyone leaves the page.

Program-matcher widget — pick a country, see admission odds, start a consultation
02 · The database

100+ schools, filtered to a fit in seconds.

Every partner school and program, searchable by education type and country — boarding schools, universities, foundation and language programs. A family finds themselves fast, instead of waiting for a callback.

Searchable school database — filter 100+ vetted schools by education type and country
03 · The network

A 15-country network, shown not claimed.

300+ universities and 278 boarding schools across 15+ countries, with representatives on the ground in the UK, Germany, Ireland and the USA — the coverage that backs every placement, right on the page.

Why Generation Education — advantages and a partner network across 15+ countries
04 · The proof

Real students, real results — up front.

Documented student journeys — from a formality at a Kyiv institute to a UK Foundation and belief in herself — alongside a 92% first-try record. Trust is the first thing an anxious parent feels, not something they have to dig for.

Student case study — Diana, from a Kyiv institute to a UK Foundation, with a 92% first-try result
The design system
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Paper
STUDY WHERE
OPPORTUNITIES OPEN
Palette
Signal red on deep navy, with a sky-blue for action and a cool paper for light surfaces — trustworthy, institutional, quietly confident.
Type
A bold geometric sans for headlines, a clean humanist sans for the rest — authoritative where it counts, warm where it reads.
Voice
Supportive and honest. No hidden fees, no illusions — it sounds like the consultant who walks the family through every step.
System
A square-cornered card system that scales from a single school tile to a full searchable database without breaking rhythm.
Under the hood

One system, not five disconnected tools.

A student's profile goes in, a matched shortlist and a booked consultation come out — every part wired to the next, so the site stays fast, ranks, and turns researchers into applicants.

Inputs
  • Program-matcher
  • Searchable school database
  • Lead & consultation capture
The engine
One Next.js platform — matcher, database and tracking in a single place.
Outcomes
  • Matched shortlists
  • Country-page authority
  • Booked consultations
07 · What we achieved

A platform that opens doors the way the agency does.

The match now starts in the hero. The 100+ schools are searchable in seconds. And the 92% first-try record Generation Education earned over 17 years shows the moment you land.

In the hero
A matcher, not a callback
The first step moved from a phone call to the first screen.
100+
Schools, searchable
Filter by level and country in seconds — no waiting.
92%
First-try admission, up front
The proof that calms a parent, shown on arrival.
888+
Students placed, on the page
A record Google can crawl and rank.
15+
Country network, shown
300+ universities and reps on the ground, at a glance.
Green
Core Web Vitals
Fast enough to keep families — and rankings.
“Finally a site that opens doors the way we do.”
Generation Education · Ukraine & beyond
08 · Bottom line
A site that opens doors — fast, honest and always on.

Generation Education got a platform that matches the consultants behind it — and owns every line of it. That's how we build each one: audit first, systems over surfaces, and numbers you can trust.

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