Karabük University Prospective Student Portal
I designed and built Karabük University's digital platform for prospective students.
The problem it solves
Choosing a university is one of the most uncertain decisions in a high-school student's life. Admission scores sit on one site, dormitory information on another, and getting a feel for the campus is next to impossible. This platform gathers all of that scattered information in a single place.
What it offers
- Enter your score and see instantly which programmes you could be placed in
- Five years of admission scores and success rankings for 109 programmes, with comparative charts
- Ten state dormitories: drone footage, addresses, distance to campus, directions
- Campus facilities, Erasmus agreements (155 universities in 22 countries), career centre
- Alumni stories and accounts from current students
Technical approach
The architecture was a deliberate choice: the platform is entirely static. No database, no forms, no sessions. To keep the attack surface of a public-institution site to a minimum, no data is collected from visitors at all; all content is read at build time.
On the security side it uses a content security policy (CSP), HSTS, clickjacking protection and regular dependency auditing.
On the media side, 3.7 GB of raw drone footage and hundreds of photographs were optimised for the web without losing visual quality.
I also built a single-file offline version that runs without an internet connection at promotional stands.