MyEdu offers free academic organization; site used by more than 2 million students worldwide

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A free online resource is now available for students interested in mapping out future classes and tracking their academic progress.

The website, www.myedu.com, serves more than 2 million students nationwide.

“We find in general that 57 percent of students take six years or longer to graduate, if they graduate at all,” said Chris Chilek, co-founder of MyEdu. “The platform is really designed to help students organize their entire academic life, from selecting a degree or picking which classes they will take each semester.”

Chilek said MyEdu serves as a warehouse of academic information utilized by students at more than 750 universities. The website provides students with free online applications and college-specific degree program outlines.

The four goals of MyEdu are to help students raise their grade-point average, get through college efficiently, organize their academic career and save money, Chilek said.

After making an account on the website, students can look up their desired degree program. MyEdu can track classes students have completed and which ones they still need, allowing students to efficiently plan out future classes.

“We put all the key pieces of information that students need to select the classes they’ll take next semester in one place,” Chilek said. “The tendency is to put off taking the hard courses until the very end, and then you find out you have 30 hours of ridiculously difficult courses — your GPA suffers or you end up dropping a course. With the degree timeline, you can spread those out.”

Students can also look at individual profile information for instructors when registering for classes. Each profile includes a detailed grading history for each instructor and with student reviews.

Romeo senior Devon Buckner said organization is essential in her academic life, especially as a student teacher.

“I have two planners and two calendars to keep reminders for myself,” she said. “If I forget something, it doesn’t just affect me, but my students, too.”

Buckner said her experiences teaching at Aldai E. Stevenson High School in Sterling Heights has helped her step up her organization skills.

“On my weekly evaluations, I always get the ‘very organized’ comment,” she said. “I am still taking CMU classes, teaching three different subjects and am involved in two school groups. If I didn’t have organization, I would forget too much. No one hires an unorganized teacher.”

Buckner said MyEdu may be a beneficial tool to many students, but she’s skeptical about the website’s accuracy in regards to degree information.

“It sounds like it encompasses a lot, my favorite would be the textbook comparisons and the ‘ratemyprof.com’ tool,” she said. “But I can see problems with the website screwing up the classes I need for my degree and being more of a hassle.”