Everything your students need to succeed, in one place. Everything you need to run it, in one portal.

01Department

Flag it

A department raises a concern with a written reason. It lands in a review queue on your Organizations tab and rings your bell. Departments cannot block, ever. Optional: you can start at step two yourself.

02School

Warn the employer

You file a warning naming the concern. We notify the organization and open a direct thread between you, so it can be settled between the two of you. Most cases end here.

03Our security team

Independent review

If the warning changed nothing, you escalate. Our team reviews the request, can mediate with you, the employer and the department together, and approves or rejects it. A school cannot block alone.

04Enforced

The wall goes up

No messages, no platform email, no profile access, no following, and their postings vanish from your students’ feed, search, saved lists, digests and calendar. You can lift it whenever you want.

This comparison reflects our understanding of capabilities generally available to schools from campus tools such as Handshake and similar platforms, which vary by provider and plan and change over time. The point is simple: with StudentLife OS a school gets the whole experience in one place rather than assembling and paying for it piece by piece.

Frequently asked questions

What does StudentLife OS give a school that a job board does not?

A job board gives your students jobs. StudentLife OS gives your students everything: internships and jobs, scholarships and funding, research and programs, hackathons, conferences, tours, career fairs and events, volunteering, resources, student discounts, and food assistance, all in one verified place. It also gives your school the tools to run all of campus life from one secure portal: a verified student roster, departments as their own compartments, campus updates, a full hiring pipeline, honest analytics, a lasting record of past students, a document library, partnerships with organizations, and one shared inbox. It is the difference between a single feature and the whole platform.

How does pricing work for schools?

Schools are not on self-serve tiers and there are no feature tiers to compare. We agree one price with your institution after a short conversation about your size and needs, and that price begins only after a 30-day free trial that starts when your school finishes onboarding, not at sign-up. You choose a six-month or yearly term, yearly recommended, and once active every department and team member has full access to everything. The subscription renews automatically each term until cancelled, you can pay in advance for more periods, and we send renewal reminders both by email and inside the portal as the date approaches.

What happens if we do not pay after the trial?

Nothing is deleted, ever. Until the school has an active, paid subscription, the whole school, including its departments and their team members, is locked while all your data is retained. During that time only the owner can reach the Billing tab to check out or contact us, and department staff are directed to the school owner, who is the only person able to renew. The moment payment clears, access is restored for the entire school at once. Access is enforced on our servers, so it cannot be bypassed by editing a URL.

Do some schools really get free merch?

Some schools qualify for a welcome merch kit sent to campus. It is a thank-you for coming aboard, not a guarantee for every account, and our team lets you know if your school is eligible. It has no effect on features or access, which are always the full platform once your school is active.

How do you know the students on our roster are really ours?

Verification is layered, and a real person is behind it where it counts. Every student proves they are a real, enrolled student through a document our team reviews or a verified school email, and after your school is approved you declare the email format your students use so matching students stay verified at scale. Your roster shows only platform-verified students, with a read-only Pending tab and a Needs review queue that contains only the students our team explicitly asked you to confirm. Your school never blocks an account itself; you answer yes or no and our team makes the final call.

Do our departments and career center get their own space?

Yes. A department is its own secure compartment with its own portal, its own team and login, its own opportunities, hiring, campus updates, career fairs, analytics, and audit trail. It is domain-locked to your school, and the school sees a read-only window into department activity plus two levers, cancel a published campus update and suspend or terminate the department. A department is never a folder inside your account; it is its own principal, which is exactly how a real career center or academic department operates.

Can we reach employers and other schools directly?

Yes, and it costs nothing extra. Your Partners tab is a searchable directory of every employer, peer school, and department on the platform, and you can message a filtered audience of them straight from your Messages tab. Employer filters include industry, organization type such as company, nonprofit, government agency, foundation or startup, company size, state, region, city, verified employers only, employers who are currently posting opportunities, and whether you already follow them. Peer institutions can be filtered by type such as university, community college, trade school or bootcamp. This is how a career center builds an employer pipeline instead of waiting for one to arrive.

Are any of those partner filters locked behind a higher tier for us?

No. Employers have plan tiers; schools do not. You pay one negotiated price for full access, so every partner filter, the directory export, and partner outreach itself are all included, and there is no requirement to narrow an audience before you send. The only bound is a per-campaign recipient cap, which protects our infrastructure rather than your plan.

Can our departments do this too?

Yes. A department has the same Partners tab and the same partner outreach, with the same filters and no gating, under your school's single price. A department sends as "Department at School" so an employer always sees the institution behind it, and every campaign is recorded in both the department activity log and yours.

Can our school block an employer from reaching our students?

Yes. This is a real, enforced remedy, not a preference setting. You start by sending the organization a warning that names the concern, which notifies them and opens a direct conversation so it can be resolved between you, and most cases end there. If it does not, you escalate and our security team reviews the request independently and decides. Once a block is approved, that organization can no longer message your students in a direct or group conversation, email them through the platform, view their profiles, find them in a recipient picker, or follow them, and its opportunities stop appearing to your students in their feed, search, saved lists, digests and calendar, including through a shared link. It is enforced on our servers on every single request, so it cannot be bypassed by editing a URL or using an old link. The block is forward-looking and scoped to your school: applications, interviews and offers already under way are left intact, no other school is affected, and you can lift it at any time. One deliberate exception protects your students rather than the employer: a student who had already applied to a specific opportunity before the block took effect can finish that one application. They keep receiving the automatic updates about it, such as a status change, an interview time, an offer and its deadline, or an offer letter, and they keep access to that posting so they can open it, keep its deadline on their calendar, and book, reschedule, decline or respond, so nobody is left waiting on an answer because of a dispute they are not part of. The exception is scoped to that one opportunity, not to the employer: every other posting stays hidden, the student cannot start a new application or save a listing, the employer still cannot write to them, add them to a group conversation, attach a personal note to a document, or reach anyone else at your school, and it ends once that application is finished. There is no instant one-click block on purpose, because the organization gets a chance to answer and an independent reviewer signs off, which is what makes the decision defensible if it is ever challenged.

Can a department block an employer, or only the school?

Only the school. A department can flag an organization to its school with a written reason, and that flag opens a review item on the school Organizations tab and rings the school owner bell. The school can acknowledge it, dismiss it with a reason the department sees word for word, or escalate it into a formal block request for our security team. A department can never block an organization, lift a block, or act on the school behalf. The same principle runs through the whole platform: departments raise concerns, the school decides, and our team is the independent check before anything hard lands.

Is our data secure and private?

Security is the foundation, not an add-on. Students, organizations, schools, and departments live in fully isolated compartments with no cross-trust. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, private messages are stored as ciphertext, multi-factor authentication is available on every account and required for sensitive roles, and every sensitive action is written to a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log. Diversity analytics are aggregate only, opt-in, hidden below a minimum sample of ten students, and never fed to any AI ranking. Location is approximate and derived only from the network edge, never a device GPS prompt.

How is this better for our students than making them use several sites?

Students told us plainly that the old way meant signing up on a different website every day and still not finding the support they needed. When everything a student needs lives in one verified place, they actually use it: their profile builds over time, their calendar and friends are here, and real support keeps them coming back. That means higher engagement, better outcomes, and a record your school can point to, instead of activity scattered across tools you cannot see.

How do we get started?

Start a 30-day free trial from the school sign-up page and set up your portal, or contact our team to talk through your institution first. There is no charge during the trial, and no price applies until you and our team have agreed on one. When you are ready, the school owner checks out from the Billing tab and the whole school is unlocked the moment payment clears.