Research.com Partner Solutions
Research.com is a leading online education platform reaching more than 12 million students per year. We help schools, agencies, and education partners reach high-intent students through performance marketing partnerships, including CPC and CPL campaigns, as well as custom advertising, sponsored placements, quality content, and strategic partnership opportunities.
Connect with students actively researching schools, degrees, courses, costs, and career outcomes.
Build campaigns around CPC, CPL, sponsored advertising, or custom partnership models.
Use quality content to improve visibility in Google, AI search, and LLM discovery journeys.
Partner Solutions
We work with schools, universities, agencies, affiliate networks, course providers, and education companies through CPC, CPL, sponsored advertising, quality content, and custom partnership models. Whether your goal is lead generation, qualified traffic, student inquiries, brand visibility, stronger content visibility, or program promotion, Research.com can help connect you with students actively researching their next online education decision.
Drive qualified traffic to your school, program, course, or education service through targeted CPC placements on relevant Research.com pages.
Generate student inquiries and leads from high-intent users researching degrees, schools, online programs, certificates, and education options.
Build quality content that helps your brand rank higher in Google and LLM discovery experiences such as ChatGPT.
Promote degree programs, online education options, certificates, graduate programs, and continuing education opportunities.
Work with Research.com on sponsored placements, hybrid models, broader advertising, and custom partnership structures.
Why Research.com
Research.com helps students make better education decisions by providing program comparisons, school rankings, career guides, degree resources, and practical decision-support content.
Our audience includes students researching online degrees, certificates, graduate programs, career changes, financial options, and professional development. For education partners, this creates an opportunity to reach students while they are actively comparing options and deciding which school, program, course, or service best fits their goals.
Students use Research.com to compare schools, programs, costs, and career paths.
Market Reach
Research.com is designed to reach students during active education research moments, when they are comparing options, evaluating outcomes, and deciding which school, course, or program deserves their attention.
12M+
Students reached annually
A large education audience researching schools, degrees, certificates, courses, and career paths.
CPC / CPL
Performance-ready models
Campaigns can be structured around qualified traffic, inquiries, sponsored placements, or hybrid partnerships.
90%
Search-driven audience
Most traffic comes from search engines and LLM discovery, where users already have clear intent.
Content
Visibility beyond ads
Content-led partnerships can support Google visibility, LLM visibility, brand trust, and long-term demand creation.
Audience Quality
Our traffic is highly intent-driven, with approximately 90% coming from search engines and LLM discovery. These users are not just browsing casually — they are often comparing options, checking program details, evaluating costs, and moving toward an inquiry, application, or purchase decision.
Research.com content is designed around real decision points: what to study, where to apply, how much it costs, whether a program is worth it, what jobs it can lead to, and how to compare schools, programs, or courses.
Students comparing online degree programs Adults researching career changes or advancement Graduate students evaluating ROI and flexibility Learners comparing certificates, courses, and professional training High-intent visitors researching specific schools, costs, and career outcomes Reach students comparing flexible programs, career paths, and online education options.
Who We Work With
Research.com is open to performance marketing, advertising, quality content, and strategic partnerships across the online education market.
Promote online degrees, graduate programs, certificates, and continuing education options to relevant student audiences.
Work with Research.com through CPC, CPL, hybrid models, sponsored placements, content, or custom media partnerships.
Reach learners interested in courses, certificates, career training, student services, and professional development.
How It Works
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Share your audience, programs, traffic goals, lead goals, content needs, or advertising objectives.
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Our team identifies relevant content categories, placements, traffic opportunities, and campaign fit.
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We test placements, monitor performance, and optimize toward traffic quality, inquiries, visibility, and ROI.
Partner With Research.com
Use the form at the top of the page to tell us about your goals. Our team will review your information and follow up with the most relevant partnership options.
Best fit for:
Schools, universities, online program managers, course providers, education marketplaces, student services, agencies, affiliate networks, and performance marketing partners.
CPC, CPL, sponsored advertising, quality content, and custom online education partnerships.
Whether you are looking for CPC traffic, CPL student inquiries, sponsored advertising, quality content, or a broader partnership with Research.com, we can help you connect with a large, high-intent online education audience.
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