Universities and student life in study destinations
Universities scored for student life around them.
What it does
Every year: universities in popular study cities, with the cafes, supermarkets and student housing near each, scored by xMap AI for a study abroad agency’s guide.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Manchester, Dublin and Edinburgh, find universities in the area, count the cafes, supermarkets and student housing centers within 1 km of each, score and rank them with xMap AI, sort them by fit score and keep the top 20, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
International students choose by the whole experience. The guide shows it.
Who it is for
Education & training. Schools, nurseries, universities and training companies planning campuses, enrolment and partners. Every use case for education & training
Best use cases
- A study abroad agency
- A student housing company
- A scholarship programme
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Study citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- UniversitiesxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Student life nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Score each with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Update the study guide sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
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- Where families need after-school activities: The blocks with the most children and the fewest after-school activities.
- Companies hiring graduates, for my training programmes: Companies hiring graduates, with their HR manager, for your training programmes.
- Student housing around each university: Student housing around each university and the young adults nearby, every month.
- Stationery shops near schools for back to school: Stationery shops near the most schools, with the owner.