Streamline your with software designed for educational institutions

Founded in 2011 in Estonia, DreamApply is an innovation-driven EdTech organization helping more than 300 institutions across 40 countries increase student enrollment by 30%.

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9 out of 10 users recommend DreamApply to their colleagues.

More applications, less effort

DreamApply’s application management system features all you need for your admissions, marketing, recruitment, and financial aid processing needs.

Our educational partners’ challenges inspire most features, and we design them to meet even the most sophisticated needs. This results in 400+ improvements to the system every year.

Applications

A single hub for managing, evaluating, ranking, and sharing online applications, creating a smooth admissions experience, increasing the conversion rate of applications, and ensuring a positive first impression for applicants.

Marketing

Integrations, detailed analytics and reporting allow you to allocate a marketing budget to attain the best ROI, by understanding what activities attract students, and support you in meeting your admissions targets.

Automation

Automate tasks to eliminate tedious, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks. DreamApply carries them out automatically for you while you do other meaningful work without interruption. Decrease your daily workload.

Scholarship

Create and manage schedules of how scholarships are allocated from your budgets so that you don’t overspend and award only those that deserve it while keeping it all transparent and in favor of the students.

Finances

Integrated online payment gateways allows you to easily track and control payments, helping to consolidate tasks between admissions and finance teams.

Developer tools

Migrate information to other software or build tailored scripts to process and visualise your data, seamlessly integrating DreamApply into your current processes.

Content

DreamApply’s easy-to-use interface makes it simple to publish news, events, advice, and tutorials, requiring no special technical skills. Ideal for everyone.

Study advisors

Build trust through transparency, by allowing your agents to enter their students directly into the system, using built-in reports to analyse their performance.

Admission system with security in focus

Our software is security audited, ISO:27001 certified, 100% GDPR compliant. Keep track of legal and security requirements as DreamApply mitigates the need to hire a team of professionals to keep data secure and GDPR compliant.

Our software is security audited, ISO:27001 certified, 100% GDPR compliant (servers in EU only).

Keep track of legal and security requirements as DreamApply mitigates the need to hire a team of professionals to keep data secure and GDPR compliant.

Uptime promise

There’s no need for you to build and maintain a complicated infrastructure. DreamApply remains operational 24/7, so the candidates are free to apply anytime and anywhere.

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Configuration package

A dedicated Configuration Manager will guide your team to create the system based on individual needs, allowing you to continue with complete independence afterward.

Helpful support

DreamApply system experts quickly answer your questions, so you don’t feel left alone and can provide extra training for your team on top of Knowledge base materials.

How our plans compare

Our plans are suited for all types of educational institutions.
Competitive and scalable to fit your needs.

Smart start

For smaller providers or anyone looking to grow application numbers.

Up to 400 applications
10 video interviews included
20 hours of configuration
Customer support included

1 training session

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Flex growth

If you’re looking to hit and surpass targets without worrying about cost.
Up to 3100 applications
50 video interviews included
20 hours of configuration
Customer support included
2 training session
API access included
POPULAR

Fixed price

If fixed budgets limit you, this is an excellent option as it doesn’t increase yearly.
More than 700 applications
50 video interviews included
40 hours of configuration
Customer support included
2 training session
API access included

High volume

If dealing with many applications and wanting to attract the best candidates.
More than 3100 applications
100 video interviews included
60 hours of configuration
Customer support included
3 training session
API access included
Pricing is determined by the number of applications/features used. Our fair pricing policy ensures that costs remain competitive when admission numbers surge. Server maintenance is also part of the service fee.
Key stats
How we compare

Our clients see an average of 30% more applications per year.

99.98% system uptime, processing more than 500k applications per year.

A solution that empowers your internationalization strategy and student recruitment goals.

Positively impact the student experience through the use of a solution that meets the needs of the modern applicant.

Consolidate admissions and scholarship applications into one system with accurate visibility to easily track, award, and inform your applicants.

Greater productivity with a 60% decrease in administrative workload.

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DreamApply advantages over other solutions and systems

DreamApply

Webform

In-house

CRM

N

Low risk with fixed deadlines and budgets, plus extensive functionality to drive results

M

Medium risk as there is limited functionality to help you get the work done

M
High risk of going over budgets and deadlines
M
Medium risk as extra configuration costs can influence budgets and deadlines
N
Built for managing applications and streamlining admission workflows
M

Many compromises needed in order to bring basic results

M
Expensive to build as all cost needs to be paid by 1 client to create the solution
M
Requires additional effort to adjust the generic CRM to meet user needs
N
Software as a Service (SaaS) solution with various functionality at a reasonable cost
M

Fast and inexpensive to implement if limitations are acceptable

M
Process can take years to be ready and implemented
M
Process can take 6-18 months to be ready and implemented
N
Future proof, with extra developments being part of the service fee (400+ improvements done each year)
M

Typically there are no extra features as it remains a webform

M

Extra features developed only if ordered (extra cost). Complicated to plan everything during the first stage > higher cost later

M
Extra developments might not match expectations due to being generic and not designed for educational sector
N
Professional support part of the service
M

No or limited support

M

No or limited support

M
Bonuses: CMS, Admin Portal

What our clients say about us?

Shir Taieb
JAMD has entered a new era with DreamApply – we have more...
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Shir Taieb
JAMD has entered a new era with DreamApply – we have more applicants than ever before and it is easy to reach them and connect with them. The DreamApply team is just that: A Dream.
Gabor Dobos
DreamApply system is a professional, flexible and easy to use system that ...
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Gabor Dobos
DreamApply system is a professional, flexible and easy to use system that is capable of managing a very complex application and admission cycle for tens of thousands of applications a year.
Merili Reismann
Our cooperation with DreamApply reformed how we handle international student admissions and ...
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Merili Reismann
Our cooperation with DreamApply reformed how we handle international student admissions and measure marketing recruitment efforts. It became one of the greatest success stories in our higher education. Overall, the international student numbers in Estonia increased by more than 135%.
Merili Reismann
Merili Reismann
Peter Arvai
DreamApply is a great platform to handle large numbers of applications even ...
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Peter Arvai
DreamApply is a great platform to handle large numbers of applications even with different workflows and processes for different faculties under the same roof. It is really user friendly both for the administrators and for the applicants.
Suzanne van der Laan
DreamApply has been very helpful, as it has accelerated the proces of ...
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Suzanne van der Laan
DreamApply has been very helpful, as it has accelerated the proces of accepting students by having the possibility of creating template emails which are sent to students. We are very positive regarding using DreamApply.
Suzanne van der Laan
Suzanne van der Laan

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DreamApply does not manage its admissions or scholarships

Please get in touch with the respective universities directly if you are a student/applicant. You will get no reply from us.

DreamApply is a software company that provides universities with a student admission management system. 

We wish you good luck with your applications!