The website is for students that enter higher education through Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) each year.

University Compare was founded as Student Nightlife in June 2010 and was the largest events company for Chelmsford, Romford, Brentwood and its surrounding areas.

When University Compare's founder, Owen O'Neill, founded Student Nightlife, it wasn't intended to be a universal comparison site for prospective students until guidance from The Big Pitch run by Anglia Ruskin University's Entrepreneurship CEDAR development team had helped the vision of what students really need when entering higher education.

With 19.2% of all student's using their service for Clearing 2016, seen as widely successful amongst UK universities and from large sets of press, such as; Metro, Telegraph and Independent.

[2][3][4] University Compare helps 250,000 students enter into higher education each year and was nominated for 'New Kid On The Block' 2014 award by Education Investor Awards 2014.