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The rate card, printed.

Joining is free and being listed is free, permanently, because those sentences are already published on this site and they are load-bearing. Everything that does carry a price is below, with the number on it.

Where this actually is

Nothing here can be bought yet.

All 15 paid lines below are prices we intend, not prices anyone has paid. There is no checkout, no invoice and no processor behind this page.

Two things are missing and neither is the design. There is no payment processor wired up, and no legal entity is named on this site to receive money. The terms and the privacy policy were reviewed by counsel on September 17, 2026, for the site as it runs today.

The rates are published anyway, because a price you can read and argue with is worth more than a price you have to request. When these go live the numbers on this page are the numbers, and if they change first, this page changes with them.

Free, permanently

What will never carry a price.

Not a trial, not a starter tier, and not a thing that gets walked back once there is traffic.

  • Every school and national organization in the index
  • Every alumni chapter, once they exist
  • A business listing: name, category, city, one link, verified affiliation
  • Individual membership, and the newsletter
  • Reading anything on this site

Hiring

Reaching people who are looking.

The first thing here that will cost money, because it is the one with a return an employer can measure. Openings at the institutions themselves stay free and always will: they are pulled from boards those schools already publish, and charging for them would be selling somebody their own posting.

  • School openings

    Free forever
    Free

    Jobs at the institutions, gathered from the boards that publish them.

    • Every school we can read
    • The buried careers page, found once so nobody has to find it again

  • One role

    Proposed
    $99per role, 30 days

    A single opening, listed and carried in the weekly email.

    • 30 days on the board
    • One newsletter placement
    • Company name and link

  • Employer

    Proposed
    $299per month

    For anyone hiring more than occasionally.

    • Unlimited roles
    • An employer page
    • Logo on every listing
    • Applications routed to your inbox

  • Campus partner

    Proposed
    Talk to us

    Early talent programs, events and campaigns aimed at named campuses.

    • Scoped per program
    • Priced once there is an audience to price against

Business listings

Being found faster.

The free listing is permanent and it is not a trial. What costs money is everything above the bare record, and none of it changes whether you appear.

  • Listed

    Free forever
    Free

    The promise the site already made, kept.

    • Name, category, city
    • One link
    • HBCU affiliation, once a person has verified it
    • Searchable and sortable

  • Verified

    Proposed
    $120per year

    The full record, for a business that wants to be chosen and not just found.

    • Logo and description
    • Contact details and hours
    • Up to three categories
    • Photos

  • Featured

    Proposed
    $39per month

    Placement, labeled as paid wherever it appears.

    • Top of your category and city
    • Offers and posts
    • Views, clicks and saves
    • More than one location

Advertising

Reaching the audience.

Priced per placement, printed here rather than quoted on request. There is no measured audience behind these yet, so the first two options are the ones that do not require you to believe a reach figure: you pay for clicks that happened, or you pay a small fixed rate on the explicit understanding that you are early.

  • Per click

    Proposed
    $2per click

    You pay for clicks delivered. No audience estimate involved, and no minimum.

    • Billed on clicks, not impressions
    • Set your own monthly cap
    • Stop whenever it stops working

  • Founding sponsor

    Proposed
    $150per month

    Priced low because the audience is small, and said out loud rather than hidden.

    • Rate locked for twelve months
    • Named on the section you sponsor
    • Cancel any month

  • Newsletter

    Proposed
    $250per send

    One placement in the weekly email, above the fold.

    • Image, headline and link
    • One advertiser per send

  • Site banner

    Proposed
    $450per 30 days

    Rotating placement across the site.

    • 728x90 and 300x250
    • Reporting on impressions and clicks
    • Longer flights priced down

  • Section sponsor

    Proposed
    $600per month

    One section, one sponsor: On the Yard, Jobs, or a single city.

    • Named on every page in the section
    • A sponsor card in the feed
    • Exclusive for the month

  • Campaign

    Proposed
    Talk to us

    Anything spanning the newsletter, the site and an event.

    • Built per brief
    • No rate until the reach behind it is measured

Schools

Receiving applications.

The HBCU CLLCTV College Application does not deliver to schools yet. When it does, students pay nothing to apply, and a school that wants to receive those applications pays by undergraduate enrollment, one admissions cycle at a time. The only condition is waiving your own application fee for those students. Being in the index never depends on any of it.

  • In the index

    Free forever
    Free

    Every school, listed and linked, whether or not it ever receives an application here.

    • Name, city, and official website where one is confirmed
    • Listed the same way with or without the service

  • Small school

    Proposed
    $900per cycle

    Under 1,500 undergraduates, by the latest federal IPEDS count.

    • Every application that lists your school
    • Transcripts and test scores sent by counselors
    • Applicant counts, and a full export
    • First cycle free if you sign before launch
    • Tier and rate held for three paid cycles

  • Mid-size school

    Proposed
    $1,900per cycle

    1,500 to 5,000 undergraduates, by the same count.

    • Every application that lists your school
    • Transcripts and test scores sent by counselors
    • Applicant counts, and a full export
    • First cycle free if you sign before launch
    • Tier and rate held for three paid cycles

  • Large school

    Proposed
    $2,900per cycle

    Over 5,000 undergraduates, by the same count.

    • Every application that lists your school
    • Transcripts and test scores sent by counselors
    • Applicant counts, and a full export
    • First cycle free if you sign before launch
    • Tier and rate held for three paid cycles

Membership

Paying because you want it to exist.

Nothing is withheld from a free member. This tier buys the work, not access to it, which is why it is last and why it is small.

  • Member

    Free forever
    Free

    Everything the site does.

    • The directory and the index
    • The newsletter
    • A profile, when profiles exist

  • Supporter

    Proposed
    $8per month

    For people who would rather this were funded by the community than by advertisers.

    • A stated share to a campus fund
    • Named on the supporters page, if you want to be
    • No extra access, deliberately

In the meantime

Everything on this site is free today.

Including the parts that will not always be.

Join the Collective, or list a business. Both are free now and the listing stays free after these tiers open.

If you are hiring and want to be first through the door when the board opens, say so on the same form and it will be read by a person.