Tinder Uni arrives in the UK so students can swipe right on campus crushes
Swiping on your uni crush just got a lot easier.
Dating app Tinder is launching Tinder Uni in the UK to enable university students to match with fellow students on campus — as well people studying further afield at nearby unis.
Tinder Uni can only be accessed by students with a uni email address (ending in ac.uk) and users will have to confirm that email address in order to gain access to the feature. This means you won't see profiles from non-students while scrolling on the dating app's feature.
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How does Tinder Uni work?
You can enrol in Tinder Uni by following some simple steps in the app.
Open the Tinder app on your phone and press the profile icon.
Click "edit profile" and scroll to the "education" tab to add your university.
Once you've added your uni, you can then tap on the "apply for Tinder Uni" option.
You'll need to verify your student status by adding and confirming your email address. That email address needs to end in ac.uk.
Once you've enrolled, you university colours will show up on your profile to show fellow uni daters where you study.
Per Tinder research, 53 percent of graduates in the UK met a current or previous partner while studying and 62 percent of those are still together with that partner.
Tinder has launched similar features in other countries, namely Tinder U for U.S. college kids.
Making a move on your lecture crush will now be a lot less nerve-wracking.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
