How do students earn from surveys on CampusVerify?

Students earn 1 research credit for each quality survey response they submit. Credits are spent to publish their own surveys, so answering other people's research directly funds your own.

Do sign-up credits expire?

No. Sign-up credits on CampusVerify are permanent — 10 for students at non-partner schools, 50 for students at partner schools, and 5 for General/Researcher accounts.

How is CampusVerify different from paid survey sites?

Paid survey sites pay small cash amounts for consumer opinions. CampusVerify is a research platform: students are verified through their academic email, surveys are real academic and organisational research, and earnings are credits that fund your own research rather than cash.

Paid Surveys for Students: How Research Credits Work on CampusVerify

If you've searched for paid surveys as a student, you've seen the usual sites. CampusVerify works differently — and for student researchers, the difference matters.

The problem with typical paid survey sites

Most paid survey platforms are built for consumer market research. You answer questions about products and brands for small cash rewards, and the surveys have nothing to do with your life as a student. They also can't help you when you need responses — for a thesis, a course project, or a dissertation.

The CampusVerify model: credits, not cash

CampusVerify is a research platform where the currency is research itself:

Answer surveys, earn credits. Every quality response you submit earns 1 credit.
Spend credits to publish. Publishing your own survey costs credits — so the time you spend answering other people's research directly funds responses to yours.
Everyone is verified. Students sign up with their academic email, so campus surveys are answered by real students of that campus — not random internet users or bots.

What you get when you sign up

Students at partner schools: 50 permanent sign-up credits.
Students at other schools: 10 permanent sign-up credits.
General/Researcher accounts: 5 permanent sign-up credits.

Sign-up credits never expire. For most students, the free credits plus a few answered surveys are enough to run a full course-project survey without paying anything.

Why researchers trust credit-based answers

Cash attracts professional survey-takers who rush through for payment. Credits attract people who need research responses themselves — they answer carefully because they know what a careless answer does to someone else's data. That's why verified, credit-based communities produce cleaner research data than paid panels.

How to get started

Sign up with your academic email and verify it.
Complete your profile — department, year, and interests — so relevant surveys find you.
Answer surveys from your feed to earn credits.
Publish your own survey when you're ready, targeted to exactly the audience your research needs.

Ready to earn your first credits?

Create your free account — or read the full onboarding guide and how to run an academic research survey.