18 Best Student Portfolio Examples 2026

Your portfolio is your most powerful asset as a student — it shows employers and grad schools what you can actually do, not just what your transcript says. A strong online portfolio can land internships, freelance gigs, and full-time offers before you graduate.

We’ve collected student portfolio websites across design, development, writing, and creative fields. Each one demonstrates a different approach to presenting work — from minimalist single-pagers to interactive showcases.

Platform breakdown: Squarespace is the most common builder here; the rest use Webflow, Wix, WordPress, Cargo, Adobe Portfolio and Journo Portfolio, or are hand-coded.

What should yours include? A strong hero with your name and focus, 3-5 of your best projects with context, and a clear way to get in touch. Check out these developer portfolios and art portfolio websites for more ideas.

Once you know your direction, compare your work with professionals in the same field: our portfolio website examples are grouped by role, with dedicated pages for UX portfolios and graphic design portfolios.

Best Student Portfolio Website Examples

1. Kayla Padilla

Built with: Squarespace

Former college basketball player showcasing finance, tech, sports, and music projects alongside academic journey.

Clean minimalist design with generous whitespace, professional headshots, inspirational quotes.

What stands out: An Internships page doubles as a guide for other students applying to Google, which shows initiative beyond a résumé.

2. Kabel Mishka Ligot

Built with: Squarespace

Student writer with work forthcoming in The Iowa Review and Shenandoah showcasing poetry and literary accomplishments.

Minimal text-focused aesthetic with transparent header that disappears on scroll, sections labeled “Work (Verb)” and “Work (Noun)”.

What stands out: Splitting the site into Work (Verb) for jobs and teaching and Work (Noun) for published poems keeps both records easy to find.

3. Devansh Gandhi

Built with: Squarespace

Product designer, now at Toast, whose portfolio still includes his Unacademy product design internship alongside work at Duolingo and DoorDash.

Solid-color hero with clean two-page layout and project case studies.

What stands out: His Unacademy internship case study still sits beside his full-time work, so you can see where he started.

4. Mingxi (Sissi) Wu

Built with: Squarespace

Information Science graduate (University of Michigan, UX track) showcasing UX research from internships at Amazon and Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dark ink-wash background with a short list of research roles and the methods used in each.

What stands out: Each role on the homepage names the company and the research methods used, from diary studies to card sorting.

5. Philip Hoxie

Built with: Wix

Philip Hoxie is a PhD candidate in economics at UC San Diego, and his homepage opens by saying he is on the academic job market. His job market paper, on California’s reforms that made it easier to build backyard homes, follows with its abstract.

A short biography, his PhD committee and his education come next. The Teaching page lists every course he has assisted on, with links to course evaluations and discussion syllabi.

What stands out: Lead with the one piece of work you most want read.

6. Anna Sprague

Built with: Adobe Portfolio

Anna Sprague’s About page says she is in the final semester of San José State University’s BFA Graphic Design program, and her homepage is a grid of projects, each tagged with its disciplines, from branding and packaging to book and exhibition design.

Every project page opens with an Objective and an Approach. For Unfold, an exhibition about the BFA program made by ten students, she explains that she did the branding, including a custom typeface.

What stands out: On group projects, say exactly which part was yours.

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7. Jon Rodz

SCAD UX student whose student portfolio stays online, clearly labelled, with Amazon, Adobe and H-E-B internships and Red Dot and Core77 award wins.

Story-driven layout with visual case studies, testimonials, award badges, and personal design journey narrative.

What stands out: Every project card says whether it was an internship or a class project.

8. Zachary Wu

Built with: Cargo

Zachary Wu is a second-year architecture student at USC, and a résumé column runs beside his projects: degree, GPA and studio GPA, internships, the architecture fraternity he belongs to and the software he uses.

Studio projects are labelled with the course and instructor and shown through drawings, model photos and a short explanation. For a team competition entry, he credits every author and says his part: early ideas, renders and elevation drawings.

What stands out: Credit your teammates and name your share of the work.

9. Cydney Vicentina

Product designer specializing in healthcare, sleep technology, and financial services with gaming and fine art passion projects.

Large typography with full-width sections, typed text animation, project cards with dual imagery.

What stands out: Numbered project cards with a one-line summary each make the work easy to scan.

10. Joey D’Anna

Built with: WordPress

Joey D’Anna is a fifth-year mechanical engineering student at Northeastern, and his homepage says when he expects to graduate and that he will then look for a full-time role. Separate pages cover his co-ops at an MIT lab and a product design firm, and his courses semester by semester.

Project pages show the engineering, not just the result. The Mars rover page lists the design requirements for the part he led, then walks through design, manufacturing and assembly.

What stands out: State the constraints first, so readers can judge the design against them.

11. Tim DP

Industrial design graduate of the University of Montreal showcasing physical and digital projects including furniture, electronics, and web design.

Filterable project grid (All/Digital/Physical toggle), smooth scrolling, responsive layout emphasizing sustainable design.

What stands out: An All, Digital and Physical filter lets visitors jump straight to the kind of work they care about.

12. Maia Penzer

Built with: Journo Portfolio

Maia Penzer is a Boston University journalism graduate, and three labels under her name sum her up: BU graduate, ABC News publicity intern and former Boston Globe co-op. A short welcome explains her work on the Globe’s homepage desk.

Below, each newsroom, internship and student publication gets a card that opens her work from it, from Globe stories and Daily Free Press features to her BU class projects.

What stands out: Group clips by where you did them, so your experience doubles as navigation.

13. Cassie Myers

Graphic design graduate presenting web design, packaging, video, and publication projects for real clients.

Clean portfolio with grid project cards, professional work samples, “curious and thorough” designer tagline.

What stands out: Each project title names the client and the deliverable, such as Solar Energy World Website Redesign.

14. Samantha DeFily

Built with: Journo Portfolio

Samantha DeFily is a University of Iowa student double majoring in journalism and sports media, and she is the creative director of The Daily Iowan. Her homepage leads with her latest published work for the paper.

Galleries split her photography into sports, politics and protests, and photo stories, and a separate page covers her internship with the London Youth Games. Her About page says she is open to work in and outside the US.

What stands out: Say where you want to work next, even in a single line.

15. Vivek Patel

Computer engineering student who built his portfolio as an interactive Ubuntu desktop simulator showcasing projects through gamified OS interface.

What stands out: Turning the portfolio into a working desktop shows his coding skills before you open a single project.

16. Befikir Shimelis

Software engineering student with 3.9 GPA showcasing full-stack projects including community library and campus social platform.

Terminal-inspired dark theme in a monospace font, with a 3D planet on a starfield and a résumé download styled as a shell command.

What stands out: A Recruiter Mode toggle strips the animation and music for anyone who just wants the facts.

17. Anav Chand

DevOps-focused student with projects in aircraft health monitoring, attendance tracking, and URL management plus tech blog.

What stands out: Project pages read like design docs, with a problem statement, an architecture diagram and results.

18. Asmaa Abdul-Amin

Data science student whose research internships at Johns Hopkins APL included NASA mission web pages and a model linking COVID-19 policies to mortality.

Dark-themed with purple accents and built on Bootstrap, with her own software product embedded live on the homepage.

What stands out: Embedding a live, clickable version of her software shows it working instead of describing it.

What Makes a Great Student Portfolio?

Treat class projects as case studies. Anna Sprague opens every project page with the brief’s objective and her approach before showing the result. Zachary Wu labels each studio project with its course and instructor. On group work, both say which part was theirs: Anna did the branding for a ten-student exhibition, and Zachary lists his ideas, renders and elevation drawings for a team competition entry.

Say what you study and when you finish. Joey D’Anna’s homepage opens with his year, major and university and says when he expects to graduate, and his education page lists his courses and co-ops semester by semester. Zachary Wu keeps his degree, expected graduation year, GPA and studio GPA in a column beside his projects. Befikir Shimelis puts his school and a GPA badge on his first screen.

Put internships up front. Maia Penzer’s name sits above three labels, BU graduate, ABC News publicity intern and former Boston Globe co-op, and each newsroom or internship further down opens her work from it. Jon Rodz tags every project card as a UX internship or a SCAD project. Sissi Wu lists each research role with its company and methods before any case study.

Keep the résumé one click away. Devansh Gandhi and Sissi Wu put Resume in the main navigation, next to their work, and Samantha DeFily adds a CV icon beside her social links. Befikir Shimelis turns the download into a button that reads like a terminal command, which suits a developer. Whoever is hiring will want the file for an application, so do not make them hunt for it.

Show the process, not only the finished work. Anav Chand’s write-up of a hackathon project runs from the problem statement through a drawn system architecture to the results. Joey D’Anna’s Mars rover page lists the design requirements for the part he led, then covers design, manufacturing and assembly. Requirements and diagrams show how you think, which a polished final image cannot.

Say what you are looking for. Philip Hoxie’s homepage starts with the line that he is on the academic job market, followed by the paper he wants hiring committees to read. Samantha DeFily says she hopes to work as a sports photographer and is open to work in and outside the US. Kayla Padilla’s headline names the careers she wants: tech, sports and music.

Wrapping Up

That wraps up our collection of student portfolio examples. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to redesign, these sites show what’s possible with today’s website builders.

Most of the websites above were built with platforms like Squarespace, Webflow and Wix — no coding required. Pick the one that fits your needs and start building today.

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