> rather need to validate against a common list of valid universities Don't you need that already anyway? There's no standard for how universities format their

> rather need to validate against a common list of valid universities Don't you need that already anyway? There's no standard for how universities format their academic email addresses. Plus, .edu only applies to American universities. Services validating if you're a "real" student by checking for .edu emails were quite annoying during my time as a student. A lot of these platforms don't seem to even know .edu is an American thing.