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Make your LinkedIn education relevant to your work.
Show your qualifications clearly. Add a useful project or achievement, and decide whether your education belongs in your profile introduction.
Education can give a visitor more context about your expertise. A clear qualification and a relevant project are usually more useful than a long list of modules or every course you have taken.
Show what you learned through something you did.
The qualification is easy to identify. A short description shows a relevant contribution, with the team size and the work delivered. The optional work sample lets a visitor explore further.
Belle Beaumont · Account executive at Walt
Education
Led a five person student editorial team and published six issues of a campus arts magazine.
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Managed the editorial calendar, commissioned contributors and edited interviews. This is the writing and coordination experience I now bring to brand video projects.
The people, company and profile details in these examples are fictional.
Choose the details that strengthen your credibility.
Name the qualification accurately
Use the correct institution, degree or qualification, field of study and dates where appropriate. If you are still studying, make that clear. Describe a short course as a short course, rather than presenting it as a degree.
Add one relevant achievement
Choose a project, dissertation, publication or achievement that helps explain your current expertise. Academic honors, a scholarship, relevant coursework, student society leadership or a competition can also be useful. Pick what adds context rather than listing everything.
Explain your contribution and add a concrete detail, such as the team size, research sample or work delivered. For an award, name it and explain what it recognized. Use facts you can substantiate.
LinkedIn lets you add skills and media to an education entry. A published paper, project presentation or approved work sample can give the description useful support. See LinkedIn’s Education options.
Add a useful work sample
Use media to give visitors something they can inspect: a project presentation, published paper, portfolio, short demonstration video or coverage of an award. Choose a clear title and explain your contribution. Belle’s example above includes a selected issue of the magazine she helped produce.
Choose material you can share publicly and check that links work. For a professional certificate, use Licenses & certifications and its credential link rather than relying on a PDF attached to Education.
Show education in your intro when it helps
If your studies are relevant to the people visiting your profile, consider showing that education in the introduction. If it adds little to your current work, leave it out of the intro. You can still keep the accurate qualification in Education.
Keep your main employer selected in the intro and named in your headline. Education adds context alongside that company connection. See the profile intro example.
Mention your studies elsewhere when they are relevant
A qualification that matters to your audience can belong in About as well as Education. You can feature a publication or project so visitors can see the work. Mention the qualification in your headline only when it helps explain your expertise, while keeping your current company there too.
Add relevant credentials to About.
Show a useful publication or project in Featured.
Keep certificates in the appropriate section
Use Licenses & certifications for professional credentials, with the correct issuing organization and credential details. Keep Education focused on your educational background. LinkedIn explains Licenses & certifications.
Trim detail that no longer helps
Review old course lists, workshop entries, long descriptions and broken media links. Keep the qualification accurate, but shorten details that add little to your current expertise. A completed degree does not become outdated because you earned it years ago. Review expired professional credentials separately and describe their status accurately.
For publications, honors or projects that deserve their own section, explore the additional profile sections.
Examples of relevant education details
Sales: a project that involved a customer brief
Project description: Led a four person team developing a market entry proposal for a local arts venue. Interviewed 15 potential customers and presented the final recommendations to the venue’s management.
Marketing: writing and editorial experience
Project description: Led a five person student editorial team and published six issues of a campus arts magazine. Managed the editorial calendar and edited contributor interviews.
Customer success: research that informed a process
Project description: Interviewed 20 participants for a service design project. Mapped the onboarding journey and proposed a revised welcome process based on the issues they described.
Use a writing prompt
Help me write a concise LinkedIn Education description. Ask about my exact qualification, institution, relevant projects, honors, scholarships or awards, my contribution, supporting media and facts I can share. Connect it to my current work only when the connection is real. Write two short sentences using those facts. Do not invent degrees, awards, client names or results.
Give employees room to show different backgrounds.
Invite employees to review the qualifications, projects and credentials that help customers understand their expertise. Share examples of concise descriptions, and help confirm what company sponsored training can be named publicly. Keep the choice of personal education details with the employee.
Avoid a uniform degree requirement for profiles. A sales professional’s customer project, a marketer’s publication and a customer success manager’s professional certificate can each support credibility in different ways.
Education is a manual review. Create a company report in Linkwiz for its 19 profile and activity checks, then use this guide separately for education choices. The report’s Profile Intro check concerns the company appearing there; it does not score a person’s degree or education relevance.
Review the company connection in the profile intro.Ready to update it?
Where to update Education in LinkedIn
On desktop
Open your profile and find Education. Use Add for a new entry or Edit for an existing one. Enter the education details and, if useful, add supporting skills or media. Save your changes. If the section is missing, add Education through Add profile section.
In the mobile app
Open your profile and find Education. Use Add or Edit, update the relevant entry and save. You can also add supporting skills or media. If Education is missing, add the section from your profile introduction.
Review Notify network before saving if you do not want to share the change as an update. To choose which education appears in your introduction, edit the introduction separately.
Before you move on
- The qualification and institution are accurate.
- Relevant achievements explain your own contribution.
- Supporting media is public, clearly named and works.
- Education shown in your intro or elsewhere is relevant to your current work.
- Long descriptions, old course details and expired credentials have been reviewed.