Disney Monsters University website

If you haven’t already heard, a prequel to Disney’s Monsters Inc. is coming. Titled Monsters University, the prequel isn’t scheduled to hit theaters until June 21, 2013. However, in the meantime Disney and Pixar have released monstersuniversity.com – a website that allows you to completely immerse yourself in the world of Monstropolis and Mike and Sully’s Alma Mater, Monsters University.

The Monsters University site hit the web just a few weeks ago. The page takes the style of pretty much every college website currently on the internet, and makes it more awesome by infusing it with the Monsters Inc. world.

Look familiar? That’s because whether you went to college, are currently applying for college, had a child in college, or live in a college town, chances are you’ve encountered a website that has this exact same vibe. In fact, I’d even go as far to say that this site is even better designed than my own Alma Mater’s website. Yep. Disney did a college website better than real colleges.

The site is easy to navigate, attractive, and surprisingly very thorough. The fun doesn’t stop at the home page. Every link actually leads to another part of the site going into details about classes available at Monsters University, student life, athletics, and everything perspective students would want to know about a real university. Except again, this is way cooler because…monsters.

As a content developer myself, hats off to the creative content team behind the Monsters University website. Every line is infused with the fun, quirky Monsters Inc. style. You couldn’t pay me to aimlessly click around a real university’s website, but I could spend hours here. Every link and every page leads to unique, exciting information about Monsters University and reveals exactly how awesome this movie is going to be (HINT: extremely).

The content doesn’t just graze the surface, either. There’s a detailed history of the University, a description of Greek life on campus, an event calendar, campus news, and student testimonials. Specifics on the different schools (School of Scaring, School of Engineering, School of Liberal Arts and Monstrosities, School of Science, and School of Business) include course descriptions and recommended reading. There’s even a campus map that I swear looks just like the real campus I attended.