Student projects work best when they solve a problem you actually have this term: keeping track of deadlines, revising, splitting rent, staying awake in lectures. These ideas are scoped so a working prototype exists in minutes, leaving time to polish the parts a marker or interviewer will notice.
Each one makes a good portfolio piece because the purpose is obvious in one sentence and the prototype can be shared with a link.
Every due date on one screen, sorted by urgency.
An assignment tracker for a university student: list assignments with module, due date and weight, sort by soonest, colour-code by urgency, and show a "this week" summary at the top with the total workload.
Turn exam dates into a daily plan.
A revision timetable app: enter subjects and exam dates, choose available hours per day, and get an automatically generated weekly plan you can drag topics around in, with a progress bar per subject.
Who does what, by when.
A lightweight kanban board for a student group project: columns for To do, Doing and Done, cards with an owner avatar and due date, a member list, and a "what's late" filter.
Notes by module, week and topic.
A lecture notes app organised by module and week, with a rich text area, tags, a search box, and a "key points" panel that collects lines starting with a star.
Rent, wifi and pizza, settled fairly.
A bill-splitting app for four flatmates: add expenses with who paid and who shares, see running balances per person, and a "settle up" screen suggesting the fewest payments to make everyone even.
What do I need on the final?
A grade calculator: enter modules with credits and current marks, see the running average and classification, and a "what do I need" calculator for the mark required on a remaining exam.
Find something to do tonight.
A campus events app: a scrollable feed of events with category chips (sports, music, societies, free food), save-to-calendar buttons, a map tab and a "tonight" filter.
Find people revising the same module.
A study-buddy matching app: pick your modules and free time slots, browse matching students with study styles, send a request, and see a small chat screen for the match.
Sell last year's books, buy this year's.
A textbook marketplace app for students: browse listings with photo placeholders, price and condition, filter by course, post a listing in three steps and message a seller.
Focus timer that tracks time per subject.
A study timer that logs Pomodoro sessions against a subject, shows today's focused minutes per subject in a bar chart, and keeps a streak of consecutive study days.
Build references in APA or Harvard style.
A citation generator app: choose APA or Harvard, fill in a form for a book, journal article or website, see the formatted reference live, and keep a list you can copy all at once.
Ten new words a day with spaced repetition.
A vocabulary trainer for learning Spanish: a daily set of ten words with example sentences, multiple-choice quizzes, spaced-repetition scheduling and a streak and level system.