Student Portfolio Deck

About this template

Where this deck is handed in

Ten slides for internship applications, graduation reviews or campus competitions – where the work matters more than the resume. The flow is cover, agenda, two divider-and-body pairs, before/after, key figures, trend bars, closing. It is not built for statistical tables, because there is nowhere to put one.

Two body slides against a five-line agenda

Slides 3-4 are Major coursework and 5-6 are Class assignments. The agenda lists five items – major coursework, class assignments, first-year work versus fourth-year work, key figures, trend – worded exactly like the slide titles. Only the first two own a divider-and-body pair; the third is the before/after slide 7 and the last two are slides 8 and 9. So team projects, outside activities, awards and a career plan appear neither in the agenda nor on a slide. Pick the single item that matters most for the position, duplicate the 5-6 pair for it, and add the agenda line. For a design or engineering role, team projects should come before coursework, so swap the new pair with slides 3-4 and renumber the SECTION labels.

The four figures are already academic

Slide 8 ships with 78 major credits, a 3.8 major GPA, 6 submitted assignments and 2 years in a club – things a student can genuinely count, so only the numbers need to change. But three of the four lean on grades, so for a work application, turn one or two of them toward output: finished pieces, outside collaborations, awards won. Put the scale next to the 3.8, since a 4.5 and a 4.3 maximum read very differently.

Order of work on the ten slides

1. Cover subtitle: major, year and target role on one line, such as “Industrial Design, 4th year – product 3D modelling”.
2. Slides 3-4: the three lines are 78 major credits, a list of five advanced courses, and a GPA trend table. Do not just name courses – attach what you built in each, and the deck flows into the next section.
3. Slides 5-6: keep only the solo assignments that went well, or tell one piece as problem, validation and finishing, since student portfolios are judged on the logic of the process. In the two-line feedback summary, include the criticism and how you fixed it, not only the praise.
4. Slide 7: first draft on the left, final on the right, three lines each on what changed and why. Delete the default wording.
5. Slide 9: the bars are 18, 36, 58 and 78 across the four years – cumulative credits, and the final 78 matches the tile on slide 8, so change both together. Swapping credits for finished pieces per year suits a work application better.
6. Slide 10: email, portfolio link and when you can be reached.

Filter these out just before submitting

• Cramming in ten coursework pieces; there are only two sections, so keep three and link the rest.
• Not naming your own role in team work – if you duplicated the 5-6 pair to show a team project, one line tells a reviewer nothing. Write “team of four, responsible for screen design and prototype”.
• Submitting with the placeholder “2026. Presenter name / Affiliation” still on the cover; it is the first thing anyone sees.