Campus Society, a social network slated for release to D.C. university students this spring, aims to combine the social and professional spheres.

Founders Rashid Ajami (COL ’12) and his cousin Oliver Muller intend to only allow users with university-affiliated email addresses to register and leave posts related to campus life on their universities’ profiles.

“With all of these social networks like Facebook and Twitter, you start with your own profile, so we thought, what if we take the university and make that the profile instead?” Ajami said. “It’s a bit of a different concept.”

Ajami and Muller see the website, which they have been developing for six months, as a solution to the lack of online overlap between the academic and social aspects of college. Muller, who works at Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai, is responsible for the financial side of the project, while Ajamiserves as the university connection. The pair has also enlisted creative design and marketing experts.

According to Muller, each campus will have its own page where users can view and post messages, as well as apply filters to tags so that they focus on specific areas of interest, such as tutoring, complaints and housing.

“We wanted to create a website that would make life for students easier by putting everything concentrated in one place,” Muller said.

According to Sophia Chumburidze, head of marketing, the site also has the potential to serve as an important tool for networking and career building.

“There’s going to be a large alumni portion to it as well, so that you can maintain your contacts and network after you graduate,” she said.

Muller and Ajami said they have already secured close to $1 million for use in the website’s first year and hired 10 interns from Georgetown and The George Washington University.

Campus Society will launch at Georgetown, GWU, American University and George Mason University. Muller and Ajami anticipate making Georgetown’s page available first before introducing the other three school’s sites.