B
Evidence Grade B
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74.7%
74.7% -- email open rate for student cold emails (2026)
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Value
74.7%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
6,337
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
78
Sources (2)
Whali
Primary
Tier A
https://whali.co.uk/blog ↗
Source Article
Whali - Cold email guides for students and graduates (2026)
Outreach guides for students.
At Whali, we help students land internships and graduate roles through direct outreach. Data-backed strategies, cold-email playbooks, networking guides, and primary research from 6,337+ student emails sent through the platform.
The Complete Cold Email Playbook
15 chapte…
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whali.co.uk
https://whali.co.uk/blog
2026-08-14
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Whali
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Methodology
Analysis of student cold emails sent through the platform.
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Segmentation
Channelcommon_crawl
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student cold emails: 74.7% email open rate. Source: Whali (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cold-email-open-rate-2026
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