Systems and methods of the present invention provide for: generating a GUI comprising survey questions associated with degree factors and associated rating GUI components indicating application of the factor to a user; receiving the factor rating for each survey question; identifying a high factor rating exceeding a threshold; selecting a degree identifier sharing a common high factor rating between the first response and a response stored in the database; generating a candidate degree list including the degree identifier; generating a second GUI including the candidate degree list; and transmitting the second GUI to a client device.