Most popular colleges on Facebook
[All numbers updated, lots of schools added on May 28]
Time is running out for high school seniors to lock-in on a college. Yet another factor to consider: How many friends or fans does a college have on Facebook?
No one likes a Facebook loner.
Some perspective: Lady Gaga has a following of 6.6 million. Beer pong is liked by 950,350. Harvard, the birthplace of Facebook, has 33,986 fans. (So, Rice the university shouldn't feel bad that it's less popular than rice the food.)
So, here's the list with counts as of this weekend. Only official university pages and groups count -- no alumni, class of whatever, athletic, club or other groups. And no adding numbers from different groups together!
Please help me complete the list. Shoot me an e-mail and let me know what schools to add. And please let me know if I got a count completely wrong.
Texas A&M 176,961
Louisiana State University 169,857
The University of Texas at Austin 112,774
University of Michigan 113,010
Penn State 105,491
University of Oklahoma 85,180
University of Kansas 83,633
University of Missouri 79,983
Ohio State University 79,131
West Virginia University 64,028
Stanford 63,440
University of Kentucky 61,570
University of Florida 61,044
Indiana University 60,114
University of Tennessee, Knoxville 58,460
Michigan State 57,014
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar 56,724
UCLA 50,571
Auburn 49,931
University of Central Florida 49,689
University of Miami 42,383
Harvard 40,437
Purdue 39,854
University of Alabama 37,344
University of Arizona 34,749
Virginia Tech 34,264
Virginia Commonwealth University 30,492
Texas Tech University 31,156
University of Washington 30,395
Baylor University 29,801
George Mason University 29,564
University of Wisconsin-Madison 28,727
Kansas State 28,697
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 28,651
UC-Berkeley 28,216
Duke 27,688
East Carolina University 26,937
University of Virginia 25,511
Clemson University 24,217
University of Georgia 24,159
Mississippi State University 24,059
University of South Florida 23,973
University of Illinois 23,742
Arizona State University 22,299
MIT 22,098
University of Maryland 21,693
Liberty University 20,158
Colorado State University 19,535
NYU 19,302
University of Notre Dame 19,034
University of South Carolina 18,456
Syracuse 17,722
UC-Davis 17,160
College of William & Mary 15,652
Princeton 15,518
Vanderbilt 15,514
University of Massachusetts Amherst 15,441
Western Kentucky University 14,934
Louisiana Tech University 14,611
University of Southern California 13,734
University of Southern Mississippi 13,755
Northwestern 13,513
James Madison University 13,496
Georgetown 13,470
Boston College 12,892
UC-Santa Barbara 12,719
Carnegie Mellon 12,441
Boston University 11,853
University of Louisiana, Lafayette 11,447
University of Chicago 11,291
Miami University in Ohio 11,175
University of Pennsylvania 11,499
Yale University 10,682
University of Arkansas 10,534
Old Dominion University 10,315
Brown 10,216
Utah State University 9,874
UC-Santa Cruz 9,607
Northern Illinois University 9,327
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9,187
American 8,804
Johns Hopkins 8,683
George Washington University 8,537
Gonzaga University 8,237
Washington State University 8,175
UC-Irvine 8,016
Washington University in St. Louis 7,370
Columbia 7,212
Southeastern Louisiana University 6,913
SUNY Oswego 6,411
Bucknell University 6,261
Tufts 6,195
Colgate University 6,117
UC-Riverside 6,376
Emory 5,777
Dartmouth College 5,617
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania 5,544
Rice 5,381
Kutztown University (Pennsylvania) 5,376
University of Idaho 5,203
Grambling State University 4,639
Fordham 4,617
Lamar University 4,584
Saginaw Valley State University 4,227
Northwestern State University 4,175
University of the Pacific 4,166
UC-San Diego 4,090
St. Mary's University 4,077
Roanoke College 3,755
University of Louisiana at Monroe 3,705
Brandeis 3,503
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3,221
Nicholls State University 3,212
Hamilton College 3,089
McNeese State University 3,060
Buffalo State College 3,044
California Institute of Technology 2,888
Valparaiso University 2,814
South Plains College in Texas 2,063
Hendrix College in Arkansas 2,038
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Jenna Johnson
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May 1, 2010; 2:43 PM ET
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Posted by: luismartinez2008 | May 2, 2010 12:29 PM | Report abuse
luismartinez2008, VCU is right there, in between Virginia Tech and George Mason/NSync...
Posted by: sarahee | May 2, 2010 4:05 PM | Report abuse
Is Texas A&M really a college? I thought it was a cult.
Posted by: postisarag | May 2, 2010 4:29 PM | Report abuse
I'm not sure when these results were taken but the University of Kentucky has over 51,000 facebook fans and our basketball coach (John Calipari) has 144,000 FB fans. I would say you made a HUGE oversight in omitting this public flagship university for the entire state of Kentucky. Nice job.
Posted by: gwednesday | May 4, 2010 12:22 PM | Report abuse
I am bursting with school pride that my alma mater is almost as popular as "friends with benefits" and "IKEA meatballs."
Posted by: firebird32 | May 5, 2010 12:36 AM | Report abuse
Please add Bloomsburg University (Pennsylvania) 5,527 and still growing, featuring multiple daily updates and video
Posted by: jnorth1 | June 4, 2010 1:51 PM | Report abuse
Add Montclair State University - 3,955 :)
Posted by: msu2007 | June 11, 2010 11:53 AM | Report abuse
Northeastern University - 6800!
Posted by: mindymee | June 14, 2010 2:45 PM | Report abuse
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Why isn't Virginia Commonwealth University on here? We have more fans that George Mason University.