10 Schools That Tweet and Like More Than You

1. Pennsylvania State University

Penn State has been in the news a lot over the past year, and that attention has been ably handled by Penn State's social media team. PSU mostly uses Twitter to retweet Penn State related tweets to its more than 25,000 followers, but on Facebook they average three posts a day, usually pertaining to stories of accomplishments by former students. And the Penn State fans are loyal. As of August 16, 2012, Penn State holds the lead in the College Colors Day Online Contest, with more than 350 shares and 1,200 likes. If they win ESPN will give $10,000 dollars toward Penn State's general scholarship fund, and with the passionate fans that Penn State has (56% emotional response on socialmention.com's proprietary algorithm) how can they lose? Image courtesy of Unigo.com

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Goodbye mascots and cheerleaders, hello Facebook Likes and Twitter Retweets.

Colleges are extending their campuses and communities past the physical realm, far past the quad, into social media where they're engaging prospective and enrolled students feverishly.

Unigo, an online resource for college information, selected the top 10 social media campuses by drawing from the top 100 national and liberal arts colleges.

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Based on metrics such as total number of Facebook fans or Twitter followers, average number of posts/tweets a month and the engagement of those posts by users, Unigo was able to discover what works when it comes to co…
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