The Campus Buzz

If your site had a significant increase in visitors over the prior month please let us know why. Maybe it was increased advertising around campus? A major event that was covered? A site redesign?

Just going to guess Yale's spike had something to do with the Annie Le murder. Also, some campuses don't start class until September (ie: Wisconsin), hence a big spike from August to September

I've noticed that Louisiana State is on there… I've been researching that school on AcceptEdge.com. I'm trying to see which universities have really good communications departments.

I was shocked when I saw us on that list… so cool. Our first birthday is next month and I can think of no better present than this inclusion.

There have been a variety of reasons for the jump in our overall traffic. We released a new site design when we got back to school, started an advertising campaign on campus, expanded our editorial staff and refined our editorial structure, and covered a major story about the death of a Penn State student. We've also stepped up our Facebook presence, and our Twitter account continues to be the one of the most engaged within the Penn State Twittersphere.

Yes I believe that is absolutely correct with respect to the YaleDailyNews.com. I think that the PittNews.com 696% increase over the previous month is most likely due to coverage of the G-20 summit and the reason behind the 432% increase of OnwardState.com is detailed below by their editor Davis Shaver.

I'm with the Independent Florida Alligator. These numbers are rather off for us, so I'm wondering where the rest of the numbers lie in accuracy. It has the Alligator at 25,800 visitors for Aug. when the site really had 53,800 unique visitors and 43,400 for Sept. when the site had 110,400 for Sept. and 28,500 for Sept. 2008 when the site really had 76,900.

Great to see we're on the list. Thanks TCB for posting this!

@emilee — what's acceptedge? I'm gonna have to check it out…thanks!

Since emilee is spamming Acceptedge, I'm spamming back with collegeconfidential.com , mychances.net , and unigo.com . There, now you have more sites to choose from, kids!

Nice to see Yale ranking high up there! Being completely objective though, I still think the YDN has one of the best looking college newspaper websites.

I wonder if you'll update this! Thanks for your work—Chris

Thanks for your comment Chris. We are trying hard to update this list and reaching out to all of the publications directly to report their own internal statistics so that we can compile a more accurate depiction of a top 50 list. Unfortunately, the response rate has been low. We are doing what we can and are eagerly anticipating the new list. Thanks for checking up.

Wow….pretty impressed by Penn State's numbers

Wow….pretty impressed by Penn State's numbers

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If you want to find out what goes on at a particular campus, go to their Campus Newspaper. They will give a good feel for what is important in that area and to those students. Most have all the “news that’s fit to print” for that school. This is a very useful piece of information for the college bound.