Austin, Texas. April 9, 2009. In an exclusive TrendTopper MediaBuzz analysis, the Global Language Monitor (www.LanguageMonitor.com) has ranked the nation’s colleges and universities according their appearance on the Internet, throughout the Blogosphere, as well in the global print and electronic media. The analysis is the only college ranking including Social Media.
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The analysis was concluded in early April. The measurement period began 12/31/2008. Several interim ‘snapshots’ were also made during the period to determine momentum and velocity. Momentum is defined as change since the last day of 2008; velocity is defined as movements over the preceding 30 days.
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Universities — Spring 2009 |
| Rank |
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| 1 |
Harvard University, MA
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| 2 |
Columbia University, NY
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| 3 |
University of Chicago, IL
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| 4 |
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, MI |
| 5 |
Stanford University, CA
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| 6 |
University of Wisconsin—Madison , WI |
| 7 |
Cornell University, NY
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| 8 |
Princeton University, NJ
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| 9 |
Yale University, CT
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| 10 |
University of California—Berkeley, CA |
| 11 |
University of Pennsylvania, PA |
| 12 |
University of Washington, WA |
| 13 |
University of California—Los Angeles, CA |
| 14 |
Johns Hopkins University, MD
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| 15 |
Duke University, NC
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| 16 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA |
| 17 |
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, NC |
| 18 |
New York University
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| 19 |
U. of California-San Diego
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| 20 |
U. of California-Davis
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| 21 |
Boston University, MA
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| 22 |
Ohio State University—Columbus, OH |
| 23 |
California Institute of Technology CA
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| 24 |
Northwestern University, IL
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| 25 |
University of Texas-Austin, TX
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| 26 |
University of Florida.FL
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| 27 |
Boston College, MA
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| 28 |
University of Virginia, VA
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| 29 |
Purdue University, IN
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| 30 |
University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, IL |
| 31 |
University of Southern California, CA
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| 32 |
U. of California-Santa Barbara, CA
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| 33 |
Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
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| 34 |
University of Georgia, GA
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| 35 |
Georgetown University, DC
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| 36 |
Rutgers University, NJ
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| 37 |
Pennsylvania State University, PA
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| 38 |
Syracuse University, NY
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| 39 |
Vanderbilt University, TN
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| 40 |
Emory University, GA
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| 41 |
Texas A&M University, TX
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| 42 |
Carnegie Mellon University, PA
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| 43 |
U. of California, Irvine, CA
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| 44 |
Washington University in St. Louis, MO
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| 45 |
Case Western Reserve, OH
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| 46 |
Tufts University, MA
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| 47 |
University of Notre Dame, IN
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| 48 |
Dartmouth College, NH
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| 49 |
Villanova University, PA |
| 50 |
College of William and Mary, VA |
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The TrendTopper MediaBuzz ranking are powered by the Global Language Monitor’s Predictive Quantities Indicator, a proprietary algorithm. To learn more about the PQI, click here.
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