What are the top 20 most visited websites by college students,
excluding major search engines or home pages such as google.com,
yahoo.com, msn.com, aol.com?

- College students are defined as full-time undergraduate students at
four-year universities.
- I do not mean what are the most visited college websites (such as
havard.edu or princeton.edu). Do not include university homepages.
- I am also not looking for any specific category of websites, such as
sports or clothing or entertainment.  I am trying to find out what are
the 20 most visited websites by college students in all categories.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 18 Oct 2005 17:00 PDT

Hello Anthonyryan,

Please download the Student Monitor Computing & The Internet Fall 2004 Findings.
http://orange.cc.ny.us/its/pdf/student_monitor_2004.pdf

Take a look at the following slides and let me know if this
information would be a satisfactory answer to your question.

Slide 62: Internet Sites Visited This Semester
Slide 64: Student-related Web Sites Visited This Semester
Slide 68: Music-Related Sites Visited in Past Month 
Slide 63: Aided Awareness of Student-related Web Sites
Slide 61: Aided Awareness of Internet Sites

Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by anthonyryan-ga on 19 Oct 2005 12:00 PDT

Hello Bobbie7,
That research presentation did have some good results. I do know that
the 2005 results would be very different because Facebook.com is not
mentioned in that report, so it is a bit outdated. But I will accept
it as I do not get the feeling that there is any better information
out there. Thank you for your help.

Dear Anthonyryan,

Thank you for accepting the presentation?Student Monitor Computing &
The Internet Fall 2004 Findings? as the official answer to your
question.

Relevant material:
Slide 62: Internet Sites Visited This Semester
Slide 64: Student-related Web Sites Visited This Semester
Slide 68: Music-Related Sites Visited in Past Month 
Slide 63: Aided Awareness of Student-related Web Sites
Slide 61: Aided Awareness of Internet Sites
http://orange.cc.ny.us/its/pdf/student_monitor_2004.pdf



I did some more research this morning and found additional material
that might interest you.



?University users are 15 percent more likely to visit sites or use
applications classified in the Downloads category than the average
Internet user.? ? For example, university users are 83 percent more
likely to visit Kazaa.com, 116 percent more likely to visit
Bearshare.com and 150 percent more likely to visit Limewire.com than
the average Internet user.?

(?)

?Nearly 3.4 million university users visited the Retail -- Computer
Hardware category, and more than 4.1 million visited the Retail --
Consumer Electronics category. Mobile phone sites, which are included
in the Consumer Electronics category, are particularly popular among
college students.  The Web sites for AT&T Wireless, Cingular and
T-Mobile are all more popular with university users than among the
total Internet population.?

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?Nearly half of all university Internet users visit the Entertainment
-- Music category. Launch, MTV Networks, AOL Music, MusicMatch,
ArtistDirect and WindowsMedia Music each reached more than 500,000
college students in September. The university population, which
represents about 8 percent of all Internet users, accounts for fully
17 percent of iTunes application users. The Humor category is also
disproportionately with university students. CollegeHumor.com, Comedy
Central and FlowGo.com are among the most popular sites in the
category.?

(?)

?The Humor category is also disproportionately with university
students. CollegeHumor.com, Comedy Central and FlowGo.com are among
the most popular sites in the category.?

Source:
iMedia Connection: The University Population Online
By comScore Media Metrix 
October 14, 2004
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/4411.asp



Myface.com is another popular website for college students.
http://www.theloquitur.com/media/paper226/news/2005/09/30/Features/Facebook.Vs.Myspace-1012972.shtml





Search terms used:
College OR university students most visited sites OR websites 
Study survey poll ranking
Percent

I hope the information provided is helpful!


Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 19 Oct 2005 12:17 PDT

Sorry about the typo.

It should read: 
"MySpace.com is another popular website for college students"

Are you looking for hard facts or very probable sites from various
subjective sources?

Ideally hard results, but I would accept a listing of the top websites
as gathered through informal sources. I have done a lot of research
and cannot find a definitive answer. The only sources I've found are
quite old.

Here is a link to a Google Answers result from a related question:
://www.google.com/answers/threadview?id=172846

Let me know if you need more clarification.

www.thefacebook.com ?

yes, thefacebook.com is probably the #1 college student website. but numbers 2-20?