European Union Delegation India organized European Higher Education Fair 2014 in India, where European Union Universities attended the fair to educate the Indian students about their offerings. MixORG researched these universities and figured out the top 10 schools basing their presence on Facebook. Our research focused on studying the page and its posts for engagement rate (Talking about of the page), frequency of posting, and quality (professional design & branding) of the posts.
Ranking |
University Facebook Page |
Country |
Total number of Fans |
Talking about (%) |
Engagement Rate (scale 1-5)* |
Quality (scale 1-4)* |
Regularity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Aalto University School of Science |
Finland |
52464 |
0.8 |
Good |
Excellent |
Yes |
2 |
TU Delft |
Netherlands |
32394 |
10.5 |
Excellent |
Good |
Yes |
3 |
Leeds Beckett University |
UK |
31796 |
3.5 |
Very Good |
Very good |
Yes |
4 |
Università Cattolica del Sacro |
Italy |
69419 |
2.9 |
Good |
Good |
Yes |
5 |
Politecnico di Milano |
Italy |
63464 |
2.2 |
Good |
Good |
Yes |
6 |
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
Spain |
46245 |
1.6 |
Good |
Good |
Yes |
7 |
University of Granada |
Spain |
46171 |
1.6 |
Good |
Good |
Yes |
8 |
SKEMA Business School |
France |
25761 |
1 |
Good |
Good |
Yes |
9 |
Le Cordon Bleu |
France |
153935 |
0.5 |
Average |
Good |
Yes |
10 |
Global College Malta |
Malta |
105916 |
0 |
Below Average |
Good |
Yes |
* 5-Excellent, 4 -Very Good, 3- Good, 2- Average, 1- Below Average
The above table shows the analysis of top ten universities (by fan base) analyzed and rated by MixORG on the basis of engagement and quality. MixORG has given a score from 1-5 on engagement (based on Facebook talking about) and 1-5 on quality (our own assessment). For top spot, we had a tie among Aalto Sci, Leeds-Beckett and TU Delft. Wherever there is a tie we have used the fan base as a criterion to rank the universities.
Our summary on the top 3 Schools:
Aalto University School of Science is using very high quality international design, typical of a Nordic country. Also, the page is sharing relevant information for students apart from all other university news.
TU Delft is very student centric in its postings, which is resulting in a very high engagement (top engagement among all the pages). However, they could do some better design.
Leeds Beckett also stands out in good design; use of videos on pages is extremely relevant for new age audience.
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