No matter if you’re searching for a college or if you are about to graduate, Twitter holds some help for you. You can learn how to find a college, how to live the college life and even find internships and summer jobs through following the right Twitter accounts. The list below contains the top 50 Twitters accounts that every college student should follow…and you may continue to follow many of them well after you graduate.
The list has been categorized, and each link is listed alphabetically within those categories. The links represent the Twitter account name, and each link leads to the Twitter page where you can follow that account. Be sure to check out each Twitter page you encounter to learn more about Twitter lists that any user may have developed to help their readers. Additionally, you may find a Twitter account for your school through a Twitter search.
College Admissions Help
- AdmissionsQuest: This is the official Twitter account for the site that helps families make the right college choice.
- admissposs: Jonathon Shaevitz supplies a one-stop college admission resource to help you choose, apply and get accepted to the college of your choice.
- campuscompare: Follow the source of the Web technology that helps students find the best-fit college from over 3,000 choices.
- College_Degree: Choosing the right college degree is hard. College Degree provides the right info for you to choose the best college major.
- collegeadvice: Mark Montgomery is a former college administrator who helps students find the right college.
- CollegeBoundNet: Gina and Barbara tweet on all topics pertaining to college, including admissions, tests, financial aid, scholarships and everything else in between…
- collegecalendar: Learn more about a free online college admissions planning guide geared toward students, parents, educators and professionals.
- collplan: Marilyn Emerson helps students worldwide find the right college choice.
- EduCounselor: The education counselors are ready to help you get into and stay in college.
- mycollegeguide: Learn more about any campus, no matter how confused you might feel.
- myCollegeSTAT: This is a friendly source for college admissions data to help ease the application process.
- SuzanneShaffer: Suzanne loves to help parents prepare their kids for college by helping them to navigate the college maze.
- UniversityVisit: Research official University Visitor’s Guides with information on college, community, culture, admissions, athletics, reputation and more.
- USATODAYcollege: “Preparing college students for tomorrow with USA TODAY.”
eLearning
- hopkinsdavid: David Hopkins is firmly into elearning, mlearning, Web 2.0, game-based learning, blogging and anyway a person can learn through online technology.
- jfenderboa: John is a virtual technologies researcher, educator and designer with a focus on immersive learning environments.
- josiefraser: Josie Fraser is a social and educational technologist who is interested in digital literacy, identity and citizenship.
- suewaters: Sue Waters makes it her life mission to help others with education, elearning, blogging, edublogs and more.
- timbuckteeth: Steve Wheeler is a Web 2.0 researcher and author of The Digital Classroom. That said, he also is an elearning specialist and co-editor of Interactive Learning Environments.
- tomwhitby: Tom Whitby has been recognized with an Edublog Award for founding the most Influential Educational Twitter Series, Edchat.
- tutordotcom: Available directly to students, as well as schools, libraries, community colleges and military families to help K-12 and adult learners succeed.
Study Abroad
- abroaderview: Stay on top of volunteer abroad opportunities in 22 countries and through 166 programs.
- CEAstudyabroad: Check this Twitter user out…it’s the official voice for CEA Study Abroad for Canadian and U.S. students.
- GoEDstudyabroad: Go ED. is a semester study abroad program of Food for the Hungry that seeks to transform the next generation to own and end poverty in Africa and SE Asia.
- GoAbroad: This resource is for “meaningful travel,” including social media tools.
- intstudent: International Student is dedicated to helping international students from all around the world with information, advice and help in studying around the world.
- SemesterAtSea: Semester at Sea is the world’s premier global education program, founded in 1963.
- studenttraveler: This account is the voice for the largest travel magazine for college students in the U.S. Information includes youth hostels, study abroad information, tours and more.
- TheSELVA: Use this twitter account to learn more about Spanish-English language virtual assistance including tutoring, transcription, translation and voice-over.
- TLCNetworkClub: James Ross runs this travel language culture network that assists students in traveling and studying abroad. He also organizes language exchanges.
- USCCD: U.S. Citizen Diplomacy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit devoted to helping increase awareness of citizen diplomacy organizations & citizen diplomats doing great work at home and abroad.
College Life
- CollegeBlender: The College Blender makes it easy to connect to other college students, faculty and alumni blogs, gossip and media.
- collegeprowler: This Twitter account belongs to the site where you can find college guides written by students for students.
- Communiversity: No matter where you go to college, this Twitter account can keep you apprised of activities.
- dormdelicious: “Making the world more delicious one dorm room at a time.”
- savvystudent: SavvyStudent helps readers with topics such as financial aid, money, relationships and more.
- TheCampusBuzz: Follow this Twitter account for the latest in all college news.
- Unigo: A student-created resource about colleges and college life that opens lines of communication between high school and college students.
Jobs, Financing and Money
- BarefootStudent: Rated the number one college work portal.
- CF101: College Finance 101 is all about saving you money if you’re a college student.
- College_Mogul: This account is the voice of College Mogul, a base for college startups, entrepreneurs and tech opportunists.
- ExperienceLive: Everything you’d want to know about careers and salaries for college students and young professionals.
- Green_Panda: Follow this Twitterer if you’re into personal finance that’s geared toward college students and “20somethings.”
- InternQueen: Lauren Berger is the intern Queen, after completing 15 internships during her four years of college. Let her show you how to snag an internship.
- InterviewQs: This is the Twitter account for the site that holds hundreds of interview questions and answers and tips, advice and suggestions for job interviews.
- Loans4Students: Follow this Twitterer to learn more about available college loans.
- studentloannet: StudentLoanNetwork is one of America’s fastest growing providers of student loan information, advice, and tips for student life.
- TheCollegeGrad: This is your entry-level job board for the collegiate community.
- UGrowU: UGrowU provides employers, universities and students the ability to recruit, network, and collaborate.
- winscholarships: Who doesn’t want to win a scholarship? Follow this Twitterer to learn more about available monies.
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