Schools on Facebook accelerates and amplifies connectedness and belonging at your institution. It allows your target audience to express their interests, uncover existing connections, and engage with those they care about, all within Facebook. Mouse over a screenshot to see how it works.

Expressing Themselves

Getting started with your institution's Schools on Facebook application is really intuitive. As they enter, the application asks for their hometown, academic and extracurricular interests so they gain a sense of belonging before ever getting to campus.

Location By entering their hometown city, state, or zip code, prospective students and students can start to connect with others.

Academics Entering academic interests places users into discussion communities of students with similar academic aspirations.

Extracurriculars Incoming users are prompted to express extracurricular interests to help direct them to the clubs and organizations on your campus that would be most relevant to them.

Uncovering Existing Connections

After entering their location and interests, the application surfaces those within their peergroup who they share the most in common with. These automated communities based on interest are one of several differences between Schools on Facebook and your institution's Facebook Page or Group.

Discover Schools on Facebook makes it easy for your audience to meet others from their hometown, making the transition to your campus less intimidating.

Network After indicating their interests, your audience is able to network with people in their personalized social network, ranked by amount in common.

Discuss Giving your audience access to discussion communities that are relevant to them will instantly increase the amount of attention they give your school's marketing efforts. Say goodbye to unfiltered, one-size-fits-all forums.

Engaging with Relevant People

Finding friends is much easier when you're a click away from those who share common traits with you. From the clubs and organizations they want to get involved in, to the questions that are on their mind and the classes that they are taking, Schools on Facebook connects your campus.

Program or Major Bring each major to life. Students within certain programs of study can congregate amongst themselves with Schools on Facebook.

Clubs and Organizations Clubs, organizations, teams, departments, and offices all have their own home on Facebook, within your institution's umbrella. No more rogue Facebook pages and groups popping up; and finally a way to measure and manage activity across the institution.

Questions and Answers New classes of students bring new questions, while new trends bring new answers to old questions. Schools on Facebook's Q&A community lets your experts answer your questions, while crowd-sourcing feedback from your audience.

Course Walls Students can now not only see who's in their upcoming classes, they can uncover social information like which friends have experience with an upcoming professor. They can add real value to their social networks by serving as a resource to their peers.

Polling Schools on Facebook equips students with a low-commitment way to jump into conversations. It's a way to create hallway conversations online, so that students feel a sense of connection and open communication.