Spotify Use by University: California Polytechnic, Iowa State and UCLA Are among Most Musical (Listening at Least)

Spotify's partnership with Echo Nest has resulted in Insights, a blog revealing all sorts of listening data for us music nerds. One recent post looks at what colleges and universities across the United States listen to the most music. Note, of course, that this is based strictly on Spotify data—they can't really track listening numbers via other methodologies. Namely, what universities signed up for the service's student deal at the highest rates. So yes, it's somewhat corporate.

The findings are still interesting however.

Some of the data isn't all that surprising: For example, of course the "hipster" playlists are consumed by New York University students at higher rates. What's more surprising is that NYU attendees openly consider themselves hipsters. Ivy League attendees at Cornell seem to listen the earliest (in the 6 to 7 a.m. slot), suggesting they're up earlier studying or doing projects.

Surprising to us on a more personal level is that Ohio State students consume more classical music than any other school in the country. We (a '11 alum) noted with humor that we were streaming John Adams' opera The Death of Klinghoffer while writing this article so maybe the findings ring true. Our cynical fiancé points out the high number of European and Asian graduate students at the school probably explains the interest in orchestral music. But whatever.

Check out the "Top 40" schools below and follow the link above to check out more statistics.

01) California Polytechnic State University

02) Iowa State University

03) University Of California Los Angeles

04) University Of North Texas

05) University Of Washington

06) Texas Tech University

07) Arizona State University

08) Northeastern University

09) University Of Arizona

10) Georgia Institute Of Technology

11) Miami University

12) University Of Missouri Columbia

13) University Of California Berkeley

14) Cornell University

15) University Of Wisconsin Madison

16) University Of Oklahoma

17) University Of Colorado Boulder

18) Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University

19) Purdue University

20) Texas A&M University

21) Ohio State University

22) University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

23) University Of Arkansas Fayetteville

24) Michigan State University

25) University Of Central Florida

26) University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign

27) University Of Virginia

28) Brigham Young University

29) University Of Michigan Ann Arbor

30) University Of Southern California

31) Pennsylvania State University

32) University Of Pennsylvania

33) University Of Florida

34) University Of Alabama

35) New York University

36) Florida State University

37) Auburn University

38) Indiana University Bloomington

39) University Of Texas Austin

40) University Of Georgia

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