Mac Market Share Rising at Cornell University

>My wife works at Boston University and they keep similar statistics
>to Cornell regarding computer usage and OS version. They too have
>seen Mac marketshare go from ~5% to a current 29% of networked users.
>Windows has dropped to around 70%. Total computer registration is
>around 11000 users.

That's huge - 29% of networked users is even beyond Cornell. I wonder
if there are other colleges and universities that are even higher.

cheers... -Adam

On Oct 6, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Adam C. Engst wrote:
> That's huge - 29% of networked users is even beyond Cornell. I wonder
> if there are other colleges and universities that are even higher.

This article from The Daily Princeton

     http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/10/12/arts/16162.shtml

doesn't mention the number of Macs on the network, but it does say that

> 45 percent of computers purchased this year were Macs

These purchases were from the Office of Information Technology, which
sells computers to students. So 45% is the 2006 freshman class
number. The previous three years were 15% (2003), 25% (2004), and 38%
(2005). These numbers do not include the computers that students
purchased from other vendors.

If you assume (1) that the percentages represent the overall
percentage of computers for each freshman class, and that (2) the
freshman class is about the same size each year, then the total
number of undergraduate student computers connected to the Princeton
U network is 31%--about the same as Boston U. The second assumption
is reasonable, to first order, but I don't know how reasonable the
first assumption is.

Fred

At 4:46 AM -0700 10/6/07, Adam C. Engst wrote:
>>My wife works at Boston University and they keep similar statistics
>>to Cornell regarding computer usage and OS version. They too have
>>seen Mac marketshare go from ~5% to a current 29% of networked users.
>>Windows has dropped to around 70%. Total computer registration is
>>around 11000 users.
>
>That's huge - 29% of networked users is even beyond Cornell. I wonder
>if there are other colleges and universities that are even higher.

Maybe the Missouri School of Journalism...

<http://duggmirror.com/apple/Look_at_them_apples/>

:)

Cheers,

Ken

> That's huge - 29% of networked users is even beyond Cornell. I wonder
> if there are other colleges and universities that are even higher.

Yes, there are, especially at the art & design colleges/universities.

During my tenure at the Fashion Institute of Technology, I estimated
that easily 50% of our student population were Mac users. Our labs and
classrooms were approximately 50/50 Mac/PC.

I know that School of Visual Arts (SVA) and Pratt had similar numbers.
Even at schools that aren't art-focused, the Mac usage is increasing
say my colleagues at Fordham, Columbia, and NYU.

- Damien.

Just saw an article about how 40% of students and faculty at
Princeton use Macs now.

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/10/05/news/18871.shtml

cheers... -Adam

> That's huge - 29% of networked users is even beyond Cornell. I wonder
> if there are other colleges and universities that are even higher.

According to an article in the Daily Princetonian (which quotes
Princeton's Office of Information technology), based on network
connections 40% of faculty and students use Macs at Princeton (up
from 10% just 5 years ago). And Macs accounted for 60% of computer
purchases by students this fall.

http://dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/10/05/news/18871.shtml

That's pretty stunning.

Tomoharu

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Adam C. Engst wrote:

> That's huge - 29% of networked users is even beyond Cornell. I wonder
> if there are other colleges and universities that are even higher.

If you haven't seen it already...

http://duggmirror.com/apple/Look_at_them_apples/

http://duggmirror.com/apple/Look_at_them_apples/9489b70ab55692ffcac3ec776aa50a1f_img_6672s.jpg

http://duggmirror.com/apple/Look_at_them_apples/cba56d2d8545c3b1818ab1c3c1ba58de_img_6671s.jpg

Quoting:

    ... to see these photos from my alma mater, The Missouri School
    of Journalism. Back in the fall of 2001 when I was a freshman,
    it was me and two other kids in the back row with our glowing
    Apples. Now I feel almost sad for that poor kid with the Windows
    machine in the front row:)

In those two photos, I think I see maybe a half-dozen non-Mac laptops,
compared to... let's see, about 25 people per row, about 15 rows, and
nearly everyone with a laptop, so... 350 or so Macs?

Then again, it looks like the school has standardized on this --

    Students are encouraged to acquire wireless laptop technology
    from Apple, which the School has designated as its preferred
    provider, but students also will have a choice of a Windows-
    based alternative. Last year, 99.5 percent of incoming
    students chose the Apple option.

http://journalism.missouri.edu/undergraduate/computer-requirements.html

-- so they might not be a valid reference point.

Still, they're great photos :-)



--
Chris Devers

On Saturday Oct 6, 2007, at 4:46 AM, Adam C. Engst wrote:

>> I wonder
>> if there are other colleges and universities that are even higher.


I received this at the end of August from the Director of Information
and Technology at the University of Oregon School of Law, with regard
to their incoming class of 177 students (as you can see, every year
for the past several years, more students have opted for Macs):

> After collecting platform metrics on our students, we have:
>
> 102 MacBook/MacBook Pro
> 25 Dell Latitude D630
> 24 Non-Package Laptops (HP, Toshiba, Inspirons, other junk)
>
> Most of the remaining 26 students are waiting for their Dells (supply
> chain problems) but I know of two of these students who decided they
> would rather have Macs.
>
> On the Mac side of things for new students, here's a breakdown:
>
> 24 MacBook (Black)
> 56 MacBook (White)
> 22 MacBook Pro
>
> Here's the breakdown for the other classes:
>
> 2Ls
>
> 66 MacBook
> 42 Dell
> 42 Non-Package
> 12 Unknown
>
> 3Ls
>
> 41 MacBook/PowerBook
> 69 Dell
> 11 Non-Package
> 53 Unknown
>
> So, our total look like this:
>
> 209 Macs
> 136 Dell
> 77 Non-Package
> 65 Unknown
>
> We will be improving our record keeping throughout the year to better
> refine the non-packages (some are definitely Macs) and the unknowns.


Randy B. Singer • Mac OS X Routine Maintenance • http://
www.macattorney.com/ts.html

Don't know if it still is, but Dartmouth College was all macs when my
daughter was there in 1990-94.


[Although Dartmouth still has a lot of Macs, it's by no means all-Mac any more. It would be great if someone from there could find some public numbers to share. -Adam]


Kathie

According to this week's Adweek, Apple is the #2 brand among US college
students. The article will go behind a walled garden in the next day or two:

http://adage.com/article?article_id=120919

Here's the most interesting stuff re: Apple:

"While the college group is one of the smallest demographically in the
U.S. -- about 18 million projected by the U.S. Census this year vs.
around 80 million baby boomers -- it is one of the most influential. And
the one paid most homage by marketers.

"They have huge impact on what their parents buy, and then they have
their own money, more than any other generation before them, and of
course they are the consumers of tomorrow," Mr. Anderson said, adding
that marketers also target the 18-to-24 crowd to reach society at large.
"In America, everyone wants to be younger, so we look to younger people.
We think they're happier than us and we want to be like them, resulting
in a younger-targeted marketing message," he said.

Not surprisingly, the brand that ruled with this group was Apple. It
ranked as the No. 2 overall best brand by 17% of the students; ranked
Nos. 1 and 2 as most anticipated products with iPhone and new iPod
versions; ranked Nos. 1 and 2 in product recommendations with iPod
followed by Apple products in general; and ranked No. 6 in most popular
commercials."

Marilyn

On Oct 7, 2007, at 6:51 AM, Adam C. Engst wrote:

> Just saw an article about how 40% of students and faculty at
> Princeton use Macs now.

Saw another article under hot news at Apple.com on colleges in
Minnesota. Here's the direct link to the story.

http://www.twincities.com/technology/ci_7277845?nclick_check=1?
sr=hotnews

As a seminary student I can tell you have I gone from being one of
three Mac laptops (whether iBook, Powerbook, or MacBook) in my
classes to 50% or better. To give you a better picture last fall in a
year long class we started with 3 Macs laptops for note taking in the
classroom with around 9 Windows based laptops or tablets. By the end
of the year there were 13 Macs of various vintages and 12 Windows in
a classroom of just under 50 people. This is despite there being no
computer outlet on campus and no Mac support besides the students
themselves. [I won't mention who has occasionally helped others
troubleshoot the access to the library's wireless printers at the
request of library staff. :-) I will say I was overjoyed when they
decided to invest in a USB cable -- especially since the Windows
users were having even worse trouble than the Macs.]
I realize this is only my observation and is not backed by any hard
data beyond my eyeballs. I also know that some people just don't like
taking notes on a laptop or may only have a desk top. And I also know
that among the professors, some who are seriously tech challenged,
the overriding platform is Windows. Still the increase is quite
remarkable.

Jean