Often people think that WordPress is just a blogging platform that you use to start a personal blog. That might have been true in 2003, but now WordPress powers nearly 28% of all websites on the internet. This includes many of the top brands as well as some of the most well-respected universities. In this article, we will showcase 40+ popular universities that are using WordPress.
Why and How Universities are Using WordPress?
WordPress is open source and highly customizable that makes it a great choice for universities and college websites. It is easy to setup and maintain, which allows university IT departments to quickly create and launch new websites.
Many universities use WordPress multisite network to allow faculty and students to create their own websites on university servers. WordPress is also commonly used for college news and magazine websites.
Last but not least, WordPress is also being used as a LMS solution in higher ED.
Having said that, let’s take a look at how some of the most popular universities are using WordPress.
1. Harvard Blogs
2. Boston University – Study Abroad
3. University of Berlin
4. University of Melbourne
5. Oregon State University Blogs
6. The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University
7. Cornell University
8. Georgia State University
9. Boise State University
10. Des Moines University
11. The University of Maine
12. University of Calgary
13. Bates College
14. Queen’s College
15. Wheaton College
16. UCF College of Medicine
17. MIT
18. University of California – Berkeley
19. University of Virginia
20. Bowling Green State University
21. Lafayette College
22. FIU College of Engineering and Computing
23. The University of British Columbia
24. Adams State University
25. The University of Mary Washington
26. University of Arkansas at Little Rock
27. Drew University
28. Princeton University Press
29. University of Missouri
30. University of Chicago
31. University of Brighton
32. Boston University – Admissions
33. Carleton University
34. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
35. Northeastern University
36. University of Southern California
37. Vanderbilt University
38. Georgetown University
39. Penn State University
40. Texas A&M University
41. University of Alabama
42. University of Iowa
43. Wayne State University
44. Clark University
45. University of Oxford IT Services
While we have to end our list here, there are many more universities all over the world that are using WordPress. Ready to start your own WordPress website? Check out our step by step guide on how to make a website for detailed instructions.
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Mrteesurez
People are seeing and realizing the easy of use and flexibility of Wordpress. I am happy see universities using Wordpress to power their school websites and that for some. In our region, we still have more universities that are using Wordpress. Thanks for sharing this information.
Jiří Vaněk
It is very interesting after the article and the biggest companies that use WordPress to see also the biggest universities that also use WordPress. This just goes to show how versatile this system is. An interesting look at who all uses this content management system. Certainly, the ability to expand WordPress into a membership site plays a significant role here, involving students more in the university’s daily activities. In this regard, WordPress is truly excellent.
Mrteesurez
You are correct role of Wordpress in membership. As more universities are adopting WordPress, there will be more support for membership activities like group chat and portal system, messaging system and more. The integrations might be through plugins or suggestions from the core members when the demand are more.
Andrea Hurtado
Hi:
Can we build an online school?
The students are going to be the ones login in and following the material thought out the different levels. Taking different kinds of exams, studying the material such as: videos, written articles and audios.
Is this possible?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Andrea,
It can be done using an LMS plugin like LearnDash.
Admin
Claudz
Hello! I just wonder… can we create an online school webpage where you can integrate all the lesson materials, where tutors can log into their account and use the full function of the webpage in their tutorials, like lesson materials, checking their students’ profiles, updating their tutoring schedule, etc. Thanks! ^_^
Abdurehim Nasir
It can be done using an LMS plugin like LearnDash.
Jules Webb
Don’t forget Washington State University!
WP core dev Jeremy Felt heads that up.
anis
I’d like to see an article with the top 40 news websites using wordpress
WPBeginner Support
Hi anis,
We will try to cover that soon. Meanwhile, check out our list of notable big name brands using WordPress. It has some famous news websites as well.
Admin
ROBERT KARL POPA
WordPress is infinitely more valuable for our Humanity than all the commercial, financial, services, industrial, energy and automotive companies alltogether.
Raichand Ray
Hi,
List of educational institution using wordpress provided above is great.
Please provide a good tutorial “How to create great educational websites with wordpress”.THat would be very much useful.
Thanks
Raichand Ray
WPBeginner Support
Thanks for the feedback, we will try to cover that in a future article.
Admin
Emmanuel Ike
Good day, I woul like to know to to design a registration portal with wordpress
Vitaliy Kolos
Great stuff. Does it also mean that those universities site’s are easy to hack for the people in the know?
Just kidding.
I guess it’s pretty logical that those universities use WordPress because it’s super easy to setup. Is it me or more tech oriented universities tend to use Drupal for their sites?
Chris Raymond
And what would those universities be? I see MIT, Texas Tech, and FIU in a quick perusal. I’d love to see your list!