The Voice of
College Students
Data-driven marketing and custom research solutions to help businesses and nonprofit organizations better understand and connect with American college students.
130,000,000+
Responses Collected
800,000+
Students Signed Up
1500+
College Campuses
OUR RESEARCH IS TRUSTED BY:
Custom Research
Work with our team of survey experts to design custom research on the student demographic. Whether you need to interview computer science majors at MIT, students at online universities or a nationally representative sample, we’ve got you covered.
"College Pulse is an outstanding research partner - highly responsive and collaborative from start to finish. We have findings in hand in a matter of days and an insightful, visually engaging report within weeks. Thank you for designing efficiency and quality into your offering."
Evette Alexander
Director of Learning & Impact, Knight Foundation
Why College Pulse?
Unparalleled Reach
Our American College Student Panel is the largest of it's kind with more than 800,000 college student and recent grads from 1500 two and four-year colleges and universities in all 50 states.
Rigorous Methodology
Crafted by industry veterans with extensive opinion polling backgrounds, our methodology ensures we present data that accurately reflects the attitudes and opinions of your target population.
College Student Experts
No one understands college students better than us. We've collected more than 100 million responses from students around the country.
Featured Research Projects
The Wall Street Journal / College Pulse 2025 College Best College Rankings
The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking rates the top 500 universities in the country.
News & Research
See all our latest research projects and how they’re leveraged to create impact.
What our clients say.
College Pulse partners with leading academic researchers, prominent think tanks, and global brands to conduct ground-breaking research on the college demographic. Here’s what they’re saying about us:
"We were incredibly fortunate to work with College Pulse on the Chegg/College Pulse Election Tracker. The project was very ambitious, but they not only were able to deliver on a large scale, they exceeded my expectations on everything from framing the research questions to methodological rigor to presentation of insights. They were very easy to work with and a truly turn-key solution -- more importantly, their extra efforts helped us exceed our business goals for the project.”
Bonny Brown
Head of Research, Chegg
“College Pulse ignited our study of civic engagement and global citizenry. After conducting our study one college at a time, College Pulse’s robust panel allowed us to understand all American college students commitment to serve and development pursuant to most college missions quickly and with the highest methodological standards.”
Don Levy, Ph.D
NASCE, Director Siena College Research Institute and Principal Investigator
