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r/college

The subreddit for discussion related to college and collegiate life. Founded 2008 · 2.9M members

2.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.5K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.9Mmembers
17.5Kbest post
2Kmost comments
364posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

40% 39% 12%
Text 40% Question 39% Image 12% Link 7% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Academic Life 66 USA 34 Finances/financial aid 16 Career/work 13 Emotional health/coping/adulting 12 Social Life 12 Living Arrangements/roommates 12 North America 7 Health/Mental Health/Covid 6 Global 6

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My professor sent this email out last night.

↑ 17.5K 💬 518 image 2024

This is the size of the desk i'm taking my Calc III final on

↑ 13.4K 💬 428 image 2024

Professor learned my mom died 6 months ago and wrote me this letter. The last 2 sentences... I'm crying

↑ 12.9K 💬 156 image 2017

My whole state just banned DEI Centers

↑ 12.7K 💬 2K image 2023

(Serious question) Can anyone tell me why this happens? Give me psychology, biology, anything, please! It seems almost universal that the moment you …

↑ 11K 💬 283 image 2020

My roommate cried in my arms because of the pressure to study for two exams she had today. She got this email after finishing:

↑ 9.5K 💬 734 image 2023

Harvard and MIT sue ICE over threat to remove international students who are only taking online classes

↑ 9.5K 💬 286 link 2020

I feel bad, but I’m laughing.

↑ 9.2K 💬 117 image 2022

Teacher calls out lazy students!!

↑ 8.9K 💬 307 image 2025

It probably sounds dumb, but I lost my Dad in March and he was my biggest supporter for my late in life run at a Master's Degree. I just graduated th…

↑ 7.9K 💬 344 text 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/college, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/college?
r/college describes itself this way: The subreddit for discussion related to college and collegiate life. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.9M members.
How many members does r/college have?
r/college has about 2.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 364 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.5K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/college?
"My professor sent this email out last night." reached 17.5K upvotes and 518 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/college.
What subreddits are similar to r/college?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/college?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are text posts and 39% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/college?
Across 364 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (10.1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (6.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/college?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/college has 6.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 11 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/college, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.