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Higher Ed Institutions Tap Snapchat for Campus Tours

By Sri Ravipati
11/09/16

In honor of College Application Month, a number of colleges and universities are posting video tours of their campuses via Snapchat throughout November.

Led by Get Schooled, several Snapchat tours have already taken place. A full list of participating schools includes:

University of Pennsylvania, University of Arizona and the Culinary Institute of America (Nov. 1–4);
Howard University, Spelman College, St. John’s University, University of Kansas and California State University, Northridge (Nov. 7–11);
Columbia College Chicago, Cornell University; Tuskegee University, Xavier University and University of California, Los Angeles (Nov. 14–18); and
University of Michigan, Heritage University, University of Wisconsin, Texas A&M University and University of Louisville (Nov. 28–Dec. 1).

Anyone can submit questions for the tours through the Get Schooled website and Snapchat. To watch the campus tours, follow @GetSchooledSnap on Snapchat.

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Sri Ravipati is Web producer for THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at [email protected].

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