Southwestern among America's most wired colleges

May 15, 2000

Southwestern University has been named one of America's "most wired" colleges by Yahoo! Internet Life, marking the first time in the three years of the survey that Southwestern has been recognized.

Yahoo! Internet Life, a magazine created five years ago by the popular Internet search engine company Yahoo!, focuses on stories related to technology and the Internet.

Describing the reason for the survey, reporter Rob Bernstein writes, "Undergraduates are as interested in a college's Net resources as in its curriculum or social life. Schools are as boastful of powerful network infrastructures as of celebrity professors. And prospective students are as likely to take a college tour virtually as in person."

This year, Yahoo! Internet Life teamed with Peterson's, an educational publications firm, to survey 1,300 undergraduate two-year and four-year accredited institutions. Schools contributed data about their network systems, Internet research projects, student Web services, as well as plans for incorporating technology into all aspects of campus life.

More than 40 factors were considered for the rankings in four general categories: access and infrastructure, administrative services, general resources, and student support.

Southwestern, which uses a campus-wide, fiber-optic network, is noted for having 95% of its classrooms wired for high-speed Net access and a web site that allows prospective students to apply online. Half of the public computers on campus were purchased in the past two years.

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