--- title: Tinder Lists Most Right Swiped College, Universities description: Tinder lists most right swiped colleges and universities to find the "hottest" students canonical: https://time.com/4012338/tinder-most-right-swiped-schools-colleges-universities/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-26T22:14:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:05.338Z og:title: These Are the Most Popular Schools on Tinder og:description: Based on a right swipe ratio og:url: https://time.com/4012338/tinder-most-right-swiped-schools-colleges-universities/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are the Most Popular Schools on Tinder twitter:description: Based on a right swipe ratio twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Are the Most Popular Schools on Tinder  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 26, 2015 10:14 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 26, 2015 10:14 PM UTC As if college admissions was not competitive enough already, a new list released Wednesday by the dating app Tinder attempts to rank schools based on the attractiveness of their students. In a blog post, [the company wrote](http://blog.gotinder.com/post/127655970016/most-right-swiped-campuses-2015-did-yours-make), “Data is based on the ratio of right swipes received by students attending each university, ages 18-23 in the spring of 2015.” (Users swipe right on their smartphone screens when they like a person’s profile.) College students have been using the app to meet students at other nearby universities or people that they might not have overlapped with in classes and clubs yet. Or, to [find the free food](http://time.com/77531/tinder-college-free-food/). Below is the full list from Tinder:  Tinder ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4012338/tinder-most-right-swiped-schools-colleges-universities/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4012338/tinder-most-right-swiped-schools-colleges-universities/"},"headline":"These Are the Most Popular Schools on Tinder","datePublished":"2015-08-26T22:14:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:05.338Z","description":"The dating app says its inaugural list shows which schools have \"the most desirable student body\"","url":"https://time.com/4012338/tinder-most-right-swiped-schools-colleges-universities/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4012338/tinder-most-right-swiped-schools-colleges-universities/","name":"These Are the Most Popular Schools on Tinder"}}]}] ```