The 2025 Content Benchmarks Report: Schools & Education

Social is where your future applicants, current students, faculty, alumni and donors are—each with different expectations. At the same time, platforms are reaching peak saturation, and treating social as a broadcast channel only creates more noise.

The 2025 Schools & Education Content Benchmarks Report offers a glimpse into performance trends across networks, the types of content and engagement audiences crave today, and what that means for the year ahead.

Through an analysis of more than 3 billion messages from over 1 million public social profiles—and consumer surveys from across the US, UK and Australia—we’ve compiled all the insights you need to shape a social content strategy that builds trust with each of your distinct audiences.

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How to use this research

Contextualize your performance

Explore our social publishing and engagement benchmarks from the education industry to help you understand how your approach stacks up. Use these insights to compare performance against direct and indirect competitors, and set realistic goals with leadership.

Craft content that can’t be ignored

Social media content saturation is at an all-time high. Posting for the sake of posting isn’t enough to capture attention. We share data on the content qualities audiences say make brands stand out, and profile education institutions whose content stands apart for all the right reasons.

Lean into community engagement

People want to be listened to. Community building is equally (if not more) important than content creation when it comes to nurturing a loyal, global audience on social. Use these insights to calibrate an engagement strategy that exceeds expectations.

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