mtvU is MTV Networks’ 24-hour college network—the largest and most comprehensive media outlet by and for college students. A creative laboratory for students nationwide, mtvU features music videos from up-and-coming artists, the best student-produced content, national and local college news, student-led pro-social efforts and short-form series like
Stand In, where global icons ranging from Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel to Madonna and John McCain to Sting surprise-teach a class for the day. The network empowers college students to effect change on today's most pressing social issues, via efforts such as its multiple Emmy-winning Sudan campaign, and is also an incubator for top student talent, offering the musicians, filmmakers, activists and digital pioneers of tomorrow exclusive opportunities to launch their careers. mtvU was the first MTV Networks channel to be distributed in its entirety online -- simulcast and available on demand 24/7 at mtvU.com --and is also on campus more than 500 times a year with exclusive concerts, giveaways, events and more.
mtvU also owns and operates the College Media Network, the largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the US, and RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet’s largest listing of collegiate professor ratings. The College Media Network comprises over 510 campus publications that serve institutions including Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University, with a combined enrollment of over 5.5 million students. RateMyProfessors.com is a free service millions of college students use to plan their class schedules, as well as rate their professors on attributes such as helpfulness and clarity, boasting more than 6.6 million student-generated ratings of over 1,000,000 college professors. Taken together, mtvU’s online properties are the second most trafficked set of general interest college-focused websites, reaching an average of 5-7 million unique visitors each month.