A team of analysts at Resume.io recently released a report stating that TCU is the happiest school in the nation based on a study where students’ faces were analyzed using specific criteria.
The study consisted of manually curating a list of Instagram location pages for the top universities in the U.S., Australia, and the UK. These pages then compiled all of the Instagram posts geotagged for that specific location, according to a release. From this, Resume.io used an AI emotion recognition tool to analyze thousands of Instagram photos at these different universities to find out which schools are home to the happiest students.
The Resume.io team focused on the ‘happiness’ metric, i.e., how likely a face is to be expressing happiness. For the purposes of the study, data analysts considered a face to be happy if its happiness score was given as equal to or greater than 75%.
With all this data in hand, Resume.io proceeded to rank universities in each country by the proportion of happy faces appearing in Instagram photos tagged there.
Key Findings
● Texas Christian University is the happiest university in the U.S. — three in four (76.47%) faces tagged there on Instagram are happy, according to AI analysis.
● King’s College London ranks as the happiest university in the UK — 71% of faces tagged there are happy.
● 63.55% of faces tagged in Instagram photos at the University of the Sunshine Coast are happy — making it the happiest university in Australia.
