#Duketrendingup

If the number of Facebook fans were the criteria for university rankings, Duke would rank 3rd.

Although Duke may have fallen to the 10th spot in the U.S. News rankings, Duke is now more digitally connected than many of the other schools in the top 10, according to data released by Mashable.

Duke has 4,333 Twitter followers, 88,191 Facebook fans and 1,386 YouTube subscribers as of Tuesday. In these three categories, Duke ranks 6th, 3rd and 7th, respectively, among the top 10 universities in U.S. News and World Report's national university rankings.

In the Twitter category, Harvard University has the most followers (66,737), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the least (781). Duke has more followers than the University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology and MIT.

Harvard also has the most Facebook fans (698,933), followed by Stanford and Duke, respectively—Caltech has the least (7,713).

MIT and Stanford have the most YouTube subscribers—112,216 and 89,041, respectively—which is probably because of their open education software. Duke has more subscribers than Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and Caltech, which only has 302.