Foursquare announced the rollout its Foursquare for Universities program recently, designed to help students, alumni and staff share information about classes, building hours, campus activities and traditions, and other information.
Late nights at the library are now a little bit better thanks to the geosocial service, which will reward you in badges what you missed in sleep (depending on how much value you put on virtual badges, anyways). And if you start to see more compsci majors at the Homecoming football game this season, you can thankFoursquare’s school spirit badge for that, too.
The startup has partnered with 20 universities for the launch, along with student ambassadors located at several dozen others. If your university isn’t one of them, however, don’t despair; Foursquare makes it easy for users to claim and build a university page on the service with a short questionnaire. Students can even request custom badges for their school.