Drupal is an open source software that empowers individuals or communities to easily create, organize, and publish a wide variety of content for the web. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations from corporations to higher education use Drupal to power countless diverse websites including but not limited to the following:

• Community web portals
• Discussion and forum sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites and blogs
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce applications
• Resource directories
• Social networking sites

An award-winning CMS

Drupal has been recognized with two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards: the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS. Drupal has won Packt Publishing’s Overall Open Source CMS award for two consecutive years.

Drupal has also won the CNET Webware 100 Award in the Publishing category for two consecutive years.

Who is Using Drupal in Higher Education?

Here is a list of some of the colleges and universities using Drupal:

Amherst College - info

Arizona State University- info

Harvard Science

Oregon State University - info

San Francisco State University:

• SFSU: BSS Computing
• SFSU: College of Business Blog
• SFSU: Creative Arts
• SFSU: IMSA
• SFSU: OpenSource at SF State
• SFSU: Student Art project (with social networking features)

State University of New York at Buffalo - info

University of Connecticut School of Law

University of Northern Iowa - info

University of Oregon Library

UNC System: UNC-C uses Drupal in student services - info