College Magazine Essentials:

In the creation of making a college magazine, the target audiences wants must be considered. The wants of the audience are shown in a questionnaire and here is the results:




Do you want a college magazine? 80% said yes and 10% said no. A further 10% were not sure. A massive percentage obviously want a magazine, showing a clear market for us.
Would you pay for a college magazine? 60% said yes and 40% said no. This shows that over half of the people asked would pay for a magazine and this will make sure that we make money from a college magazine.
From the questionnaire, many asked students thought that it would be a good idea for the college magazine to be published every two weeks. A few asked for it to be published every month, but the majority verdict won.

The price range of the magazine varied from 50p to £2.00. A massive 90% voted for 50p, which is understandable considering it will not be sold in shops and only in the college.


Areas in the college magazine that were wanted included a gossip page, college information, course information, event guides, job sections and a problem page. These were voted as being essential to the magazine layout. Areas that were not voted for included a sports page, a horoscope and competitions.


It is also clear from many people asked that more could be done to encourage more people to read the magazine. This includes a personal feel to the magazine, i.e partying students and general recordings of good times, as well as awards and hard workers, etc...


Subscriptions are not wanted as these magazines are just handed out every two weeks to a small audience in a college.


With the front cover design of the magazine, the asked audience thought that pictures of actual students should star at the front either at a college party or just having a good time at the college. This will require personal touches and students will have to enroll to get on the front page.


As you can clearly see, it is obvious that a college magazine would be highly welcomed as students want more personal news about courses and dates.

College Magazines!

To make a successful college magazine, it is important for me to research and look at existing magazines in the real world.

Here are some examples:






The two above college magazines are very different. To start with, the  magazine on the left is clearly aimed at a more lower class audience, whereas the magazine on the right looks like a magazine for a more middle class student at a slightly more respectable college.
Furthermore, the magazine on the left looks badly designed and is clearly trying to appeal to the social life of college, whereas the magazine on the right focuses more on studying and revision.