Eduventures—a company committed to collaborative educational research and consulting—recently released statistics from a research project conducted to explore the views, usage and future demand/ownership of various technologies and brands among 18- to 24-year-old students enrolled full-time at a four-year college or university.

The findings indicate that 79 percent of student participants own a laptop compared to 49 percent who own a desktop, while 30 percent own both. The research also found that most students spend up to five hours a day on the Internet with a fairly even distribution between personal and school use. Email remains the most popular means of communication for all school purposes.

Eduventures’ research also indicates that the number of students who own converged mobile devices (PDAs with or without phones) is on the rise. Of course, these statistics only confirm what we’ve been discussing for quite some time now: the combination of mobility and convergence seems to be crucial to the success of educational technology now and in the future.

Read more about Eduventures’ research in Campus Technology.