Rascasse Audience Intelligence

College Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about College in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. College has an estimated audience of 1,624,195 people in South Africa.

#280among Topic in South Africa
#66in Business & Career

College has an estimated audience of 1,624,195 people in South Africa. 56.6% are female, 43.4% are male, average age 34.0. Top brand affinities: Vocational education, Internship, Diploma, Liberal arts college, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.

Top brand affinities include Vocational education, Internship, Diploma, with strongest over-indexing on Vocational education (2.04× the country average).

Demographically, the College audience skews more female with an average age of 34.0, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Travelling, Spirituality.

The typical College fan in South Africa is more female, around 34.0 years old, with strong Travelling tendencies and a notable affinity for Vocational education.

Category: Business & Career · Type: Topic

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the College profile in South Africa.

Audience size
1.6M
in South Africa
Gender
56.6%
43.4% male
Age
34.0
average years
Country rank
#413
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+0%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of College fans

56.6% are female, 43.4% are male, average age 34.0.

Fig. 02

Gender split

56.6%
Female
43.4%
Male
Demographic split for College audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female56.6%
Male43.4%
Average age34.0
Estimated audience size1,624,195
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 34.0
average years
Age distribution of the College audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1933%
20-2925%
30-3916%
40-4911%
50+15%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.7%

of the worldwide College audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for College
CountryShare
United States24.1%
Brazil6.1%
India4.4%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the College audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for College audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Vocational schoolBusiness & Career2.61×
02LyceumBusiness & Career2.52×
03DesireMusic & Radio2.33×
04Liberal arts collegeArts & Culture2.18×
05Health promotionHealth2.18×
06Union CollegeBusiness & Career2.13×
07Vocational educationBusiness & Career2.04×
08Further educationKids & Family1.91×
09Recruit trainingBusiness & Career1.82×
10Educational accreditationBusiness & Career1.80×
11Academic certificateBusiness & Career1.80×
12DiplomaBusiness & Career1.77×
13Part-timeBusiness & Career1.68×
14CampusBusiness & Career1.66×
15Tertiary educationBusiness & Career1.61×
16Tuition paymentsBusiness & Career1.59×
17Brazilian PortuguesePolitics & Society1.57×
18Peruvian cuisineFood & Beverages1.57×
19Nelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityBusiness & Career1.55×
20InternshipBusiness & Career1.53×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the College audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by College audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TravellingTHRILL1.10×
SpiritualityBALANCE0.84×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.61×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by College audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Social Media UsageJOY0.58×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.59×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.61×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for College. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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