Study Finds Average College Student Uses ID Card for 6.36 Applications
Access to buildings, identification, cafeteria/food courts, library, bookstore purchases, printing and vending, in that order, are the leading applications for which American college students use their school-issued cards, says a study on the subject.
Data from independent research, Effective Management of Safe & Secure Openings & Identities and Ingersoll Rand, also showed that 76 percent of colleges still use a magnetic stripe card, even though students are the leading first adapters for new technologies. Only 31 percent of them are using proximity cards, 16 percent are using proximity fobs/tokens, 10 percent are using biometrics and nine percent are using smart cards. Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies earlier reported (September 8, 2011) that the same study showed that only 18 percent of colleges believe their security access control is effective.