The new gTLD .Education opens up for live registrations on April 2nd but of course had a Sunrise period early for trademark holders and its in the final day of the Early Access Program.
Going through the zone file I only found only three what you would consider major, 4 year brick and mortar universities that applied for a .Education domain;
Arizona State University registered ArizonaState.education, ArizonaStateuniversity.education, Sundevil.education and Sundevils.education.
Auburn University registered AuburnUniversity.education (Auburn.Education is reserved or on the ICANN blocked list)
The University of Colorado registered UniversityofColorado.education (Colorado.education is reserved or on the ICANN blocked list)
I found three more 4 year colleges that registered a .education domain;
Davidson College which is located in North Carolina registered Davidson.education and DavidsonCollege.education
Lake Michigan College registered the domain name LakeMichiganCollege.education
Northwestern Christian University whose current site is nwcu.edu registered NorthwesternChristianUniversity.education
The University of South Australia registered the Universityofsouthaustralia.education.
There were a few registrations from online universities and education programs including;
barbri.education
bell.education
berlitz.education
concordia.education
mosesbrown.education
Several community colleges got an .education domain including:
gatewaycommunitycollege.education
glendalecommunitycollege.education
maricopacommunitycolleges.education
mckinleycollege.education
mesacommunitycollege.education
phoenixcollege.education
scottsdalecommunitycollege.education
southmountaincommunitycollege.education
Although not schools I did see a couple of interesting registration:
MayoClinic.education was registered to the very famous hospital
YMCA.education was registered by the organization not the Village People
The domain names, Book.education and Books.education were registered yesterday on EAP 4 by Domain Licenses Limited of London who used brand protection company and registrar comlaude.co.uk
