If music downloads are your thing then you have most likely used iTunes before. Apple has announced today that the popular download service’s iTunes U has surpassed 300 million downloads and counting. iTunes U is Apple’s digital education catalog service. The feat took a little over three years to accomplish. Currently the catalog now includes more than 800 universities as it’s partners and about half of those participants make their content available to the public through Apple’s iTunes Store.
Some of the most elite universities make sure of the iTunes distribution; Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford and the University of Melbourne. Apple has also made it a point to not limit the catalog to just the English speaking demographic. Institutions in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico and Singapore were all recently added. In total, the catalog now holds more than 350,000 free audio and video files which can be played on a computer, iPhone, iPod or iPad.