The Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology use IRV to elect their Vice-President (Board of Control Chairperson), the Board of Control Secretary and the Interhouse Committee Chairperson and the Conduct Review Committee Student Chairman. See Article VIII, Section 5 & 6 of the ASCIT Constitution here.

IRV has been adopted in 2005 by the college student government.Since then, the voter turnout has been increasing, the Spring 2008 elections reaching the highest turnout ever. [Read the Student Press Coverage]
[See Spring 2008 Election Results]

Preferential voting is used at Carleton when more than two candidates are running for the following offices: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Committee on Student Life Co-Chair/Liaison, Intercampus Liaison, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee Liaison, and Education and Curriculum Committee Liaison. If no majority wins a seat, IRV is implemented.
[See the Spring 2008 Election Results]
[See Carleton College Bylaws, Article XVI, Section 3]

The Student Council at this Massachusetts university held its first instant runoff election for all student offices in 2003. One of Clark's lead organizers at the time, Zo Tobi, has been with FairVote on choice voting efforts in Davis, California.
[See CUSC Bylaw 201.]

The Student Assembly at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA approved IRV for student elections in 2002. Undergraduate class officers as well as the presidential ticket of the student assembly are elected through Instant Runoff Voting.
[See the Constitution of the Student Assembly, Article V.]

Cornell University students use IRV to elect two Student-Elected Trustees who serve as full-voting members of Cornell University's Board of Trustees. IRV is referenced as "the Hare System" in all Cornell legal documents.
[See Spring 2008 Elections Results Here.]
[Read the Spring 2008 Student Elections Rules, Article 4]

Dartmouth’s Student Assembly holds IRV elections since 2005. The assembly has developed an online voting site within weeks of passing the by-law. Thus, the elections for Student Body President and Vice President are conducted through instant runoff voting.
[See Article XII, Section VII & VIII of the Constitution of the Dartmouth College Student Assembly.]
[Results of the SA 2006 Elections.]
[The Dartmouth's Coverage of Spring 2008 Elections.]

Duke’s Student Government has been electing its six executive committee members through IRV since Fall 2004. Since then, IRV has been applied to all elections to make sure "the winner of all elections will be determined by a majority" as precised in the election bylaw number 6.
[Spring 2008 Election Results.]

The Graduate Dormitory Council, the Graduate Music Forum and the Graduate Student Council each use IRV for their internal executive position elections.As for the President/Vice President of the Undergraduate Student Council, STV (Single Transferable Vote, also called "the hare proportional voting system") is used.
[See Bylaws of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, Article VII]

Hendrix College used IRV for the first time during the 2003-04 academic year. Voter participation doubled and students said they were happy with the immediate results. The voting system (also called rank voting system) is currently used for all student association elections.
[See Artcle II, Section 5 of Hendrix College Election Code]

JHU used instant runoff voting for the first time during its freshman student council elections in the fall of 1999.*

Instant Runoff Voting and Choice Voting as defined in the article IV of the Associated Students' Bylaws have been adopted by this student government to "ensure that all ASLC elections are maximally representative and that each vote of an ASLC member counts." They are also defined as  "the most democratic methods for counting votes in ASLC elections". Thus, Instant Runoff Voting is used for single-seat elections and Choice Voting is used for multi-seat elections.
Lewis and Clark College has also developed a voter education campaign to familiarize voters with Instant Runoff Voting and Choice Voting before all elections.

Luther College in Iowa adopted IRV in the Spring of 2003. At first, the Student Government used IRV only for electing the President, Vice-President and Secretary, but this will be expanded to include class representatives to the Student Senate.*

IRV was adopted in Spring 2003 at Macalester for the election of executive positions on the Student Council, and is now a part of the Student Government's Constitution (Article V). Use of IRV has expanded to become the preferred method of voting for all one-seat elections.

MIT students use instant runoff voting for all of their student government elections including President, Vice-President, class councils and Student Senate. Its Web site includes detailed breakdowns of the transfer of votes within each election since 2000. [See the MIT Election Results and Archives.]

The McMaster Students Union uses IRV for presidential elections with more than two candidates.
[Browse McMaster Students Union Website]

Portland State overwhelmingly approved of IRV for key Associated Students races 79 to 21 percent after the Student Senate unanimously passed the measure in Feb. 2005. All the major candidate slates supported IRV. In 2006, the first IRV election enabled three slates to run, and resulted in a 51 to 49 percent tally between the strongest slates. IRV is currently used for the President/VP ticket and the Student Fee Committee Chair.
[Read the Daily Vanguard Coverage of 2006 Elections.]
[See the Associated Students of Portland State University Constitution, Article VII.]

Princeton's Undergraduate Student Government uses single transferable voting for its Senatorial and U-Council elections since 2003. Executive officer positions are excluded from this voting rule. The Assembly also uses IRV for balloting by Assembly and parliamentary elections.
[See the USGPU Constitution, Article VII, Revised Dec. 2004.]
[Read Assembly Bylaws]
[Read article on 2008 Executive Senator election]

The Rice Student Association uses IRV to elect its members of single offices. One of the school's most recent elections for President included six candidates and 11 rounds of voting.
[See the Rice SA Constitution - Bylaw E]

The Reed Student Body Elections Code (as amended in April 2001) provides for IRV in its Presidential and Vice-Presidential elections.*

After the adoption of IRV in San Francisco's city council elections, the students of Sonoma State University decided to move to IRV themselves for general elections. Sonoma State elections using IRV started in the 2004-05 academic year.*

In 2001, the Associated Students of Stanford University adopted instant runoff voting for executive offices and class presidencies. Since then, Stanford has continued to avoid costly and inconvenient runoff elections.

[See the Spring 2008 Official Results]
[See the Election Results Archives]
[The Daily Stanford for Press Coverage of IRV.]
[The Spring 2008 Results in The Daily Stanford]
[Read an explanation of IRV by the Stanford Student Government]
[Read a commentary about the reasons Stanford uses instant runoff voting for its student elections.]

The Tufts student body approved a new constitution for the Tufts Community Union in 2003. IRV was included in the new version both for the presidential election, Senate in-house elections and TCUJ in-house elections.
[See the TCU Constitution, Article V, Revised April 2003.]
[See the Tufts Daily Coverage of Spring 2008 Elections]

The Associated Students of the University of California at Berkeley has used IRV (which they call the alternate vote) to elect its Executive Officers since 2002.
[See the ASUC Constitution, Title IV, Sections 15.3-15.4, Revised November 2008.]
[Read an Explanation of the Voting Process Here]

The Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates of the Associated Students of the University of California at Davis are elected together through IRV since 2005. The Senate is elected via Single Transferrable Vote.
[See the ASUCD Constitution, Revised June 2005.]
[See the Winter 2008 Detailed Election Results]
[Browse the Davis Citizens for Representation Website - Supporter of Choice Voting at UC Davis.]

The Graduate Students Association's executive officers, including the President and Vice-Presidents on Internal, External and Academic Affairs, are elected through IRV since April 2006.
[Read the Graduate Students Association, Election Code, 9.7.5 ]
[The Daily Bruin Press Coverage.]
[Spring 2008 Election Coverage]

In the 3rd amendment to its constitution, the University of Minnesota Student Association stated the President and Vice-President shall be elected using IRV.

The University of Oklahoma Student Association (UOSA) held its first IRV election - a four-way race for president - in March 2005. The chief election administrator and all candidates described the online instant runoff election as a success.
[Read the Oklahoma Daily Article]

The University Board of Elections, established in 2003, staged a mock 2004 U.S. presidential race using IRV. Pitting incumbent George W. Bush against a half-dozen challengers, the election resulted in a 3.2 percent margin of victory for senator John Kerry (D-MA).
IRV was brought in to U.Va. student elections in 2003. "After many irregularities during past elections, Student Council and the University conducted two investigations/reports to propose a solution to the problems seen in student elections over the past few years. The proposed solution was the creation of the University Board of Elections and one of the reforms proposed was the introduction of IRV to avoid future run off elections. The method selected (OPAV) matched most closely the system people said that they wanted. OPAV was then set as a part of the UBE on its creation and has continued in single candidate races ever since." explains Gavin Reddick, a U. Va. student.
[Read University Board of Elections, Rules and Regulations for more information about OPAV]

The Graduate Student Government at the University of Washington has adopted instant runoff voting for single-winner elections, and the Undergraduate Student Government recently decided to implement IRV in their campuswide elections.
[Read the University of Washington Senate Bylaws, Article IX, Section 1, D.1 ]
[Spring 2008 Elections Coverage by the Daily]
[The Daily Article on the Spring 2008 Results]

The United Council of University of Wisconsin Students has adopted IRV to elect the president of its General Assembly, a body of about 150 representatives from schools across Wisconsin. The United Council is the nation's oldest, largest and strongest statewide student association, representing more than 145,000 students at 24 UW System Campuses.*

During Sept. 2002, the Vassar Student Association voted nearly unanimously to adopt instant runoff voting and the choice voting form of full representation for future student elections. In 2004, IRV and STV have been used for the first time to elect representatives for the freshman council, campus committees and the President. During the Spring 2008 student elections, all elections were held through IRV and STV (for the Judicial Board Representatives and Student Representatives).
[See the Spring 2008 Elections' Results]
[Read the 2004 Elections Coverage by The Miscellany News]
[See the Vassar Student Association Bylaws, Article VII, Section 8]

The Associated Students of Whitman College use IRV for its single-seat elections (Executive Council Elections) and choice voting (aka STV) to elect its Student Senate. Choice Voting is also used for Student Senate special elections and in case of interim IRV can be used as well.
[See the Bylaws of the ASWC, Section 3, 4, 5, 6]
[Read an Whitman Pioneer article about Spring 2008 elections.]
[Read FAQ on Student Elections]