Seriously, the college kids and their teachers are still heavily using laptops as their go to machines. A multitasking windowing OS, lots of production applications, highly configurable memory and storage, keyboards, mouse/touchpad, headphone port, SD card slots, various USB ports - that's appealing for folks that need to get things done - teach, do research, or just get a degree.
Looks like. Two of mine doing college started out with tablets and both are using laptops at present.