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How Students and Parents are Making Post-Secondary Decisions
Through our latest annual survey, we learned a great deal about the higher education decision making process for both students and their parents. We uncovered some overlapping influences as well as some divergent ones, and saw just how much some things matter to each target segment.
Survey Insights: The Challenges and Opportunities
In our 2nd Annual Parents and Students Post-Secondary Education Survey, we outline how all institutions – public and private four-year schools, community colleges, and vocational education programs – can work through or mitigate significant challenges impacting enrollment, including the Enrollment Cliff, rising education costs and ROI of post-secondary education, labor market demands and much more.
Second Annual Parents and Students Survey
In our 2nd Annual Parents and Students Post-Secondary Education Survey, we uncovered the motivations driving the most targeted segments for education marketers: high school students and their parents. We outline how all institutions – public and private four-year schools, community colleges, and vocational education programs – can work through or mitigate the current challenges impacting post-secondary enrollment.
Can Dual Enrollment Help Fill Higher Education Classrooms?
Higher education institutions of all types are under intense pressure from drops in enrollment. Finding more pathways to bring students into an institution can help colleges survive this national enrollment slump. One way to deliver a smoother pathway to college for some students is to partner with high schools to offer dual enrollment courses. Dual enrollment courses can potentially encourage students who wouldn’t otherwise have considered college to enroll after high school.
Implicit Marketing: Understanding Your Target Prospects (part 2)
The first step in reevaluating your implicit messaging is understanding your prospective students more fully. Each group of likely students will view your school through a different lens. First-generation high school graduates with immigrant parents may need to see more students like themselves represented in your materials, while a “some college, no degree” entering student may be more impressed by the range of flexible options that allow them to change their course load to accommodate their family and work lives.
University of South Alabama – College of Nursing
The University of South Alabama - College of Nursing graduate program campaign illustrates the power of higher education across our health care community.