Student recruitment and retention in higher education

Student recruitment and retention in higher education
Author: Mary Fiagbe
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3668420432

Literature Review from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Basics and General, grade: 78%, University of Windsor, language: English, abstract: This bibliography uses six peer-reviewed journals to examine various strategies adopted by higher education institutions to promote the recruitment and retention of students. It also analyzes both positive and negative factors that may influence such strategies.

The New Guide to Student Recruitment Marketing

The New Guide to Student Recruitment Marketing
Author: Virginia Carter Smith
Publisher: Council for Advancement &
Total Pages: 95
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780899642451

The 53 best articles from "Case Currents" on student recruitment marketing are presented. The importance of a marketing plan and ways to apply basic marketing principles to recruitment programs are explained. Eight sections cover: exploring the marketing concept; conducting market research and putting the data to work; reaching out to recruit adults and others; using personal approaches in recruitment programs; involving students and alumni to recruit students; communicating effectively through publications; creating memorable film and slide shows; and building audience awareness through advertising. Specific topics include: reaching unenrolled applicants and students who have never graduated; a management vs. sales model; using research to help the marketing program succeed; research that helps students choose the right college; comparing face-to-face, mail, and telephone surveys; taking classes to shopping centers; recruiting two-year college graduates; increasing the school's applicant pool; a campus visit for students; communicating through catalogs; test for clear writing; a college audiovisual show; the importance of the soundtrack to a college slide show; and knowing the institution and the market before advertising. (SW)

Marketing Strategies for Higher Education Institutions: Technological Considerations and Practices

Marketing Strategies for Higher Education Institutions: Technological Considerations and Practices
Author: Tripathi, Purnendu
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466640154

Although higher education institutes are not typically thought of as a business, colleges and universities utilize marketing strategies in order to compete for students. Information and communication technologies have enhanced and changed the nature and context of communication exchange, allowing for a broader range of competition. Marketing Strategies for Higher Education Institutions: Technological Considerations and Practices provides different aspects of marketing management and technological innovations in all parts of education, including K-12, non-formal, and distance education. Highlighting research studies, experiences, and cases on educational marketing, this book is essential for educational planners, administrators, researchers, and marketing practitioners involved in all aspects of educational development.

The Educated Marketer

The Educated Marketer
Author: Christopher Grant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989523066

Everyone in college and university admission knows that student recruitment is challenging. More and more now question the value of a college degree (especially a liberal arts degree) and are seeking quicker and cheaper alternatives to four-year programs. To complicate matters, today's rising juniors and seniors (all of whom are digital natives) are immune or averse to advertising, once the foundation of college marketing efforts. Increasingly, college marketers and admissions professionals are finding that their efforts just aren't offering the kind of return they once did. This book gives an overview of a new solution to reaching and nurturing prospects where they are and how they want to be reached: online. That's where inbound comes in. It's not about spending more on advertising or launching more aggressive or ever more creative campaigns. It's not merely about creating and sustaining a presence on the web. It's a whole new strategy: the proven strategy for the digital age. The Educated Marketer is the only book out there on leveraging this powerful new marketing tool for college and university recruitment. It's got everything you need to know, including: How to identify and reach your target applicants How to optimize your website for maximum effectiveness How to track your progress and success How to create delightful content How to attract, convert, and enroll students (without advertising) Vintage furniture may be retro-chic, but vintage marketing strategies are just retrograde. You can do better. You can go inbound.

International Marketing of Higher Education

International Marketing of Higher Education
Author: Terry Wu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137542918

This book examines both the theory and applications of marketing higher education in a global environment. Universities and colleges face new challenges in student recruitment and international competition. This book is designed to offer new insights into international marketing of higher education. With declining domestic enrollments and continuing funding cuts, many higher education institutions are exploring new ways to market and promote themselves to international students. Higher education institutions view international students not only as a source of revenue, but also as an integral part of an overall academic strategy. While international students face many destination choices, they normally choose universities and colleges in developed countries such as the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The international marketing of higher education is of growing importance to universities and colleges today.

New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing

New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing
Author: James A Burns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136582495

With rising financial difficulties and declining enrollments, many colleges and universities are finding that they need new and better ways to present and promote themselves to potential students and the general public. New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing contains practical, “how-to” applications of marketing thought and theory for the higher education environment. Written by practitioners for practitioners, this valuable book offers new viewpoints, tools, and creative ways to solve potentially devastating problems through the implementation of marketing. Each chapter is application oriented and cases and situations common to most universities and colleges are discussed to illustrate marketing strategies and techniques to make them more easily understood and readily usable. New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing is divided into four sections: Strategy Research and Promotion Enrollment Services Development. It includes informative chapters on topics including perceptions and proper application of marketing in higher education; fund raising; public relations; coordination of intra-organizational efforts; techniques and methods of gathering information and data; and the challenge and management of student enrollment. Directors, presidents, vice-presidents, and others responsible for or interested in the marketing of a college or university will find a wealth of highly practical information in this book.

Marketing and Student Recruitment Practices at Four-Year and Two-Year Institutions, 2011. Noel-Levitz Report on Undergraduate Trends in Enrollment Management

Marketing and Student Recruitment Practices at Four-Year and Two-Year Institutions, 2011. Noel-Levitz Report on Undergraduate Trends in Enrollment Management
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN:

What's working in student recruitment and marketing at the undergraduate level? To find out, Noel-Levitz conducted a 97-item, Web-based poll in April of 2011 as part of the firm's continuing series of benchmark polls for higher education. Among the findings: (1) The "top 10" most effective practices in 2011--across public and private, two-year and four-year campuses--included many widely-used practices such as open houses and campus visit days as well as a few practices that were used by less than half of respondents; (2) Interaction with enrolled students, online applications, and initiatives to address students' concerns about costs were all included among the top practices across institution types; (3) Up to 55 percent of respondents from four-year private and public institutions and up to 67 percent of respondents from two-year public institutions reported using practices that most respondents in their sector judged to be "minimally effective"; (4) Purchasing student names was found to be a widespread practice in higher education, especially among four-year institutions, but the number of names purchased and the timing and number of contacts made with purchased names varied considerably among sectors and among institutions within each sector; (5) Mobile apps ranked among the least-used practices across institution types, despite the fact that nearly two-thirds of respondents from four-year institutions (63 to 64 percent) rated them "very effective" or "somewhat effective"; (6) Student-to-student contact programs--programs that keep enrolled students in touch with prospective students--were found to be used by a majority of four-year private and public institutions (73 and 61 percent, respectively) but only by a minority of two-year public institutions (27 percent), with a wide variety of practice in the frequency of such contacts; and (7) Only about half or less of respondents reported having a strategic, multi-year enrollment plan that they felt good about, only about half had a process for evaluating marketing and recruitment strategies that they felt good about, and only about one-fifth of campuses had a standing campuswide committee for marketing and recruitment planning that they felt good about. Appended are: (1) Complete findings by institution type; (2) Responding institutions; and (3) About Noel-Levitz.