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Why You Need to Consider Market Efficiency When Assessing Programs
June 15-17, 2022 Boston, MAFeatured Speaker: Ken Burns Bachelor’s programs have exploded in recent years. Between 2012 and 2020 alone, the market experienced a net gain of 7,749 bachelor’s programs across 38 broad fields of study according to NCES IPEDS data. That’s...
A Smarter Approach to Out-of-State Recruitment
Amid declining enrollment, many institutions look to out-of-state markets for a boost. Often, they assume that successful out-of-state recruitment hinges on choosing markets with a large and growing high-school demographic like Texas, California, or Florida. But in...
Program Spotlight: Supply Chain Management
One issue has increasingly crept into casual conversations this holiday season: the global supply chain. The supply chain encompasses all those activities required by companies to deliver goods to consumers—from the sourcing of raw materials to the delivery of a...
Higher Education Predictions for 2022
A once-in-a-century event like the COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder of the foolishness of making predictions. But COVID has also shaken everything up, giving prognosticators like me even more variables to work with for my Higher Education Predictions for 2022. My three...
Top 5 Wake-Up Calls of 2021
In December, I am often asked to comment on the “theme” of the past year. For that I turn to you, our readers, who drop clues about what you care most about each week when you read our Wake-Up Calls. Your answer? Enrollment, enrollment, enrollment
What Higher Ed Taught Us in 2021: Analyst Reflections
In what has become a tradition here at Eduventures, we asked our analysts to reflect on one thing they learned through their research in 2021. Much like the moment we are in, 2021’s end-of-year learnings show important signs of optimism. Adult bachelor’s prospects,...
