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First-Time Undergraduate Enrollment: The Haves and the Have Nots
The landscape for undergraduate enrollment isn’t fair. Some institutions get all the students while others struggle to make enrollment. Certainly, regional markets for first-time undergraduates are heavily influenced by geo-demography. But geo-demography isn’t the...
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Tip of the Iceberg: A National MBA Market Overview
The current state of the U.S. MBA market can best be compared to your average glacier: large, slowly decreasing in size, and leaving a mark when it recedes. Still, MBA programs make up the greatest number of any single type of master’s degree program and enroll the...
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Can Amazon Upskill Higher Education? A Beta Test
Amazon Prime Day came and went on July 15th, and by most accounts, it left smiling faces around the globe. But just a few days before this annual shop-a-thon, Amazon announced a gift of its own: a pledge to [inlinetweet prefix="RT @EduventuresInc: Amazon plans to"...
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Where You At?: Texting in Recruitment Outreach
About 10 years ago, recruitment marketers were debating the merits of reaching prospects on social media. Did this new channel present a promising opportunity for texting in recruitment? Or was it too intrusive?Today, we are hearing a similar debate around texting in...
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How Blackboard is Cracking the Data Flow Issue
Most conversations about integration hinge on the belief that technology solutions, once integrated, will share a data flow seamlessly so that users can access and use all data held within the integrated products. Unfortunately, this belief conflates data shareability...
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The College Enrollment Paradox: Decline, Growth, and Sustainability
This summer marks the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth in U.S. history—a full decade since we exited the Great Recession. Fall 2019 will almost certainly mark another record: a 10-year decline in first-time college enrollment. Such a decline has not...
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Measuring Up on Net College Cost: Admitted Student Benchmarks
How do your admitted students view your institution’s net college cost? How does this compare to other institutions like yours? And, why do you need to know?Not knowing leaves you in the wilderness, guessing about how undergraduate students think about price and...
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California Dreamin’? New Regulations for OPMs and For-Profit Schools
California Assemblyman Kevin McCarty has a long record of advocating for improvements in public education, criminal justice reform, and improved access to health care. He has also become an important actor in a new drama designed to introduce new regulations for OPMs...
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What EdTech Platforms Can Learn from Apple: 5 Vendors to Watch
Imagine what your iPhone would be like if Steve Jobs had—according to Walter Isaacson’s biography—succeeded in disallowing the open-platform App Store. We wouldn't have edtech platforms like today. How long would it have taken before we had apps to stream music, use...
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Refocusing on the Schools of Arts and Sciences: Three Program Areas to Watch
In recent years, we have seen increased student interest in programs with strong career articulation. Eduventures data suggests that this interest comes at the expense of more traditional programs often housed in schools of arts and sciences. Programs like English, psychology, and history have fallen out of favor, while healthcare, business, engineering, and computer science have enjoyed rising popularity.
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A Fact Check on Out-of-State Recruitment: Don’t Mess With Texas
Given the new reality of dwindling high school demographics, many institutions are exploring out-of-state recruitment in markets with more favorable population statistics. Texas, in particular, is an El Dorado of future high school graduates.According to the Western...
read moreHigh School Graduates: New England Challenges Conventional Wisdom
“Just one more question.” At the end of an Eduventures advising session with a university client, the vice president of enrollment said something intriguing. “The presidents’ cabinets have long been familiar with data showing falling high school graduates in our state...
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