Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

How can you navigate the trends in graduate enrollment? As I did that, I wanted to address five statistics that keep coming up in my conversations with graduate enrollment leaders. Because CGS does not include some of the institutions with the largest online enrollment in the country, I had some concerns about these data.

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Ruffaloni

MAY 11, 2023

It is so exciting to be able to announce the publication of the third edition of Strategic Enrollment Planning: A Dynamic Collaboration. Why focus on strategic enrollment planning? Every bit of enrollment growth for one institution is likely to mean a corresponding decline at another. What’s in the new book edition?

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BestColleges

MAY 3, 2023

Note Reference [1] Check Immediate college enrollment for Asian students was 82%, a rate much higher than those for white students (69%), Hispanic and Latino/a students (64%), and Black students (57%). [3] in total fall enrollment — or a decrease of nearly 2 million students. million out of 3.2

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Data Summary Check Hispanic and Latino/a undergraduate students made up 17.5% of the total student undergraduate population in 2022. [1] 1] Check There were roughly 282,940 Hispanic and Latino/a graduate students, and they made up around 9% of the total graduate student population.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 27, 2023

What is the best way to ensure a healthy enrollment outlook? Planning: holistic strategic enrollment planning. Every president and campus leader knows that enrollment growth (or in some cases stabilization) is crucial to the financial viability of their university. That thing is true Strategic Enrollment Planning (SEP).

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BestColleges

MARCH 31, 2023

This report covers the racial and ethnic diversity of college students and faculty and explores why diversity is important in higher education. Benefits of Diversity in Colleges Faculty Diversity References Demographics of Colleges This section explores college-student demographics by institution type and over time.

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EAB

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Blogs 4 takeaways from marketing to graduate students in 2023—and predictions for 2024 Insights from a former higher ed CMO I recently returned from the Windy City, where I attended the American Marketing Association ’s (AMA) annual higher ed symposium. by growing lifelong learning offerings.

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BestColleges

MARCH 29, 2023

Data Summary Check Nearly 1 in 5 undergraduate college students reported having a disability in 2015-2016. [1] 1] Check 12% of graduate students reported having a disability. Note Reference [1] Check In 2022, 15% of college students reported having ADD or ADHD. [2] 24.8%) has a disability. [5]

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Graduate students are more likely to enroll at the program that admits them first. Enrollment is everyone’s obligation, and good university leaders embrace the responsibility. This makes a student-centric, efficient, and personalized admissions process not just an option, but a necessity. Where do you start?

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Millions of online undergraduate and graduate students may have been undercounted. Because online and graduate students are less committed to starting in the fall. The fall enrollment snapshot that we have relied on is undercounting online student by 75 percent among undergraduates and 44 percent among graduate students.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Student feedback is essential for optimizing your marketing efforts. As the landscape of higher education continues to evolve, institutions are faced with the challenge of distinguishing their programs from others. New RNL research shows that graduate enrollment is normalizing , with a significant shift towards online education.

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Ruffaloni

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Earlier this month, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released their annual “Graduate Enrollment and Degrees 2012-2022” report. The headline in Inside Higher Education was that graduate enrollment contracted by 4.7 My two go-to data sources are IPEDS and National Student Clearinghouse (NSC).

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This may sound simple, but higher education—and in particular graduate education—has been guilty of ignoring market trends and expectations, and then applying engagement and communication strategies that fit the academic environment rather than the needs and demands of prospective students.

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Ruffaloni

AUGUST 30, 2023

Regardless of the common misperception that prospective graduate students do not click on digital ads, they do click, and therefore digital lead generation really does work. I wrote on just this topic in RNL’s recently released RNL 2023 Graduate Student Recruitment Report. The answer?

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Ruffaloni

JUNE 28, 2023

Social listening for higher education can give individuals, teams, programs, and entire institutions an advantage in multiple ways. In higher education, marketers are often monitoring industries and the economy in general, in addition to their own competitors. How do you know if you’re doing it right?

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 18, 2024

Professionally, you may have set a goal to better understand the markets (students) your college or university serves, how those markets are changing, and what new markets that may be available to you. If your core markets are declining, there are various strategies to sustain or grow enrollment. Absolutely!

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Ruffaloni

AUGUST 30, 2023

Every year, I look forward to the release of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report from QM and Eduventures, which shares results from a national survey of chief online officers (COOs) across higher education. for graduate students), this figure is still striking.

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EAB

APRIL 13, 2023

Blogs Why half of graduate enrollment leaders didn’t meet their goals Insights from EAB and NAGAP’s Survey of Graduate Enrollment Leaders For nearly the last decade, graduate enrollment has reliably increased each year. And graduate students are taking complex, non-linear, and stealth journeys to enrollment.

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Ruffaloni

MAY 24, 2023

Understanding program portfolio performance is a key to enrollment growth. In my work with partner institutions, I often see competing priorities come to light as the marketing team, the enrollment team, and the academic team all have different evaluation tactics for program growth. Program Director: “Invest in my programs!”

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

6 elements of an effective graduate enrollment management plan—and why you need to build one. On a few recent campus visits, graduate school deans shared that they are tasked with growing enrollment by as much as 30 or 35 percent. Graduate enrollments have grown only an average of 0.7

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Phil Hill : A big part of writing both the blog on the 2019-20 data and the 2020-21 data blog (on the need to focus on 12-month unduplicated enrollment rather than fall snapshot) was to point out how much we’ve needed this type of data. What do you think the implications are for institutions and for the EdTech sector?

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EAB

APRIL 24, 2023

Blogs Are you losing grad and adult enrollments at the last minute? While many institutions follow a robust yield playbook for their undergraduate programs , I’ve found this isn’t always the case for graduate and adult education programs. Here are a few tactics to convert as many admits to enrollments as possible.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 14, 2023

West Virginia University officials proposed cutting 12 undergraduate majors and 20 graduate-level majors as the school faces a $45 million budget shortfall. The cuts would affect several hundred students, accounting for less than 2% of the school's enrollment. million when adjusting for inflation, Allen wrote.

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In fact, according to RNL’s 2023 E-Expectations Trend Report , college and university websites are the single most utilized resource for students—and 58 percent of undergraduate students use search engines to find a college’s website. We can talk about how we can optimize your pages in search.

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BestColleges

MAY 9, 2024

The new building will support increased enrollment and support online master of business administration (MBA) programs. A common theme in new business schools, in addition to accommodating growing enrollment, is an emphasis on tech and other relevant skill sets. The gift from the Mays Family Foundation is the largest in school history.

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BestColleges

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The college is accessible to Pell-eligible or undocumented students and will allow them to graduate without debt and without paying out-of-pocket costs. Students who complete the associate degree can go on to earn a bachelor's degree from the university for less than $10,000.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Over half of students (55%) would consider transferring if their college were to abolish diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Even more students (59%) say that if a college they were considering had abolished DEI initiatives, it would have impacted their decision to enroll.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 16, 2023

The History of HBCUs in Michigan As the first and only HBCU in Michigan, Pensole Lewis College fulfills an important role in the state's history of higher education. For nearly a century, the school has provided career training, academic community, and professional connections for Black students in Michigan.

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BestColleges

MARCH 8, 2024

Student teachers in Pennsylvania will have the opportunity to earn $10,000 from the state starting in the 2024-2025 academic year. Participants must be enrolled in a state-approved educator preparation program and commit to teaching for at least three years at a state school post-graduation.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We are excited to introduce a cutting-edge curriculum poised to train our students as leaders and innovators in the ongoing AI revolution." Enrolled students will take classes in mathematics, computing, and AI. Many institutions announced AI-focused programs including the University of Southern California and Purdue University.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Blogs Adult learners: who they are and what they want from college Across the last few years, colleges and universities have increasingly prioritized adult learner enrollment to offset declining undergraduate enrollment and diversify revenue streams. And today, adult learners make up 42% of total higher ed revenue.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 21, 2024

Going to graduate school can be an excellent way to increase your career prospects, advance your career, and boost your salary. That number you just read is the average debt balance among graduate students with federal student loans in 2023, according to the Education Data Initiative.

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BestColleges

JULY 3, 2023

LGBTQ+ students, white students, women, and graduate students were more likely to distrust the Supreme Court. President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan was popular among enrolled college students, but the Supreme Court ensured students won't see that plan carried out.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s easy to get confused by the acronyms, but MSIs play a critical role in higher education. MSIs are academic institutions that take deliberate steps to recruit, enroll, and retain students from underserved populations. Currently, MSIs enroll over 5 million college learners. But which schools count as HBCUs?

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

2 The Effect of Demographic Decline on Enrollment For years, Nathan Grawe’s predictions of the coming demographic cliff have been part of executive planning discussions – forcing changes in strategy to prepare for an ever-shrinking pool of prospective students. We call this non-consumption.

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BestColleges

MAY 2, 2024

Students' sentiments about the economy and high-paying job prospects after college. Among the 1,000 current undergraduate and graduate students BestColleges surveyed, roughly two-thirds (65%) categorize the current state of the economy as bad or very bad. Note Reference [1] , Note Reference [2] What's not on the rise?

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BestColleges

JANUARY 17, 2024

1] Check Between 2015 and 2021, the total number of sexual offenses reported at higher education institutions increased by 23%. 2] Check As of 2019, 13% of college students experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or inability to consent. Table of Contents How Common Is Sexual Assault on College Campuses?

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