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Listening to Your Current Graduate and Online Students: A Strategic Approach for Effectively Competing With Other Programs

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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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9 Key Enrollment and AI sessions at the 2024 RNL National Conference

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Using Research to Enhance Your Graduate and Online Program Strategy Graduate and online programs play a significant and growing role in program mix and enrollment health at many colleges and universities.

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Achieving Success Without an OPM

Ruffaloni

The key challenge for many schools has been not just a lack of bandwidth, but also not having the in-house expertise needed to create, manage, market for, recruit, and enroll students in online programs. leads, marketing materials/creative, online web presence for the online programs, revenue, etc.)

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Is Online Education Really in Trouble? No, and Here Is Why!

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Their IPEDS snapshot data showcase how many students were enrolled in different types of programs on a given fall semester day. Graduate In 2022 more than 424,000 more graduate students decided to enroll in all or some online courses than in 2019—with those opting for “all online” significantly outpacing “some online”.

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Recruitment Implications of Graduate and Online Student Satisfaction

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Last month, I presented overview data documenting how satisfied graduate and online students are with their chosen programs, but this month I want to focus on how these data can help recruitment leaders in planning strategies that can optimally position institutions and programs for success.

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5 Stats That Graduate Enrollment Leaders Need to Know

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While this is at least partially true, any time applications are up and enrollment is down you have to consider whether there are challenges in quality lead generation or if cultivation and admittance practices are not meeting the expectations of today’s students. How can you win the graduate market? How did you do?

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Course Design Support Is Crucial to Meet the Growing Demand for Online Learning

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Several key figures illustrate this point: Continuing student interest and corresponding enrollment growth in fully online programs. While enrollment growth in online programs is less pronounced among traditional-age undergraduates (36% vs. 50.6% for graduate students), this figure is still striking.