Enrollment Management Resources for Higher Education Admissions Leaders
Stop guessing and start growing.
You need to increase enrollment at your institution. But with so many things on your plate, it can feel overwhelming to choose what strategy to try next - let alone feel confident that it’s the right one for you to prioritize.
When consulting with higher education admissions leaders like you, we find asking the right questions is key to identifying the most valuable opportunities for your team.
Do you know the answers to these questions for your institution:
- Is your strategic enrollment management plan up to date?
- How is your admissions funnel performing compared to your competitors?
- How quickly is your team contacting new prospective students?
- Do your admissions conversations focus on the right things?
Dive into the resources below to discover your most significant opportunities for increasing student enrollment!
Speak to an admissions expert to identify and discuss
your greatest opportunities for growing enrollment:
Is your Strategic Enrollment Management plan up to date?
An effective Strategic Enrollment Management plan will help you better allocate admissions and marketing resources, increase student enrollment, and improve student retention.
Unfortunately, many SEM plans are built and placed on a shelf untouched for the next 3 years. And with the rate at which your prospective students are changing, what you prioritized last year might not be the most important work for next year.
Your SEM plan should be regularly reviewed and updated to ensure ongoing alignment on how you will increase enrollment, improve retention, and boost graduation rates.
If your SEM plan is outdated, download the free Strategic Enrollment Management Plan Template to get started:
How is your admissions funnel performing compared to your competitors?
Before implementing any new enrollment strategy, it’s critical to analyze your current admissions funnel performance. After all, adding more leads to a broken funnel is like trying to carry water in your hands - no matter how much you add, they will continue to slip through your fingers.
Download the Admissions Funnel Guide to ensure you track the right funnel metrics and learn the standard benchmarks are for those metrics.
Once you know how each stage in your funnel performs, you can prioritize which area to fix first.
Discover how your conversion rates stack up:
How quickly is your team contacting new prospective students?
The number one opportunity for improvement we see with admissions teams is improving their speed to lead.
If you reach out to a lead within the first 5 minutes, you’re 100 times more likely to connect than if you wait 30 minutes.
Unfortunately, when admissions teams feel overwhelmed by the list of prospective students in front of them, outreach to new inquiries doesn’t happen like it should.
Wonder if speed to lead is a problem for your institution?
The Free Admissions Outreach Audit is your first step to uncovering your most critical issues. Stop wondering and start knowing:
Do your admissions conversations focus on the right things?
When prospective students speak with your admissions counselor, they compare that experience to every conversation they’ve had with your competitors.
It’s crucial your team builds a relationship with prospective students that solidifies their interest and trust in your institution. But are your counselors really doing this?
Download the Admissions Counselor’s Conversation Guide to improve your conversations with prospective students today:
What Our Clients Say...
I have worked in higher education for over 30 years and during that time, have had the opportunity to work with many vendors offering a variety of services. My experience with Enrollment Builders as an admissions partner has been one of the most positive I have had in my career.
EB takes the time to work closely with a college’s team to understand its goals and internal capacity and then creates and implements a strategy that is data driven, timely, and effective.
-Clea Andreadis, Higher Education Consultant