Ruffaloni

JUNE 28, 2023

What is the long term impact of the pandemic on graduate enrollment? I wanted to hold off providing an answer until we have the 2021 academic year data, knowing that the real answer will only come with a few more years of enrollment trend data. Source: RNL Analysis of IPEDS Fall Enrollment Snapshot data.

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

million undergraduates made the decision to enroll in all face-to-face (F2F) classroom students in 2021, after 5.9 million fewer all online students in 2021 in comparison with only 1.8 million more classroom students. million fewer all online students in 2021 in comparison with only 1.8 Schedule consultation 3.

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Ruffaloni

OCTOBER 26, 2023

More universities need to adapt to the new enrollment realities. The combination of the oncoming enrollment cliff and the pandemic’s abrupt and forced adoption of online learning has made more institutions than ever realize that the dramatic shift that everyone has been talking about for years is finally here. Are You Ready?

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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

APRIL 22, 2024

This year’s agenda is set and it full to the brim with sessions that will engage you, inform you, and prepare you to go back to your campus and affect change and advance enrollment. The stress and anxiety of the college anticipation don’t end with enrollment.

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Ruffaloni

MAY 24, 2023

The RNL National Conference will dive into key graduate and online trends and strategies. I previously wrote about 30 Ways to Learn About Graduate and Online Enrollment Trends at the RNL National Conference. The presenters will share strategies for using these data to inform change on campus.

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Ruffaloni

MAY 24, 2023

Given the expected and continuing shortfalls in traditional undergraduate enrollment, institutions continue to pivot to the graduate populations to replace the lost revenue from the declines of the traditional student enrollment. Imagine being able to track lead to enroll rates for channels like Meta and paid search.

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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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Ruffaloni

APRIL 27, 2023

RNL’s graduate and online theme this year is “Scaling for Growth,” and our sessions will deliver techniques, tactics, and strategies to help you do just that. Here are a few key sessions that graduate and online enrollment managers will not want to miss. The full program is ready and it is jam-packed with content.

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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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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. New growth and centralization of services mandates were imposed on PCO leaders.

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BestColleges

JUNE 17, 2024

Enrollment in primarily online institutions (POIs) and multistate college programs rose 3.8% Online enrollments are increasing overall, but gains vary by degree level. Distance education graduate schools saw the biggest increase in spring 2024. Private, nonprofit institutions also reported a significant enrollment rise.

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The Enrollment Marketer

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Building an effective marketing and recruitment plan is still a crucial part of graduate enrollment management, but many of the rules have changed in today’s digital-first, virtual-is-normal reality. Find Out the Freshest Industry Benchmarks Do you know how prospective students are engaging with email? Look no further!

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over 3,000 graduate student workers signed union cards to support the unionization effort. Among other things, organizers hope to negotiate a living wage for all student workers. Students at Johns Hopkins University hope to be the next in a wave of graduate student unions across the U.S.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Podcast How to Boost Graduate Enrollment Episode 172. EAB’s Sian Blake and Val Fox offer growth strategies for institutions that have grown increasingly reliant on their graduate programs to compensate for shrinking undergraduate enrollment. EAB · How to Boost Graduate Enrollment Transcript Coming soon.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Consulting engagements like deep audits of current communications and implementation of newly designed message flow architectures can seem like a “sure thing” for improving enrollment numbers, but enhancing more foundational strategic elements is likely necessary before these moves can be completely effective.

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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

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

MARCH 30, 2023

This is valuable information for recruitment and enrollment leaders to consider in informing how to position your institution in marketing materials. Enrollment factors for graduate students In the survey, students are asked to indicate the level of importance they assign to a variety of potential factors in their decision to enroll.

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The Enrollment Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Each year I look forward to the networking and educational workshops on graduate enrollment marketing — and, of course, having fun and building relationships with our clients who attend the conference. In fact, finding new sources of leads is one of the hardest aspects of graduate school marketing and recruitment!

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Niche

APRIL 3, 2024

In this article, I’m going to tackle seven common enrollment challenges and offer a few ways to address them, in line with that not-so-imaginary world of recruitment. Build affinity—not just awareness It’s obvious (to you) that students should enroll. You’re a great institution!

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

New RNL research shows that graduate enrollment is normalizing , with a significant shift towards online education. But how can colleges and universities compete effectively and grow their enrollment? Flexibility is another crucial factor for graduate students. different programs, years of study, and backgrounds).

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Their IPEDS snapshot data showcase how many students were enrolled in different types of programs on a given fall semester day. While these are important data, I have previously written that the best data on format preferences reflect enrollment over the full 12-month academic year. Undergraduate In 2022 more than 2.2

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BestColleges

JUNE 7, 2024

A new report found that a majority of eligible California college students do not receive CalFresh benefits. Only 30% of eligible community college students, 22% of eligible UC undergraduates, and 29% of eligible UC graduate students were enrolled in CalFresh in fall 2019.

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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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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How to Build an Effective Graduate Enrollment Management Plan. EAB’s Kevin Shriner and Camilla Arias discuss the elements of an effective graduate enrollment plan. EAB · How to Build an Effective Graduate Enrollment Management Plan. 5 Tips to Reach, Engage, and Enroll a More Diverse Graduate Student Body.

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EAB

AUGUST 1, 2023

Blogs 4 Things You Need for a Successful Graduate Enrollment Management Plan My colleagues at EAB have conducted several surveys to learn about the state of graduate enrollment management over the past few months, and the results have been revealing.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Use these strategies to move graduate students from inquiry to enrollment. RNL will publish our 2023 Graduate Marketing and Recruitment Practices Report in early December. The goal is to help enrollment leaders align enrollment processes with student expectations.

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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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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Blogs How graduate enrollment leaders are keeping up with changing recruitment expectations 3 trends from EAB and NAGAP’s survey of graduate enrollment leaders In my recent conversations with graduate enrollment leaders, the changing demographics of prospective students has become a frequent topic of interest – and for good reason.

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the November blog indicated that Snapshot Data undercounted total enrollment by nearly 6 million students in 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year), I didn’t go too far into where these missing students were hidden. This can all be found when you look at those enrollment differences by instructional format chosen by students.

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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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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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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Struggling to set graduate enrollment goals? Like my enrollment management colleagues, I have spent many sleepless nights turning over enrollment numbers in my head. Setting grad enrollment goals comes with its own set of challenges. Setting grad enrollment goals comes with its own set of challenges.

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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. Ask for a free consultation with us.

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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. Developing an effective yield strategy is just as important at the graduate level, if not more so.

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EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What can big consumer brands teach graduate and adult enrollment leaders? In my role as a Senior Data Scientist in EAB’s Adult Learner Recruitment division, I have seen first-hand that applying these marketing strategies to graduate and learner student recruitment translates to enrollment growth. Get more insights.

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