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Recruitment Implications of Graduate and Online Student Satisfaction

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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. Your admissions team will want to be ready to help students understand how your online program can benefit them in all of these critical ways.

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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

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Millions of online undergraduate and graduate students may have been undercounted. Because online and graduate students are less committed to starting in the fall. Other findings include: 12-month data reveal more than 820,000 additional graduate students across all formats. What the data show.

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30 Ways to Learn About Graduate and Online Enrollment Trends at the RNL National Conference

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Here are a few key sessions that graduate and online enrollment managers will not want to miss. Scaling and sustaining online programs Susan Aldridge (who served as president of Drexel Online and UMGC) will kick us off with A Futurists Mindset Leads to Scaling and Sustaining Online Programs.

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Achieving Success Without an OPM

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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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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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Graduate students were far more likely to return to their pre-pandemic format in 2021. In the chart above, we see that while 638,000 additional graduate students were pushed into all online (or “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 349,000 of them decided not to continue in this format in fall 2021.

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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.

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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.