College Transitions

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Searching for a program that offers strong support alongside a healthy degree of autonomy? Look no furtherDartmouths Precollege Online Program for high school […] Interested in exploring multiple subjects, but struggling to choose which one to pursue?

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Ruffaloni

OCTOBER 27, 2022

RNL’s new survey of more than 100 institutional marketing and recruitment leaders confirms that significant investments have been made in building and promoting online programs since the pandemic began. Read the report for more information about the availability of online programs by level and how they are expanding their offerings.

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 20, 2025

So, your first step in planning a budget is to have your overall Enrollment goal (and, for graduate or online programs, a goal for every program) in front of you. With the goal (or program-level goals) in hand, determine what that means in terms of percentage growth from the current state.

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Ruffaloni

AUGUST 28, 2024

Today, all but 24 percent of online students are within this new demographic. We now need to understand whether this represents a seismic shift in how we market, position, recruit for, and organize our online programs, or a more nuanced one. These factors make the development of target personas for each online program critical.

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College Transitions

MARCH 25, 2025

So, you want to get your masters in accounting online? Well, it makes sense. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of accounting jobs is growing at a rate of about 6% in our current decade (20232033). And the median pay for an accountant is nearly $80,000 annually. Securing an accounting masters […]

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Ruffaloni

MAY 24, 2023

“Choosing to only offer classroom bachelor’s programs will not force students seeking online study to choose between an online program and your classroom program. Rather, they will be driven to another online program elsewhere, possibly of lesser quality than you could offer.”

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College Transitions

APRIL 18, 2024

Those interested in pursuing a master’s in education online will find a plethora of options to consider. However, it can be challenging to know which ones are ideal, especially when taking schedules and aspirations into account.

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Enrollment Management

AUGUST 29, 2023

20% Increase in Online Program Leads 50% Increase in Invitations to Apply $0 Increase in Marketing Budget Utah State University Founded in 1888, USU is a public land-grant research university with over 27,000 students in both undergraduate and graduate programs. Get more of them excited to inquire and book a tour today.

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College Transitions

JANUARY 22, 2024

Calculus, English literature, history, Spanish, biology…if you’re a typical high school student, this is likely a good representation of your academic schedule. However, if you want to dive into a special topic or have a budding curiosity about a particular career path, you might be wondering where to begin.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Phil Hill: I deal with that a lot, particularly in my work focused on the online program manager (OPM) space, because that’s such a big question at the core of that market. Read the 2022 Online Program Marketing Practices Report. What should institutions be doing in-house versus outsourcing?

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Ruffaloni

AUGUST 30, 2023

Student demand continues to shift online The headline findings from this report center around the demand for online learning compared to face-to-face courses, as illustrated by enrollment shifts. Several key figures illustrate this point: Continuing student interest and corresponding enrollment growth in fully online programs.

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College Transitions

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As a high school student, it can be difficult to find programs that offer innovative, fresh perspectives on popular topics. However, unique subject matter is just one piece of the puzzle. For a course to be truly impactful, it should be created and taught by an expert instructor with professional experience in the field.

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Ruffaloni

MARCH 28, 2024

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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College Transitions

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Imagine youre interested in psychology, but your school only offers an introductory survey coursewhich youve already taken. Perhaps youve always wanted to be a lawyer, but legal dramas on Netflix are your sole source of career insight.

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College Transitions

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If youre a high school student, you may be wondering when you should start exploring careers and majors. The answeras soon as possible! However, theres only so much exploration you can do on your own. At some point, youll want to learn within a more formalized structure, ideally from highly qualified instructors who can provide […]

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Are your online courses optimized for the way students learn? Student expectations are key for online enrollment. While increased demand for online learning has driven enrollment growth, simply having an online program may not be enough to attract and retain students.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Almost all of these additional students (115k) enrolled in all online courses. We have long-known that the opportunity for enrollment growth has been among student who choose to enroll in either a fully online program or a program that offers both online and classroom courses. Why is this important?

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Ruffaloni

MARCH 31, 2023

Dawn: What do you make of the recent analysis that indicates that the data we’ve all been working with to “size” the online market has been undercounting students who choose to enroll in online programs by as much as 6 million students? You can also reach out to RNL for a complimentary consultation.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 27, 2023

What are the greatest challenges in a successful annual marketing and recruitment planning process for graduate programs or online programs? You can also watch the webinar to gain access to the institutional readiness self-assessment. Lichtenfeld : One of the biggest challenges is what I call the “data challenge.”

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Ruffaloni

JUNE 19, 2024

Explore 5 interconnected strategies for online student recruitment Read 5 key recruitment strategies from our survey of than 1,500 online students to find insights on how students search for programs, what influences their enrollment decisions, what they look for in online programs, and more.

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College Transitions

JANUARY 26, 2024

What else could underscore the importance of public health more than the last few years?

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Ruffaloni

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In May, we released the inaugural Online Student Recruitment Report presenting findings from our survey of 1,600 prospective online students. “The average marketing spend of more than $1 million documented in Online Program Marketing and Recruitment Practices surprises audiences every time I bring it up.

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Ruffaloni

MARCH 30, 2023

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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Ruffaloni

APRIL 27, 2023

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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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

An online program recruiter is assigned follow up with a prospect that ends up having mistakenly selected the wrong option and is actually interested in classroom study. If that person’s goals are for online program recruitment, she may seek to convert the prospect to an online program.

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

RNL’s 2022 Online Student Recruitment Report indicated that the greatest opportunity in the online education space is in the expansion of availability of bachelor’s level online programs (this is because among our prospective student respondents, the largest proportion (34 percent) planned to pursue online study at this level.

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Ruffaloni

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This does not present a strong case for returning the focus to classroom programs, while presenting a clear need to prioritize the offering of online courses within classroom programs and then fully online programs. Again, this does not present a strong case for returning the focus to classroom programs.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 22, 2024

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. Attendees will leave with deep insights into how centralization influences recruitment strategies and outcomes.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

These data demonstrate that not only are graduate students “voting with their feet” for online programs, but they are completing them also. These data add to the case that enrollment leaders should be making to their institutional and academic leadership that a robust set of online programs is essential for enrollment health.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We begin our process with strategy and consulting to determine the optimal strategies for meeting market demand, assessing your programs, and reaching your enrollment goals.

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 26, 2023

With this in mind, I think we may see a plateauing of demand, with online, partially online, and classroom demand being relatively equal as the traditional audience shrinks and institutions are forced to focus on alternative student audiences in order to make up enrollment gaps.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 21, 2024

Create programs and courses that students want : Respondents shared which types of programs are attractive to online students and how they need their courses organized. Successful online programs are built on a careful balancing of student needs and academic priorities.

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Ruffaloni

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Summit will also call upon the incredible depth of experience accumulated among RNL’s own graduate and online team. Because RNL recruits from the institutions we serve, our experts have: Built online programs from scratch. Advocated successfully for leadership buy-in for online and graduate expansion.

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Ivy Central

APRIL 20, 2023

At the end of the program, students give their final presentations and they receive a Course Performance Report and Certificate of Completion. Pre-Baccalaureate Pre-Baccalaureate Program for rising, and recently graduated, high school seniors is a rigorous 7-week online program.

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Ivy Central

MARCH 31, 2023

For the summer of 2023, SUMaC is offering options of 2 online sessions and 1 residential session for 3 weeks. The residential program will serve 40 participants and the online program will serve 64 participants with an average class size of 16 students. The 3 week online program costs $3,550.

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Ruffaloni

APRIL 27, 2023

Dani Rollins works with a wide range of RNL clients including traditional undergraduate institutions, graduate schools, and online programs after a career in enrollment leadership at Reed College, Northern Illinois University, and the University of Arizona.

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Niche

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Institutions like Southern New Hampshire University and Western Governors University have seen enrollment growth by offering flexible, affordable, and career-aligned online programs. Moreover, post-pandemic preferences have shifted, with students prioritizing hybrid or fully remote learning options.

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