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The New Rules Of Higher Education Marketing
How AI and Shifting Family Priorities are Reshaping Student Recruitment
AI isn’t new. It’s normal. Students and parents alike are increasingly using LLMs for research – for everything from homework help to their best options for higher education. If families already use AI to choose, the question is: how is your institution meeting them there? Our latest whitepaper outlines how to publish AI-readable answers to the most asked questions, making your value legible to both humans and machines.
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Featured Posts
The Shift in Student Recruitment
Traditional Methods vs. Digital Methods In the past, student recruitment primarily relied on traditional methods such as school visits, college fairs, direct mail campaigns, and print advertisements. These approaches focused on face-to-face interactions and distributing physical materials to prospective students. High school visits allowed admissions officers to connect personally with students and provide detailed information about their institutions.
Stability, Meaning, and Overall Well-being: Selling College to a Skeptical Audience
College is about more than the dream of becoming rich. Successfully marketing your school requires tapping into students’ wishes for a future full of meaningful work and secure finances—attaining the good life.
Demystifying SEO for Higher Education Whitepaper
To stand out among thousands of colleges and universities, it’s essential to shift resources towards developing your online presence. Search engine optimization (SEO) is crucial for higher education institutions to ensure visibility and attract prospective students.
RESEARCH: Higher Education Must “Prove Value”
Key findings bring attention to the need for higher education institutions to prove their value to potential students who are increasingly drawn to immediate, lower-cost options.
WHITEPAPER: Display Advertising Throughout the Journey
By targeting an audience in stages, educational institution marketers can effectively impact and influence the most relevant prospects as they research, develop deeper interest, and ultimately make decisions. Advance Education’s unique approach, Layered Display, is a proven technique combining a traditionally top-of-funnel solution, to have significant positive impact on other campaign tactics, such as search, social, organic, and direct website engagement.
Display Advertising Throughout the Journey Whitepaper
Advance Education’s unique approach, Layered Display, is a proven technique combining a traditionally top-of-funnel solution, to have significant positive impact on other campaign tactics, such as search, social, organic, and direct website engagement. This whitepaper dives into more detail including methodology and key findings related to this unique approach to display advertising for higher education institutions.
Five Creative Ways to Engage Student Prospects
Inventive approaches to engaging higher education student prospects provide an edge in attracting and enrolling prospective students. Following are five strategies to consider.
The Cookie Rollercoaster Continues
In 2020, Google announced their plan to phase out 3rd party cookies (the small pieces of data that allow marketers to serve personalized ads across websites). In January 2024, Google began restricting access to third-party cookies by default to 1% of Chrome users.
Enrollment Marketing Strategy: A Comprehensive Approach
To attract, enroll, and retain best-fit student prospects, institutions must invest in a well-thought-out enrollment marketing strategy.