Half a million students from across the UK go into higher education each year, but how do you get your university to stand out from the crowd? We uncover how students pick which university they go to.
Whether you’re running an email campaign or investing in paid search, an effective landing page is essential to converting prospective students. A landing page allows you to collect a range of information from your prospective students in order to successfully target them with content suited to their needs and interests.
As the year draws to a close, marketing budgets can become a little too thinly spread. According to an investigation by Times Higher Education, UK universities have increased their marketing budgets by nearly a quarter since the introduction of higher university fees, however have still suffered a 7.4 percent fall in applications.
Universities contribute £95 billion to the UK economy each year (Times Higher Education, 2017) – up from £36.4 billion in 2012. In fact, this year, international students alone contribute £25 billion (Universities UK, 2017).
There is a risk of being too much of a 'try hard' when it comes to marketing to Generation Z. In this blog post we explore how to market in a personalised way that resonates, rather than by invading your prospective students' privacy.
Even after their place is confirmed students can still be a no-show, and colleges are left to foot the bill that comes with running a course below capacity levels.
So what can be done to limit the impact this has on your college?
How Do Universities Spend to Attract Students? As we mentioned in our ‘Marketing Education to Generation Z’ blog post, universities are adapting their approach to marketing by steering away...
How do educational institutions market to Generation Z?
We’ll attempt to answer this very question, by finding out what’s important to this generation, how they respond to marketing and how they make ‘purchase’ decisions.
In 2013, the Advanced Learner Loans scheme was dubbed a failure. So how successful has the scheme been – particularly since its expansion last year? You can read all of the facts in our latest blog.