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Alexander Mitterle; Roland Bloch – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Competition today has become a central policy imperative in higher education. Connected to resource efficiency and scarcity, it remains closely attached to the idea of the market but reaches beyond when related to positional or status orders. In the higher education literature such varieties of competition -- as distinct social processes -- are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Commercialization, Competition
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Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman; Gili S. Drori – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Seeing that the culture and governance of competition determines relations among social actors, we turn to the concept of referentiality to investigate the institutional order of competition in higher education. Defining referentiality as the description of a model standard for comparison, this study explores how higher education organizations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Competition, Status
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Kate Ayres – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2024
This paper argues that a data-driven, niche-focused approach to strategy development will assist Higher Education Institutions to direct their financial resources to greater effect by providing a more tailored service to students, therefore, increasing student satisfaction and creating brand loyalty. This approach will give institutions greater…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Student Recruitment, Foreign Countries
Nicole Wellmann Kraus – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2024
Investment committees have important governance responsibilities in assuring the successful management of college and university endowments and other institutional pools of capital. The success (or failure) of the investment committee has a large, direct impact on the resources available to the institution to attract and retain quality faculty,…
Descriptors: Governance, Committees, Donors, Private Financial Support
Mustafa Kayyali – Online Submission, 2023
In the ever-evolving environment of higher education, where institutions are motivated by the pursuit of excellence and global recognition, the HE Higher Education Ranking stands as a transforming force. This book, "Introduction to HE Higher Education Ranking: Methodology, Criteria, and Indicators," beckons readers into a profound…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Rating, Reputation, Universities
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2022
How has the cost of recruiting a student changed during the pandemic years? How many staff members do admission offices have per student? What are the budget priorities for colleges and universities? These are just a few of the 14 findings in the "2022 Cost of Recruiting an Undergraduate Student Report." This report--based on a survey of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Recruitment, Costs, College Admission
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McClure, Kevin – College Student Affairs Journal, 2019
This article provides an analysis of published writing on amenities in higher education with the goal of bringing order to the voluminous information and helping to advance research. It examines over 40 articles and books to answer four interrelated questions: 1) How are amenities defined in the context of higher education? 2) How are amenities…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Facilities, Resource Allocation, Literature Reviews
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Tan, Lin; Bradburn, Isabel S.; Knight, David B.; Kinoshita, Timothy; Grohs, Jacob – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: Numerous efforts worldwide have been made to increase diversity in engineering and computer science (ECS), fields that pay well and promote upward mobility. However, in the United States (U.S.), females and students from underrepresented racial/ethnic minority groups (URM) still pursue ECS training far less than do their peers. The…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students
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Barton, Scott W. H. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2022
As higher education continues to face declining enrollment and financial pressures from decreased funding, colleges and universities must find innovative ways to differentiate themselves from competing institutions through niche marketing initiatives in an effort to continue meeting the needs and wants of the shifting population of students. Niche…
Descriptors: Marketing, Enrollment Management, Competition, Student Recruitment
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2020
What does it cost to recruit an undergraduate student? How many front-line staff do campuses have for each new undergraduate? Where do campuses expect to focus their budget resources? "The 2020 Cost of Recruiting an Undergraduate Student Report" provides findings from a survey of campus enrollment managers and admissions directors. This…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Recruitment, Costs, College Admission
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2021
Graduate student enrollment has become increasingly important for universities. At the same time, competition for graduate students has increased, and the way those students search for programs of study has changed dramatically in the digital era. How can your program adapt and reach its graduate enrollment goals? This benchmark survey report…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Recruitment, Marketing, Advertising
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Johnson, Matthew; Danvers, Emily; Hinton-Smith, Tamsin; Atkinson, Kate; Bowden, Gareth; Foster, John; Garner, Kristina; Garrud, Paul; Greaves, Sarah; Harris, Patricia; Hejmadi, Momna; Hill, David; Hughes, Gwen; Jackson, Louise; O'Sullivan, Angela; ÓTuama, Séamus; Perez Brown, Pilar; Philipson, Pete; Ravenscroft, Simon; Rhys, Mirain; Ritchie, Tom; Talbot, Jon; Walker, David; Watson, Jon; Williams, Myfanwy; Williams, Sharon – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional concern for widening participation, graduate employability and research impact in an era of…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, College Faculty, School Community Relationship, Barriers
Lee, Lung-Sheng – Online Submission, 2022
The colleges and universities in Taiwan are confronted with the following two problems: (1) The average youth (aged 15-29) unemployment rate is more than double the overall unemployment rate; and (2) Mainly affected by the low birth rate, the admission and vacancy rates of colleges and universities have increased, and fierce competition exists…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Competition, Universities, Employment Opportunities
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Goe, Laura; Roth, Amanda – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
As America's prekindergarten through 12th grade population becomes increasingly diverse, educator preparation programs (EPPs) are tasked with attracting, admitting, supporting, and graduating more teacher candidates from underrepresented groups. The research reported here was designed to improve our understanding of strategies that some EPPs have…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2018
This report offers information on how much institutions are spending on marketing and recruitment compared to their peers, including key benchmarks for return-on-investment, budgeting, resource allocations, recruiting transfer and international students, and more. The report provides separate findings for private vs. public institutions and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Recruitment, Costs, College Admission
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