How Enrollment Leaders Are Generating More Transfer Leads (Without Buying Lists)
Learn how to get transfer students using modern enrollment strategies. Discover how credit transparency, faster evaluations, and smarter websites help colleges capture more transfer leads and increase applications.
Why the Transcript Evaluation Process Still Slows Down Enrollment
Transcript evaluation remains one of the biggest hidden bottlenecks in enrollment, delaying decisions, reducing application momentum, and quietly shrinking the pipeline. While institutions rely on legacy, manual processes built for a different era, today’s students expect speed and clarity. Modernizing this workflow, by moving evaluation earlier, aligning teams, and leveraging automation, is no longer operational improvement, but a strategic advantage.
How Can I Stabilize a Transfer Pipeline?
Stabilizing a transfer pipeline requires more than short-term tactics, it demands a system. This article explores how enrollment leaders can capture hidden transfer demand, improve credit evaluation transparency, and align operations to turn unpredictable transfer interest into a consistent, reliable source of enrollment growth.
Fixing Transfer: Federal, State and Institutional Policy Solutions
Transfer students face massive credit loss and delays—but DegreeSight is tackling this head-on. Our tools bring transparency to transcript evaluation, helping institutions accept more credits and students graduate faster, with less debt.
How A Planned Transfer Can Save Students Thousands
Community college transfers can save students thousands—but only if their credits transfer smoothly. DegreeSight helps students find transfer-friendly universities fast, making degree completion more affordable and achievable.
Outcomes-Based University Funding
States are shifting from enrollment to outcomes-based funding. DegreeSight helps institutions boost completions by aligning student pathways with credit transfer and degree progress.
How should we use technology in education?
EdTech is transforming learning, but it comes with risks. DegreeSight helps institutions harness technology responsibly—improving outcomes while protecting student data and academic integrity.
Social Media Impact in Higher Education
The intersection of education and technology offers an exciting opportunity for those with digital skills. Educators and administrators alike can leverage social media marketing to enhance their programs, grow their student body, and improve their enrollment procedures.
Whether you’re looking to nurture your student community online or develop your social media channels from scratch the ideas below will help your university attention grow.
Recruit high-potential students
With the number of students enrolled in higher education expected to reach 262 million by 2025, higher education facilities are starting to realize that they need to stand out amongst the crowd, both online and off. Recruiting students requires creative social media strategies implemented all year long to keep prospects engaged with the school.
Whether it’s providing each department with leverage over their own social media channels or highlighting exciting courses regularly online, universities and colleges can create meaningful connections with prospects with a well-curated social media presence.
Stay connected with your alumni
For the most part, post-secondary facilities require an amount of donated or fundraised money to continue offering best-in-class education. Traditionally, marketing efforts have been directed towards alumni from the school who are now successful members of society. Although this fact remains the same, how they’re being targeted for fundraising has changed.
Social media platforms allow alumni to be reminded to donate to specific funding areas when it’s needed most. From sharing a fundraising event on Facebook or celebrating successes on Instagram, post-secondary facilities are able to connect with alumni in a more meaningful and personal way on social media.
Promoting Research Endeavors
Higher education and research go hand-in-hand. Social media has provided a base for universities and colleges to share their future-forward innovations and research opportunities with a much broader base than ever before.
Higher education thrives on a healthy community, and a college’s social media presence is an essential extension of that community. Throughout the world, universities and colleges are implementing social media strategies to connect with students, parents, prospects, staff, and even other educational facilities.
Not only can a best-in-class social media presence better your relations with all parties involved with your institution, it can also make their lives easier like any well-marketed product or solution should. If you’re missing a robust social media strategy for your higher education facility, you’re missing out on a variety of opportunities to generate high-quality leads and prospects.