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Direct Admissions Doubled Your Applications. Now What?
Direct admissions is (and has been) exploding for a few years now. I remember when I was leading GTM for direct admissions at Niche, the monthly search volume for the term was zero. Yes, literally zero. Fast forward four years, there’s about 32,000 monthly searches for “direct admissions” and other related terms. The number of institutions signing on for the largest non-state direct admissions initiatives…
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3 Ways to Improve Your Digital Marketing for Graduate Recruitment
Most of my friends at some point or another have told me they’re thinking of going back to school. And I, too, have had that thought, whether for this career or some crazy shift. What if I honed my craft even more? Or what if I changed this trajectory entirely? Can I go to grad school for something…
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Post-May 1 Campaign Ideas for Four-Year Institutions Still Chasing Their Goals
Every May, a quiet conversation happens at four-year institutions across the country. The deposit numbers come in, the team does the math, and someone closes a door to say what the dashboards already showed: we’re not there yet. If that’s you right now, you have a lot of company. Many institutions are reporting healthy application growth alongside softening deposits,…
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Keeping Your Class Engaged: A Playbook for Preventing Summer MELT
You’ve spent months getting them to deposit. Don’t let that be the last time they hear from you. The stretch between your deposit deadline and August is one of the most underestimated windows in enrollment. Your deposited students are excited but they’re also still forming opinions, fielding offers from waitlists, and quietly wondering if they…
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Graduate Recruitment Strategies Built for Success
Graduate enrollment teams are operating in a fundamentally different environment than they were five years ago. Competition is up. Prospect attention is fragmented. And the traditional playbook, wait for an inquiry, then nurture, is leaving significant enrollment opportunity on the table. Here’s the core challenge: most prospective graduate students have already done substantial research, compared programs, and formed strong preferences before they ever submit an inquiry…
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International Enrollment Strategy That Actually Works
Most institutions build their international enrollment strategy around the inquiry. A prospective student from India, Brazil, or South Korea fills out a form, and the recruitment engine finally starts moving. By then, the decision is already half made. International students spend months, sometimes well over a year, quietly researching institutions before they ever identify themselves. They’re comparing programs, reading faculty bios, checking graduate…
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Capture Higher Ed Wins 42 Awards at the 2026 EduAd Awards
The results are in — and we’re thrilled to share that Capture Higher Ed had an exceptional showing at the 41st Annual Educational Advertising Awards, one of the most prestigious recognitions in higher education marketing. This year’s competition drew over 2,000 entries from more than 1,000 colleges, universities, and secondary schools across all around the…
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Key Findings from the 2026 Enrollment Engagement Report
Capture Higher Ed’s inaugural Enrollment Engagement Report is built on survey data from more than 2,800 high school juniors and seniors actively navigating the college search. What the data reveals isn’t a picture of disengaged students. It’s a picture of students who engage and act differently. The Dark Funnel Is Where Enrollment Decisions Are Made 53% of students reported applying or requesting information without any prior…
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Yield Campaign Strategies That Actually Convert
Yield season is the moment enrollment teams feel the weight of everything that came before it. The inquiry campaigns, the application pushes, the campus visit follow-ups—it all converges into a window where admitted students are deciding, often quietly, whether your institution made the cut. The problem is that most yield strategies are still built around…
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Graduate Recruitment Strategies: Where to Find Prospects and Keep Them Engaged
With undergraduate enrollment challenges pushing more institutions to lean on graduate programs for revenue, competition for graduate students has never been fiercer. But we both know graduate students don’t take a clear path to enrollment. They operate on their own timelines, taking months or even years to move from initial interest to application. Throughout their journey, interest ebbs and flows. Someone who was…
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