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Setting Enrolment Targets in Higher Education - Part 4: How Predictive Modelling and AI are Transforming Enrolment Planning

Enrolment Forecasting is fundamentally a predictive modelling process: given a series of inputs, what are the outputs likely to be? But enrolment target setting is a little different. It’s a human process, informed by data: what is our strategic goal, and how do we get there?

Setting Enrolment Targets in Higher Education - Part 3: Where do Institutions get Stuck? Common Pitfalls in the Enrolment Target-Setting Process.

Many people I speak with feel they don’t know how to set a high quality target that is informed by data and research. Instead, they end up using what they used last year, with some difference over time. Most years, this method will work. But it carries some risks.

Setting Enrolment Targets in Higher Education - Part 2: How do Enrolment Targets Become Reality?

In the last blog, we discussed how targets are created.

Setting Enrollment Targets in Higher Education - Part 1: What Are Enrollment Targets—and How Do We Set Them?

Good targets follow the SMART principle: Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Time-bound. But enrolment planning layers on additional complexity that SMART alone doesn’t capture.

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Examples of Target Setting Processes in the Frameworks

Aside from assessing the weight-bearing capacity of the framework, introducing a new process or task for strategic enrolment management differs between the four frameworks. In this post we’ll review how institutions who want to implement enrolment targets would do so in each of the frameworks.

Getting Your Intakes Approved

If you work in Institutional Analysis, Institutional Research or similar, you know getting your five-year plan approved can often be more of a marathon than a sprint. There are consultations (and consultations, and consultations…), new directions, and almost always a surprise or two.