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Adult learners’ application behavior is changing—here’s how

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Blogs Adult learners’ application behavior is changing—here’s how Insights from our new survey of 3,800+ graduate and adult learners As the demographics of prospective graduate students and adult learners change, so do students’ application preferences and behaviors.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have a wonderful program called Pathways, where we do outreach to middle schools, high schools and community colleges, providing application clinics and parent academies,” says Dr. Leroy M. Current enrollment is 8,000 students with around 61% in semester credit courses and 39% pursuing adult education. Dr. Janine E.

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Adult learners: Who they are & what they want from college

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Hear EAB’s latest research on the characteristics of the adult learner market We’ve rounded up a few quick facts about adult learners—check them out below. Get more information For more on recruiting adult student populations, including graduate students, subscribe to the Professional and Adult Education Blog.

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To design microcredentials that meet student needs, follow these 3 steps

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Rather than trying to build many types of microcredentials all at once, they focus on one specific application of the value of microcredentials. As a result of this change, they have seen more applicants for the traditional on-campus master’s program despite faculty fears that microcredential enrollment would cannibalize master’s enrollment.

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Adult learner organizational benchmarks

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Build consensus and support for adult serving programs Online degrees Survey question: Do you have the authority to confer graduate or undergraduate degrees online? To build support around online degree conferral, adult education leaders often need to educate stakeholders on campus about the need for flexible program options.

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4 tactics to reach, recruit, and enroll “stealth shoppers”

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One factor making it more difficult to recruit graduate and adult learners is the rise of “stealth shopping.” Stealth shoppers Stealth shoppers are the prospective students who are unknown to your institution until they actually submit an application.

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How to recruit specialized business students and grow non-MBA enrollment

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And that’s especially true today: according to GMAC, there have been an increasing number of applications to specialized business master’s programs, while applications to MBA programs have been declining. Explore our research on adult learner motivations and behaviors. Do you participate in corporate partnerships?