3 Barriers That Disengage Prospective International Students

In our previous post, we showed you how you can use content marketing strategies to evaluate your international student recruitment efforts. More specifically, we talked about the purchase funnel concept and how prospective students pass down through it. We identified three...
Posted On 23 Jun 2017

Evaluating Student Recruitment Success: Content Marketing Strategies

Today, we are going to show you how to apply common content marketing strategies to international student recruitment. As you most probably already know, content marketing professionals have this term: purchase funnel. The idea behind is that every prospective customer has to go...
Posted On 21 Jun 2017

Going Beyond The Top 4: Why Adding More Countries To The Mix Is Essential?

China, India, South Korea and Saudi Arabia are the top 4 source markets for international students in the world. These countries are famous for producing the biggest numbers of students who enjoy the benefits of international mobility. Knowing this, many educators...
Posted On 19 Jun 2017

Small-Town Liberal Arts US Colleges: A Hidden Gem In International Education?

Small town charms attract fewer students in the US each year. Why? It seems calm environment, opportunity to focus on learning and strong ties with local community apparently don’t provide enough excitement for most. Could this seeming decline in small liberal arts...
Posted On 13 Apr 2017

5 Key Factors In Picking Universities Abroad

Choosing the right university abroad is a difficult process and making the final decision can be even tougher. But most of the times, students will consider at least a couple of the following 5 key factors: Factor #1: Cost of tuition We always try to make a point that the...
Posted On 08 Mar 2017

International Student Recruitment Strategies By Language: Spanish

It’s Wednesday again and we continue our journey into internationalisation strategies by language! After English and Chinese, our next stop on the way to international student recruitment success is Spanish. According to “Latino Recruitment” by Veronica Guzman...
Posted On 22 Feb 2017

International Student Recruitment Strategies By Language: Chinese

Last week we introduced a different perspective on strategies for international student recruitment, using the criteria of language. Our series of tips and tricks on how to recruit international students speaking the same mother tongue covers the four most widely spoken languages...
Posted On 15 Feb 2017

International Student Recruitment Strategies by Language: English

Each region and culture has a typical view on recruiting, and usually attracts specific types of international students. In previous posts we’ve discussed four different types of cultures according to the Richard D. Lewis classification. We’ve also discussed some...
Posted On 08 Feb 2017

How Can Your Institution Make Good Use Of Student Recruitment Agents?

Working with international student recruitment agents might seem like a distant concept to a small institution used to recruiting by themselves. Sometimes, even bigger universities are not feeling ready to approach an agent. The number of international students they have...
Posted On 01 Feb 2017

Poll: Recruiting International Students From The Big 4 – Is It Still A Thing?

China, India, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. Seems like working with students from these giants in international student recruitment has become a daily task for every agent and university official, doesn’t it? Of course, recruiting from these countries has...
Posted On 25 Jan 2017

Using Student Recruitment Agents: 3 Pros and Cons

The debate on whether you should use international student recruitment agents is more pertinent than ever. In countries like the US, Canada or Australia where student recruitment is mostly handled by agencies, it seems that the scales are moving towards using recruitment agents....
Posted On 16 Jan 2017

Checklist For International Student Offices: Language Diversity

Internationalisation of your student mix can be achieved through various dimensions. You can seek to recruit people from different countries, regions or continents. Or, you can seek to be more inclusive for students from a specific ethnic background. What we tend to overlook,...
Posted On 11 Jan 2017