ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Harness the power of business intelligence for optimal value

Academic leaders are increasingly called upon to be the “Chief Performance Officers” of their colleges, schools, and academic divisions and departments.  You can rely on our set of business intelligence and analytics tools and expertise to elucidate the performance of your academic offerings and their targeted markets, anticipate future trends, and discover ways to improve educational impact, operations, and competitive strength.

360 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Integrate our performance, market, and competitor intelligence components into a comprehensive continuous improvement campaign for your college, school, or academic division. Generate the strategies you’ll employ and detail the capabilities and resources you’ll build to systematically enlarge value and impact, expand market, attain capabilities, and optimize performance and reinvestment.

PROGRAM PERFORMANCE & PROFITABILITY

Understand how each of your programs—and program clusters—perform in terms of enrollments, credit hour production, net and gross earnings, recruitment funnel size and yield, direct and indirect expenses, and other critical metrics.  Know program profitability and contribution margins.

 PROGRAM PERFORMANCE DASHBOARDS

Translate your program performance data into interactive dashboards, which you can drill down by discipline, degree level, location, delivery, profitability ranking, and whatever dimensions you’d like to customize. Automatically refresh your dashboards at the end of each enrollment cycle.

 ENROLLMENT & PERFORMANCE FORECASTING

Reliably forecast incoming students, headcount enrollments, credit hours, and earnings for your academic programs. Aggregate forecasts by degree level, delivery, location, or other dimensions. Run forecasts for annual budget or multi-year planning periods. Refresh at each cycle’s close.

 PERFORMANCE & RESOURCE BENCHMARKING

Benchmark your academic programs’ performance to that of your competitors, peers, or aspirants. Study faculty composition, staffing, and resource allocations. Calculate comparative performance metrics (e.g., cost to graduate) and use them in forecasting and decision modeling.

 COURSE   SCHEDULING  STUDIES

Investigate how your courses perform in terms of enrollments, income, direct costs, and capacity, according to discipline, course type, instructional delivery, time of day, and faculty ranking.  Use this knowledge to improve curriculum design, course scheduling, and faculty resource allocation.

STUDENT SATISFACTION RESEARCH

Learn what students view as the strengths and weaknesses of your academic offerings—and their own learning experiences—from our statistically reliable opinion and satisfaction survey research. Find out their views about your programs’ reputations and test brand messaging.

360 CONTINUOUS

IMPROVEMENT

Integrate the above performance, market, and competitor intelligence components into a comprehensive continuous improvement campaign for your college, school, or academic division. Generate the strategies you’ll employ and detail the capabilities and resources you’ll build to systematically enlarge value and impact, expand market, attain capabilities, and optimize performance and reinvestment.