Three Ways to Speed Up Transcript Evaluation to Drive Enrollment Growth
To increase enrollment rates, higher education institutions are exploring new recruitment channels. Popular strategies include refining student engagement, attracting prospects from broader regions, and pivoting to virtual learning. Each of these blueprints generates a new variety of transcripts flooding into your institution that require equivalency determinations.
Don't wait until you're faced with a difficult administrative hurdle: put the right technologies in place, like IDP, to effectively leverage these creative enrollment incentives.
Improve the student's chances of graduating.
One of the main reasons why 11% of community college students who dream of earning a bachelor’s degree fail to cross the finish line? The United States Government Accountability Office points to the transfer credit process . Institutions looking for new ways to increase enrollment can no longer ignore this critical graduation gap.
In some cases, transfer students don’t know that their prior experience won’t count toward their four-year degree until four to six weeks after classes begin . Realizing they’ll have to commit more time and money to succeed can be discouraging to students at a time when high retention rates are critical. Resolving applications in a shorter time frame will help students confidently plan for their personal and financial future.
Recruiting students in new regions
Some colleges and universities are looking to recruit students from new geographic areas. For example, Texas A&M has one of the highest percentages of students from across the state. In contrast, a much smaller percentage of students entering the University of Colorado are Coloradans.
Accessing a new student region comes with significant administrative challenges. Transcripts may come from schools for which you don’t have articulation agreements. Your systems aren’t familiar with the range of sizes and styles used by out-of-state (or out-of-country!) institutions.
IDP takes care of the legwork. You can quickly process small business email list transcripts in any format, even the first time it’s introduced into your system.
Expand your online program offering
Institutions are using online programs to level the geographic playing field. Instead of requiring students to make a dramatic life change—pack up and move thousands of miles away—to pursue their education, they can do it from their hometown.
As your national and global reach expands, so does the diversity of incoming documents. Prepare your school with the right tools to extract data from any transcript, regardless of language or presentation.
How Intelligent Document Processing Improves Transcription Processing
With traditional methods, your staff must create and manage hundreds of ROC models or manually enter courses into spreadsheets and databases.
IDP can automate data capture from the transcript image to your systems, taking the burden off your enrollment staff. How? Technology transfers the responsibility of capturing, reviewing, classifying, mapping, and extracting transcript data to software.