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AACRAO Consulting provides services to universities and colleges of all sizes, across the US, Canada, and around the world. AACRAO has long been known for our expertise and resources for registrars and admissions professionals and our consulting services reflect this. While we’ve become the leading resource for Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM), we’ve continued our not-for-profit focus on supporting the success of the higher education community we serve.

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Recruit, Admit & Retain More Students

Make sure your recruitment and marketing strategies connect with students, and that your admissions operations are ready to respond to applicants quickly. Then support their success with an effective retention plan.

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Drive Efficiencies Across Departments

Learn how improving your business processes leads to improved student satisfaction. Give your registrar’s office the tools it needs to improve student services. And simplify FERPA compliance while protecting your students’ information.

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Improve Services to Critical Student Populations

Attract, retain, and support the success of your transfer students and international students with relevant services, faster response times, streamlined processes, and more accurate information.

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Develop an Effective Long-Term Enrollment Strategy

Ensure your enrollment goals support your overall institutional mission with Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM). We’ll help you determine your SEM-readiness, then put you on the path to a sustainable SEM plan.

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Maximize Your Technology Resources

Resolve your technology challenges and leverage your existing technology resources to improve efficiencies, services, and student satisfaction. That includes taking advantage of electronic records and automation for greater speed and accuracy.

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Looking for something else?

Contact AACRAO Consulting today and we’ll help you assess your needs and how best to address them.

Case Study:

California State University,
Dominguez Hills

As a result of AACRAO Consulting’s review, restructuring and process improvements, CSUDH hit its enrollment targets for the first time in 10 years, exceeding the number of freshman applications by over 2,000 compared to the previous year.

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Higher Education Lags in Use of Brand Management Techniques to Recruit High School Seniors

In this article, which appears in Volume 7 No. 4 of AACRAO’s SEMQ journal, AACRAO’s Director of Research and consultant Wendy Kilgore, Ph.D., and co-author Gary Orosy, an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Southern Methodist University, explore the ways in which higher education institutions can better attract the students they seek. The authors identify the practices that lead to the highest rates of enrolled students. Universities that utilized a brand-management practice, such establishing a “brand” and being active on social media, are ultimately the most successful, Kilgore found. Click here to explore the entirety of their research.

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