Consulting for Higher Education
Receive expert guidance on actionable portfolio and international marketing strategies, recruitment concepts, branding and positioning, alumni engagement, and a wide range of other services tailored to the higher education sector.
Data-Driven Consultancy for Higher Education Challenges and Opportunities
We provide data-driven evidence-based consultancy services to universities, business schools and higher education providers to support them with institutional and market challenges and opportunities.
Our work helps institutions identify improvement strategies for enhanced performance, resilience and acceleration.
We use our unique global Studyportals data combined with other public, institutional or client data, analytics and management consulting to provide broad consultancy capabilities from strategy design to benchmarking analysis.
Our core domains
Student Marketing, Recruitment and Diversification Strategy Development
This service is designed to assist higher education institutions to target a more diverse and qualified student cohort using various dimensions in light of the numerous demographic and economic challenges the industry is facing.
Accreditation and Ranking Management for Quality Assurance
Our comprehensive consulting service supports universities and business schools specifically, aiming for institutional and/or programme accreditations (e.g., AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) and improve ranking performances, with comprehensive strategy reviews and change management tailored to enhance institutional standards and outcomes.
Institutional Strategy Development
Our service provides comprehensive solutions to our clients to be globally competitive in the international higher education environment. We enable clients to map development aspirations into strategic plans. Through facilitated discussions with key stakeholders, we provide you with a comprehensive report which sets out a range of strategic options, operational recommendations and implementation guidance to support your institutional objectives.
Strategic Benchmarking and Competitor Analysis
Our benchmarking allows clients to take an evidence-based approach to gain a more nuanced understanding of their comparative performance relative to peer institutions on a national and international level and reflecting their medium- to longer-term strategic goals. Our service provides institutions with a comprehensive analysis of how they measure up against others in the industry.
Training
We provide open registration or tailored, in-house, professional development training and workshops in almost any field of internationalization of higher education: international marketing and student recruitment, international strategy development, leadership development, branding and positioning, etc.