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Tracking the Right Higher Education SEO Metrics for Marketing Success

September 8, 2023

Key Insights Looking at SEO success metrics helps you evaluate your SEO strategy’s performance, while analyzing SEO health metrics lets you inform your SEO strategy. Institutional leaders want reporting on SEO metrics, but most don’t receive regular updates. From deans to marketing leaders to SEO analysts, various audiences need to receive and review different levels…

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Corporate Learning Partnerships Part 2: Higher Ed Strategies for B2B Sales

August 23, 2023

Higher education institutions aiming to develop successful corporate learning partnerships must be willing to acknowledge that marketing to and engaging businesses is different from marketing to and engaging students. In the first part of this series on higher ed corporate learning, we discussed how schools can position themselves to effectively market to businesses. Once that…

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Corporate Learning Partnerships Part 1: Position Your School to Market to Businesses Effectively

July 26, 2023

How to establish successful corporate partnerships Corporate learning partnerships are effective revenue generators for many higher education institutions. These partnerships can also help schools better serve their missions by expanding access to higher education for adult learners. But developing successful higher education marketing initiatives to establish relationships with corporate partners can be challenging. At MindMax,…

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Paid Search & SEO in Higher Ed: Are Our Search Marketing Priorities Right?

July 6, 2023

Key Insights The majority of Professional, Continuing, and Online Education units prioritize paid search advertising. This shows that institutions view search as an important part of a prospect’s journey — but a much smaller portion invest in SEO. Search engine optimization is worthy of ongoing investment. However, university marketing units and outsourced marketing providers don’t…

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How to Quantify Higher Education SEO ROI — “Show Me the Money,” Says the Dean

June 23, 2023

For higher education marketing strategies, SEO ROI is tricky to define. What is the return? What is the investment? Whose numbers do we even use? And how long do we have to wait to see that return on SEO investment? Higher education websites house tremendous “unseen treasure,” which adds value for SEO. ROI is the…

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UPCEA’s 2025 Online Education Benchmarking Report Provides Vital Data for University Leaders

Second annual study provides new KPI benchmarks around enrollments, finance, and budget, explores the impact of AI, and provides strategic recommendations for online leaders to thrive in these uncertain times.  WASHINGTON, D.C., ISSUED AUGUST 12, 2025…UPCEA, the online and professional education association, today announced the release of a new research report, “Benchmarking Online Enterprises: Insights…

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How to Build Strong Employer Partnerships to Support Student Success

Now, possibly more than ever, it is critically important for colleges and universities to engage with employers for the benefit of our students. Higher education is facing an unprecedented time. The demographic cliff is upon us, the current political environment has led to policy whiplash and has upended funding sources for research. Our campuses have…

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Artificial Intelligence is Non-Negotiable for Higher Education Marketing and Enrollment Management

Why Institutional Leaders Can No Longer Afford to Wait on AI adoption The clock is ticking for higher education institutions that haven’t fully embraced AI. What was once an experimental advantage in marketing and enrollment has quickly become an urgent necessity. AI has firmly established itself as an operational imperative across diverse industries, with the…

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Congress Passes President Trump’s OBBB—Workforce Pell Included, but Higher Ed Gets $300 Billion Slash | Policy Matters (July 2025)

Major Updates Congress Passes President Trump’s OBBB—Workforce Pell Included, but Higher Ed Gets $300 Billion Slash President Trump’s newly signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) overhauls the federal approach to higher education policy. Short-term Pell advocates (of which UPCEA has been a long supporter) have something to be thankful for, as it opens Workforce…

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Synchronizing Pathways: Advancing the National Dialogue on Credentials and Learning Mobility

Incubator grant supports critical work to align data practices and learning mobility frameworks to benefit today’s learners WASHINGTON July 31, 2025 – UPCEA, the online and professional education association, has launched a national initiative to advance credential transparency and learner mobility through improved data quality and institutional capacity-building. The project titled, “Synchronizing Pathways: Expanding Institutional…

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Accelerating Institutional Capacity for Employer Engagement in Credential Innovation

As the future of work rapidly evolves, higher education institutions must accelerate their capacity to engage with employers—building bridges between learning and labor market relevance. At UPCEA, with support from Walmart, the world’s largest employer, we’ve undertaken two major initiatives to strengthen these bridges. The first project provided foundational benchmarking data, a practical playbook, and…

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