The following blog post is a summary of a market research project conducted recently by Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) – a market research firm in Upstate NY. Background: A college was interested in learning the degree to which its inquiry and enrollment process for continuing education students was a barrier to their enrollment growth. (It Read more

American colleges and universities are facing a challenge of demographics. We are now in a period where there is and will continue to be a dip in the number of traditional college age students (age 18 to 24). According to trends and projections measured by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the number of Read more

What is secondary research? According to our friends at GMI, secondary research is the analysis of research that had been collected at an earlier time (for reasons unrelated to the current project) that can be applied to a study in progress. Secondary market research can be an excellent tool for decision-making and identifying future trends. Furthermore, using secondary market Read more

As part of our effort to continually grow our in-house panel, Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) launches a panel survey every few months to keep our members engaged. Panel members are also randomly selected for various quantitative and qualitative studies in which they may qualify for throughout the year. These panel surveys are conducted in-house Read more

As a market research company that has been heavily involved in higher education research since our founding, Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) makes it a point to monitor trends in that industry. In addition to reading about these trends through news outlets, we often see the ground-level manifestation of them in our research. Through the Read more

Environmental Scanning – it sounds like some form of new Green technology, but really it’s just a fancy term for something that all organizations need to do: taking a look at the environment in which they do business and using the information to shape future decisions. All market research is a form of environmental scanning, Read more

Here in the Bunker, the RMS Analytics team has worked on a number of different market research projects for our higher education clients.  The types of market research for our higher education clients spans  both qualitative and quantitative – from focus groups to demand modeling.  This is a marketing piece that RMS put together related to Read more

Over the past few years, there has been a continuing evolution of the community college’s place in the American higher education landscape. As the economy has declined, community colleges have enjoyed a wider appeal as a more affordable alternative to private and four-year public institutions, to the point where there is actually a “reverse transfer” Read more

Adult learners, sometimes called nontraditional students, have long been a part of the market for higher education, but in recent years the segment has grown in importance. In fact, a 2002 special analysis by the National Center for Education Statistics revealed that there were roughly the same number of nontraditional undergraduate students studying at American Read more

The Bunker covers the topic of Helicopter parents and their impact on market research in colleges and universities.