International Student Recruitment Trend Analysis

Company : QS is a global leader in higher education services. We are the data analytics, performance insight provider and intelligence partner supporting university excellence across the world. Our student recruitment and enrolment solutions enable universities and business schools to connect with talented individuals that are seeking to further their academic progress and career development. Our portfolio of professional services includes consultancy, student mobility and academic partnerships management, and branding solutions. We publish highly visible university rankings, including the QS World University Rankings® which reaches a global audience of hundreds of millions of people. Project Scope : Higher education is going through a period of sustained disruption, but market trends suggest continued demand for overseas education. We would like to understand general market size of the agency market to assess it for future expansion or potential acquisitions. To do so we need to review the key source markets of Undergraduate / General Masters and Business Masters / MBA candidates, identify key international educational agents and online platforms and analyze their models. To understand the market landscape players can be grouped based on the revenue, geography and target audience. QS will be happy to provide access to senior leader interviews to establish implementation feasibility. Educational agent is any business that provides application, interview prep and visa application services to candidates that leads to direct enrolment within an institution. Deliverables : A market scan written report or presentation (with data and findings supplied) with a particular focus on organisations which will be disrupted or can be the disruptors of the journey: 1. Large education agents into the UK, EU, Canada & Australia 2. Agent disruptors - solutions like Apply Board, Adventus, SchoolApply, Studylink, etc 3. Peer to peer tools, e.g. Unibuddy, Clearadmit, AccessPlatform, etc 4. Lead generation platforms, e.g. FindAnMBA, Poets&Quants, masterstudies, Chasedream, etc 5. Employer connectivity 6. Candidate - Education Provider matching algorithms 7. Organizations most likely to play a dominant role in 2025 and why

EdTech With Impact: Educational Innovation Scouting

The Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards & Conference is a prestigious international education competition and conference, at which innovative educational technology and the latest research developments in the sector are shared. Since 2014, faculty from the world’s finest research universities are attending Reimagine Education alongside executive-level representatives from multinational technology leaders including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and other future-shapers. The Reimagine Education Awards – the ‘Oscars’ of Education – reward innovative approaches that enhance student learning outcomes and employability, offering $50,000 in funding to the overall winners. There were over 3,000 delegates attending the event in December 2021 with over 1,200 applications across 16 awards categories. Innovators like Kahoot, Riipen and other unicorns have been the winners of Reimagine Education Awards at different years. The 2022 call for applications will open on March 21st 2022 and close on September 15th 2022. Winners will be announced at the Virtual Reimagine Education Conference (Dec 5-9, 2022). Project Objectives: To identify and reward the best and brightest pedagogical innovators across the world, QS creates a library of education technology projects run by individual innovators, EdTech companies, Non-Profit Organisations, and Universities. Future17 team will help nurture this library by researching and liaising with education and EdTech innovators who are creating solutions enhancing students’ learning outcomes, teaching delivery, employability, wellbeing and sustainability education - in their region, and globally. We would like to highlight the most impactful innovative EdTech solutions that contribute to equal access to education and career development, as well as introducing ESG/SDG values to young people. Innovators scouted by the Future17 teams should be invited to share information about their projects with the Reimagine Education library and, if relevant and interested, provided with the application guidelines for the Reimagine Education Awards. Volunteers should look for innovating projects that: - Have been featured in education technology reports such as the ones produced by HolonIQ, DealRoom, Emerge Education etc. - Have been submitted and/or shortlisted for EdTech / education awards schemes or sustainability education award schemes such as GESAwards, Bett Awards, EdtechX Awards, ASUGSV Summit Awards, Edtech review awards etc. - Are being highlighted through the innovation incubators and accelerators across different sectors and geographies. Expected Outcomes: 1. A library of 300 educational innovations categorized by country, suggested award category, impact (existing or potential), investment cycle and reach, and point of contact of the person to engage further (first name, last name, job title, location, email address). 2. 500 invitations to submit an application to be sent by the Future17 team.

Technology for Internationalization of Higher Education

Company : QS is a global leader in higher education services. We are the data analytics, performance insight provider and intelligence partner supporting university excellence across the world. Our student recruitment and enrolment solutions enable universities and business schools to connect with talented individuals that are seeking to further their academic progress and career development. Our portfolio of professional services includes consultancy, student mobility and academic partnerships management, and branding solutions. We publish highly visible university rankings, including the QS World University Rankings® which reaches a global audience of hundreds of millions of people. Project Scope :  QS provides a SaaS technology tool, MoveOn, which supports international student and academic exchanges and mobilities, as well as all forms of institutional partnerships. This project seeks to identify partnerships or acquisition opportunities which will expand our geographical scope or the range of partnerships we can support. Goal: for QS to be the partner of choice supporting Higher Education internationalization to drive institutional performance globally. How to achieve this goal: - Develop a platform including data/insights that helps Higher Education Institutions build meaningful partnerships, and then assess, benchmark and evaluate existing partners and their performance. - Support global mobility management beyond Erasmus – Virtual exchange, Study Abroad, Internships, Summer Programs etc. Deliverables (written report & databases presented during the e-meeting): 1. Evaluate partnerships targets to build global scale for tech for university internationalization 2. Conduct a scan of mobility & partnership tech systems globally as potential targets 3. Conduct a scan of university / corporate / government partnerships management providers - for ex, for financial loan & scholarship providers, corporate research, etc. 4. Scan university - employer partnerships - platforms for virtual internships, edtech systems that help universities co-create content with employers, etc.

Technology for Student Enrolment & Retention

Company : QS is a global leader in higher education services. We are the data analytics, performance insight provider and intelligence partner supporting university excellence across the world. Our student recruitment and enrolment solutions enable universities and business schools to connect with talented individuals that are seeking to further their academic progress and career development. Our portfolio of professional services includes consultancy, student mobility and academic partnerships management, and branding solutions. We publish highly visible university rankings, including the QS World University Rankings® which reaches a global audience of hundreds of millions of people. Project Scope : QS provides the leading white-label QS Enrolment Solution supporting international degree applicants from their first enquiry to accepting offer and moving to campus. This project will review early stage technologies which can help enhance the matching of students to the right universities and especially the growing segment of online learners, as well as supporting higher conversion rates and retention rates once a student enrolls. Our vision is to create a long-term profitable subscription-driven business, building the leading global tech-enabled student engagement / student success solution. Our aim is achieve this by improving conversion of quality candidates onto client’s courses by creating a personal and informed connection with the candidate whilst lowering client’s fixed costs. QS will be happy to provide access to senior leaders for discovery interviews to answer any relevant questions. Deliverables - a written report or presentation (with data and findings supplied): 1. Enquiry management and retention systems analyses, benchmarking against QS Enrolment Solution. 2. Market scan of EdTech organizations most likely to be in the spotlight by 2025. 3. Identify and evaluate pre-seed or seed stage companies developing tech to support online learning providers.