Admission and Enrollment Resources

Resources for Admission and Enrollment Practices

• Best Practices in Strategic Graduate Enrollment Report, 2022-23 
• Graduate Enrollment and Degrees, 2012 to 2022 (CGS)

Admission and Recruitment

• 2024 RNL, Six "Must Do" Strategies to Win in the Graduate and Online Market
• 2023 Graduate Student Recruitment Report: Executive Summary (RNL, 2023)
• Recruiting in an Evolving Graduate Enrollment Landscape (ETS, 2023)
• Online College Students Report (Education Dynamics), 2022. The report provides further insight into the preferences and demands of online learners.
• Graduate Student Recruitment Report (RNL), 2021
• Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Admissions and Recruitment Best Practices
• Survey of the Enrollment Management Landscape, 2021
• Six Things Missing From Your Adult and Graduate Program Websites (EAB), June 2021
  
• Survey of Graduate Program Marketing and Recruitment Practices, 2020
• Marketing and Recruitment Practices for Graduate Students Report, 2020
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion

• Holistic Admissions (ETS), June 2022
• Watch a recording of the Mentoring Diverse Graduate Students workshop hosted by the WMU Graduate College in September 2021 (click here to access the Questionnaire for Aligning Expectations in Research Mentoring Relationships)

• Social Justice and Anti-Racism Resources for Graduate Education (CGS), August 2021

• Navigating Holistic Admissions (ETS), December 2021
• Building on Excellence: Guide to Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Graduate Students at UC Berkeley

COVID-19

• Impact of COVID-19 on Graduate Education Access: Selected Results from the 2020 NAGAP/CGS Survey of Graduate Enrollment Professionals, April 2021
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Graduate Education (CGS), June 2020
  
  

Graduate College Marketing Collateral

• Graduate program academic profiles (available through GradShare)
• Graduate viewbook
  
  

Cognos reports 

Helpful instructions and screenshots to guide you through some of the key graduate-related Cognos reports.  

Admissions-related Reports:

• Graduate Program Profiles, 55.00.10
• Identify AGDP Applicants, 10.20.25
• Target Future AGDP Students, 20.00.20
• Undergraduate Feeder Institutions for Beginning (Applied or Admitted) Graduate Applicants, 55.00.71
• Weekly Applications by Program, 10.05.20

Registration-related Reports:

• Daily Registration by Program, 20.05.20
• Graduate Time to Degree, 70.10.91
• Students in Academic Difficulty, 40.50.10
• Students Registered in Prior Terms Not Registered in Future Terms, 21.00.20
• Undergraduate Feeder Institutions for Beginning (Enrolled) Graduate Students, 55.00.70

Retention-related Reports:

• Doctoral Retention and Graduation Rates, 21.10.45
• Master's Retention and Graduation Rates, 21.10.40
• Master's Retention and Graduate Rates Report Five-Year History, 21.10.4

Target x enrollment Communication plan

Click here to view a video with information about:

• Automated email messaging
• Biweekly email campaigns
• Inquiry communication