The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated shifts in international student trends, forcing higher education (HE) institutions to make recruiting decisions with an incomplete view of the sector and student preferences. ApplyBoard, the EdTech platform revolutionizing the international student journey, is helping HE institutions solve this problem with the launch of ApplyBoard’s Insights Dashboard.
This SaaS tool is part of ApplySolutions (formerly called AB Solutions), the first-ever suite of software designed exclusively to help HE institutions make important choices in recruiting top student talent from around the world through the use of the latest study abroad data and emerging student market trends.
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With the global talent competition in full force, ApplyBoard’s Insights Dashboard helps Canada’s HE institutions drive the diversity of Canadian student populations forward. For the first time, institutions can leverage customized data visualizations of government and industry data that they can review and act on. It’s crucial for Canada to continue to fuel its innovative sector, and a big part of that success is made possible by institutions attracting and retaining new global talent. Canada is hoping to reach its highest-ever immigration totals over the next couple of years and has set a goal of reaching 411,000 in 2022.
“[ApplySolutions] offers that opportunity to build new knowledge, and ApplyBoard’s Insights Dashboard provides Canadian institutions with something every organization wants: actionable knowledge,” says Meti Basiri, Co-Founder and CMO ApplyBoard. “It’s our priority to help inform our school partners of the latest trends, but also take it one step further to contextualize industry and government data into key takeaways and insights.”
The First-Ever SaaS Tool of Its Kind
ApplyBoard’s Insights Dashboard is the first-ever SaaS tool of its kind, offering comprehensive data sets in the international education space and also shows schools how their recruitment efforts are performing by using benchmarking against their peers, within their province, and the rest of the country.
Student visa numbers across destination markets point to a wave of students looking to study abroad. In Canada, six times as many students were approved to study in the country between January and September 2021 compared to the same period in 2020. Canadian institutions can expect to face the sector’s largest single-year application increase in 2022. In order to meet the needs of all international students, institutions need to act proactively to manage this influx of students.
Key Features
ApplyBoard’s Insights Dashboard is accurate, easy to use, and leverages some of the most comprehensive international student recruitment data sets anywhere in the world.
These are just a few of the key features of this first of its kind insights tool:
Accurate and Timely IRCC Data
IRCC collects a tremendous amount of data on international students studying in Canada. However, that data is difficult to keep up to date and expensive to turn into insights institutions can action. The Insights Dashboard does all of this for you so you can start acting on these insights immediately.
Benchmarking
We all want to know how we are performing in our market. By combining IRCC data and ApplyBoard data with your school data, Insights Dashboard can show how you are performing compared to other institutions. With more than 1,000 leading Canadian institutions in the ApplyBoard ecosystem, we can match you with peer schools to ensure our benchmarking is relevant.
Exclusive Research
We have a team of data scientists working with IRCC data, our ApplyBoard data, and your school data to present exclusive insights and research that you can only get on the Insights Dashboard. We can also create custom charts based on requests from our client base.
Keeping Schools at the Forefront of the Latest Data
“The release of ApplyBoard’s Insights Dashboard comes at a timely moment when Canadian universities and colleges are expecting a double cohort effect from international students who are eager to study abroad,” continues Basiri. “One of the biggest challenges institutions are now facing is how to accommodate all of the demand and process their applications. The Insights Dashboard was designed to keep schools at the forefront of the latest data in the international student space.”
More than 10 Canadian colleges and universities looking to diversify their school campuses have already started using the tool. ApplySolutions is currently only available for Canadian institutions, but there are expansion plans in the works.
“The Insight Dashboard’s visualization of multiple data sets through charts and graphs has allowed us to quickly identify trends and make strategic decisions on international markets,” says Saurabh Malhotra, Senior Manager, International Recruitment and Market Development at Fanshawe College.
About ApplyBoard
Since its inception over seven years ago, ApplyBoard has helped more than 500,000 students from over 125 countries with their study abroad journey. On a mission to Educate the World, ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad process by connecting students, 1,700+ partner institutions, and thousands of global recruitment partners on a single platform.
Learn more about ApplyBoard’s Insights Dashboard, and connect with our team to start your free trial today.
