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StudentBridge ROI Tool

Measure Enrollment Impact

Traditional marketing channels like printed viewbooks and billboards cost thousands but never show which students actually enrolled. StudentBridge delivers measurable yield improvement through personalized engagement, unified data, and proven enrollment outcomes.

 

StudentBridge ROI Tool

When prospective students truly experience your campus, enrollment follows

StudentBridge gives every prospect — in-state, out-of-state, international — an immersive, personalized view of your institution. The result: more deposits, better-fit students, and visibility that compounds across every department. Tell us about your enrollment and we'll show you what's at stake.

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Enrollment
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Admissions Spend
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Other Spend
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Step 1 of 4
Tell us about your enrollment
Numbers your team knows by heart — plus two quick inputs that unlock the lifetime value picture.
Final confirmed deposits
Per student, after scholarships & aid
$
Lifetime Value Inputs
Typically 4 for undergraduate, 2 for graduate
% of students who return each year (typical: 80–90%)
%
Please complete all four fields to continue.
Step 2 of 4
Your admissions marketing spend
Traditional channels with no guaranteed yield. Estimates are fine — leave anything that doesn't apply at $0.
Design, print, and postage
$
Placement fees & production
$
Travel, booths, and materials
$
Magazine ads, swag, brochures
$
Step 3 of 4
Other investment you can't fully measure
The spend that touches every department but rarely reports back. Estimates are fine — these are the dollars StudentBridge gives you visibility into.
Google, Meta, programmatic ads
$
Slate, Salesforce, marketing automation
$
Web design, branding, content
$
Campus visits, hosted experiences
$
Athletics, community, regional
$
Anything else hard to attribute
$
Your Results

Here's what's on the table

Year 1 Net Tuition Revenue
$0
from 0 additional students enrolling this year
Additional Enrollment
+0
More students every year
A meaningful lift, every cycle
Conservative 4-Yr View
$0
Cumulative tuition collected
accounting for typical attrition
+1
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The Hidden Cost of Untracked Spend
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But that's not the whole story
When prospective students truly see your campus, the value compounds across every department
Yield lift is the easiest number to defend. The bigger return shows up everywhere else — long after admissions hands the deposit list to the registrar.
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Advancement & Alumni Giving
Students who experienced your campus virtually before arriving form a stronger emotional bond. That bond translates into higher giving rates, larger gifts, and deeper alumni engagement decades later.
— 02
Student Life & Retention
Better fit at the front door means fewer transfers and withdrawals. Every percentage point of retention you protect is millions in tuition you don't have to backfill.
— 03
Athletics & Recruiting
Coaches close commits faster when recruits and families can experience facilities, traditions, and game day from anywhere. Travel costs drop. Yield on offers climbs.
— 04
Faculty & Graduate Recruiting
Top faculty hires and graduate candidates evaluate institutions the same way prospective undergrads do. A polished, immersive presence raises your offer-acceptance rate across the academy.
— 05
Marketing & Communications
A single source of truth for campus content reduces duplicated work across departments — and ensures every department speaks with one consistent, high-fidelity voice.
— 06
Strategic Enrollment Planning
For the first time, leadership can see which prospects engaged, what they responded to, and where to invest next year. Guesswork becomes strategy.
A handful of additional students more than covers StudentBridge — but the real return is having all eyes on your institution, working for every department, every day.
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Let's make these numbers yours.

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How these numbers are derived: Year 1 revenue assumes a 2% lift in enrolled students — a conservative estimate based on typical StudentBridge client outcomes. Many institutions see higher. The Conservative Estimate applies your annual retention rate across the cohort of additional students, capturing only direct tuition collected over their enrollment. It intentionally excludes ancillary revenue, advancement gifts, athletics impact, alumni giving, and any downstream value from the cross-departmental effects shown above — meaning the real return is materially higher. Actual results vary by institution.