the website is amazing! well done! It's simple to use and gives us the future students exactly what we need!
the website is amazing! well done! It's simple to use and gives us the future students exactly what we need!
For many would-be MBA students, especially those from overseas, discovering what a school is “really“ like can be difficult.
However, the University of Exeter School of Business and Economics in the UK believes it may well have found a solution.
It has launched its own virtual community, which has already proved immensely popular in the few weeks it has been running. although it has only been running a few weeks, has proved to be immensely popular.
Following an application to the school, the student is given access to its school’s
intranet community. The applicant can contact future students, find accommodation, organise meetings, discover other students from his or her home country, share information and exchange gossip.
The intranet features a message board, applicants’ profiles and a class blog.
“The students have taken to it very quickly,“ says Charles Beard, marketing manager at the school.
“It is a great opportunity for them to meet fellow students of the future. For this generation, it is a very natural form of communication for them.
“They are getting into the community that will last them for the rest of their lives.The virtual community gives would-be students a much quicker and more relevant route to information, adds Mr Beard.“
“Many students, especially those coming from overseas, are incredibly isolated and they really know very little about what they are applying for.
“A system like this helps them identify the people from their own course and [allows them to] get a feel of the community they are going to be moving into.“
Mr Beard now hopes the enthusiastic response from applicants using the Net will now translate into student placements
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This system is awesome!! can't wait to get to know my future classmates.
Thanks James for facilitating this type of communication, it made me really feel at ease, knowing I will meet up with new students just like myself. It sure lessens the awkwardness of first meetings … I am glad to be part of this online community, and I am looking forward to get to know more students.
It is without doubt that this medium is a very effective way for prospective students to break the ice and communicate effectively with each other across the world.
Can't agree enough that this is a perfect medium to get fresh and familiarise with prospects.
Just wanna tell u it that it's really a great idea to make up this forum where we can meet and communicate. Personally, I will make new friends here and am sure it is going to be a wonderful experience.
News excerpt:
New data reveal that college and university Web sites are the second most important component of recruiting efforts, behind campus visits by prospective students. Specifically, online tools such as blogs are attracting growing numbers of high school students to help them decide what institution to attend. Other institutions offer different kinds of online resources. North Dakota State University, for example, lets students find others with similar interests and exchange e-mail. Reflecting the inclinations of today's college-bound students, unedited online resources have become important offerings, despite grammatical and spelling mistakes, according to several higher education consultants. Steve Kappler, an executive director at consulting firm Stamats, said that the informality of such tools is appealing to students. He encouraged colleges and universities to let all but "egregious" content be posted in such venues. Many see the emergence of Internet resources as a way to give prospective students the opportunity to talk to current students, bypassing what they might see as the sales pitch of admissions officers.
MBSNet is a real hit with the Specialist Masters. Thanks for your
Many of our alumni are only occasionally in contact with us and it is therefore essential that when they do contact us, they are left with the best possible impression.
I am proud to announce this new strategic partnership with Access MBA from the Advent Group. The synergies between our two entities are natural: with its MBA fairs and magazines, Access MBA is a key instigator of relevant physical meetings between prospects and MBA Programmes; Etheryl typically provides the subsequent building blocks to process and manage those candidates with NetApply CRM and NetVestibule.
As part of this partnership, Etheryl will supply the technology to power the new Access MBA Network, a premium community platform that will extend candidate-to-candidate and candidate-to-institution interactions before and after the actual fairs. Naturally, we will be leveraging our award-winning NetVestibule engine to drive this platform.
My team and I look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with Christophe Coutat and his team.
Today
we would like to salute Manchester
Business School and their admissions and alumni team. Indeed,
over the past 12-15 months, MBS has embraced our
original vision of a Student Lifecycle Continuum, and
is on the brink to unveil one of the first if not the only true
continuum worthy of such definition. Initially, the MBA admissions
team selected NetApply
to replace its former provider; the distance learning branch
(MBS Worldwide) also picked up a license of NetApply. Then NetVestibule
was introduced to welcome the select MBA candidates admitted by
the AdCom, but also to help transform them into students and therefore
increase the so-important yield. Later, they introduced our pre-applicant
inquiry form that helps identify hot-prospects in order to entice
them to apply with a personalized and pre-filled PDF application.
Within a month, MBS will be rolling out our NetVestibule
for Alumni module, gradually servicing up to 20 000 alumni...
We are thrilled to be working with MBS and look forward to visiting them in the great city of Manchester which is just an hour away from Paris by plane.
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