Market programs and drive enrollment
Show prospective learners – from high school students to working adults – how your academic programs unlock opportunities and connect to their career goals.
In survey after survey, learners have spoken loud and clear:
Career outcomes are a main motivation for pursuing higher education,
Work-relevance is a key element of educational value, and
ROI (in terms of tuition cost vs. post-college earning ability) is a major factor when determining where to go to college.
For colleges and universities, this creates an opportunity.
Whether it’s embedding relevant career information directly into program pages, or showcasing the proven college-to-career pathways blazed by your alumni, you can engage prospective students with relevant data that answers their questions before they ask – giving them the clarity and confidence they need to enroll.
Career insight for the full enrollment funnel
Lightcast labor market data equips your team with insight to find, engage, and guide prospective learners from inquiry to admission.
Find working adults who intend to enroll in higher education and are currently employed in an occupation related to your programs.
Provide powerful career exploration tools that seamlessly connect a person's interests and skill gaps to the relevant courses and programs that you offer.
Embed critical career insights directly into your website so students can see how education leads to opportunity.
Quickly customize and share graphics that summarize program-specific alumni career outcomes data, so prospects and site visitors can see proof of student success.
Market Programs and Drive Enrollment
Whether it’s embedding relevant career information directly into program pages or showcasing the proven college-to-career pathways blazed by your alumni, you can help prospective students see how the education you provide will launch them towards their personal and professional goals.
API
Fully customize how Lightcast data is displayed on your site or application.
SkillsMatch
Student-facing course and job recommendation engine, based on learners’ skill gaps.
Help prospective students clarify the connection between education and opportunity
Widget Builder
Students want to understand the career outcomes related to their education. Earn their trust by showing the connection between your academic programs and career outlooks. Now you can easily and quickly display trusted career data from Lightcast anywhere on your website.
Explore Widget BuilderAPIs
Access to Lightcast APIs lets you fully customize when, where, and how our data appears on your site. Pick the data points you need and decide how to deliver that insight to your students. Our developer-friendly documentation makes it easy for your IT staff to get things up and running.
Explore Lightcast APIsCareer Coach
Provide prospective students with an end-to-end platform that takes them from interest assessment, to guided career exploration, to related programs at your institution.
Explore Career CoachSkillsMatch
Help working adults clarify their skill gaps and discover your courses. SkillsMatch helps current or prospective students inventory the skills they have, clarify the skills they want or need, and discover the most relevant offerings at your institution. It even includes live, local job postings to make the connection between educational investment and career outcomes as clear and concrete as possible.
Explore SkillsMatchGoRecruit
Show prospective students what your graduates go on to achieve, with third-party, program-specific career outcomes data. GoRecruit makes it easy to obtain and configure this data into shareable graphics that you can leverage in marketing and recruitment campaigns.
Explore GoRecruitLearn more about using market data to grow enrollment
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