Facebook Helps Admissions Offices find Students
October 3, 2008 by admin · Filed Under Social Media
Social networking giant, Facebook, has brought several people together. Users can keep in touch with current classmates and friends, friends from high school and grade school and even families. Back in the early days of Facebook, users needed a university or college email to even sign up for the site. Nowadays, anyone can sign up for an account. In particular, the education industry has taken advantage of prospective students using Facebook to get in contact with them.
Many colleges and universities report great success with using Facebook as an admissions booster. Universities can create fan pages for their schools which can include school events, news, videos, images and other creative outlets. Creating these pages also gives prospective students a point of contact to ask questions about the school. A contact on Facebook is more intimate for the prospective student, building a foundation of trust between the student and the school. A university’s Facebook page can be highly successful through raising enrollment, and it can be a form of reputation management.
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