Enable prospective students to interact with your current students, allowing them to ask questions and develop a sense of connection with your university or college whilst they do their research.
The data you need, the leads you want
With competition increasing, student expectations changing, declining retention rates, and economic uncertainty, student recruitment is more challenging than ever. Accessing rich insight into the student mindset, along with relevant quality leads, is crucial.
Give prospective students an inside view
Give prospective students an insider's view of what it's really like to study, live and socialise at your university or college. Students like to chat via online messaging and communicating this way boosts confidence and empowers students to speak openly – let your best student ambassadors do the talking for you.
Through Unibuddy on UCAS students receive trusted insights from your current students, in a familiar and supportive environment.
Valuable engagements
Our student audience is higher up the decision-making funnel. We are driving new and valuable engagements with providers. Engagements they don't typically obtain through research on provider's websites alone.
78% of prospective applicants want and expect to connect with university students during their search process.
Communicate, Connect, Convert
2. Receive immediate access to student leads
Find out which students are interested in your institution and the courses you offer.
3. Don't miss out, maximise your presence on ucas.com.
Position your institution alongside competitors who are already leveraging Unibuddy.
Work with your UCAS Customer Manager, or email educationservices@ucas.ac.uk to choose whichever package best suits your recruitment needs.
Some of key benefits of our Discover and Discover Lite packages include:
- Searchable and filterable ambassadors on ucas.com
- Downloadable leads
- Access to the data dashboard
- Contextually presented ambassadors to students searching on popular pages of ucas.com
- Conversation, message and engagement tracking
- Performance and insight reports
65% of students who chat with an ambassador convert into an application choice for that ambassador’s institution.
Join a seamless service to gain organic ROI
- We help you sign up to our Unibuddy partnership quickly and easily.
- You select current students who receive training from Unibuddy.
- They act as ambassadors for your university or college on ucas.com.
- You’ll have the technology and moderation to ensure chats are appropriate.
Quality leads
With 84% of leads from ucas.com coming from first-time Unibuddy users, combining Unibuddy on UCAS with your own Unibuddy license delivers greater engagement and increases the likelihood of students choosing you.
Let's talk Unibuddy
Contact us below or get in touch with your UCAS Customer Success Director or UCAS Customer Manager. They'll be able to walk you through costs, on-boarding and getting you setup.
Once you're live and chatting to students, there are plenty of opportunities to drive interactions to your ambassadors on Unibuddy.
