Niche concluded its previous direct admissions program for fall
2024, having sourced over $165M in
first-year tuition revenue for participating institutions
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Niche, the country's
leading platform connecting students with colleges, has launched
its 2025 direct admissions program for high school seniors
enrolling in the fall of 2025. Now in its fourth consecutive cycle,
Niche Direct Admissions® has expanded to over 100
college and university partners with dozens more expected to
participate in the coming weeks and months.
The 2024 Niche Direct Admissions program
helped source an estimated first-year tuition revenue of over
$165 million.
Niche is revolutionizing the college admissions landscape by
modernizing the way students and families choose their best-fit
colleges, and how institutions build their future classes. With
Niche Direct Admissions, colleges come to students by sending them
real-time acceptance and upfront scholarship offers based solely on
a student's online profile with Niche.
The most recent Niche Direct Admissions program, for freshmen
enrolling in the fall of 2024, delivered outstanding results for
both students and higher education institutions:
- In total, 91 institutions across the country participated in
the 2024 Niche Direct Admissions program, more than any other
direct admissions offering to date.
- This translated to nearly 930,000 students receiving at least
one acceptance and scholarship offer, with the average number of
offers per student at just over five.
- Nearly two-thirds of admitted students identified as Hispanic,
Black or African American.
- The average annual scholarship provided through the program was
$18,500.
- The 2024 Niche Direct Admissions program helped source an
estimated first-year tuition revenue of over $165 million and an incredible 9% of our partner
institutions' deposits, with some as high as 30%.
"We believe direct admission will become the primary way most
students enroll in college within the next five years," said
Luke Skurman, founder and CEO of
Niche. "The growing popularity of programs like ours and at the
state-level validates the need to modernize the admissions process
because the status quo isn't cutting it. Students, families and
institutions alike are turning to Niche Direct Admissions for a
simpler, more innovative and transparent solution — and it's
working."
Unlike other direct admissions programs, Niche's student-first
approach removes unnecessary barriers many students face during the
traditional college admissions process, such as the application
itself. Niche Direct Admissions is completely free for students and
open to all high school seniors, allowing them to receive
acceptance and scholarships to colleges both in and outside of the
state they live in, including both public and private
institutions.
For institutions, Niche Direct Admissions enhances admissions
teams' competitiveness and agility as they navigate a rapidly
changing industry, providing a new source for enrollment and
revenue that seamlessly complements an institution's existing
strategies.
"Through Niche, UMSL sent direct admissions offers to over 800
students for this fall, of whom 114 have committed to enrolling and
76 have registered to attend," said University
of Missouri-St. Louis Vice Chancellor for Strategic
Enrollment Reggie Hill. "That's a fantastic return on our initial
investment with Niche. It's helped us attract students of the same
quality as through other channels, many of whom we might never have
reached otherwise. UMSL is already up and running within the 2025
direct admissions program, which Niche made very easy for our team
to integrate and customize in order to maximize success."
More than 100 four-year colleges and universities across 33
states have already formally committed to offer direct admissions
via the Niche platform during the 2024-25 admissions cycle. These
institutions will be added on a rolling basis in the coming months
along with dozens of other institutions expected to join as well.
Students and their families can review the institutions that have
already been added to the program here.
Niche Direct Admissions is now available for the high school
class of 2025. High school underclassmen who create a Niche Profile
will automatically be eligible for direct admissions offers during
their senior year. Over a million high school seniors create a
Niche Profile each year, which is roughly one out of every two
college-bound seniors. Higher education institutions seeking more
information on how to accelerate and increase enrollment by meeting
students where they are should visit
www.niche.com/about/partners/direct-admissions.
ABOUT NICHE:
Niche is changing how colleges connect with students and
build their future classes. As the trusted partner to hundreds of
colleges, Niche is helping higher education institutions across the
country streamline operations, forge genuine connections with
students and achieve their enrollment targets. Our nationally
recognized Niche Direct Admissions® program enables
colleges to proactively accept qualified students based on their
Niche Profile alone. Through real-time acceptance and scholarship
opportunities, Niche Direct Admissions offers a modern experience
for today's students, resulting in more enrollments for college
admissions teams. Learn more about how over 100 institutions are
already leveraging Niche Direct Admissions.
Press contact:
Nick
Liberati
Director, PR
nick.liberati@niche.com
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