How LinkedIn is Adapting its Platform for Higher Education
Crossing the Higher Education Chasm
Russell Glass
Head of Products,
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
@glassruss
Four Major Trends
Shaping the Future of
Education
Affordability is in the Spotlight#1
Measuring Outcomes Increasingly Important#2
Higher Ed Decisions Becoming More Social
45%
of prospective MBA
students say word of mouth
recommendations are more
important than rankings
Carrington Crisp. Tomorrow’s MBA 2014
#1
Friends and family are
the top non-school
resource when
researching b-schools
2014 GMAC Prospective Students Survey
#3
Oracle, Social Media Today and Leader Networks, “The Social Enabled Enterprise: a 2013 research study”, Worldwide, Sep 2013
91%
81%
Increased visibility
with customers
Increased
loyalty
Relationships Matter: Social Impacts your
School’s Visibility
#4
It’s a Challenging World for Education Marketers
Declining interest in MBA
Shrinking future audience
Competition has increased
Cost per inquiries rising
How Do We Successfully Cross The Chasm?
Declining interest in MBA
Shrinking future audience
Competition has increased
Cost per inquiries rising
Great Student Outcomes
University Success
Sustained Innovation &
Relevance
Three Trends Putting Wind in Our Sails
Online Learning is Proliferating
Like Never Before
TREND ONE
270k+ Lynda Videos
Supplement curricula
Promote faculty and staff development
Support classroom technologies
Drive student engagement and success
TREND TWO
Technology is Enabling Better
Measurement of Student Success
Measurement & Adaptive Learning
Are Progressing
Employers Increasingly Working with
Education Providers to Develop Curricula
TREND THREE
Partnering for Graduate Success & Employment
The LinkedIn Value Proposition:
The most effective platform to impact the
entire student-professional journey
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*
32M
380M+
Professionals
join daily
SchoolsCompanies Knowledge SkillsMembers Jobs
The Economic Graph
380M+ 4M+ 3M+ 25K+ 17M+ presentations
1M+ long-form posts
270K+
Lynda videos
Particularly on professional social networks
Students Seek Educational Information Online
LinkedIn survey – US April 2014
86%
54%
53%
49%
39%
38%
32%
22%
22%
Institution Website
Online News Publication
Peers
Professional Social…
Brochures
Friends / Family
Email
Trade Events / Open-days
Personal Social Networks
Professional
networks used
over 2x more
than personal
networks
Research
Schools
Acquire
Knowledge
Develop
Profile
Build
Network
Connect
with
Alumni
Internship
Job
Upgrade
Skills
Develop
Career
Support
Causes
LinkedIn Products (Paid & Organic) Support the
Entire Student-Professional Journey
LinkedIn Products Support All
Major Educational Departments
Admission
Education
Career ServicesDevelopment
IP/Thought
Leadership
Marketing
Educational
Institution
How LinkedIn Helps Higher
Education Today
Most Effective Platform to Engage with Professionals
Onsite Display
Network Display
Sponsored Updates
Sponsored
InMail
Lead Accelerator
Full-funnel analytics
& reporting
products that impact
every stage of your
funnel and get results
Be Relevant Early
InMail 2.0 + Sponsored Updates
Connections
Company Industry
Size
Name
GenderEducation
Geo
Groups
Standardized
job titles
SeniorityFunction
Occupation
Target Only the Right Audience
Be Everywhere On and Off Desktop
Be Helpful Throughout
Outcomes / School Finder
Be Helpful Throughout
Alumni Tool
Measure It All
How LinkedIn Will Help Higher
Education in the Future
Invest in Simplification
University Page Company Page
+
Drive Next Level Performance
Programmatic Display
1-Click Lead Gen
Customer Data Onboarding
We are Committed to Higher Education
And Investing in its Future

Crossing the Higher Education Chasm - Russell Glass

Editor's Notes

  • #4 Average debt for the class of 2015 is higher now $35k In January of this year, President Obama announced his America’s College Promise proposal, which would provide two free years of community college funding,
  • #16 College Employer Collaborative Press Release: http://www.jff.org/news-media/press-release-jobs-future-and-corpu-present-college-employer-collaborative-2014-clinton
  • #17 The most effective platform for educational institutions to reach prospective students, current students, and alumni
  • #18 How can we do this? To start, there are over 200,000 professionals joining LinkedIn daily. And we now have over 380 million profiles on the site – more than 10 times what we had just 7 years ago.
  • #19 One manifestation of LinkedIn’s vision is the economic graph - a digital mapping of every major component of the global economy: workers, their skills, companies, their jobs, and institutions that provide training and education The economic graph will reduce the friction for the flow of all forms of capital – real, human, and intellectual. Members >350M (39M students & recent grads) Companies >4M Colleges and Universities >25K Active job listings >3M Jobs and internships for students = >40K
  • #20 When researching educational institutions, what sources of information do you use? n=499 Highlight that we’re not just a network, we are online news. Highlight online news publications blue.
  • #21 LinkedIn provides valuable tools to support the entire student journey -- from the moment they consider furthering their education, to the moment they become and alumni of your school.
  • #22 LinkedIn provides a powerful platform for all constituencies within the school to reach their key audiences.
  • #24 LinkedIn has products that impact every stage of your funnel. We are in a unique position to help you a) generate awareness and reach more of the right people to send to your marketing channels b) nurture those audiences by delivering the most appropriate content depending on where they are in their purchase cycle.
  • #26 We also offer powerful targeting capabilities that allow you to target just the right people among that audience of professionals. [CUSTOMIZE TARGETING FILTERS TO MATCH YOUR CLIENT’S TARGET AUDIENCE] Here are a few examples of filters you can use. After you find your target audience, the next step is to start influencing those people towards a purchase. To understand how that works on LinkedIn, let’s pick one individual from your target audience as an example.
  • #32 Reduction in complexity - no dual CP/UP architecture Can do SU off UPs Follower Migration