Boston U Deploys Web-Based Admissions Management
Boston University has implemented a centralized application management system for its graduate programs.
The
university processes more than 40,000 applications a year across more
than 100 graduate programs and was looking for a way to improve its
enrollment processes. After conducting an extensive evaluation, the
university selected the UniCAS Web-based application management system
from Liaison.
UniCAS
features application workflow, integrated admission services, GPA and
course prerequisite calculations, transcript verification, mail
processing and scanning and authentication of documents. It also
includes "an analytical reporting engine to help institutions gain
extensive oversight of school-wide enrollment trends and to identify,
recruit, and enroll best-fit students," according to a news release
from Liaison.
Implementing UniCAS enables Boston University to
access a university-wide view of data about submitted and accepted
applications, customize applications to individual programs, monitor
application activity in real time, access applicant documents easily
and create customized data exports. The university is also taking
advantage of UniCAS services such as GPA verification, mail processing,
scanning, test-score matching, customer service and document
storage.
"Too often, institutions have a fractured view of
admissions efforts and enrollment trends at the graduate level," said
Tim Barbari, associate provost for graduate affairs at Boston
University, in a prepared statement. "By implementing UniCAS, we will
be able to more effectively collect data across all of our graduate
programs to make data-driven decisions on how to best focus our
resources in the short-term, as well as the future."
About the Author
Leila Meyer is a technology writer based in British Columbia. She can be reached at [email protected].