Higher Education Enrollment Marketing That Reaches Prospective Students

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Higher Education Enrollment Marketing That Reaches Real Prospective Students

Enrollment campaigns fail when they target demographics instead of individuals. Semcasting matches your prospect list to verified household and device identities - reaching prospective students, parents, and non-traditional learners across every screen they use, with attribution that connects media to inquiry and application, not just clicks.

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Higher Education Audience Coverage

42M+

High School
Students

85%+

Match
Rate

48hr

To Live
Campaign

Reach by Audience Segment

🎓 HS Juniors / Seniors 94% reach

👨‍👩‍👧 Parents of College-Bound 88% reach

🔄 Transfer Students 76% reach

💼 Adult / Continuing Ed 82% reach

✓ COPPA-Conscious ✓ FERPA-Aligned ✓ Same-Day Activation

M+

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

FIRST-PARTY MATCH RATE

PARENT HOUSEHOLDS

DATA TO LIVE CAMPAIGN

Data CoVERAGE

Retail Data Built on Purchase Behavior, Not Browser History.

Semcasting's retail targeting is built on ownership transaction behavior, household income, and brand affinity — not cookie-based browsing signals. Every audience is matched to real household identities for deterministic activation and closed-loop attribution.

Undergraduate Prospect Targeting

High school junior and senior households by GPA proxy, standardized test participation indicators, college search behavior, and geographic proximity to campus, enabling early-funnel awareness campaigns to reach prospective undergrads before they finalize their consideration set.

Graduate & Professional Learner Data

Working professionals with bachelor's degrees and 2-5 years of work experience — layered with income, job function, and career stage signals — for MBA, law, nursing, education, and professional certificate program campaigns.

Adult & Non-Traditional

Adults aged 25+ who attended college but did not complete a degree, or who have been in the workforce for 10+ years and are considering returning for career advancement or credential completion programs.

Parent & Household Targeting

Reach parents of college-age students with household composition data, high school senior indicators, and household income data for financial aid awareness, campus visit campaigns, and institutional awareness campaigns targeting the parent as a key decision influencer.

Geographic Proximity Segments

Drive-distance (within 50/100/200 miles of campus), regional commuter profiles, and out-of-state prospect identification for institutions with geographic enrollment goals. Supports hyper-local campaigns for community colleges and regional state institutions.

Competitor Suppression

Identify households showing engagement with competing institutions and suppress them from top-of-funnel awareness campaigns, or target them specifically with differentiation messaging to compete for the same prospect in their consideration window.

Undergraduate Enrollment

Reach Prospective Students & Their Parents Together

Deploy coordinated campaigns to both high school students and their parents, using the same household identity, across CTV, digital, and direct mail. Reach the full decision-making unit, not just one member of it.

Graduate Program Marketing

Find Working Adults Ready for Their Next Degree

Target professionals with bachelor's degrees who are actively researching your graduate program category with campaigns that run across the devices they use outside of work hours, where enrollment decisions are actually made.

Online Program Recruitment

Prospecting for Distance Learning Programs

For fully online programs, Semcasting removes the geographic constraint entirely, targeting qualified adult learners nationally by career stage, program interest, and education history, without the proximity requirements of in-person enrollment campaigns.

Transfer Student Recruitment

Reach Community College Students in Transfer Windows

Target associate degree holders and community college students approaching transfer eligibility — identified by education history, local community college proximity, and program completion signals — with messaging tailored to the transfer process.

Open House & Campus Visit

Drive Event Registration from High-Intent Prospects

Identify households in your highest-interest prospect segments and run time-specific campaigns around campus visit events, virtual open houses, and application deadline windows, maximizing registration from your most qualified audiences.

Enrollment Attribution

Connect Media Spend to Inquiries, Applications & Deposits

Match ad-exposed households back to inquiry forms, application submissions, and enrollment deposits, proving which channels, programs, and creative themes drove real enrollment funnel progression, not just website visits.

MEASUREMENT

Prove Digital Media Drove Real Purchases, Online and In-Store

Retail and frequency capping attribution breaks down when digital and in-store data live in separate systems with no shared identity layer. Semcasting solves this by connecting every ad-exposed household to both digital purchase records and in-store visit data through the same deterministic identity graph used for targeting.

★ Primary Method

Transaction Matchback

Upload your transaction or purchase file during and after each campaign. Semcasting matches buyers to ad-exposed households, calculating real ROAS, average order value lift, and purchase frequency changes for both in-store and e-commerce data.

85%+

Household
Match Rate

Both

In-Store +
E-Commerce

Footfall Measurement

Store Visit Lift Studies

Compare visit rates among ad-exposed vs. unexposed households using matched identities, not device pings or probabilistic footfall data.

Recovery Attribution

Cart Abandoner Recovery

Track recovery rates across retargeting channels, identify which channels recover abandoners at the highest rate and lowest cost.

Conquest Conversions

Brand Switcher Identification

Identify households that purchased from a competing brand before your campaign and switched after exposure, quantifying true conquest.

Channel Sequencing

Multi-Channel Path to Purchase

Full touchpoint sequence: CTV, display, social, video, audio, direct mail for converted households. Understand which sequences convert highest.

The Right Semcasting Products for Retail & E-Commerce

Self-Serve Platform

Audience Designer (ADS)

Build purchase behavior and household income segments with ADS's self-serve platform. Upload your customer file, build lookalike models, and activate omnichannel with built-in closed-loop attribution connecting campaign exposure to transaction outcomes.

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API

ID Toolbox

Place the IDX Site Tag on your product and cart pages to capture visitor identity in real time, resolving anonymous shoppers to household identities with purchase behavior and income data appended. Enables identity-based retargeting without relying on cookie-based audiences.

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Retail Data Built on Purchase Behavior, Not Browser History.

How Higher Education Institutions Use Semcasting

Prove Digital Media Drove Real Purchases, Online and In-Store

The Right Semcasting Products for Retail & E-Commerce

Connect Your Media to Real Purchase Outcomes

See how Semcasting's retail data and closed-loop attribution can improve your ROAS and prove it.