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SMS Messaging for Higher Education
- Increase enrollment through bulk messaging
- Reliable text message system for universities
- Build your college admissions marketing list
- Data & reports to optimize mass texts
- Worry-free opt-out tools for bulk SMS
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- Attract New Students: Use higher education texting platforms as an effective acquisition tool to evaluate student and applicant engagement.
- Boost Marketing ROI: Amplify the impact of your marketing campaigns by integrating text messaging into digital, social, email, and print ads.
Reach More Students Faster
- Streamline Workflows: Guide students through complex processes with automated text reminders to keep them informed of important deadlines.
- Create Personalized Experiences: Engage 1:1 with students and answer questions about enrollment, financial aid, and more from the convenience of our mobile app.
- Send Notifications & Alerts: Keep students safe, informed, and engaged with timely text notifications and alerts.
Simplify Employee Communication
- Send Notifications & Alerts: Keep faculty and staff in the know and safe with text messages sent directly to their mobile devices.
- Streamline Internal Workflows: Send text reminders to streamline internal processes such as open enrollment, training, policy changes, and more.
- Reach Remote Teams: Rapidly connect to a mobile workforce across multiple buildings and campuses.
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Frequently Asked Questions
While it is not possible to know the exact number of colleges and higher education institutions using a bulk SMS alert system for emergencies, the Campus Safety 2020 Emergency Notification Survey revealed that 70% of higher education respondents said that they have developed two or more emergency notifications systems. The survey also showed that of all the systems campuses relied on, administrators were the most satisfied with their texting platforms.
Simply put, yes. According to Pew Research, nearly 60% of teen smartphone users cite texting as the main way they communicate online/on their phones. Since the same study found that only 6% of students check their email daily, this huge disparity in usage indicates a strong preference for text over email. Additionally, a 2016 survey of millennials showed that 76% preferred texting to talking for convenience.
Yes, it is. Across all demographics, texting has an average 98% open rate. Compared to email’s 20% average, the likelihood that a text recipient will see a SMS over an email is much higher. Our internal research indicates that the younger the audience, the more engagement a text message gets, therefore making both two-way texting and bulk SMS one of the most effective means of communications between students and colleges or universities.
You can. With EZ Texting, colleges, universities, and academies can utilize the texting platform’s capabilities to send both mass texts and one-on-one messages to their contacts. Our end-to-end texting software for higher education includes 1-on-1 Chat, a feature that allows you to text-enable a landline or toll-free number or initiate direct texting with students using a textable number.
1 https://www.admithub.com/blog/16-statistics-why-schools-should-texting-and-messaging-students
2 https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/08/31/new-study-finds-cell-phone-addiction-increasingly-realistic-possibility#1
3 https://www.eztexting.com/whitepaper/2019-mobile-usage-report
4 https://www.eztexting.com/whitepaper/text-communication-2019-report
