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admission

If there is someone with a foreign High school or university diploma what would be the steps to follow?

Your Institutions Websites

To me having a good website can be one of the best things for your institution. Now and days it is the first thing that people look at when searching for somewhere to attend courses. It needs to be "stupid easy." If the person searching or reviewing a website is finding it difficult to toggle back and forth between pages, search bars or anything like that they will move on to a different website. So it is critical to have a very well laid out website.

Marketing techniques

What do you think is the most effective way to obtain good leads? Which types of marketing do you think are most effective for postsecondary education institutes?

Rules and Regulations

How often the rules and regulations change and does the institutions get notified before or after of such of change?

Enrollment paperwork

It is essential that we take the time to make sure all paperwork is filled out completely and accurately.

Staying up to date

Staying up to date is very important to perform effectively for example: I keep my binder notebook updated, check website, meet with our Director, and differemt program Directors.

Keeping up

How offen do you think one should update there notebook

Enrollment

If you know your enrollment paperwork from front to back you will never after worry about giving a wrong answer!

Building a strong staff

I do belive that if the whole staff works together the whole school will do great!

CEU - Continuing Education Course - Waiver?

If an individual is pursuing an education such as a Masters or PHD, PSYD, are they excempt from the CIE's ( 8 CEU requirement)?

About transfer of credits

The applicant must be advised about how credits from my school may or may not be accepted by other institutions. Should we have this information also in the marketing materials?

Website

If the information on the website has not been updated, how important is this regarding the license?

Advertising media

Is important for the admissions representative to know all the types of advertising media related to a program?

Any other costs in the Catalog

Should we inform in the catalog that some programs maybe have indirect costs? For example, if it is an on line program but there is a specific presencial week. The price includes cost but sometimes the student must paid hosting or travel

social media

we have our own website so that people can read about our school. I also use Facebook to post different pictures of different haircuts that are provided. We are the cheapest place you can go to get a nice haircut for only $5.

Admission Requirements

Our Barber Academy requires for all students to have a valid high school diploma or Ged. If your under the age of 18, then the parent has to sign and agree to the enrollment plan.

Marketing material

If the students learn with a asynchronous method, should we have to notice that in the marketing material or in the institution catalog?

train to get ahead

What are the best admissions representative qualifications and training to get ahead?

transfer of credicts

any school I know can't transfer core courses... what happens when a school is shut down by the goberment and those students were almost finishing their program? do they loose all that time and money? there is any where they can go to ask?

can I transfer my credits?

This is a common questions and a common misunderstanding we get from almost every student that has taken previous classes in a different college and by any reason they do not finish...they end up wasting that time