
Declining undergraduate revenue and international recruitment headwinds have put pressure on enrollment teams to find alternative enrollment sources, and are turning to graduate, online, and adult-serving programs in order to grow. VPEMs are increasingly overseeing these non-traditional pipelines while being asked to deliver on ambitious enrollment goals in a market defined by disruption. International enrollment is less predictable, the end of Grad PLUS is reshaping affordability and demand, and AI-driven search behavior is accelerating “stealth shopping,” reducing the opportunities your team has to interact with students. Your jobs just got meaningfully harder.
