OpenHigherEd.com is a social networking site specifically for higher education community. Our audience includes prospective and current college / graduate students, career seekers, school administrators, course instructors / professors, service providers, employers and other interested individuals. OpenHigherEd.com is an ideal place to market your institution programs, courses and other related services, and recruit students and employees. We offer the following services:
1. List Your Graduate Programs in our "Grad Schools / Programs" directory
If you are a graduate school or department administrator, you can list your grad school / grad program for free (a basic listing), or feature your listing (with a fee) to attract prospective graduate students. We can also run your ads in other formats such as banners or text links on our website.
To list your graduate school or graduate programs on our website, please follow the steps listed below:
1) Login to your account. If you do not have an account yet, please sign up a free account as a "Higher Ed Professional" member. Make sure you use your school email (.edu) to sign up the account as we will need to verify your "Higher Ed Professional" member status before you can add your programs on our website.
2) After Login, confirm your account (you will see a link on the top). Account confirmation is required for all members who want to post anything on our website. The confirmation code will be emailed to you after you complete the signup process.
3) Wait for our staff to verify your "Higher Ed Professional" member status.
4) Once your "Higher Ed Professional" member status is verified, you can go to "My Grad School" page shown on the left side menu to list your graduate school or graduate programs on our website.
Graduate School Programs can be listed as:
1) Basic Listing (Free): List basic information about your program including academic programs, admission, financial aid programs and contact information.
2) Priority Listing ($1980 for 12 months): Programs are listed above Basic listings with your school logo. List graduate program information including introduction about the program, admission, financial aid programs, contact information including links to your school, online application pages.
3) Featured Listing ($3000 for 12 months): Programs are listed on the top Featured section with your school logo. List graduate program information including introduction about your program, admission, financial aid programs, contact information including links to your school, online application pages. You can also add a multimedia ads such as video to show your school programs.
2. Upgrade Your Listing:
If your graduate school / graduate programs are already listed in our directory as a basic list, you can request to list your grad school or programs as a Priority or Featured list to attract more students.
3. Co-branded School / Program Website:
In addition to list your graduate school / graduate programs in our directory, we can create a co-brand school website with the same look and feel as your school website. Prospective students can fill out online inquiry form to request more information. Please contact us for more info.
4. Banner ads and text links:
We can run banner ads or text links for your graduate school or graduate programs in our site network or specific sections / pages. Please contact us for more details.
5. Other advertising opportunities:
If you have any questions or proposals to better market your school programs in other formats such as opt-in email marketing, etc., please contact us
For any inquires or information about advertising, please contact our sales team.