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Student recruitment
Home and international recruitment campaigns built around the applicant journey, from awareness through to accepted offer and enrolment.
Education · University Marketing
Recruit students,
build the brand.
A university marketing agency for a competitive, global recruitment market. We help you reach and convert the right students, raise your research and civic profile, and protect reputation when it is tested.
The promise
A distinct brand in a crowded market.
Every institution claims excellence, so it stops being a differentiator. We find and tell the story that genuinely sets you apart, and carry it to the home and international students you most want to recruit.
1.3k
Monthly impressions the old university page still earns
Global
Home and international recruitment reach
1.4bn
Reader reach across UK national press
What it buys you
Recruitment and reputation together
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Brand and positioning
A distinctive institutional brand that goes beyond league-table claims, expressed consistently across faculties and campuses.
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Research and civic profile
Coverage that translates research and civic contribution into public reputation, the kind that attracts students, staff and partners.
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Issues and reputation
Careful handling of the governance, free-speech, financial and student-welfare stories that increasingly test universities in public.
The definition
What is university marketing?
University marketing is the work of recruiting students and building institutional reputation for universities and higher-education providers. It spans home and international student recruitment, brand and positioning, research and civic profile, and issues and reputation management. Its purpose is to attract the right students, staff and partners in a highly competitive, increasingly global market, and to protect standing when it comes under public scrutiny.
The distinctive challenge is scale and complexity: many faculties, campuses and audiences, from a sixth-former in the UK to a postgraduate applicant overseas, each with different questions and channels. Effective university marketing gives the institution one coherent brand while tailoring recruitment to each audience, and keeps reputation management close, because a single governance or welfare story can undo years of recruitment work.
University marketing sits within our education practice and pairs with school marketing for trusts and colleges that span both.
Who we work with
Across higher education
- Universities and university groups
- Higher-education colleges
- International recruitment offices
- Research institutes and centres
- Business and professional schools
- Institutions facing a public issue
FAQs
University marketing FAQs
It runs home and international student recruitment campaigns, builds and maintains the institutional brand, raises research and civic profile through earned coverage, and manages the reputation and issues that come with operating in public. The aim is the right students and a protected reputation.
The scale and audiences are broader: multiple faculties and campuses, a global applicant pool, a research and civic dimension, and a higher exposure to governance and free-speech stories. The disciplines share a core but the complexity and reputational stakes are greater.
Yes. International recruitment needs audience-specific messaging, channels and timing that differ from the home market. We build campaigns that reach and convert overseas applicants while keeping the institutional brand consistent.
Yes. Governance, free-speech, financial and student-welfare stories all carry serious reputational risk for universities. We prepare institutions and support them through live issues, drawing on our reputation and crisis practice.
Speak with us
One conversation tells you
if we're the right fit.
Thirty minutes with a partner. We'll tell you whether we can help, what the work would look like, and what it's likely to cost, before either of us commits to anything.
