There are over 3 billion page results for the following Google query: Can college students take online classes from another school?
3 billion page results!
Meaning college students may be interested, or are very interested in fact, in taking your online courses, while still enrolled in their current college.
But can they? Are they even allowed to?
Well, in many cases, yes, they can! So long as the students’ secondary school (your online college) is accredited, their primary institution (current college) recognizes the credits earned from your online school….
And, of course, students have all their paperwork ducks in a row and get (if needed) permission from their primary institution for “off campus” studies.[1]
Now, as you know, attending two colleges at the same time is nothing new. It’s called dual enrollment.
In most cases, students dually enroll to either make college more affordable (taking lower-cost community college classes while enrolled in a nearby university), or to catch up on credit hours during summer.
But rarely have primarily online institutions targeted these dual enrollment students.
Clearly, there are a number of reasons why.
But it often comes down to this: Every college, online or otherwise, wants students to enroll in as many credit hours as possible, for as long as possible, all the way through graduation…
And they want the bulk of those credits, if not all of them, to be earned and paid for through their institution.
It makes plenty of sense. If a school “finds” the students, that school deserves to educate them. We get it.
However, if you operate a primarily online college, consider throwing that ethos out the window and targeting brick-and-mortar students for dual enrollment…
Because the Google query above should raise your eyebrows, especially for “summer school” classes.
Get this, while statistics vary, it’s estimated that about a third of all traditional brick-and-mortar college students attend a school that’s greater than 50 miles from their home.[2]
That distance makes earning credit hours during the summer very impractical (at their primary institution). However, online colleges are exactly zero miles away from anywhere.
Zero!
That means the student who wants to earn dual enrollment summer course credits, and your institution, could be a great match; simply because there are no physical or distance barriers between the two.
For summer school, it’s all about convenience and cost. Why not take advantage of it?
Now, before we get ahead of ourselves, here’s some brass tacks: getting those potential dual enrollment students enrolled in your online classes is not easy.
If it were easy, we’d probably see a single student enrolled in 3, maybe 4 or more institutions… earning credits whenever and wherever they want.
But just because it’s not easy doesn’t mean Conversion Media Group can’t do it!
It comes down to properly marketing your school and its programs directly to potential dual enrollees by highlighting the conveniences of summertime learning. Learning through you, from their own home.
It’s why you should start your partnership with Conversion Media Group right now. Before the current semester comes to an end.
You see, we are national leaders in higher education enrollment initiatives. It’s all we do. Now, it doesn’t matter if you’re looking for dual enrollment students, or students you’d only like to enroll in your school full-time or part-time, we can help you reach your goals.
If you give us a quick call at 1-800-419-3201 and we can walk you through our process.
[1] 6 Things to Consider Before Taking Online Classes at Another Institution