Student Retention Is Your Budget Strategy
In the time of shrinking budgets, Upswing helps you protect your bottom line by retaining more students and the tuition revenue they represent. It’s not just student support. It’s a financial strategy.
Student Retention Is Your Budget Strategy
In the time of shrinking budgets, Upswing helps you protect your bottom line by retaining more students and the tuition revenue they represent. It’s not just student support. It’s a financial strategy.
Improve Student Retention with Holistic Student Support
Upswing’s wraparound student services platform provides your students with the support they need, when they need it. Our solutions and services are proven to improve retention rates by as much as 0.789 percentage points. These results mean that more students can graduate and you can retain more students.
We do this by going beyond academic support and helping students with mental health, basic needs, advising, and on-demand information and encouragement. This holistic model, combined with your campus resources, allows students to find support easily when they need it the most.
Read our white paper to learn more about holistic student support and how Upswing provides the right services at the right time to keep more students on the path to graduation.
Retention Savings Calculator
Results:
Annual Expected Retained Students: 0
Annual Retained Tuition: $0
Sample Scenario
Enrollment: 4,500 | Tuition: $4,000 per year | Contract Length: 3 Years
| Contract Length | Students Retained | Tuition Saved |
|---|---|---|
| After 1 Year | 35.5 | $142,000 |
| After 2 Years | 71 | $284,000 |
| After 3 Years | 142 | $568,000 |
Grant resources for Upswing programming
Searching for grants can be an overwhelming process, especially when targeting funds for student-retention solutions that can range from academic support to outreach and engagement to mental health. Many of our partners have used non-profit organizations, state and local government, or alumni to help pay for Upswing. Additionally, some partners have used the following funding sources:
Download our free ebook on strategic grant writing to get advice on how to write and apply for grants to help your institution with funding resources.
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