Academica Group is Canada's leading education marketing consultancy, providing market research, strategy, marketing and technology as a Full-Cycle Marketing process for the higher education sector.

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New & Noteworthy

Strategic Enrolment Research

The Strategic Enrolment Research suite is designed to support your overall Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) program. Read more »

Strategic Alliance expands Academica’s offerings in Web and IT services

At the Canadian PSE Web Conference at Brock University today, Academica Group announced a strategic partnership agreement with RLComputing to expand their service offerings in web and IT support for university and college clients throughout Canada and the United States. Read more »

Check Out Academica Group's YouTube Channel

Learn from the Best and the Worst: If you've enjoyed Ken Steele's conference presentations, find all the college and university ads he featured -- and an ongoing collection of the latest and/or greatest (and even some of the worst!) -- at Academica Group's YouTube Channel, YouTube.com/AcademicaGroup. Check out the playlists, subscribe, rate your favourites, and suggest other videos we've missed! Read more »

Rod Skinkle

Television Clip : Student Shortage : Canada AM: Rod Skinkle, Co-Founder and President of Academica Group

During the 1960s there was rapid growth at the country's universities and colleges as baby boomers began graduating high school. Now, the institutions face an alarming situation as the youth cohort begins to decline. Read more »

Reality Campus

Academica recently launched a product called Reality Campus with interviews from students, graduates, employers and faculty that quickly convey the content, dynamics and the results of the program or college. Social media components engage visitors both with each other, as well as with official representatives. Read more »

Recent Blog Posts

Recent Blog Posts

Ken Steele

ACCC 2010 National Conference

How can you open 20 satellite campuses without spending a dime?  What do demographic and labour market projections tell us about the challenges of the future?  Why are Canada's community colleges better for the economy than its universities?Read more »

Brendan Hughes

Leadership at post-secondary institutions in Canada: how much value does your institution place on the promotion of leadership?

In his research of Canadian post-secondary institutions' mission and vision statements, Brendan Hughes of Lakehead University finds that leadership as an educational outcome does not seem to be valued as much as he would have predicted.Read more »
Guest Blog

Report from "Blueprint for the Future" 2010

Mark Solomon, Manager of Aboriginal Student Services at Seneca College, shares in this guest blog his observations of the "Blueprint for the Future," a career fair for Aboriginal youth, which took place February 10 in Thunder Bay.Read more »
Guest Blog

Student Recruitment in Europe

Dan Seneker, Associate Director of Student Recruitment at the University of Calgary, shares in this new blog entry his observations of a recent recruitment trip to Europe.Read more »

Facebook fan pages - a status update

When Facebook gave fan pages access to the news feed back in March, it opened up a whole world of communications possibilities to universities and colleges. Eight months later, Dalhousie's Ryan McNutt crunches the numbers on how Canadian schools are doing on Facebook and offers some thoughts on how the most successful pages are getting it right.Read more »