College Website Design Agency: Building Conversion Machines

College Website Design: Conversion friendly.

College Website Design

CLEAR & RESPONSIVE

Can a college website design transform a college, create an inflection point, and grow enrollment, endowment and reputation? The websites we design always do. Recognized as one of the top college website design agencies, Elliance delivers ROI as measured by improved student quality, stronger Google rankings, increased giving rates, and reduced melt.

Microsites and Landing Pages

MOVING THE ENROLLMENT, ENDOWMENT AND REPUTATION NEEDLES

Romance prospective students and donors with high-fidelity admission and giving microsites and story landing pages that inform, enchant, delight, persuade and convert prospects. These high-fidelity experiences win hearts and minds and improve yield by distilling the argument for “why enroll’ and “why donate”.

Digital Magazine Design

MAXIMIZE CONTENT PRODUCTIVITY WITH BIG-DATA SMARTS

The college and university flagship magazine can move the college reputation needle further and faster than any other brand signal. Vital to its success is maximizing content productivity by creating a story engine that treats each story, category and tag as a Google ranking asset instead of bundling the entire issue into a PDF or an ISSUU format.

International Websites

THE INTERNATIONAL AGENT THAT NEVER SLEEPS

A great international website answers burning questions like brand reputation, promotes credibility enhancers like world-class faculty, and lets prospective students know if they will find the right balance of happiness, challenge and support while studying far away from loved ones. In English or in other languages. That’s what we build.

Higher Education Case studies

Smarter Wins

William Woods University

How William Woods abandoned traditional student search, flipped the “funnel” and learned to Flourish.
Pursue Perfect Form

New York Chiropractic College

Expanding what it means to be a doctor.
Inspired Business Lives

Boler College of Business

How Elliance helped unlock $25M by putting alumni and corporate support behind the Catholic college's brand vision.
Opportunity, Inc.

The Lerner College of Business and Economics

Amplifying Lerner’s can-do culture.
Regional Brand Reborn

Robert Morris University

How Elliance helped Robert Morris University express its brand with far greater elasticity and punch.
Elevating the Brand

Saint Leo University

How Saint Leo University changed its approach to marketing online programs.
Prodigal Returns

St. Edward's University

St. Edward's University steps out of the shadows as one of the nation's most historic and pivotal liberal arts universities.
Unleashing the Dragon

Drexel University

Drexel University asked us to help on a 3,000-mile journey to start a campus in Sacramento.
In the Company of Giants

Pepperdine University

How Pepperdine’s business school found its rightful place in the crowded Southern California market.
Purpose-Driven Profit

Duquesne University

How Duquesne University took global a unique position on sustainability.

More Proof

Pursuit of the “right-fit”

St. Edward's University

Challenged by declining applicants and students in the graduate school, St. Edward's University turned to Elliance, a higher education marketing company. We created landing pages and ran a paid-advertising campaign, both of which told a story that resonated with the right-fit students.

Acquiring the holy grail of higher education

Concordia University

Can the most elusive adult audience in higher education be motivated to raise their hands on the web? Absolutely. By ensuring that carefully written “you-can-do-it” messages appear on search engines when the reluctant adult students are exploring their options.

Become the unquestioned market leader

Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon

Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University reversed a four-year enrollment decline, increased enrollment by 118%, raised student quality and became the unquestioned market leader for IT Leadership. All with the help of Elliance’s expertise in higher education marketing.

Higher Education Clients Served

Recent Higher Education Blog Posts

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In a recent post titled “ADA Accessibility Compliance for College and University Websites,” the question of how to ensure WCAG 2.0 compliance was covered briefly. In this post, I will expand on a couple of the challenges of making an existing website compliant. A trip to the theme park Bringing an existing website into compliance can be extremely tedious depending on the technology it was initially created with, any subsequent patches ... Continue reading →
Early Intervention for Accessibility Checks
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In order for a web page to be successful, a user must visit the page. Getting a user to visit the URL is a great struggle, but after they make that decision there are dozens upon dozens of reasons why they will leave, and sometimes leave before you can get a chance to make an impression. Page loading speed, an intriguing design, and engaging content will help keep your viewers on the page, but for user with accessibility needs (be it visual, audi ... Continue reading →
Return on Investment (ROI) for a Website Redesign
January 07, 2018
In redesigning websites for 25 years, we have come to realize that a website is a machine for liberating prosperity and realizing institutional destiny. However making a business case for to ROI-minded, quant-driven business leaders (such as chief operating officers and chief financial officers) is trickier than it sounds, and is vastly different than making a case to marketing leaders who intuitively understand the value of a website. For ROI-mi ... Continue reading →

College Website Design Agency: Building Conversion Machines

College Website Design: Conversion friendly.