Solutions

Every Success Story Begins With Conection

Carnegie is the student connection company. We help colleges and universities build meaningful relationships with today’s diverse learners through strategy, data, storytelling, and technology that turn student connection into institutional growth. When students succeed, higher education thrives, and the world wins.

When Strategies Connect, Institutions Thrive

At Carnegie, we help higher education navigate the now and next. Our experts collaborate across brand, digital, enrollment, success, and strategy, designing integrated solutions that align mission with measurable outcomes. Driven by belief and powered by innovation, we help institutions stay focused on what matters most: changing students’ lives for good.

Our Solutions

Inspire Lasting Affinity With a Humanized Brand

Your most powerful differentiator isn’t what you offer, it’s who you are. Carnegie builds authentic, student-centered brands grounded in institutional truth and emotional connection, helping your community align behind a shared purpose and identity that inspires lifelong affinity.

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Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern University

Creating an authentic brand to boost enrollment.

Capture Student Attention With Personalized Digital Advertising

Carnegie’s digital strategies combine proprietary data, creative storytelling, and AI-enabled precision to reach students wherever they are, scrolling, streaming, or searching. We turn every digital interaction into a meaningful experience that drives awareness, engagement, and action. 

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University of Idaho

University of Idaho

Turning collaboration and adaptability into record-setting growth.

Build Healthy Enrollment With a Yield-Focused Strategy

Behind every enrollment goal is a student ready to belong. Through predictive analytics, personalized outreach, and strategy powered by real human insight, Carnegie helps you connect ambition with opportunity, driving yield, reducing melt, and achieving sustainable enrollment growth.

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Mercer University

Mercer University

A new, strategic approach to meet enrollment goals in a competitive market.

Mobilize Student Success With Integrated Support Systems

Student success is more than persistence—it’s belonging, well-being, and purpose. We help institutions build cultures of connection that support students through every stage of their journey, ensuring retention, engagement, and lasting achievement beyond graduation.

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University of the Ozarks

University of the Ozarks

Enriching student life, strengthening connections, and reversing declining enrollment.

Unlock a More Prosperous Future With a Student-Centered Institutional Strategy

Transformative change begins with bold leadership. Carnegie partners with presidents, deans, and senior teams to align strategy, planning, and culture around student success, connecting vision with execution to shape institutions that thrive today and define what’s next in higher ed.

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University of Maine

University of Maine

A customized enrollment strategy to overcome market challenges.

How it Works

From Insight to Understanding

We start with conversation, not consultation. Through deep listening and data analysis, we uncover your institution’s goals, challenges, and opportunities for student connection, aligning around what truly drives enrollment growth, retention, and institutional health.

Turning Insight Into Action

Next, we connect the dots across brand, digital, enrollment, and student success, identifying where strategy, story, and systems intersect. We define measurable outcomes, prioritize what moves the needle, and build the foundation for meaningful, sustainable progress.

Built Around Students, Designed for You

Finally, we design integrated solutions that reflect your mission and meet your moment. Every engagement is built around students and designed for institutional impact, bridging insight, innovation, and implementation to deliver results you can see and sustain.

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Now and Next for Higher Ed

Let’s Talk About What Comes Next

Our expert knowledge of higher ed has been forged over decades, from hundreds of client partnerships. And knowledge becomes power when it’s shared. Contact us to start the conversation about how we can help you thrive now and lead what’s next.

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