How to Build a
Smarter
Grad Marketing Budget
Wednesday, February 18 | 2:00 PM ET
Your
marketing budget
is so much more than what you spend. Part discussion, part research, part workshop, this webinar goes beyond the numbers and deep into
budgeting strategy.
We discuss
We'll
discuss
Too often, marketing budgets are built on last year’s numbers, gut instinct, or the pressure to do more with less. We want to help enrollment leaders have more constructive budget conversations — ones that are backed with data and supported with a contextual understanding of how other similar programs are spending.
But it all starts with a smart, strategic budget that goes beyond the math. That’s what we’ll build in this webinar — together.
Our panelists will discuss:
- Calculating your Marketing Cost Per Enrollment
- Benchmarks from across graduate programs
- How to analyze your current spend and identify waste
- Strategic methods to uncover areas of opportunity
- The politics of budgeting conversations
- Using MCPE insights to advocate for resources and prioritize
- Your recruitment challenges (with live consultation)
Meet our co-hosts
(aka subject matter experts)
With their combined decades of experience on the institution side, Fran and Marcus are the perfect pair to empower enrollment professionals in building a
smarter
grad enrollment budget.
Marcus Hanscom
Sr. Director of Client Success, Direct Development
A senior consultant at DD, Marcus brings more than 16 years of institutional graduate enrollment management and marketing experience to DD. He is passionate about helping institutions align marketing efforts with finding right-fit students and has presented widely on enrollment management and marketing strategies for adult and graduate students at national and regional conferences
Francesca Reed
Higher Ed Consultant and Former VP of Enrollment and Marketing, Neumann University
Francesca Reed brings more than 20 years of executive leadership in enrollment management, with deep expertise spanning strategy, marketing, and student success. Most recently, she served as Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing at Neumann University, where she led undergraduate and graduate enrollment strategy while overseeing institutional marketing and public relations. Her work has consistently focused on aligning brand, recruitment, and student experience to drive sustainable enrollment growth.