Welcome to the Enrollment Planning Network Website

The Enrollment Planning Network (EPN) began in 2006 with a small group of private research universities exploring an exchange of historical data and best practices in university administration.  Enrollment managers, admissions directors, and financial aid officers gathered again at the 2009 College Board Forum to create a self-governance structure, articulate organizational objectives, and recruit member universities.

The central activity of the Enrollment Planning Network is the Annual Meeting where participating schools exchange ideas and arrange panel discussions.  A typical meeting includes speakers and roundtable panels with leaders in higher education from the One DuPont Circle offices, Capitol Hill, and the education press. Previous discussion topics have included College Fair recruitment, standardized testing, and the impact of intercollegiate athletics on admissions. Representatives from attending schools raise questions relevant to their own institution and hear colleagues from peer institutions offer thoughts and suggestions in an open forum discussion.  Annual Meeting sessions are lively, direct, and relevant to the common problems facing enrollment-driven, private research universities and include a popular "round robin" event where each school updates colleagues about the most pressing problems on its campus from the previous year.

The Enrollment Planning Network also conducts “Quick Surveys” about applications, deposits, admission rates, and yields.  Sharing the information systematically according to common definitions is highly valuable to those with responsibility for enrollment management.  EPN also shares publicly available historical data from the Common Data Set and College Board profiles with the calculation of benchmarks and strategic indices focused on enrollment management.