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Attract, convert and retain your students

Why choose Unibuddy over The Ambassador Platform (TAP)?

Impact your recruitment AND retention through peer-to-peer engagement, user-generated content and personalized recommendations that are unique to your school.

Join 600+ partner institutions using Unibuddy today

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Increase in the likelihood of students enrolling since using Unibuddy

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Boost in enrollment since using Unibuddy

University of Leicester

Unibuddy vs. TAP comparison

Discover how Unibuddy can boost your higher ed marketing, student recruitment and enrollment efforts without limiting your student voice.

Unibuddy

The Ambassador Platform (TAP)

Peer-to-peer chat (students, staff, faculty, alumni)

User-generated Content

Ambassador program management tools

Live video sessions

Third party integrations

UCAS, StudyPortals, Educations.com, FindAMasters, Study In the USA, SchoolFinder
Times Higher Education Student (THE), FindAMasters

Safeguarding features

Advanced personalization and insights

End-to-end platform for all your student lifecycle needs

Multilingual

Unibuddy's AI Assistant to engage and convert website visitors

Top reasons why top schools are using Unibuddy today:

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Unibuddy helps higher ed teams achieve recruitment and retention goals efficiently and at scale

Automate time-intensive tasks of connecting students to the right person and match students with ambassadors when they first land on your website to personalize their experience. Access a host of ambassador management tools – suggested answers to FAQs, transfer inquiries to staff, admin intervention messages, broadcast messages, conversation management and a safeguarding hub to save you and your team time. See how Unibuddy helped NYU Tandon School of Engineering achieve their recruitment and enrollment goals.

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Unibuddy allows you to support students and personalize their experience by doing more with less

Find insights fast, with GPT/OpenAI-powered conversation summaries between prospective students and your ambassadors. Learn what students are asking and how their questions are driving your trending topics. Get a real-time view of where each prospective student is in your higher ed funnel, based on self-reported data. Slice and dice this data using our visualization tools, filters, and drill-down options to take action in your recruitment, admissions, and enrollment processes.

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Unibuddy provides an end-to-end platform for all your student lifecycle needs

Support top of funnel lead gen with access to our discover network: UCAS, StudyPortals, Educations.com, FindAMasters and Study In the USA, where you can reach 100 million students worldwide. Personalize the student experience at critical stages of the decision-making journey with authentic peer-to-peer connections, relevant user-generated content and insights to move students forward. Gve incoming students an official hub to build friendships pre-arrival to thrive during their transition – all with a dedicated student community app. One familiar experience for all – admins, ambassadors and students.

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Unibuddy sets you up for success with market experts and support, at every stage

Our teams are made up of higher ed professionals just like yourselves. You’ll have a dedicated onboarding manager, customer success representative and Community specialist for ongoing support. They’ve helped recruitment and admissions teams implement ambassador programs, and build student communities globally. Most importantly, they know how to work with Gen Z – and what makes them tick.