Examine the successful strategies used by universities to market their education services across borders Case Study
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of the case, students should be able to:
- Understand the meaning of marketing strategies, their importance to an organization, and how they are used to develop an organization.
- Understand the various strategies used by universities to market their products and services across borders in a professional way, the obstacles that they face when marketing their services, and the solutions to these challenges.
- Learn how to apply the concept of marketing strategy to real-life organizations.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Currently, due to rapid technological advancements, the world itself is developing swiftly. Education is believed to be one of the most significant strategies that help in improving human life, this is so because it is through education that humans become intelligent, possess skills, and get along well with other members of society. In the case at hand, higher education has also been through a series of changes in the ways in which they deliver education to their customers. During the last few years, developing countries such as the United Arab Emirates have increasingly demanded postgraduate programs.
On top of that, higher education institutions are globalizing their services and participating in cross-border education so as to fulfill the demands and needs of consumers and to compete efficiently. These institutions have included marketing in their strategic plans in order to attract more students to apply to their learning institutions. Marketing is very vital to an organization because it is one way through which the products and services they produce attain the attention of their potential customers. Therefore universities are required to make the right strategies in marketing their services. This paper is going to examine the strategies used by universities to market their services across borders.