Like many smaller engineering programs in liberal arts universities, the Engineering Programs at the University of San Diego face special challenges attracting students. During the last few years the engineering faculty has worked closely with Undergraduate Admissions to find ways to identify potential engineering applicants, provide these students with information about these programs, and encourage admitted students to matriculate
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Comments from students and university admissions counselors suggests that direct contact with engineering faculty members can influence a student's decision about whether to attend a school. At the same time, engineering faculty members often feel ill-prepared to participate in phone calls with prospective students and may be unconvinced of their value.During the 2005-06 recruiting cycle USD Engineering included telephone calls to admitted students as one part of our overall recruiting strategy. Best school of kumbakonam In doing so, we wanted to evaluate whether receiving calls from faculty made students more likely to attend USD. This paper describes the process that USD Engineering used to identify prospects, and complete the calls. It will also present some of the questions that we hope to be able to answer about the impact of faculty phone calls on student matriculation. Final statistical analysis will take place after students register for the Fall semester and will be presented at the conference .Two characteristics of the University of San Diego present challenges in identify those students who might be interested in pursuing a USD engineering degree. First, as a Catholic, predominantly undergraduate university, USD is known for its liberal arts programs. Most students looking for an engineering degree don’t think of USD, and most students attracted by USD’s reputation aren’t thinking of majoring in engineering. So the first challenge was identifying those students who might be interested in our offering and providing them with information about our programs.
