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	University of Dayton Uses Alteryx and Tableau to Drive Enrollment and Student Success Alteryx

University of Dayton Uses Alteryx and Tableau to Drive Enrollment and Student Success

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Human Resources Business Operation
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	The University of Dayton needed to quickly process thousands of pieces of student data from different systems across the university, enabling it to recruit, enroll, and retain the students most likely to succeed at the institution. Rising costs and increasing government involvement in higher education are bringing a greater focus on student outcomes. At the same time, data is available from an increasing variety of sources and departments—internal and external, structured and unstructured. University of Dayton is leveraging publicly available census data, high school academic records, college entrance exams, student activity and transcript data, and postgraduation information. Read More
About Customer	The University of Dayton is a Catholic research university and the largest private university in Ohio, offering more than 80 academic programs in arts and sciences, business administration, education and health sciences, engineering, and law. With 11,000 students and a 14 to 1 student-to-faculty ratio, admission to the University of Dayton has grown more selective in the past few years, with a 57 percent applicant acceptance rate. More than half of the undergraduate enrollment comes from outside the state, and international students make up more than 10 percent of the total enrollment. Read More
Solution	Using Alteryx and Tableau, the University of Dayton was able to quickly blend and analyze data to deliver strategic insights about student behaviors and outcomes, optimize the admissions and enrollment process, and improve retention. With Tableau already in use for data visualization, Reinoehl and his team found Alteryx as a solution to their biggest problems—accessing, collecting, and blending a wide range of internal and external data sources and preparing them for visualization in Tableau. With the speed and flexibility of Alteryx, the university is quickly processing more than 1,000 data variables across a large pool of prospective and current students. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Human Resources

Business Operation

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

The University of Dayton needed to quickly process thousands of pieces of student data from different systems across the university, enabling it to recruit, enroll, and retain the students most likely to succeed at the institution. Rising costs and increasing government involvement in higher education are bringing a greater focus on student outcomes. At the same time, data is available from an increasing variety of sources and departments—internal and external, structured and unstructured. University of Dayton is leveraging publicly available census data, high school academic records, college entrance exams, student activity and transcript data, and postgraduation information.

About Customer

The University of Dayton is a Catholic research university and the largest private university in Ohio, offering more than 80 academic programs in arts and sciences, business administration, education and health sciences, engineering, and law. With 11,000 students and a 14 to 1 student-to-faculty ratio, admission to the University of Dayton has grown more selective in the past few years, with a 57 percent applicant acceptance rate. More than half of the undergraduate enrollment comes from outside the state, and international students make up more than 10 percent of the total enrollment.

Solution

Using Alteryx and Tableau, the University of Dayton was able to quickly blend and analyze data to deliver strategic insights about student behaviors and outcomes, optimize the admissions and enrollment process, and improve retention. With Tableau already in use for data visualization, Reinoehl and his team found Alteryx as a solution to their biggest problems—accessing, collecting, and blending a wide range of internal and external data sources and preparing them for visualization in Tableau. With the speed and flexibility of Alteryx, the university is quickly processing more than 1,000 data variables across a large pool of prospective and current students.

Impact #1	Deeper Insights: Utilized insights and analysis from Alteryx Analytics and Tableau to develop approaches that contributed to a 3% increase in student retention
Impact #2	Hours vs. Days: Analyzed more than 1,000 data variables across thousands of prospective students in 30 minutes, a process that previously took two days and multiple people
Impact #3	Intuitive Workflow: Easily added new data sources to existing workflows for ad-hoc analysis of student performance, housing utilization, financial aid requirements, and alumni outreach

Impact #1

Deeper Insights: Utilized insights and analysis from Alteryx Analytics and Tableau to develop approaches that contributed to a 3% increase in student retention

Impact #2

Hours vs. Days: Analyzed more than 1,000 data variables across thousands of prospective students in 30 minutes, a process that previously took two days and multiple people

Impact #3

Intuitive Workflow: Easily added new data sources to existing workflows for ad-hoc analysis of student performance, housing utilization, financial aid requirements, and alumni outreach

Benefit #1	Increased student retention by 3%
Benefit #2	Reduced data analysis time from two days to 30 minutes
Benefit #3	Able to analyze over 1,000 data variables across thousands of prospective students

Benefit #1

Increased student retention by 3%

Benefit #2

Reduced data analysis time from two days to 30 minutes

Benefit #3

Able to analyze over 1,000 data variables across thousands of prospective students

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University of Dayton Uses Alteryx and Tableau to Drive Enrollment and Student Success

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