MidAmerica Nazarene University, a private institution outside of Kansas City, makes a powerful promise to all incoming first-time students – an offer that helped them increase freshman enrollment by 10% for Fall 2020. When MidAmerica Nazarene needed to boost yield late in their 2018-19 recruitment cycle, they decided to offer select students a loan repayment […]

  Read more in the Lyon College press release here. Lyon College, a private institution located in Batesville, Arkansas, is the only institution in the state to offer Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) to all incoming, first-year students starting with the Fall 2021 semester. “While we don’t believe the value of a degree from Lyon […]

There was a time when Daniel Peake didn’t know if he would be able to pursue his bachelor’s degree. A Detroit native, Daniel grew up in a single parent household. Without a lot of money for college, Daniel was counting on a scholarship that would enable him to attend his first-choice institution. Then he found […]

At 14, Brianna Loomis knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. Movies and books had inspired her to go into publishing, but this big dream had a bigger question mark. How to pay for college? She knew she would need to borrow student loans. Her parents made too much money to qualify […]

Improve Access and Recruitment on your Campus with the Ivy League Inspired Secret   Order your free* copy of “A Powerful Promise” right now!   A new book about Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) gives readers an insider’s look at how one tool is changing the higher education landscape. “A Powerful Promise: The Ivy League […]

Innovative Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) for colleges takes the fear out of student debt in the face of COVID-19 and helps mitigate looming enrollment crisis   BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – During a year of unprecedented challenges, mission-driven Ardeo Education Solutions is increasing student access to higher education and driving enrollments at partner colleges and universities […]

These Ardeo partners have been celebrating enrollment increases in fall 2020 – some record-breaking, others modest – but all bucking this year’s national average enrollment decline of 4.4% reported by The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. A big congratulations to all our partners, listed or not, who are celebrating a successful Fall 2020. (If you’re […]

Ardeo Education Solutions is celebrating its second year in a row as an honoree on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing private companies in America. Ardeo is a mission-driven public benefit company that was also named this year to the Center for Companies that Care Honor Roll and among the Best Places to Work in Bloomington, […]

Check out Alderson Broaddus University’s LRAP strategy in this 30-minute webinar recording featuring AB’s Dr. Eric Shor and Ardeo’s Dr. Jonathan Shores. AB offers LRAP to all incoming freshman in order to differentiate itself from neighboring universities. By reducing prospective students’ loan anxiety, LRAP has helped AB increase enrollment and retention. “We saw right away […]

Increasing fear in the higher education market around student debt and other uncertainties are causing students and families to question the value of higher education, rule out colleges based on sticker price, attend second, third, or fourth choice institutions, and in some cases not attend college at all. Join RNL and Ardeo Education Solutions for […]