Houston Christian University

Houston Christian answers transfer credit before students apply.

“It’s definitely a product we’re happy with and thrilled to recommend to others.”

Enrollment GrowthCase Study: Houston Christian UniversityHouston, TX4,690+ studentsPrivate ChristianProduct: Inbound
Case study
Houston Christian University
Location
Houston, TX
Students
4,690+
Type
Private Christian
Product
Inbound
James L. Steen
“Once a credit is articulated in DegreeSight, it is officially in the system and we don’t ever have to deal with it again.”
James L. Steen, Ph.D., Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing, Houston Christian University
174credit evaluations submitted so far this year

The challenge

A transfer goal the process could not keep up with.

Houston Christian launched a strategic enrollment plan four years ago, and growing transfer enrollment was one of its goals. Students wanted to know what would count the moment they applied. Getting them that answer meant back-and-forth email between staff and deans, and it could take two weeks.

100%of those submissions started by students themselves

The solution

Articulate it once, then stop revisiting it.

DegreeSight Inbound gives prospective students a credit answer before they are admitted, often before HCU knows they are an applicant. Rules built once stay built.

When a transcript arrives from an institution not yet articulated, the transfer specialist clears what is routine and routes only the exceptions to a dean, inside the platform.

450leads captured so far this year

The results

Now expanding.

HCU is applying DegreeSight’s OCR, which reads a transcript automatically, beyond transfer work to high school transcripts as well.

Four years in: HCU has used DegreeSight since the start of its strategic enrollment plan. In August alone, 289 credit decisions were made automatically from rules already in place.

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