Also called: Director of admissions, Chief enrollment officer
Leads the office that decides who gets admitted and how much financial aid they receive.
Admissions deans set recruiting strategy, review data on applicants, make final admit decisions, and balance class size against the budget. At selective colleges they read thousands of applications.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 12 years after high school. Master's degree and many years in admissions.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Higher Education Administration, Business, Marketing.
Growing about average. Declining number of 18-year-olds is making enrollment jobs more strategic.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. AI predicts yield and sorts applications, so offices need fewer junior staff; final admit strategy and budget trade-offs stay human.
Classes: AP Statistics, Business, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-9033.
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