Welcome to college! Personalized enrollment at Tecnológico de Monterrey

Starting college is an exciting and challenging step for every student, and enrollment marks the beginning of an academic stage that can often feel overwhelming. Aware of this problem, Foris and Tecnológico de Monterrey developed "Package Enrollment," a new Albus feature designed to optimize enrollment for TEC's first-year students and ensure they get an optimal schedule combination.

Package enrollment

Package enrollment lets students enroll in predefined sets of schedules and course combinations, so they can swap entire schedule options with a single click and make adjustments based on their individual preferences.

Each package is designed to comply with the university's rules and regulations, so every student can find the right combination for their academic goals, with minimal assistance and guidance from the university needed to complete their enrollment.

One feature of this capability is that new students get exclusive package seats in sections that also admit returning students, which gives them more certainty of finding a seat in the sections they need to enroll in a full course load. This is especially valuable because new students are less familiar with the curriculum and its regulations, and offering them prebuilt schedule packages serves as reliable academic guidance for their choices.

Another standout advantage of packages is synchronized enrollment, ideal for students who want a schedule similar to their classmates'. It gives them the option to take packages with shared seats, which supports retention and strengthens peer support among new students.

This feature works for a wide range of courses, including required courses from different semesters, electives, specializations, and even foreign languages.

Flexibility from day one

The reason for focusing on new students is simple: the goal was to give them autonomy and empower them to plan their academic pathway from the very start. However, offering this level of autonomy without the right tools would have posed three major challenges:

New students would need training and personalized support from the university's student support team, which would take many people to sustain enrollment.
Poorly informed decisions that lead to academic risk, because new students have very little context.
An overwhelming experience, given the sheer number of options and variables involved in the process. This psychological phenomenon is known as overchoice.

Package enrollment offers the best of both worlds: self-service that lets students own the decisions that will shape their academic life, combined with a simplified, optimized offering that sets them up for success. All of this through a platform that assists students virtually and helps balance the number of students across sections within the same package, without the university having to deploy a large team.

Impact beyond expectations

The results with new students in the August–December 2023 enrollment period show the impact of package enrollment:

A total of 10,648 new students (88%) used package enrollment, enrolling in about 10 courses in under 35 minutes.
Albus's artificial intelligence generated 11.8k personalized proposals for new students, 80% of which were accepted.

81.3% of new students rated their enrollment experience as satisfactory.

And the results are not limited to new students: two years after the tool was rolled out, the rest of TEC's students continue to benefit from Albus:

51,000 students enrolled during enrollment windows that lasted just 4 days.
Students accepted 65% of the AI-powered proposals.
Albus generated more than 4.37 million automatic alerts to guide students throughout enrollment.

Through Albus's rules engine, 4.29 million enrollment rules were enforced, ensuring quality schedules for every student.

Package enrollment is just one example of how Tecnológico de Monterrey and Foris are driving innovation in academic operations to make the educational experience efficient and personalized for every student.

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