I recently chatted with a friend who leads growth and development of a national organization. His industry is intimately related to the Colleges and Universities around the US. As we chatted he progressed from an obscure, irrelevant understanding of GIS, (while still trying to encourage me in my endeavors), to being genuinely excited about the possibilities I could provide for him.
My friend has franchises of his organization scattered throughout the US. They relate to different campuses with different emphases, public to private, East coast to West coast, Big 10 schools to community colleges. There is also a vast array of success at each individual franchise.
Being that my friend has been at this for a few years and has some of his own data relating to the success of his franchises, I began talking to him about all of data we could compare his data against. Tuition costs, average enrollment, schools set in big or small cities, average age or ethnicity of students, etc. From there we could look for patterns that make a certain University a prime candidate for expansion and a focus for investing available resources.
I'm excited for this analysis to show off some of the capabilities of GIS to develop strategies and achieve growth for this organization!
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