Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Jarrett Smith: I think it's all about start with that cost information, whether it's finding
program cost or total cost of attendance, really carefully analyze that wayfinding and then
analyze how helpful is what you find on the other end of that. You know, and I think sometimes
we're sort of stuck inside the bottle and it's hard to read our own label. But I think if you're honest
with yourself and maybe a little emotionally distant from your organization and you thought, hey,
if I was a prospective student or if this was just another random business and I was on their WE
website trying to figure out how much they would cost, would I be satisfied with the answer we're
serving up?
[00:00:41] Jeff Dillon: Welcome to another episode of the EdTech Connect podcast.
So I was at the EDUEB conference just this past month in July and I went to this presentation
that revealed some original research about what students actually want when they visit campus
websites and the findings were really interesting.
So today I'm lucky enough to have Jarrett Smith who co presented that research with Grant
Derues. Jarrett is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and a partner at Echo Delta where he
leads research, creative and media strategy for colleges and universities nationwide. He's also
the host of the Higher Ed Marketing Lab podcast. Jarrett recently co authored the Designing for
Decisions report which surveyed over 1,000 prospective students to understand what they
actually want from university websites. The findings challenge many assumptions and provide
practical insights for enrollment and marketing teams, especially around cost transparency,
academic content and the decision making journey. A former educator turned strategist, Jarrett
brings a unique blend of empathy and analytical thinking to his work helping institutions build
smarter student centered digital experiences.
So welcome to the show. Great to have you on Jarrett.
[00:02:01] Jarrett Smith: Hey Jeff, thanks for having me here. I'm excited to talk about it.
[00:02:04] Jeff Dillon: So I was at the Edu Web conference last month and saw you and Grant
present your research and I thought it was really interesting. And let's just start with the big
question. Why did you feel this research was necessary? What were those cues?
[00:02:20] Jarrett Smith: Yeah, I guess there's a couple of things going on on here that kind of
motivated us to do this. The first one is there is a lot of good research out there about the
behaviors and habits of prospective students and some of that directly related to how they use
websites. I think the challenge is that when you are deep in the weeds on a website redesign,
maybe modeling navigation or debating the merits of a particular layout, some of that research is
a bit too high level and it doesn't really have the kind of granular empirical data you want to
make Confident decisions.
So that's a big part of the work we do at my agency, Echo Delta, is website redesigns. And so
that there's a little bit of a self interested piece there. The other piece is that a lot of times the
clients we work with and institutions in general, they certainly value research and they
appreciate having research, but they don't always accommodate, you know, really high quality
user research within their budget or they don't allow enough time for it within the scope of a
project. And so we were hoping to develop a data set that we were confident was pretty
transferable from one school to the next in terms of understanding the, the priorities of, of
different types of prospective students. Why don't you talk a little bit.
[00:03:36] Jeff Dillon: About the research itself? How many respondents you talk to and the.
[00:03:40] Jarrett Smith: Yeah, sure. So at the core of the research is something called the top
tasks methodology. It's been around for probably 15 or 20 years if, if you've got folks that have
worked on web projects and may already be familiar with this, folks that are listening right now.
But essentially the methodology is you develop a fairly comprehensive list of all the things users
could do on say, your website or on your, your application, and you show it to them in a big
laundry list, sort of format, sort of randomized, and you tell them, hey, you can pick five things off
this list.
[00:04:16] Jeff Dillon: I remember seeing that on your slide. There's like 40 or 50 of them, I
think. Right?
[00:04:19] Jarrett Smith: Yeah. So we had two, we ran two sort of separate sort of pieces to our
survey. One was focused on admissions and aid, the other one was focused on academics. And
that was helped manage lists, you know, the total volume of things we're throwing at people and
to create some focus.
So we surveyed over a thousand prospective students. It is, you know, representative in terms
of, you know, various demographic factors, household income, geography nationwide. It also
included international students. We did have a variety of questions that we were hoping to
answer around the preferences of international students.
And it was also fairly wide in terms of age range. So the sample size was 16 to 55, all individuals
who indicated that they intend to enroll in college within the next three years. So that gives us a
really robust data set where we can look at that traditional first time in college student, we can
look at that non traditional undergrad or the graduate and professional student, domestic,
international. And on the front end of that survey, we asked a lot of questions on the front end to
help us narrow down audiences so we can segment by first gen or not, or segment by academic
interest and that sort of thing.
[00:05:35] Jeff Dillon: Well, one of the findings that came out of that, I believe was that only 17%
of students said they can always find what they need on college websites. What do you think's
driving that frustration?
[00:05:47] Jarrett Smith: Yeah. So as part of the survey, we did ask a few questions around website
usage and whether students felt like they could or could not find what they wanted. And have
they ever abandoned a website? About 55% of students said, yes, I've abandoned the college
website because I couldn't find what I wanted to. About 17% said, I can always find what I need.
There was a larger percentage that said I can usually find what I need. So I would say overall,
you know, across our sample, students say you're doing okay as an industry, but not stellar. I
think we'd like that, that number of students saying they can always find it to be a lot higher. I
think there's a couple of things going on there. I mean, I sometimes refer to university website as
like a super Walmart of information.
You have these sprawling websites and they are managed in almost every case by a smart,
dedicated team of people. Sometimes a very small team that very much wants to do what's in
the best interest of users, but they are also overwhelmed with inbound requests and they don't
have time to perfectly place and organize the site. I mean, they're trying to get to next thing, next
thing. And so over time, the websites get bloated and chaotic and it's just there's like an entropy
that happens there. So that's like one piece of it. The other thing that I think is happening here
and it's a little harder to recognize, I think when you're inside the organization is an institutionally
centric mindset.
So really organizing and communicating via the website in a way that primarily makes sense to
people inside the organization and is less thoughtful about how that lands with people out toward
the organization. So I always like to ask my clients, I'm like, hey, how many 17 year olds do you
think know what you do at the bursar's office? How many 17 year olds can tell you whether or
not there's a difference between baccalaureate programs and bachelor programs?
So there's things like that, a lot of jargon, obviously, a lot of inside baseball language. We
organize our websites based on org structure. Sometimes that's less common, but I still see it.
And then here's the real kicker, because this is sort of like wrapped in the guise of trying to serve
the user, but it's not. I find that a lot of content creators for university websites are really ultra
focused on being thorough and accurate. I mean, like dogmatically thorough and accurate and
very businesslike in the way they present topics, regardless of whether the people receive that
information, will actually understand it, know what to do with it. And so I hear a lot, you know,
when we're doing discovery meetings, say, on a website project, people say, well, I don't
understand why people keep asking this question. It's out on the website. And I'm like, whoa.
Like, number one, the website's not meant to, like, remove all human interaction. Like, there's
just some stuff. It's not the right medium. It's not Wikipedia. That's not what people are hoping to
do there. It's a conversation starter. It's the front door, not an encyclopedia about your
organization.
[00:08:45] Jeff Dillon: I have a theory that if you would have conducted this, this survey 10 to 15
years ago, that number would be much, much higher. Like, people probably, maybe would have
things right. There was less content. Like, I talk a lot about this complexity. You nailed it right on
the head with the sprawl. Sure, there's some small teams updating websites, but a lot of
problems I've seen at larger schools especially is that there's hundreds of people, people
creating content.
[00:09:09] Jarrett Smith: Yes.
[00:09:10] Jeff Dillon: Which is crazy. If you look at any other industry, there's a small team.
Right. And maybe small colleges. Sure, they probably have a small team. But so much of
academia is the lack of digital governance problem. You mentioned the sprawl. Then there's the
silos of, like, our course catalogs over here, you know, our calendar of events is over here, our
directory information, our website. So all this information is in different formats in different
places. So it really is this perfect storm for kind of like a digital chaos. I was part of some other
research that was almost a similar finding where we asked higher ed digital leaders, how well do
you think your digital experience is delivering? And only 18% said they thought they were doing
a good job, but they didn't know how to take the next step. So it kind of coincides with what I
think some things you found too. Talking to the students, what surprised you the most from this
top tasks methodology, what findings surprised you the most?
[00:10:05] Jarrett Smith: There were a few things that I think we'll probably hit on later, but sort of a
broader theme that Grant, my co author and researcher on the report, walked away with was an
appreciation for how similar the student segments are in a lot of ways. So I think as marketers,
we tend to really sort of look for all these minute differences across the segment. You know,
you'll even hear people talk about this, like really ultra high level of personalization. We need
segments of one.
And our research kind of suggests that's not really grounded in reality, that there's way more
common ground across students. And when we look across our survey, whether you're looking
at first gen household income, two year school interest versus four year school interest, we see
way more common ground than we see differences. Now they do exist and they're important to
recognize and need to personalize around that, but they're relatively few in number.
[00:11:04] Jeff Dillon: That really stood out. One of the things I took away from your
presentation was you don't need to personalize as much as you think. Right. And this came up
with Ashley Budd. I talked to her a few weeks ago on a podcast episode. Oh yeah, she's great
about the same thing. She's like, yeah, we took our segments down from 70 to 5 or something
like that.
[00:11:21] Jarrett Smith: That checks. That definitely aligns with our data set, you know. And
yesterday, Grant and I were doing a webinar on the research and someone asked, hey, I noticed
you included international students in your survey sample. What was different about them?
And honestly, we were like, not a lot. I mean, yes, they did select international related tasks. You
know, obviously a bit more. There were some things that were unique to international students,
but they still prioritize the same stuff everybody else does. It's just there may be some specific
things that they look for at a particular moment in time, but overall their priorities aren't really that
much different than any other prospective students.
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[00:12:30] Jeff Dillon: You focused your research on admissions, financial aid, academics. Why
those areas specifically?
[00:12:37] Jarrett Smith: Yeah, a couple of things. One was just a managed survey length. It's like I
want to know about all of it, but we needed to keep it reasonable. And then also I see that as
really the core of the website. I mean, if you had to have like the absolute bare bones, you would
need to talk about how to become a student, how to pay for it, and what programs we have on
offer. What is the actual thing that we're gonna, that you're gonna participate in. So that is the
heart and soul. It's not that, you know, student life or the message from the president, strategic
plan, those things are all important.
But when we really strip it down to what is absolutely essential. It's those core areas of the site.
[00:13:14] Jeff Dillon: Makes sense. And let's get to the thing we were all talking about
afterwards when we walked out of the room was total cost of attendance emerged as the top
priority in different ways you might say it or put on your site.
How should colleges respond to that practically on their website?
[00:13:32] Jarrett Smith: So in our research report we refer to this as a super task. And that's
because no matter how you segment the data, this always floats to the top as the number one
emissions and aid priority. So it is hugely important. I think there's really two things that I'm kind
of a broken record in saying this. It's number one, you need to make sure that the wayfinding on
your website is like spot on. Is it easy and intuitive, straightforward to get to cost related
information?
And sometimes it is. A lot of schools are doing a great job of this as a non issue, but there are a
lot of schools that make this hard to find. So a classic thing that we see a lot of schools doing is
if you click on their, you know, admissions and aid section, they are shoving financial aid
information in your face and you see all financial aid related links and you really have to play
detective to get that total cost. I think that's a huge mistake. I think that's a bad signal to send to
prospective students. Like they know you cost money and hiding it, obscuring that, trying to
redirect the conversation.
It's just, I think it's a bad look and I don't have any data to support this. But my instinct is this
does not engender trust and a feeling of hey, they're being straightforward.
So the one piece is wayfinding, the other piece is can they decipher what they find when they
finally get there. And here I see a lot of well intentioned efforts that end up sometimes creating a
lot of unnecessary work for students. So it could be as simple as I bulleted out all the different
costs, both direct and indirect and the fees that a student was likely to incur. But I didn't add it all
up at the end. I'm gonna make them add it all up in the end. Imagine like going to a car
dealership and they show you all the features and all the, the prices for those. Well, you want,
you know, automatic windows and you want electronic door locks and lane keeping assist and
they just gave you all of the, the line item prices but you had to go through and add it up. So I
think that's just like, come on, like let's think this through. They're going to break out the
calculator and they may make a mistake and that would be bad. Add it up for them. Or there's
other things like, and I would say this is probably on the order of being dogmatically accurate.
They'll frame things primarily in credit hour terms.
And some students know what to do. A graduate student probably knows what to do with that.
Maybe a non traditional student who's already been through higher ed or transfer student.
Sometimes they are like, hey, I really want to see cost per credit hour. So present that
information. But in addition, give something that's more straightforward for that 17 year old or
their parents that's trying to figure out what the heck is going on with cost.
[00:16:19] Jeff Dillon: I think this is a place where Gen AI can really help and package it in a
way that well, if you're looking your tuition cost is this, but total cost is this. And really it seems
like we're getting closer to maybe some more useful.
[00:16:33] Jarrett Smith: Useful. Yeah, I think that's a great point. Yeah. And I also think there are
some schools that are, that are really doing a great job with this and doing something in this
lower tech. They've just really thought through the usability and what people are trying to do.
Missouri S&T, I think it's MST. Edu does a great job. Especially when you're on a program page
and you're trying to figure out the cost of that particular program. That was like the top, top
academic questions students had. And then one site that I refer to a lot is the University of North
Dakota UND Edu. Right at the top of their admissions page they have a big clear, can't miss it
call to action that says basically find the cost of your program and you just fill out a simple form
and then it gives you. It does break it down in terms of credit hour and fees, which I think could
be a little better. But it's a really good start. They clearly recognize students are trying to answer
these questions. Let's do what we can.
[00:17:28] Jeff Dillon: You mentioned the payment plan options. That term is kind of a hidden
gem that's really overlooked, right?
[00:17:34] Jarrett Smith: Yes. I don't even know if it's even overlooked. Like just not even on the
radar to be overlooked.
Yeah, this was interesting. So it was something that we almost didn't include in our survey.
But you know, both Grant and I had a couple of clients that do use payment plans as a form of
financial aid and they listen to other financial aid pages and talk about it in that way. But in
general that's pretty unusual. You know, it's something that most schools offer through their
business office. They don't think about talking about it on their website as a, as a potential form
of financial aid. It is intriguing to me because a lot of times we think about lowering the cost of
attending your school payment plan is not about lowering costs, it's just about managing cash
flow and making that cost more reasonable. So I think that's kind of interesting. You know, I think
at the end of the day this just comes down to a customer centricity thing. It's like, well, we don't
offer payment plans. We've never done that. It hasn't even crossed our mind that a student
might want it. But we really struck a nerve in our survey. So I think this is kind of can gently
challenge maybe some of our assumptions about what can and should be used as financial aid,
you know, but I think this is also just like listening to students really being tuned in to what
students are. And we talked about that institutionally centric mindset. When I've shared this
sometimes with folks in admission or enrollment, they're like, well, they kind of crinkle their nose
sometimes, not always, but sometimes they crinkle their nose. I'm like, well that's business
office. And they would have to make the payments within the semester anyways. And, but, but,
but. And I'm like, no, no, no, you're kind of missing the point here. Like you're focused on how it
works today.
Students are trying to tell us something about what they want.
And you know, and I'm like, I'm not a fan of Amazon. I have a lot of beef with Amazon. But like
they're a good example of what just like this customer obsessed. Let's just learn what we can.
Let's just listen to them and try and meet them where they are. You know, setting aside how they
treat their warehouse workers. But like we need a little bit more of that. Yeah, I agree.
[00:19:32] Jeff Dillon: That's what we're up against. And we don't. I think we all are tired of
hearing like, yeah, yeah, we know we're up against the Netflix and Spotify's and Amazons, but
that's the generation we're trying to serve. I use the term customer too in higher ed. But
sometimes when I was, I was in higher ed for 20 plus years and I learned, don't use that word
when I was there. Like, no, there are students. But even going back to that payment or total
cost, that, that Interest that students really want to find this out. If you look in the private sector,
even like people looking for software, buying software, it's this struggle with like, do we show.
We want them to know the value first. We don't want the price out there.
[00:20:07] Jarrett Smith: So now I've got to talk to an SDR and have, you know, like, well, yeah,
right. Like, nah, you gotta talk to the.
[00:20:14] Jeff Dillon: Other guy to get the price. Like I'm just here to like get the meeting for
them. You know, it's just funny how it's just a, It's a different beast.
[00:20:21] Jarrett Smith: Well, and I, and I do think if you're really smart about it, there are ways to.
I hate using the word conversation because your website is a one way sort of tool for the most
part.
But I think there are ways to frame things and if you know that, hey, we've got a high sticker
price, it's going to be different than what they really pay. Okay, so like right in that user flow you
can introduce this other information that you know they're going to want to see. So like Missouri
S&T, they show you like the sticker prize for a given program. Right next to that is a link to see
scholarships related to that program. See scholarships are available. It's like they're just
anticipating.
We just showed you $32,000 price tag. You're probably freaking out.
Here's a link to scholarships or here's a link to see what the impact of financial aid might be. So
there's ways to handle that.
[00:21:10] Jeff Dillon: Were there any big. We talked a little bit, kind of danced around this a
little bit. Any big disconnects between what higher ed professionals think students want and
what they actually want?
[00:21:20] Jarrett Smith: Yeah, I love this part of our research.
After we conducted our student survey, then we opened up the survey to higher ed professionals
and we asked them basically, can you predict how students would prioritize these things? And it
wasn't all bad. I would say there's probably a hit rate of about 50%.
Higher ed pros in general got a lot of things right. They understand the importance of total cost
of understanding like program specific costs. They totally got the fact that students want to see
student success stories. That's all great.
They definitely overestimated something. So they drastically overestimated how much students
would prioritize something like program rankings or like national recognition for a program or
even very practical things like application deadlines or the link to the application portal. Students
rated those things very low and I can have thoughts on why that is. But they Completely missed
something. So like payment plans was one. How acutely a lot of students prioritize acceptance
rate, especially our traditional undergrads super, super focused on acceptance rate, aid
eligibility. And then another little sneaky surprise, kind of along the lines of payment plans was
student satisfact rates. Like nobody saw that one coming and I don't know why, but nobody saw
that one coming.
[00:22:44] Jeff Dillon: Well, here's the question for you. What do traditional students care about
that non traditional or graduate students don't and vice versa?
[00:22:53] Jarrett Smith: Yeah. So this is super interesting to me. This is an area where again, you
know, when we have that conversation about how and where to personalize and do it in the
ways that really matter, we definitely, when we look across student type, we see some important
differences. So in our research, we bucketed students into traditional undergrad, non traditional
undergrad, then graduate and professional. And there were some pretty significant differences in
a few, few areas.
Number one, I mentioned our traditional undergrads super focused on acceptance rate. They
prioritized acceptance rate as highly as they did total cost of attendance. Like neck and neck. It
was the only segment to do that with total cost.
So they're very keyed into selectivity as evidenced by acceptance rate.
They are uniquely fixated on debt after graduation.
So they are two or three times depending on the segment you're comparing them to. More likely
to select average debt on graduation as something that they very much want to see. And if you
talk to any admissions counselors, they will tell you, yes, prospective students are absolutely
allergic and terrified about debt. And so that's a whole conversation. I have many thoughts on
that, on how to talk about that. They're also considerably more focused on what I just kind of
refer to as confidence building content. So student stories of graduates from the program,
student satisfaction rates, placement rates, all that good stuff. They want to see that a good bit
more than your non traditional and graduate students. And I think that's, that just has to do with
like where they are in their lives and their educational journey non trad. And our graduate
students have kind of already like bought into I know I need to get this degree or I've already
sold myself on it and determined it makes sense for me. You don't need to lean in so hard on
telling you.
[00:24:47] Jeff Dillon: Right, right. What's your advice to schools that are paralyzed by internal
debates over content hierarchy?
[00:24:54] Jarrett Smith: Oh man.
How candid do I want to be? Okay, all right, all right. My honest answer is it depends on why
you're paralyzed. If you are paralyzed because of internal politics or the Highest paid person's
opinion, then that's bad. And honestly, I'm not the guy to give you advice. I know people who are
really great at navigating the situations. It is not me. I left the corporate world, went to work in a
small business for a reason because I have very low tolerance for silly bullshit.
So there's that if the reason is truly we lack information and so we're just debating opinions and
there's really no clear winner. Okay, we can help with that. Our research, other people's
research, I think can help fill that gap.
If you're trying to answer a question that our research doesn't answer, somebody else's doesn't
answer, then get out from behind your desk and go talk to students. Like, it's not that hard. I
have over the years been asked like, many questions by clients. You know, do you see anything
in analytics that would tell us how students feel about our articulation agreements? I'm like, well,
no. Like, there's nothing in analytics that's going to tell you that. There's no metric that is going to
give you really any clue about what students think about that. You just need to talk to them.
And I have a good guess, but if you want me to talk to him, I'll talk to him. And so like, just go
talk to students. And I think sometimes we just, we just get in our own way on that front. We
think like, well, if I don't talk to like a million students and have a statistics PhD back me up on
my findings and all this kind of stuff, then it's not worthy. And I think that's a huge mistake. I think
you can learn more by watching five students use your website.
I mean, you, you can just get there so much faster.
[00:26:49] Jeff Dillon: I will second that. I did that. I learned so much in 2018. I think where I had
a. We called it the stag, the Student Technology Advisory Group. They were paid in pizza. And I.
That's when I learned that search was the key, like seven years ago. That, that the answer was
right in front of them. They're going to the search bar. Like, it was kind of eye opening, but yeah,
yeah, let's talk application. What's one simple fix any school could make tomorrow using your
research?
[00:27:15] Jarrett Smith: Okay, so I'm going to probably again sound like a broken record here. I
think it's all about start with that cost information. Whether it's finding program cost or total cost
of attendance, really carefully analyze that wayfinding and then analyze how helpful is what you
find on the other end of that, you know, And I think sometimes we're sort of stuck inside the
bottle and it's hard to read our own label. But I think if you're honest with yourself and maybe a
little emotionally distant from your organization and you thought, hey, if I was a prospective
student or if this was just another random business and I was on their website trying to figure out
how much they would cost, would I be satisfied with the answer we're serving up? And I think
where we get tripped up is like, well, I know Sally in financial aid is working on this and we've got
this project for this and blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like your students don't care.
Like they don't care. Be honest about where you're really at. And then that might suggest the
path forward.
[00:28:11] Jeff Dillon: I got one last question for you. How do you see this kind of research
evolving over the next few years, especially with AI in the mix now?
[00:28:20] Jarrett Smith: So it is 2025, we have to talk about AI. I think there's a couple of things
that are on my radar.
One of them is what's sometimes referred to as synthetic research, synthetic audiences or
replicant audiences, where you're using an AI tool to essentially replicate human users to create
Personas. Yeah, yeah. I have demoed some interesting products there. I have compared
synthetic users to responses from, you know, actual human users. And research that I've done,
it's not fully baked. It's intriguing, but it's not there yet.
And I actually came across something this morning on LinkedIn that gave me additional pause
on those sorts of products. They were talking about cultural values and norms. And given that
GPT and all the other models have been trained on a primarily Western centric, English
speaking data set, that they have all those cultural biases sort of baked in and it may not
translate well if you're dealing with audiences, say from Asia or Africa or something like that,
where customs and norms are very different. And they gave an example example of a large
corporation that had rolled out AI agents globally and they had to roll it back because they found
that it was giving less competent answers because it didn't understand that what might be
considered respectful and helpful in the United States or maybe in Western Europe was
sometimes considered unhelpful or disrespectful in other parts of the world.
So with that in mind, I thought, oh, okay, we've got to be really careful about who we're trying to
replicate and whether we're actually replicating them accurately. So that's one piece that's
intriguing. We're not there yet, I don't think. Another piece that I think might be a little more
attainable is using AI to help with like heuristic analysis.
So of say usability best practices on a website or heuristic analysis of website content.
I think that might be more attainable. But still, I haven't seen anything yet that is able to do what
really experienced human evaluators can do.
[00:30:32] Jeff Dillon: Makes sense. We'll see what happens. But hey everybody, this is great
research. I have a copy of this report and Jarrett, can you tell everybody how to get a copy of
your original research?
[00:30:43] Jarrett Smith: Yeah. So you can head on over to Echo Delta co designing for decisions.
The little hyphens in between those Echo Delta co designing for decisions and download a copy
of the report and yeah, we'd love that.
[00:30:58] Jeff Dillon: I'll put a link in the show notes for you.
[00:31:00] Jarrett Smith: Awesome.
[00:31:00] Jeff Dillon: And a link to your LinkedIn and your company website and all that. So
thanks again. That was really fun talking to you Jarrett, and thanks again.
[00:31:08] Jarrett Smith: Bye bye. Yeah, thanks Jeff. Appreciate it. It's been a fun conversation.
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