Every year, hundreds of new programs are launched, and they need justification. Academic professionals and department heads need to demonstrate: who is in the market for these courses? What career paths can graduates pursue? What skills and credentials are employers looking for? What are other programs in the field doing?

HESA can answer these questions and provide your academic unit or organization with crucial insight to make informed programming decisions through our Program Development Reports.Our organisation has produced high quality research on post-secondary trends for over a decade. Program Development Reports builds on this experience and offers clients reports with up to three elements:

1. Detailed insights into the structure and delivery of existing programs through our Academic Program Analysis, through analysis of the core courses, program composition, and key learning outcomes of comparable programs. This analysis answers questions like: What skills are students getting from other programs? Does our program provide as many options or directions as those of other institutions? What exciting courses are out there?
2. Inquiry into student patterns through our Student Demand Review, which uses data from other programs and student surveys to provide realistic expectations about potential enrollment numbers and recruitment sources.
3. Our Labour Market Analysis provides comprehensive analysis of key job market trends, including information on employers, potential job roles, and skill profiles directly drawn from real job postings. This is paired with research using government and industry sources to provide a clear sense of the skills and job paths graduates might pursue.

HESA’s approach is flexible and can meet various budgets. Clients can select one or all these services, and we work to ensure that our approach meets the needs of the specific program. We have completed these reports for individual programs, certificate, or degree, and have been completed for both evaluate new programs and to refresh existing programs.

Contact us at info@higheredstrategy.com for more details, including sample work plans, tables of content from previous reports, and quotes.

For a more details about these services, click here for the HESA Program Development Report Kit.