Specifically, they wanted to understand how the school’s plans for growth could align with strategic goals, how the school compared to its peer institutions, and how they could contribute to the higher education field overall.
Specifically, they wanted to understand how the school’s plans for growth could align with strategic goals, how the school compared to its peer institutions, and how they could contribute to the higher education field overall.
We created a dynamic financial modeling tool to explore three different strategic scenarios that balanced increases in enrollment with long-term investments in infrastructure. We contextualized our quantitative analysis by meeting with the school’s team to gather qualitative information on the professional studies landscape at Columbia as well as researched peer institution programming to further inform projections.
The base model we used was also constructed so that Columbia’s own financial team could continue to run additional scenarios on their own.
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