CHESTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Jan 31, 2005--Students can win money while graduate schools and study abroad programs recruit them, thanks to StudentProspector, an online tool that gives students the option of having their ideal graduate or study abroad program search for them, instead of vice versa.
While the traditional method for finding graduate schools and study abroad programs has always seen the students performing exhaustive searches to find their ideal school, with StudentProspector the students fill out a profile and sit back as their perfect program finds them. By filling out a profile at https://www.StudentProspector.com/menu.html, the student is entered into a database that thousands of schools search for particular criteria. If a student matches a school`s criteria, the school comes looking for that student. The aim is to make it easier on the student to find a graduate or study abroad program.
StudentProspector is now offering students extra incentives to sign up. If a student refers a friend to register with any one of the StudentProspector databases, he or she is entered into a random drawing to win a 10-dollar gift card to Amazon.com. Every month a winner will be selected, and a larger prize will be offered semi-annually. Students receiving the refer-a-friend email must register their student profile for the referrer to be eligible for the monthly prize.
''It is our goal to help as many students as possible find the right education,'' says Mark Shay, president and CEO of Educational Directories Unlimited, Inc., the company behind StudentProspector. ''This contest was created in hopes of facilitating the perfect marriage of student and school. If a student finds his or her ideal program, we have succeeded, and if that student wins some money in the process, that is an added bonus.''
StudentProspector is the next evolution in student recruitment. It is an innovative marketing tool allowing graduate school and study abroad administrators to pro-actively search through a database of student profiles. Administrators then use these profiles to find students who meet their criteria. StudentProspector is a service of Educational Directories Unlimited, Inc. (EDU), a leading Internet company serving higher education.
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