Higher education
Helping Higher Education Institutions Reimagine the Future
ndbholdinggroup partners with universities, colleges, and higher education institutions worldwide to design and implement strategies that improve student outcomes, expand access and affordability, enable impactful research, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure long-term financial sustainability.
The global higher education system holds tremendous promise—and responsibility—to drive equitable educational outcomes, foster research and scholarship, and advance creative expression that benefits society. At the same time, the sector faces pressing challenges: slowing enrollment growth, record-high student debt, persistent inequities, and declining perceived value of higher education.
Our work helps institutions realize their full potential while addressing these challenges. We develop and implement strategies that:
Improve access, affordability, and outcomes for all students
Enable research that advances society and protects the environment
Transform operations and strengthen financial sustainability
Additionally, ndbholdinggroup conducts leading primary research to provide data, insights, and examples that help leaders understand and act on key trends shaping higher education today and in the future.
What We Do
Strategy and Organization
ndbholdinggroup helps institutions define and implement bold, innovative strategies that align with their values and highlight what makes them unique. We strengthen organizational health and lay the foundation for sustained excellence, guided by a deep understanding of current performance and positioning through our proprietary analytics and benchmarking tools.
New Schools, Programs, and Initiatives
Financial Stability, Transformation, and Growth
ndbholdinggroup partners with universities to unlock the full potential of their missions, focusing on enrollment growth, student outcomes, research funding, optimization of auxiliaries, and financial resilience. Our structured approach drives transformation and sustained performance improvement.
Leadership and Governance
Technology for Learning
ndbholdinggroup assists institutions in defining ambitions, developing capabilities, and scaling models for online education. We also guide them through the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence to enhance education, research, and public impact.c
Mergers, Partnerships, and Alliances
Examples of our work
10-Year Strategic Plan for a Leading Public University
ndbholdinggroup partnered with a top-50 US public university to develop a 10-year strategic plan aimed at improving access, affordability, federal R&D funding, financial outlook, and institutional eminence in a rapidly evolving higher education landscape. The initiative led to a four-percentage-point increase in four-year graduation rates and a more than 50 percent growth in R&D spending, supported by significant operational cost savings and new revenue-generating opportunities.
Financial Turnaround at a Small Liberal-Arts College
ndbholdinggroup supported a US liberal-arts college through a two-year planned turnaround, achieving a step-change in performance. Key outcomes included a 30 percent increase in the incoming class, a seven percent improvement in retention, the scale-up of online programs, and a resource reallocation that restored the college’s accreditation—laying the foundation for sustainable financial performance.
