Decoding Admissions Unlock

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This industry report documents the roadmap that the education sector has had with unlocking their admissions and the way forward for Institutions to be resilient and future ready with their Admissions.

Admissions seem to be changing for the better. While there’s too much noise about what exactly has happened or will happen, here’s an industry report from the country’s largest enrolment automation platform that tracks and drills down on the transition that Institutions have had with their admissions in all. With a sample of over 61 lakh leads and 50 institutions, it’s a report with a strong backing that cannot be ignored.

In particular, this report presents the impact at an aggregate level and summarizes the effective measures and strategies that Higher-ed Institutions worked and acted upon to embrace the challenges the unlock had

What’s in it for you?

  • Everything real about the impact caused by the lockdown.
  • Emerging trends revitalizing the Admissions unlock
  • Actionable numbers and insights to help you strategize your action-plans
  • A breakdown of the transition that Admission Counselling has had in all
  • The way forward for reimagining Admissions, Marketing and Post Applications
  • An self-assessment tool for you to litmus test your Institution’s resilience

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Meritto, the flagship product of NoPaperForms, is the Operating System for Student Enrollments. It is a unified, AI-powered, modular, and automated platform purpose-built for educational organisations, enabling them to attract, engage, and enrol students while automating the entire enquiry-to-enrolment process.

Its comprehensive suite of purpose-built tools, including Enrollment Cloud, Education CRM, Application Platform, Education Payment Cloud, and Modern Engagement Suite, acts as the system of record for enrolments and seamlessly addresses every aspect of the enrolment process.

At the heart of Meritto lies its natively built layer of agentic AI, Mio AI. This layer introduces intelligent, autonomous, and semi-autonomous agents into everyday institutional workflows. Mio AI agents are embedded across the Meritto platform and serve as digital teammates for different teams, helping institutions scale student engagement and improve team productivity and performance.

Used by over 1,000 educational organisations globally, Meritto supports complex, high-volume admissions environments with scalability, security, and deep process configurability across all verticals of education.

The Decoding Admissions Unlock report documents how the education sector navigated the reopening of admissions after the disruption caused by the pandemic and explores what a resilient, future-ready path forward could look like.

Rather than focusing on predictions, it examines the actual transition institutions experienced as admissions began to recover.

The report presents the impact at an aggregate level and summarises the measures higher education institutions adopted to address the challenges of the unlock period, making it a practical roadmap for admissions recovery.

The report identifies emerging trends that helped revitalise admissions as the education sector reopened and highlights the shifts that defined the recovery period.

These trends reflect how institutions adapted their student engagement, marketing, and admissions processes to changing conditions and where momentum began to return.

The unlock was not simply a return to pre-pandemic practices. It introduced new patterns of student behaviour and institutional operations, which the report maps to help institutions align their admissions strategies accordingly.

Being resilient and future-ready means an institution can continue managing admissions effectively even when external conditions change or cause disruption.

This requires admissions processes that are digital, data-driven, and adaptable rather than dependent entirely on fixed physical methods or manual workflows.

Resilience allows institutions to continue attracting, engaging, and enrolling students during disruption, while future-readiness means having the technology, processes, and practices in place before the next major shift occurs.

Meritto is the enrolment automation platform behind the report’s data and is purpose-built to help institutions manage resilient, digital-first admissions from enquiry to enrolment.

It unifies lead capture, student engagement, counselling support, marketing analytics, applications, and post-application processes within one connected platform, reducing dependence on physical and manual methods.

By helping institutions use data to guide strategy and operate digitally across the admissions cycle, Meritto turns the lessons of the unlock period into everyday capabilities that support long-term institutional readiness.