Unibuddy

What is Unibuddy?

Unibuddy is a student-to-student recruitment and engagement platform for higher education institutions that connects prospective students with current students and ambassadors.

Key features of Unibuddy

• Chat: prospects start conversations with student ambassadors.
• Discover: ambassador-generated content and profiles across lead generation channels.
• Assistant: AI that answers enrollment questions 24/7.
• Community: a space for students, ambassadors and staff to connect before term starts.
• Insights: conversation insights and microsurveys, with data sent to the CRM.
• Onboarding: task lists and timelines showing the path to enrollment.

How Unibuddy works

Universities recruit and train current students as ambassadors, who answer prospects' questions by chat, live sessions and community posts. AI handles routine questions, updates go out by community post, SMS and push notification, and engagement data flows into the university CRM.

Who uses Unibuddy?

Unibuddy reports 500+ universities and 3M+ prospective students, and says 65% of students said it helped them gain confidence to enroll. Customers named in testimonials include Manchester Metropolitan University, University at Buffalo, Aston University and the University of Western Australia.

Unibuddy pricing

Unibuddy does not show prices on its homepage; it links to a pricing section and the call to action is to book a demo. No free trial is mentioned.

Unibuddy integrations

Unibuddy sends data to a university CRM; a customer testimonial references Slate as the CRM where engagement is measured. A full integrations list is not shown on the homepage.

Unibuddy alternatives

PowerSchool and Populi are broader education management platforms for student information and administration. Fire Engine RED, Regent Education and Enrollment Rx are higher-education CRM and enrollment marketing providers. Unibuddy is specific to peer-to-peer recruitment.