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Schools and colleges: turn enquiries into admissions.

From Chennai, for schools and colleges across India: ads that parents and students see, a WhatsApp reply in minutes, a Monday cost-per-admission report.
Where parents and students look

The ads that bring parents to your campus

We run the three ad channels where admissions start: Google Ads for parents searching “CBSE school near me” and students searching a course, Facebook and Instagram for families nearby before they search, and YouTube for the campus tour. The ads run in Tamil, English or both, and every enquiry reaches your admission desk.

Parents and students searching today

Google Ads

  • Search ads
  • Call ads
  • Lead forms in the ad

Ads on searches like “CBSE school in Tambaram” and “B.Com colleges in Chennai”, by locality, board and course, with a call button and the fee structure one tap away. We tell Google which enquiries joined, so it finds more families like them.

Reaches
Entry-class parentsFamilies moving inClass 12 students
We judge it by
Cost per admission by campaign, from your admission CRM
How we run Google Ads
cbse schools near tambaram AllMapsImagesNews Sponsored YYour schoolyourschool.edu.in › admissions CBSE School in Tambaram · LKG to Class 11 Admissions Fee structure, bus routes and the campus in one place. Book a campus tour on a weekday or Saturday. Fee structureBus routesCampus tourApply onlineCall

Parents scrolling, not searching yet

Facebook & Instagram ads

  • Lead form ads
  • Click-to-WhatsApp ads
  • Reels ads
  • Admissions sent back

Lead forms that ask the child’s class, the board and the area you live in, so your counsellor calls with answers. Click-to-WhatsApp for parents who’d rather chat, Reels of a school day, and admissions sent back to Meta so it finds parents like them.

Reaches
Entry-class parentsFamilies moving inParents paying the fees
We judge it by
Cost per admission by ad, from your admission CRM
How we run Facebook & Instagram ads
YYour schoolSponsored LKG to Class 11 admissions. Fee structure and campus tour slots inside. Tambaram, ChennaiA school day, start to finish Fee structure + campus tourApply now Get the fee structure Parent’s phone numberClass next yearBoardArea you live in Submit

Families who want to see first

YouTube ads

  • Skippable ads
  • Shorts ads
  • Ads on course videos
  • Ads to past visitors

A campus tour that shows classrooms, labs, the bus and the playground before the skip button appears (5 seconds). It runs for parents who visited your admissions page and, for colleges, on the counselling and course videos students already watch.

Reaches
Class 12 studentsEntry-class parentsParents paying the fees
We judge it by
Cost per admission not views
How we run YouTube ads
Campus tourWalk the labs before you choose Sponsored0:05 Skip Y B.Com and B.Sc admissionsSponsored · yourcollege.edu.in Learn more TNEA counselling: how to fill your choices
Sound familiar?

Why aren’t your seats filling?

Fewer LKG admissions than last year.

A new CBSE school opened two streets away. Fewer families came to the open day, and word of mouth no longer fills LKG.

Enquiries nobody called back.

Parents left numbers on the form and on WhatsApp. The counsellor was busy with walk-ins; two days later, they’d joined another school.

College seats empty after counselling.

Round three is over. CSE filled, but Mechanical and Civil are half empty, and the labs, staff and buses cost the same.

Targeting strategy

Who we target, and how we reach them

We start from the seat, not the ad platform. An LKG seat is a family choosing a school for twelve years; a college seat is a student and parent choosing after counselling. Google shows no personalised ads to under-18s, so we target parents, searches and videos, and every admission shows the ads who to find next.

An LKG or Class 1 seat

Entry-class parents

Parents of a three- or five-year-old on your bus routes, choosing a school for twelve years.

What they seeA school day, the teachers, the fee structure and a Saturday campus tour.

How we find them
  • Homes along your bus routes
  • Searches like “CBSE school near me”
  • Parents like your past admissions
  • Visitors to your admissions page
Where

A Class 2–9 seat mid-year

Families moving in

Parents moving to the city for work, who need a school near the new home before the term.

What they seeSeats open in their child’s class, the bus route and the transfer certificate steps.

How we find them
  • Around IT parks and new apartments
  • Searches like “school admission in Chennai”
  • Searches that mention transport or mid-year
Where

A course or branch

Class 12 students

Students choosing a course between board results and the last counselling round, deciding with their parents.

What they seeThe course, the cut-off, placement records with their source, and the campus.

How we find them
  • Searches like “B.Com colleges in Chennai”
  • Counselling and course videos on YouTube
  • Age and location only, if under 18
Where

Degree fees, hostel and bus

Parents paying the fees

Parents in the towns around your college, who decide on fees, hostel, safety and the bus route.

What they seeFees, hostel, transport and approvals, in Tamil and English, with a call back.

How we find them
  • Towns within your bus and hostel reach
  • Parents like your past admissions
  • Visitors to your course pages
Where

Every admission sharpens the targeting. Admissions marked at your desk go back to Google and Meta as the parent’s enquiry, with consent, so they find more families who join.

What we’d run

What we’d run for your school or college

Fill LKG and Class 1 before the term.

Ads start before your admission forms open, not after: Google for parents searching now, Facebook and Instagram for families on your bus routes, a campus-tour Reel. Every enquiry gets the fee structure on WhatsApp and a counsellor’s call the same day.

  • Admission page with the fee structure
  • Open-day and campus-tour slots
  • Ads by bus route and locality
  • Ads in Tamil and English
How we fix follow-up

How more enquiries become admissions

Speed, then follow-up, then the count. Every enquiry gets a WhatsApp reply in minutes with the fee structure and a campus tour slot, and your counsellor calls the same day. Your desk marks admissions in the CRM, and we send them back to Meta and Google through conversion tracking, so the ads look for families who join.

Ad, enquiry, reply, campus tour, admission. Then Google and Meta find more families like them.
  1. The ad brings an enquiry

    A form, a WhatsApp chat or a call, from Google, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube, with the class or course already asked.

  2. A reply within minutes

    WhatsApp sends the fee structure, bus routes and prospectus. Most parents compare a few schools, so the first useful answer counts. A Harvard Business Review study (2011, across industries) found that firms replying within an hour were nearly seven times likelier to qualify the enquiry.

  3. The campus tour is booked

    The parent picks a weekday or Saturday slot; a reminder and the location pin go out the day before.

  4. The admission is marked

    Your admission desk marks the child admitted in the CRM, with the class and the campaign it came from. That admission is what we count.

  5. The admission goes back to the ads

    With the parent’s consent, each admission goes back to Meta and Google as the parent’s enquiry, never the child’s data, so the ads find more families like them.

What we report every Monday

The number we report: cost per admission

Cost per admission is your ad spend divided by the admissions your desk marked in the CRM, by campaign and by class or course. We send it every Monday with the two numbers before it: enquiries that picked up and campus tours done. Cost per enquiry looks good on cheap forms; cost per admission shows seats filled.

The number

Cost per admission

What your ads cost for each seat filled.

Ad spendAdmissions in your CRM

Every Monday · from your admission CRM

Read from

  • Your admission CRM. Zoho, HubSpot or your school ERP: which enquiries picked up, toured and joined.
  • Google Ads. Spend by campaign, locality, class and course.
  • Meta. Spend by campaign and ad, across Facebook and Instagram.
  • Google Analytics. Forms filled, calls and WhatsApp chats: the early signal before the tour.
Ad spend ÷ admissions, week by week, by channel and class.

Let’s fill your seats before the term starts.

Portals or your own ads

Should you rely on education portals?

Use them for reach, don’t depend on them. On Shiksha, Collegedunia, CollegeDekho, Careers360 and Edustoke, parents and students compare you with nearby schools and colleges on the same page. Your own ads on Google, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube bring enquiries only you get, in your CRM, and show which ad filled which seat.

  • College portals

    Who gets the enquiry
    You, beside rival colleges on the page
    What you pay
    Paid listings or ads
    What you see
    Enquiries sent, not admissions
  • School directories

    Who gets the enquiry
    You, beside schools nearby
    What you pay
    A paid listing or subscription
    What you see
    Enquiries sent, not admissions
  • Your own ads, with us

    Who gets the enquiry
    Only you, in your CRM
    What you pay
    Ad spend plus our fee
    What you see
    Which ad filled which seat
ASCI, DPDP and the ad platforms

What your admission ads can and can’t say

Claims of recognition, ranks and placements need proof, past results need a note that they don’t promise future ones, and “last few seats” urgency is out (ASCI guidelines, May 2023). A child’s data needs a parent’s consent. In Tamil Nadu, the fee in your ads must match the approved fee (Dinamalar, Careers360).

What a school or college ad must respect in India, with the rule it comes from
What it means for your adsSource
ASCIProof for recognition, affiliation, rank and placement claims; past results shown with a note that they don’t promise future ones; no false urgency.ASCI Guidelines for Educational Institutions, May 2023, summarised by Medianama
UGCClaim UGC recognition only for programmes on UGC’s own lists; UGC warns students about misleading online and distance-programme ads.UGC public notice of December 2024, reported by India TV
DPDPVerifiable parental consent before using a child’s data; no tracking or targeted ads aimed at children. Bar & Bench reads the school exemption as not covering marketing.DPDP Act 2023, section 9; DPDP Rules 2025, rule 12; Bar & Bench analysis
Google and MetaGoogle: no personalised ads of any kind to users under 18. Meta: teens reached by age and location only.Google Ads personalised advertising policy; Meta, reported by Search Engine Land
Tamil Nadu feesA state committee fixes private school fees, and schools, CBSE included, display the approved fee at the entrance, so the fee in your ads must match it.TN Fee Amendment Act 2026, reported by Dinamalar (Jan 2026); Directorate of Private Schools circular, reported by Careers360 (Jun 2026)
First 90 days

Your first 90 days, week by week.

  1. Weeks 1–2Audit

    We look at your enquiries and admissions.

    Enquiries and admissions audit0 of 4 checks
    • Ads, forms and search terms
    • How fast enquiries get a reply
    • CRM stages, enquiry to admitted
    • Claims checked against ASCI
  2. Weeks 3–4Build

    We set up the follow-up.

    Build0 of 4 live
    • Page per class and course
    • WhatsApp replies and tour slots
    • Enquiry and admission stages
    • Admissions sent back to the ads
  3. Month 2Launch

    We go live, then learn.

    Launch0 of 3 steps
    • Your approval on every creative
    • Google, Meta and YouTube live
    • First admissions marked in the CRM
  4. Month 3Scale

    We scale what fills seats.

    Weekly routine0 of 3 jobs
    • Budget to the ads that admit
    • Creative and page tests
    • Monday report from your CRM
FAQ

Questions about school and college marketing

Enquiries and admissions

The ads plus the follow-up: Google Ads for parents searching nearby, Facebook and Instagram for families on your bus routes, a YouTube campus tour, admission pages with the fee structure, a Google Business Profile with parents’ reviews, WhatsApp replies, and a CRM that tracks every enquiry to an admission. Each part is judged on admissions, not likes.

No. Education lead generation counts names; a seat is filled only when a family pays the fee and the child is on your register. Portals and many agencies report enquiries because that is what they control. We count the same thing your management counts, admissions, and show enquiries picked up and campus tours done as the early signals each Monday.

Yes. WhatsApp sends the fee structure, bus routes, prospectus and tour slots automatically; your counsellor makes the call and runs the campus tour. We set up the CRM stages and a morning call list so the warmest enquiries are called first, and every Monday we show where each enquiry stopped, so the desk knows which follow-ups to fix.

Yes. We write the ads, lead forms, admission pages and WhatsApp replies in Tamil, English or both, and see which brings admissions in each area. Parents choose a school in the language they’re comfortable in, so a Tamil ad can reach families an English one misses. Your team approves every line before it runs.

They do different jobs. Google Ads catches parents already searching “CBSE school near me” and students searching a course: high intent, smaller volume. Facebook and Instagram ads reach parents on your bus routes before they search, which builds the list before admissions open. YouTube shows the campus. Run them together and judge all three on cost per admission.

Seasons, portals and cost

At least two months before your forms open. Schools set their own LKG and Class 1 dates, so we work back from yours: the first month is the audit and the build, then the ads need time to learn before parents decide. Colleges plan around board results and each counselling round; in Tamil Nadu, engineering round three ended in August 2026 (DT Next).

Often, for reach: students compare colleges on Shiksha, Collegedunia, CollegeDekho and Careers360, and parents find schools on Edustoke and Justdial. But the family also sees rivals on the same page, and the portal reports enquiries, not admissions. Your own ads bring enquiries only you get. Use both, and judge both on cost per admission from your CRM.

Branch by branch. After each round we list the courses with seats left, run ads only for those, and contact past enquiries in your CRM first. Pages answer the questions that decide late admissions: cut-off, fees, hostel, bus routes and approvals. Budget moves every week toward the courses whose admissions cost least, so nothing is spent on seats already filled.

Two parts, on separate lines. Your media budget goes from your own ad accounts straight to Google and Meta; our management fee depends on the number of campuses, classes and courses, the length of your admission season, creative volume, and whether the CRM and tracking need building. We price it on the call, after seeing your seats and current enquiries.

Rules, experience and fit

We built the website for KMCP College; we haven’t run an admissions campaign we can show you yet, so we won’t claim an admissions result. What carries over is the system on this page, used for Anton Dharmaseelan’s mortgage business: ads judged on what sells, fast WhatsApp replies and CRM stages. The first two weeks audit your current enquiries.

You do. The Google and Meta ad accounts, the WhatsApp number, the admission CRM and the pages stay in your school’s or college’s name, and ad spend is billed to you directly. We work in them as managers, and you can see everything. If you move on, the accounts, the enquiries and what the ads learned stay with you.

Only narrowly. Google shows no personalised ads of any kind to users under 18, and Meta lets advertisers reach teens by age and location only. So we reach Class 12 students through what they search and the counselling videos they watch, and target their parents directly, with consent wording on every enquiry form.

Only what you can prove. The ASCI guidelines for educational institutions (May 2023) ask for evidence behind recognition, rank and placement claims, a note that past results don’t promise future ones, and no false urgency. We keep the source of every claim with the creative, and your team approves each ad.

Five things. How do you count an admission, and from whose records? Who owns the Google and Meta ad accounts? How do you reach Class 12 students when platforms limit under-18 targeting? How fast does an enquiry get a reply, and who calls? Which claims in our ads would ASCI question? Any agency should answer all five on the first call.

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