Dundee College

Dundee College is one of Scotland’s largest colleges. The number of student enrolments now exceeds 23,000 supported by over 700 staff. Our Inisoft product CAMS was introduced by the college in April 2010 to assist with online course application management.

The system provided a significant saving to the college in the first few months of operation, as well as providing simplification of the application process for prospective students.

Our challenge

To reduce:

• Costs
• The administration of paper-based applications for courses and student funding
• The printing and production of college application forms
• Postal correspondence to the applicant 
• The large volume of photocopying tasks

Our solution

Our Inisoft CAMS product offered Dundee College:

• Streamlined application processing
• Shorter time from application to offer
• Improved business processes
• Real time management information and reports
• Improved departmental data sharing
• Improved reporting and data share with business partners

Results included

• Total budget saving of over £30,000 in year one
• 23% increase in processed applications 
• 38% increase in student acceptances
• Printing requirements reduced - 40% department budget saving
• Purchased stationery reduced - 60% department budget saving
• Photocopying reduced - 13% department budget saving
• Paper use reduced - 10% department budget saving 
• Postage reduced - 18% department budget saving

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“We believe that this online facility will streamline the application process in Dundee and enhance the student’s application experience while maximising college resources." Ray Mudie, Associate Principal at Dundee College