Authentic Education Advisors

We build student-centric digital marketplaces in higher education.

  • For Students

    Finding and assessing information about pursuing a particular educational and career path is challenging. Sources are either singularly focused or, if aggregated, biased toward those entities paying for placement. Search engine results pages produce an endless research list of sources. AI tools, while full of potential, currently lack transparency and trust. Researching and comparing options is daunting for someone wishing to understand the full breadth and depth of their options. Most are left overwhelmed by choices. AEA helps students organize the vast field of information to create clarity that enables confident action.

  • For Universities

    The options are to either pay high media costs and invest in a complex and costly marketing and recruiting operation or experience low enrollment. Alternatively, you can hire an Online Program Management (OPM) firm or marketing and enrollment management firm, incurring high costs and long restrictive contracts while still facing uncertain enrollment results. AEA offers a source of well-informed, high-intent prospective students while allowing you to maintain your independence.

  • Our Promise

    We are striking right at the heart of this problem. We provide students with deep, thorough, and well-organized content and directly link them with their preferred schools’ representatives.

We Believe

One of the most important decisions we all have to make is finding our place in the economy. This decision forms the foundation for and enables almost everything that follows. Higher education often plays a pivotal role in this crucial decision. Choosing a path to pursue and an educational experience to drive your journey is not a decision that should be made in a transactional way.

Unfortunately, we currently see a landscape where service providers for online higher education programs focus on providing an optimized call center experience. Websites lack depth and relentlessly push for completion of a “Request for Information” lead form. Call center agents, who may not have even attended college, let alone at the graduate level, are evaluated based on their ability to move a lead through enrollment stages toward an application submission.

We understand that choosing your path is a high-stakes decision. It requires a commitment of a couple of hours daily for two or more years and costs about the same as a luxury car. It sets your direction from that moment forward, hopefully permanently. Decisions like this require a deep set of curated knowledge and information presented in a way that facilitates comparison.

We believe that clarity enables confident action, and we strive to be an organizing force within a disorganized world. In doing so, we aim to revolutionize how students and universities find each other.

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Leadership

Rob Bishop is the founder of the company. With over 20 years of experience in the Online Program Management (OPM) industry, he has played a key role in building and leading marketing, recruiting, and student support operations at Compass Knowledge Group, a company that was instrumental in creating the OPM space. During his tenure in several executive leadership roles, Rob has been involved in developing, expanding, modifying, and exiting more than 60 OPM partnerships. He is enthusiastic about what he sees as a new and improved path forward for the ecosystem. If you'd like to have a conversation with Rob, topics of interest include active travel, fishing, skiing, surfing, fitness, and strategies for supporting your online programs authentically and at a reduced cost.

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Protostar Studio is our strategic partner. Protostar Studio, Inc helps consumers gain clarity on their best-fit educational pathways by partnering with knowledgeable creators and institutions to incubate digital products. By joining forces with Authentic Education Advisors, we aim to help the next generation of engineering managers make confident decisions.

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